Hit Me Baby One More Time

July 23, 2019 Samantha Schell BJJ, Competing, Family, Perseverance, Positivity, self confidence, Stress bjj, effort, Jiu Jitsu, lazy, MMA, try, WMMA 2

“You want a hot body? You want a Bugatti? You want a Maserati? You better work bitch.” Britney Spears isn’t necessarily the ideal candidate I choose towards when I’m looking for some inspiration, but in this case, her song is 100% accurate. Everyone wants the glory, the prizes, the benefits, the luxuries, and the accolades, […]

Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number

July 16, 2019 Samantha Schell BJJ, Competing, Family, love, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance bjj, Competition, Jiu Jitsu, Schell Shock BJJ

Jiu Jitsu literally is for everyone. I hear people in the public mention how they’re too old to do this sport, and yet I am friends with and personally know people who not only train in their later years, but actively compete as well. In fact, I know 2 women who regularly compete in the […]

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 […]

Becoming Fearless

June 25, 2019 Samantha Schell Anxiety, BJJ, Competing, Friendship, Overcoming Adversity, self confidence, winners bjj, Competition, fearless, Jiu Jitsu 4

You know what? It takes courage to get out there and live life, I mean to truly live it. To venture into the dating world, to compete, to pursue a career path, to travel abroad etc; all of these things take some serious guts. I spent a week on Tinder, and trust me, it can […]

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 […]

Not Today

April 30, 2019 Samantha Schell BJJ, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance, Positivity, self confidence, winners bjj, game of thrones, Jiu Jitsu, MMA, Schell Shock BJJ, WMMA

Man, let’s hear it for 2019 as the year that badass little girls reign supreme. I’m about to delve into some Game of Thrones spoilers so if you haven’t seen the mot current episode, I suggest putting this blog piece on hold. Lady Lyanna Mormont has to be somewhere around 12 years old and 80 […]

Always Rising

April 23, 2019 Samantha Schell Uncategorized bjj, Jiu Jitsu, mental health, MMA, perseverance, positivity, WMMA

Let’s talk burn out: aka when long term exhaustion meets diminished interest. Like the cindered butts of a cigarette long since ashed, the warm embers rapidly losing heat are synonymous with the way I can end up feeling day in and day out. And that’s in relation to my workload with all of my tasks, […]

The Pursuit of Happiness

April 9, 2019 Samantha Schell BJJ, Competing, Positivity bjj, happiness, Jiu Jitsu

Let’s talk happiness; the seedy underbelly of what makes all the grime we go through in life worthwhile. When are you at your happiest and what incites those warm fuzzy feelings deep within your soul? So many different answers to this I always hear: the first time I saw my child after being born, looking […]

Thoughts of an Ambivert

April 2, 2019 Samantha Schell Anxiety, BJJ, Competing, mental health, Positivity, self confidence, Stress adaptation, ambivert, Anxiety, bjj, extrovert, introvert, Jiu Jitsu, mental health, MMA, personality

An ambivert is a person who is defined as having both introverted and extroverted mindsets. We enjoy our time spent being around people, but we also need to take some solitary alone time in order to “recharge our batteries.” I love being surrounded by the people in my life, but occasionally, I need a break […]

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