Just Let Me Bang, Bro

Samantha Schell BJJ, Competing, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance, Positivity, self confidence, winners , , , , , , ,

Fighting is an unconventional occupation as is, but throw in a global pandemic to the mix and suddenly your whole world is in disarray. Understandably, there are numerous unprecedented precautions we all must now implement, but securing a contracted fight during the Covid-19 era is almost damn near impossible. Either people haven’t been training due […]

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Sometimes, You’re the Pigeon-Sometimes, the Statue

Samantha Schell Adaptation, Family, mental health, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance, Positivity , , , , , ,

I really need sleep. It’s amazing how when our natural circadian rhythm or our REM cycle is off, how much less progressively we function in life. Lo and behold, I can hear someone overtly breathing in my presence with little sleep and I am likely to implode under the bottled anger pent up in my […]

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I’d Rather Be The Hunter Than The Prey

Samantha Schell Adaptation, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance, self confidence, Teaching , , , , ,

Don’t be the person out here wearing Milk Bone shorts in a dog eat dog world where you were lied to about someone’s bark being worse than their bite. People are encircling you and licking their lips at the chance to eat you alive and you’re galavanting about in Lady Gaga’s meat suit looking like […]

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And She Lived Happily Ever After

Samantha Schell BJJ, Competing, Laughter, love, Overcoming Adversity, Parenting, self confidence , , , , , 2

It’s me, your average, everyday, slightly neurotic, rigidly scheduling, face punching, neck strangling, trying the best that she can blogging weirdo. Last week, I postponed writing another blog for no other legitimate reason other than identifying that I was feeling a bit burnt out. I wasn’t necessarily dreading conjuring up a new post, but I […]

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Do No Harm, Take No Shit

Samantha Schell Adaptation, BJJ, mental health, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance, Positivity , , , , , ,

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 […]

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I Wonder When I Love Me is Enough?

Samantha Schell Adaptation, Anxiety, BJJ, Family, mental health, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance , , , , , , , , 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, […]

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Distancing the Bullshit

Samantha Schell Anxiety, Laughter, mental health, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance, Positivity, Stress , , , , , , , , 1

Everyday a lesson learned and once again a new chance to make things right or repeat your history of making the same fucking mistakes over and over like a a repetitive conundrum of disaster. We are all currently living in Lemony Snicket’s series of unfortunate events and the entire world is in disarray. I’m sure […]

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Arrested Development

Samantha Schell Adaptation, Anxiety, BJJ, Family, mental health, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance , , , , , ,

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 […]

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