Just Let Me Bang, Bro

September 15, 2020 Samantha Schell BJJ, Competing, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance, Positivity, self confidence, winners bjj, cage fight, Competition, fighter, fighting, Jiu Jitsu, MMA, WMMA

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 […]

Guilty as Charged

September 1, 2020 Samantha Schell Adaptation, BJJ, Family, Perseverance, Positivity, self confidence, Teaching bjj, improve, mental health, MMA, self reflection, toxic

What’s your toxic trait? This is something I’ve been trying self reflect a lot on lately. We are always so focused on the ways in which we have been wronged and the people who have treated us poorly that we can tend to gloss over the internal conflicts causing chaos within ourselves. “Until people take […]

FOMO

August 18, 2020 Samantha Schell Anxiety, BJJ, mental health, Perseverance Anxiety, bjj, fomo, mental health, positivity, social media

Perhaps now more than ever, the fear of missing out is rapidly integrating itself into the collective minds of all those stuck in the 2020 cycle of the chaos in this current state. Especially to all of those still immersed in some form of lockdown, constantly checking social media accounts to peep in on the […]

Trying my Best to Eliminate Stress

August 11, 2020 Samantha Schell Anxiety, BJJ, Competing, Family, Perseverance, Positivity, self confidence, Stress bjj, fight, Jiu Jitsu, mental health, MMA, sacrifice, WMMA

Stress. One word. 6 letters. A whole bunch of reasons behind it. If you’re anything like me, you find yourself getting frazzled constantly, and often by exceptionally minute things that just tend to pile up over time. Little by little, the grains of sand start forming eclipsing dunes and you’ve made mountains out of mole […]

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

August 4, 2020 Samantha Schell Adaptation, Family, mental health, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance, Positivity Anxiety, Depression, happiness, health, mental health, sleep, trying

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 […]

I’d Rather Be The Hunter Than The Prey

July 21, 2020 Samantha Schell Adaptation, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance, self confidence, Teaching adaptability, evolution, hunter, savage, strength, survival

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 […]

And In The End, The Love You Take Is Equal To The Love You Make

July 7, 2020 Samantha Schell Family, Friendship, Laughter, love, Parenting, Perseverance embrace, family, happiness, love, positivity, respect, wholesome

Life can go by incredibly fast, and with each day that passes, I am trying to learn to appreciate the little things a bit more. Quality time spent with family is something I am beginning to treasure and cherish, and rather than becoming frustrated with things like long road trips stuck in the car for […]

Rooting for the Good

June 30, 2020 Samantha Schell Family, Friendship, Laughter, love, Perseverance, Positivity cheer, friendship, good, happiness, positivity

I don’t understand the mindset some people have of wanting to keep others down or rooting for someone else to fail. Personally, I find there is enough sadness and misery in the world without having to go search for it and I would much rather contribute to the beneficial positivity that can always be expanded […]

F.ace E.verything A.nd R.ise

June 2, 2020 Samantha Schell Family, Friendship, love, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance blackout tuesday, love, positivity 4

Today, I sit in front of my MacBook, and I don’t have the slightest inkling on where to begin. There is so much to bring up and discuss and all of it entails tact and respect to the lives, emotions, livelihood, and people involved. I am not a person of color, I am in zero […]

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 […]

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