What happens when we get sad? Often, we find ourselves in a rut. When we sink into a state of melancholy, too often, we develop habits of cycling though mediocre days that eventually become our new state of normal. The longer we exist here for, the harder it is to break free from. We convince ourselves that change is too […]
Picture this: something horrible just happened to you. You turn to your family and friends for some advice or just some comfort, and what do they say? “Time heals all wounds.” “Things will get better.” “Tomorrow is brighter.” You roll your eyes. You know they are just trying to help you, and perhaps they are struggling with what to say […]
[Warning: blood, violence, heavy subject matter.] The entire course of my life changed greatly on the day of my 13th birthday. My parents had been practicing giving me more independence and freedom, allowing me to travel a little further away from home each year since I was 10 and at 13, I knew I was going to be allowed to […]
All my life, I’ve seen commercials for anti-aging creams on TV, ads to cover the greys in your roots as I scroll through Facebook or Instagram on my phone, and heard dozens of celebrities advocate for botox and other injections in media. People say that youth is the societal standard for beauty and that the billion-dollar industry relies on your […]
Ahhh, it’s that time again. A count down at midnight will transition us all into a brand-new year. With that, as we have many times before, many of us will make large and foolish promises to ourselves that we intend to keep for the next three hundred and sixty-five days. Most of us will not be able to keep the […]
Dear Danika, I need to talk about a boy I met named Jimothy. Jimothy came into my life at the perfect time, I had just been ghosted by a man I fell head over heels for, and here came this glimmering light of a human being. We clicked immediately, our humour and personalities as a whole were the same. We […]
