All of what I have seen and what I have not seen.

Today you get to wake up and decide what kind of day you are going to have. You can only control how you act and react. Today is a good day to have a good day. #positivevibes #goodmorning #psychology #mentalhealth (at Union Square, Manhattan) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7BRcwTBgfb/?igshid=1vazrazpdsz0v

This year taught me so much about myself. A year of lessons that forced me and allowed me to feel, to grieve, to connect with pain, to connect with hope. My year began ice skating on mirror lake. The year carried me through into a summer of adventures, a summer filled with road trips across Portugal, Spain, and throughout Eastern Europe, trying new foods in Morocco, and soaking up the weather of summer from the sun in Mallorca to the rain in Dublin. To celebrating love and creating new memories with family in Sweden, to making my way back to the Midwest after years to celebrate the life of my grandfather. I embarked on a north east road trip before beginning my final year of graduate school at Columbia. I have spent my Fall semester in the midst of beginning my fieldwork, finding hope and resilience from the people I counsel and meet. I’ve met new friends in the world of health and wellness and enjoyed laughter and joy with the old. I’ve endured a surgery and countless other ER visits from the pain in my body these past few months and continue to seek answers, holding onto hope and faith that everything happens for a reason. This year has given me challenges, it has given me loss in which I find, at moments, I still grieve. This year has given me hope and encouraged me to continue to trust the process, to let go, let God, and to allow for what is meant to be, to be. Oh 2019, another year comes to a close, saying goodbye to a decade, hello to new adventures, to new beginnings. I’m ready for you 2020, manifesting the goodness, the challenging to keep me growing and always to be in the pursuit of magic. Wishing joy and love to all on this momentous ending and beginning. xx #trusttheprocess #gratefulheart #happynewyear #2020 (at Albufeira | Algarve - Portugal |) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6wpqq-HhVR/?igshid=uhjpiju3dajz

Happy Christmas. Wishing everyone the joy and magic of this holiday season. What a lovely time as the year is wrapping up to be grateful & filled with love for the memories you created and the ones you have to share it with. xx #trusttheprocess #happyholidays #happychristmas #traveltheworld (at Donja Klada, Primorsko-Goranska, Croatia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6g4MIojwZk/?igshid=ok73cuaiqyvx

The wisdom he left behind. The legend. Such gratitude on my heart. “Be here now” #wordsofwisdom #gratitude #ramdass #quotes (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6ehnO4BP9k/?igshid=1kavbi17mboci

Today marks the winter solstice. Out of the darkness comes a new sun. This day holds space for moments to check in with your self. To sit for a moment with your breath, with your thoughts, and allow for a change to occur. This day is a day that has held space for this but truly everyday invites this of us. Each morning we wake breathing we are invited to show up for ourselves, to constantly grow, to allow change to occur when it’s needed. To become the best versions of ourself. We are capable of greatness. We are capable of magic. xx #wintersolstice #trusttheprocess #showup #traveltheworld (at Medina, Fès, Morocco) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6WkV76njN6/?igshid=1c4ogcrt5gydo

You are beautiful. You are brave. You are capable of magic. #psychology #wordsofwisdom #therapy #trusttheprocess (at Manhattan, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6WeZE5BrJL/?igshid=yh9qnidru77b

Every day is a new day. A new day to be kind, to love, to give, to accept, to try something new, to stay in your comfort. The key to remember is balance. Allow your moments of adventure and your moments of rest to balance out your world, to keep you witnessing the magic and ready to see the miracle that is this life. #mindbody #psychology #love #miracle (at Angkor Wat Temple-ប្រាសាទអង្គរវត្ត) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6KHsd4Bhpi/?igshid=1fs481ug3pa2u

