Status Updates From I Am Fun Size, and So Are You!

"'I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.' - Louisa May Alcott"

"When we fail at something, or even when we don't fail but somehow something in the world happens to rock our faith, we lose our sense of where we are in the world, in space. We need to rebuild those neural pathways that believe we've got this."

"Release the pressure on yourself to always be positive. Give yourself permission to feel like crap for a second."

"And since so often when we are hurting we revert to that tiny child inside who just wants to be loved, it's helpful to talk to yourself like you would talk to that little one."

"I read fiction - not self-help - because I needed to replace the voices in my head with creativity and happiness, not with, 'This is what you should do.'"

As someone who is trying to regain a hold of her own voice and not be some "puppet" controlled by others, I totally get this.

"I initially tried to kind of fit in everywhere and tried to sort of act like this group of people or that group of people and just try to sort of assimilate, and I wish I had just allowed myself to not shave off all my little weird corners and edges. Because once you get out of [...] school [...] you start to find there are more people like you [...and] much more accepting of all of our weird stuff..."

"The idea of being this specific gave me anxiety. I didn't want to have to choose, didn't want to exclude the possibility of something else more exciting, rewarding, fulfilling, or magical down the line."

That's a vibe. I know there's been several occasions where the unexpected events ended up leading me to where I was happiest.

"If I am going to spend the majority of my time working, it had better be fun. Life is too short for it not to be. This is serious fun."