Don’t Take it so Personally

July 13, 2021 Samantha Schell Adaptation, Anxiety, BJJ, Family, Friendship, mental health, Perseverance, self confidence alone, bjj, Depression, mental health, resiliency, therapy

Interesting. I started this blog primarily to write and document my experiences training and competing in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and MMA, and then I find myself relating it to my emotions and personal life experiences more often than not. It has become a therapeutic outlet in a safe space I can air out my grievances […]

If You Never Heal From What Hurt You, You Will Continue to Bleed on Those Who Did Not Cut You

June 29, 2021 Samantha Schell Adaptation, Anxiety, mental health, Perseverance, Positivity, self confidence, Stress healing, mental health, pain, scars, trauma

Trauma is probably something that shouldn’t be as highly relatable as it is, but unfortunately, almost every single person you come into contact with has suffered or endured something in their past that has dramatically altered the course of their existence. It has molded us, impacted us, and effected us, but it should never define […]

Walk Tall & Carry a Big Stick

June 14, 2021 Samantha Schell BJJ, Competing, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance, Positivity, self confidence atomweight, fight, MMA, perseverance, positivity, weightcut

The title is kind of ironic for a 5’0 tall woman banking on her BDE ways of thinking, no? But that was exactly my mindset this past weekend as I ventured out into the biggest career opportunity I was presented with to date. I received a call on 15 days notice about a vacant slot […]

Without Hard Work, Nothing Grows But Weeds

May 25, 2021 Samantha Schell Anxiety, Perseverance, Positivity, self confidence Dreams, goals, hard work, perseverance, positivity, tencacity 1

The world owes you nothing, it is up to every single individual to go out there and chase it. It’s a hard pill to swallow to come to the realization that we are where we are in life because of the choices we make and the actions that we take. Sure, some people may do […]

Choose Your Hard

May 11, 2021 Samantha Schell Anxiety, Competing, Family, Friendship, Positivity, self confidence, Stress bjj, choices, hard, hard work, ownership, Stress

Everything is hard, you just gotta be bigger than your excuses and greater than your fears. Sure, easier said than done, but when are we going to stop letting our mind limit us and dictate our destinies? Someone* recently told me that anxiety is an emotion, not a diagnosis or personality trait, and to use […]

Always Forward

April 27, 2021 Samantha Schell Anxiety, BJJ, Competing, self confidence, Teaching, winners bjj, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Competition, Jiu Jitsu, learning, losses, opportunity, wins

There is no one alive out there who is keeping a track record of our successes and our failures and detailing every step in our journeys. Even our most loathsome “enemy” isn’t tallying all that we do, from our greatest opponent and adversary to what may very well be just a bitter ex dating partner. […]

We Are Women, Now Hear Us Roar

March 9, 2021 Samantha Schell BJJ, Perseverance, self confidence bjj, BJJ girls, Fight like a Girl, girls in gis, strength, WMMA, women

Yesterday was International Women’s Day, and I love being able to celebrate the fierce, capable, and strong woman I have become. This was never something I accomplished of my own accord, but through the countless people supporting me and being there for me to provide comfort, wisdom, and the tenacity to keep powering on. It’s […]

But What If You Don’t

March 2, 2021 Samantha Schell Anxiety, BJJ, Competing, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance, Positivity, self confidence, winners bjj, effort, failures, hard work, kickboxing, MMA, muay thai, self sabotahge, success 2

It’s easier to not try; to allow yourself to fail even at something you so desperately want rather than deal with the disappointment of trying really hard and coming up short regardless. We can be so consumed with the fear of failure that we give up before something even begins. We can have it set […]

Make Progress or Make Excuses

January 12, 2021 Samantha Schell Anxiety, mental health, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance, Positivity, self confidence Anxiety, exercise, gym, nutrition, resolutions, weightloss

Resolutions are for the birds. We spend so much time hyping up a goal or ambition without the slightest bit of understanding of what the steps necessary to make the goals come to fruition are. The problem is, the majority of these resolutions are simple; the journey to achieve them isn’t complicated or convoluted, it […]

Slow & Steady Wins the Race

December 8, 2020 Samantha Schell Adaptation, BJJ, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance, self confidence, Teaching bjj, fighting, Injuries, kindness, patience, perseverance, satsfaction

Patience may be a virtue, the moral compass we should all strive to adhere the quality for, but it is also harder to master than a 300 pound blue belt learning to berimbolo. Think about it. If patience was so easily attainable, New Year’s resolutions wouldn’t exist. There wouldn’t be an influx of new gym […]

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