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 […]

A Work in Progress

July 28, 2020 Samantha Schell Adaptation, Anxiety, BJJ, Competing, Family, Friendship bjj, family, mental health, MMA, relaxation, rest, rest day

It’s been a rough week, mentally, physically, and spiritually. I really hate to complain when I feel exceptionally fortunate to be able to pursue my dreams and strive for great accomplishments, but this does not mean an overworked, burnt out feeling ever escapes me or that every day I wake up feeling ready to tackle […]

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 […]

One is the Loneliest Number

April 7, 2020 Samantha Schell Anxiety, BJJ, Family, Friendship, Laughter, love, mental health bjj, coronavirus, covid19, friendship, Jiu Jitsu, love, mental health, quarantine, self care 1

Oxygen, water, food, shelter and companionship? Do humans really need human interaction to survive just as resolutely as we need food and water? According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, we do. There is a reason solitary confinement in the prisons is used as a form of punishment. There’s a reason Tom Hank’s character in Castaway […]

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 […]

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 […]

I’m a Bitch, I’m a Lover

January 7, 2020 Samantha Schell Adaptation, BJJ, Family, Friendship, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance, Positivity, self confidence, Stress anguish, bjj, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, competing, happiness, Jiu Jitsu, love, mental health, positivity, self improvement 2

I hate the world today. Nah, honestly even if that’s not true, I feel like everyone can relate a little bit to Meredith Brooks in one way or another. Some days, we just wake up on the wrong side of the bed for no apparent reason. It’s like sometimes someone pissed in our bowl of […]

Inferiority Complex

December 10, 2019 Samantha Schell BJJ, Competing, Friendship, mental health, Perseverance, Positivity, self confidence bjj, inferiority, Jiu Jisu, marriage, measuring up, mental health, MMA, positivity, relationships, self worth, WMMA

Life isn’t one long measuring stick of set mile markers we are supposed to reach, yet I am always finding myself being so harsh on myself mentally for not living up to certain expectations. This is something I really used to struggle with when it came to Jiu Jitsu; watching other people receive stripe or […]

Woes of Social Media

May 21, 2019 Samantha Schell Anxiety, BJJ, love, mental health, Positivity, self confidence, Stress bjj, love, mental health, MMA, social media, WMMA

I have not been very kind to myself these days. I am pulling my mind and my body in a million different directions and then becoming angry with myself when I stumble a little along the way. But how can I be perfect and why do I even expect that out of myself? I don’t […]

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, […]

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