The Things I Wish I Knew

July 2, 2019 Samantha Schell Anxiety, BJJ, Family, Friendship, Laughter, love, mental health, nutrition, Overcoming Adversity, Parenting, Positivity, Stress advice, bjj, Competition, Jiu Jitsu 18

There’s not an exorbitant amount of knowledge I have accrued over the past 28 years on this earth, but I have been fortunate enough to walk away with some solid life experiences and sound advice that has benefitted me in more ways than one. I am trying to be better about thinking positively and not […]

Boys Don’t Cry

June 11, 2019 Samantha Schell Adaptation, Anxiety, BJJ, Family, Friendship, mental health, Positivity bjj, emotions, Jiu Jitsu, MMA, Schell Shock BJJ 1

While true that I may be off base with my assumptions here, I wonder why we tend to give women an almost ‘free pass’ when it comes to using kid gloves in the transition to BJJ, but we do not extend the courtesy to new men in the sport. While it can ring true that […]

Unfriending Negativity

May 14, 2019 Samantha Schell BJJ, Competing, Family, mental health, Perseverance, Positivity, self confidence, Stress bjj, Jiu Jitsu, MMA, negastivity, toxicity, WMMA 1

Neither you nor I are under the obligation to be anyone’s friend, either on social media like Facebook or otherwise. I am so over allowing anyone to dampen my mood or darken my mental state that I honestly would just rather cut them out of my life completely. Anyone worth keeping would never put themselves […]

Don’t Call it a Comeback

April 16, 2019 Samantha Schell BJJ, Competing, Family, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance, Positivity bjj, cagefighting, comeback, fighting, MMA, perseverance, WMMA 1

The highs won’t ever feel as high if it weren’t for all the lows we face in life. A couple months ago, I busted my face open and lost a title fight and felt absolutely horrible. I was unfocused and deviated from any game plan set in motion and deserved to lose and suffered greatly […]

Adulting is Hard, mkay?

March 26, 2019 Samantha Schell Anxiety, BJJ, Competing, Family, mental health, Parenting, Perseverance, Positivity, self confidence, Stress adulthood, adulting, bjj, competing, fighting, Jiu Jitsu, perseverance, trying

Ever hear the phrase that if you’re always the smartest person in the room, then you should get up and go find a new room? I am really trying to abide by this mindset lately. Not that I’m ever the most intelligent in any given room, I’m a moron, but I am always willing to […]

Thank You, Next

March 19, 2019 Samantha Schell BJJ, Family, Friendship, love, mental health, Parenting, Positivity appreciation, bjj, family, gratitude, happiness, Jiu Jitsu, kids, love, thanks 2

Positivity breeds positivity, and negative thinking tends to attract negative energy. It all sounds so simple, but I’m sure we know how difficult it can truly be to dig ourselves out of a rut of emotional gloom when we feel like a dark gray cloud is just constantly looming over us threatening a torrential downpour […]

Failure Fuels Fortitude

February 5, 2019 Samantha Schell Adaptation, Competing, Family, mental health, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance, Positivity, self confidence, winners Champion, defeat, Dreams, failure, loss, MMA, WMMA

As I’m sure many of you know, I am not writing this post as a champion. In fact, I am not even writing this post as a winner as I lost my title fight on Friday via second round TKO. Unfortunately, I reverted back to a lot of my old bad habits, didn’t listen to […]

Putting the ‘Possible’ in ‘Impossible’

January 29, 2019 Samantha Schell BJJ, Competing, Family, Friendship, Laughter, love, Positivity, self confidence, Stress, Teaching, winners bjj, happiness, love, MMA, positivity, Schell Shock BJJ, WMMA

As I approach my fight this coming week, I am doing some reflecting. Primarily, reflecting on all the good in my life because no matter the outcome for the title this weekend, I have so much going on that I can appreciate and be grateful for. There are people out there that love to throw […]

Don’t Let Me Get Me

January 15, 2019 Samantha Schell Adaptation, Anxiety, BJJ, Competing, Family, mental health, Overcoming Adversity, Parenting, Perseverance, Positivity, self confidence, Stress bjj, fearless, Fight like a Girl, life, life lessons, MMA, parenthood, parenting, Schell Shock, schellshockbjj, self-sabotage, WMMA

This will be the year that I stop self sabotaging, I just need to keep repeating that mantra over and over. I am so guilty of this, in life, on the mats, even with my own family, and I hate myself and feel so much shame over it. This past weekend is such a good […]

New Year, Who Dis??

January 1, 2019 Samantha Schell Adaptation, BJJ, Competing, Family, Laughter, love, Perseverance, Positivity, self confidence anniversary, bjj, chess, fighter, goals, life, love, MMA, new year, nye, perseverance, strategy, WMMA 2

Welp, it’s officially 2019 team and we made it through another year. If you’re reading this expecting me to come out swinging with some “new year, new me” bs, let me stop you right now. Unfortunately for all of you, I plan on coming into 2019 the same old tenacious little midget with high aspirations […]

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