I’m Trish and I’ve always wanted to start a blog. I had one back in 2013 in the hopes of documenting my life as a teenager heading off to college and leaving home for the first time, but I didn’t really find the time and energy to maintain it.

Actually, I might have dipped my toes into “blogging” way before that. At 13 years old, I had an extreme Tumblr obsession and would post hipster-looking edits of mainstream quotes for Tumblarity. It was when I solely relied on loves and reblogs for validation and fought tooth and nail to get my numbers to grow. Good times.

It makes me cringe looking back at my embarrassing internet personas, but I realized that I also envy that girl who used to freely speak her mind. Somewhere along the way, I became too self-conscious and afraid to share my thoughts on anything, especially on the internet. Apart from being too frightened of call-out culture, I wallowed in self-doubt wondering if my content won’t be good enough, too basic, or even irrelevant. I was too fixated on this toxic mindset that I thought it was better to just stifle my own voice.

It’s scary to allow the world to take hold of you in ways you don’t even realize, and it took a lot of introspection and therapy for me to catch myself getting sucked into that void (among other daunting realizations). Learning to face your traumas can be the most relentless task, but I’ve decided to put in the work so I can slowly come to terms with my true self. It’s a life-long undertaking and a never-ending push and pull, but I found that the kind of peace and fulfillment that comes with having better self-awareness surpasses anything the world could ever offer.

Seasons of healing and growth call for new goals and desires, and one of them for me was to start this blog and share my journey with you. I wanted this to be a way of taking back my voice and owning up to my identity.

It also feels like I’m going through this creative awakening that is urging me to share my output on a myriad of topics from adulting, faith, and philosophy to beauty, mental health, and more. I want to talk about all sorts of themes floating around folks who are also in their twenties.

All that said, this is essentially a personal blog. It is meant to be a cathartic life-giving project for myself, but my hope is that it could also spark even just 1% of joy or inspiration in another human being.

At the end of the day, my belief is that we’re all just out here trying to navigate life, making sense of our realities, and finding our felicity.