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, […]

Distancing the Bullshit

March 31, 2020 Samantha Schell Anxiety, Laughter, mental health, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance, Positivity, Stress adversity, coronovirus, isolation, mental health, persdeverance, quarantine, resiliency, social isolation, 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 […]

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 […]

We Accept the Love We Think We Deserve

March 10, 2020 Samantha Schell Family, Friendship, love, Parenting, Perseverance, Positivity, self confidence bonds, deserve, family, friendship, happiness, love, triumph

How many of us have people in our lives who treat us less than stellar within our relationships? Platonic, romantic, and familial included. Why? Why do we allow ourselves to be tied to people who are dismissive of our wants and needs in a specific relationship or bond? Whether it is out of comfort or […]

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 […]

Leaving Your Legacy

February 25, 2020 Samantha Schell BJJ, Family, love, Parenting, Perseverance, Positivity bjj, dad, family, father, Jiu Jitsu, legacy, man, person, professor, Schell Shock, Schell Shock BJJ

Stiffen up that upper lip, boys don’t cry, boys will be boys, man up et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Society places such an emphasis on men to be the bearer of all things without any hint of vulnerability or emotion. Be the bread winner, the tough guy, the manly man, be strong, have muscles, […]

Mind Yo Business (No One Asked You Karen)

February 18, 2020 Samantha Schell BJJ, Competing, Perseverance, Positivity, Teaching advice, bjj, Jiu Jitsu, learning, MMA, WMMA 4

Unsolicited advice is the junk mail of life; it is going straight into the trash with my publisher’s clearance house scam checks. Yet when you are in a profession that can lead to being in the spotlight, everyone and their 3rd cousin once removed thinks they are in a position to offer their 2 cents […]

Cut Calories, Not Confidence

February 11, 2020 Samantha Schell BJJ, Competing, mental health, nutrition, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance, Positivity, self confidence bjj, diet, fight, fighter, Jiu Jitsu, MMA, nutrition, weightcut, WMMA

Confidence, tenacity, self-esteem, etc; all vital components in becoming successful in such a brutal and unforgiving sport, but the mentality and discipline behind the scenes is always vastly more difficult than the cardio and skillets involved. Everyone has those days where you wake up after an unsatisfying night’s “sleep”, groggy as hell the next morning, […]

Hey Look Ma, I Made It

February 4, 2020 Samantha Schell BJJ, Competing, Family, Perseverance, Positivity, self confidence, winners bjj, cage fight, confidence, fighter, Jiu Jitsu, MMA, wolf queen 2

Today is my birthday, and oh boy am I hanging onto these 20s. These past few years I have pushed myself to accomplish quite a bit, and I think it’s time I start to give myself some credit for it. I tend to have a nasty habit of downplaying my achievements, either by crediting those […]

Ovaries Are Not Brovaries

January 21, 2020 Samantha Schell BJJ, Competing, love, mental health, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance, Positivity, Stress bjj, competing, Competition, health, Jiu Jitsu, MMA, perseverasnce, positivity 4

To say I have been having a rough week mentally wouldn’t even begin to scratch the surface for the nonphysical turmoil I continuously put myself in. I’ve geared up to compete, with my female reproductive system absolutely screaming in protest with every fiber of its being, and remarkably ended up unscathed, although my win-loss ratio […]

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