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Hey there and welcome back to In The Making, where I should really just STOP doing things. Since the new year began, I’ve been having the itch to delete The Adulting Journals and start completely fresh. I’ve been considering abandoning The Adulting Journals and replacing it with Punk Pulse Magazine. I’ve been considering how I might recruit writers to even be able to form a steady flow of content for a web magazine. I’ve been considering what I would do differently with a com

Hey there and welcome back to Life, Unfiltered! Happy birthday, me! I’m finally out of my teens and jumping right into my twenties! I genuinely can’t believe it. I’m now a twenty-year-old woman. EWW! It’s honestly a bit scary to see my age get more and more serious, because we all know that I’m just a little kid stuck inside a big body… Aren’t all adults, though? It’s totally okay, though, because I think I’m doing half decent at this whole “Adulting” thing. I’m in school, I’

Hey there and welcome back to Life, Unfiltered! I decided to visit my site a few times as a reader to see what the new update to The Adulting Journals looks like, and it hit me that I never did address the new 2026 look. If you’ve been here since the beginning of the blog, you’re likely surprised to return to our new green and black look. And if you’re new to The Adulting Journals community, welcome! Finishing 2025 was slightly rough. I had been facing a depressive low throu

Hey there, and welcome back to Growing Pains. I was reading through my previous post, Bulimia: My Eating Disorder Story , and I decided to return to the Google doc which inspired me to write that post. It was several pages I had written during one of my many relapses, documenting my eating disorder experience in as much detail as I could muster. All the pain, all the suffering. Everything that hurt. I hate to admit it, but again, the pillar of my writing is honesty, and I ju

Hey there, and welcome back to Life, Unfiltered. This morning, I was reminiscing over Punk Pulse Magazine, the passion and fire inside that I felt as I worked toward the launch of my site. To gain some inspiration to write today's post, I decided to read back a few of my old posts. I won’t lie, it’s been difficult to find motivation to write through this slight mental health drop. Sometimes it feels a little pointless, like I’m shouting into a void, knowing that I won’t get

Hey there and welcome back to The Adulting Journals with my newest post in Growing Pains. First and foremost, I just want to say that I appreciate all of you staying with me through my tough time. I should be going back to posting twice a month, with no real schedule for Spoken Word or Alexandra Reads posts just yet. Through the brief hiatus that I took to tend to my health through an eating disorder relapse, I decided to do something I haven’t done since my last recovery. I

I don’t know why these stupid thoughts have such a hold on me. I just know that I can’t stand existing without my eating disorder. I just can’t. I know that fact makes me a hypocrite, and I know that all the goodness I’ve been spewing here now amounts to some serious bullshit in the eyes of my readers. I don’t know if this is just the voice of mania telling me that I can lose 20lbs in a few weeks, or if this is a true relapse. If you’ve noticed my absence, it’s been because

I'm not even drafting this on a doc, I'm just writing straight on my site and pressing publish... I FAILED MY OWN CHALLENGE!!!! 10 Days...

Hey there, and welcome back to Life, Unfiltered with my 10 Days Of Celebrating Life series. If you missed 10 Days Of Celebrating Life:...