Do No Harm, Take No Shit

April 28, 2020 Samantha Schell Adaptation, BJJ, mental health, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance, Positivity adaptation, health, mental health, perseverance, positivity, ridicule, Stress

What an incredibly wide array of emotions I endured over the past week. Social media can be an immeasurably powerful tool, but it can also be quite dangerous as well. Reminds of the eloquent speech by Ben Parker in Spider Man when he says “With great power, comes great responsibility.” And while he is definitely […]

My Neck, My Back, This Quarantine is Whack

April 21, 2020 Samantha Schell Adaptation, Anxiety, BJJ, Competing, mental health, Positivity, Stress Anxiety, bjj, coronavirus, covid19, gym, Jiu Jitsu, pandemic, quarantine, self isolation, Stress, yoga

The times are unprecedented and the phrase ‘the new normal’ is being tossed around quite a bit as of late. One way courses being implemented in grocery stores, mandatory requirements on facial coverings and masks when out in public, all businesses deemed nonessential shut down for the foreseeable future. The economy is crippling, people are […]

I Wonder When I Love Me is Enough?

April 14, 2020 Samantha Schell Adaptation, Anxiety, BJJ, Family, mental health, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance bjj, coronavirus, covid19, Jiu Jitsu, kindness, love, patience, quarantine, self care 1

Be patient with yourself; be kind, and nurturing, and understanding. We are all processing this current pandemic in a multitude of ways, and everyone right now is suffering from a variety of losses, from personal, professional, educational and recreational. There is no right or wrong way to grieve the missed dances, graduations, weddings, and competitions, […]

Arrested Development

March 24, 2020 Samantha Schell Adaptation, Anxiety, BJJ, Family, mental health, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance adaptation, Anxiety, bjj, coronavirus, covid 19, Jiu Jitsu, quarantine

Ah-hem- *Puts on my Akon voice* “Cuz I’m locked up. They won’t let me out. No they won’t let me out. I’m locked up.” This whole damn virus pandemic has all of us feeling like we are locked up in a penitentiary cell without a scheduled date of release and it is exceptionally aggravating. I […]

Putting the Dick in Addiction

March 3, 2020 Samantha Schell Adaptation, Family, Friendship, mental health, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance, Positivity addiction, destruction, happiness, health, love, mental health, positivity, suicide awareness 2

Demons exist within all of us, that little voice in the back of our heads spewing hateful and negative messages about how lackluster and subpar we are. That we aren’t good enough, life is too hard, we have too many obstacles inhibiting our growth and so on and so forth. Many people drowning under heaps […]

How Now Brown Cow

January 14, 2020 Samantha Schell Adaptation, BJJ, Competing, Laughter, Perseverance, Positivity bjj, humor, Jiu Jitsu, laughter, lol, MMA, perseverance, Schell Shock 2

I can’t be the only one who immediately thinks of the poop emoji when they think of the color brown, right? Hello, it’s me, the newest addition to the flocks of fecal colored Jiu Jitsu practitioners adorned with a crisp new brown belt, or faixa marrom as the cultured folk say. While I am, in […]

I’m a Bitch, I’m a Lover

January 7, 2020 Samantha Schell Adaptation, BJJ, Family, Friendship, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance, Positivity, self confidence, Stress anguish, bjj, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, competing, happiness, Jiu Jitsu, love, mental health, positivity, self improvement 2

I hate the world today. Nah, honestly even if that’s not true, I feel like everyone can relate a little bit to Meredith Brooks in one way or another. Some days, we just wake up on the wrong side of the bed for no apparent reason. It’s like sometimes someone pissed in our bowl of […]

The Roaring 20s

December 3, 2019 Samantha Schell Adaptation, Anxiety, mental health, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance, Positivity, self confidence adversity, Anxiety, change, courage, Depression, growth, strength, Stress 2

We’re approaching a brand new decade, act like it. We need to progress as a people and leave the petty, undermining, and offended bullshit in the past. The roaring 20s are upon us, and it would be awesome to emulate another period of growth and expansion as with the previous century without the depressive economic […]

Responsibility: The Price of Greatness

October 29, 2019 Samantha Schell Adaptation, BJJ, Competing, Family, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance, Positivity apathy, bjj, dream chaser, failure, go getter, laziness, perseverence, prepare

Adulthood, responsibilities, work, bills, families, etc., you name it, it’s all there piling up and waiting to be addressed. As a kid, you look at all the adults around you, teachers, parents, friend’s parents and so on, and you assume they know what they are doing and are functionally navigating through life. Man, that couldn’t […]

No Guts, No Glory. No Pain, No Story.

September 3, 2019 Samantha Schell Adaptation, BJJ, Competing, Family, Friendship, love, mental health, Overcoming Adversity, Positivity, self confidence, winners bjj, fighting, Jiu Jitsu, love, MMA, positivity, Quitters, winners

Crying doesn’t make you a loser. Bleeding doesn’t make you a loser. Tapping doesn’t make you a loser. Even failing doesn’t make you a loser. Quitting, however, does. And this, I should add, is with anything in life, not just Jiu Jitsu or MMA. Quite recently, I was ready to give up on something because […]

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