Today represents an ending, but also a beginning. Coming from Europe back to America to finish my chapter of academia. I still remember visiting Sarah Lawrence and seeing all the signs that this was my new home to learn, to grow, and to create the life I had imagined. I savoured the ending of freedom to travel for the last two and a half years. I accepted the stillness, although challenging at times, I found that the routine and structure became my life. I sit here now looking back, at 23, at the years of my life, from the chapters that have been my life's book so far. My chapter of my undergraduate career and my time at Sarah Lawrence has come to a close. I look at my life, at my past, my present, and future, and I can not help but feel the happiness, to see the light, and to be where I know I am meant to be. I discovered a dream I had not realised I had in my previous chapters. I grew up always wanting to be an actress and while that dream has not faded, I have had a much larger dream come into fruition. I knew the greatest piece of why I was placed on this Earth was and is to make a difference, just like I believe we all are placed here for a reason, a purpose. My difference that has been placed on my heart is to be a listener, a healer, and to help others find love and light no matter how dark their world may be. To begin to glue and stitch the crevices and cracks of this world. I look forward to my next chapter, my next academic endeavor leading me to graduate school to pursue the career of a counseling psychologist. I hope to create a lasting impact on those that I am able to listen to and those that come into my life throughout my future chapters. I close one chapter that is bittersweet because of the incredible professors I have learned from and grown relationships with, my fellow peers who I have collaborated and shared laughter with and am full of hope and love for my next chapter. In the meantime though there may be a chapter in between where I get wondrously lost once again amidst the beauty of this magical Earth and find myself solo travelling once more. Stay tuned my darlings. xx #gratefulheart #collegegrad (at Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Happy New Year! Hello 2018, I’ll be seeing you 2017. This year filled me with lessons, in academia, in relationships, and in life. Learning that kindness is magic & that love will always win. God is good. Ringing in the new year with my darlings and my heart filled with hope for all this new year has to offer. xx 🌏🥂#loveandalliscoming #happynewyear #2018 #newyearseve (at Muir Beach, California)

From the West Coast to the East Coast, and all around this incredible earth. I have so much to be grateful for. Family is defined as “a group of people related to one another by blood or marriage”. The word Family to me has gone beyond all definitions. Filled with strangers I have met in my travels, friends that I have shared laughter & tears with, people that have come across me at all stages throughout my life. The definition I give is the beauty and magic that comes from each human soul I meet. I still hold the belief that there are no accidents in this life. And that Everything happens for a reason. There is a plan for each one of us. Above all definitions, all words that can be used, there is the gift of presence, presence in ones life that helps define families, friendships, relationships. Being there for one another no matter the challenges and joys that arise. I have been blessed this Christmas and so many before. I end this day knowing that this life is truly good, excited for all the future holds, and recognising the greatest thing to possess in this life is gratitude. Happy Christmas to you all, from the depths of my heart. xx #happychristmas #gratefulheart #loveandalliscoming #jesusisthereasonfortheseason (at Muir Woods National Monument)

Today represents an ending, but also a beginning. Coming from Europe back to America to finish my chapter of academia. I still remember visiting Sarah Lawrence and seeing all the signs that this was my new home to learn, to grow, and to create the life I had imagined. I savoured the ending of freedom to travel for the last two and a half years. I accepted the stillness, although challenging at times, I found that the routine and structure became my life. I sit here now looking back, at 23, at the years of my life, from the chapters that have been my life's book so far. My chapter of my undergraduate career and my time at Sarah Lawrence has come to a close. I look at my life, at my past, my present, and future, and I can not help but feel the happiness, to see the light, and to be where I know I am meant to be. I discovered a dream I had not realised I had in my previous chapters. I grew up always wanting to be an actress and while that dream has not faded, I have had a much larger dream come into fruition. I knew the greatest piece of why I was placed on this Earth was and is to make a difference, just like I believe we all are placed here for a reason, a purpose. My difference that has been placed on my heart is to be a listener, a healer, and to help others find love and light no matter how dark their world may be. To begin to glue and stitch the crevices and cracks of this world. I look forward to my next chapter, my next academic endeavor leading me to graduate school to pursue the career of a counseling psychologist. I hope to create a lasting impact on those that I am able to listen to and those that come into my life throughout my future chapters. I close one chapter that is bittersweet because of the incredible professors I have learned from and grown relationships with, my fellow peers who I have collaborated and shared laughter with and am full of hope and love for my next chapter. In the meantime though there may be a chapter in between where I get wondrously lost once again amidst the beauty of this magical Earth and find myself solo travelling once more. Stay tuned my darlings. xx #gratefulheart #loveandalliscoming #collegegrad #nextchapter (at Amsterdam, Netherlands)

From our fateful meeting at the Strand to where we are now. You have become my favourite romance novel. I am so grateful for you. To our countless adventures whether on the streets of New York, or the canals of Amsterdam. I cannot wait to continue to fall more and more in love with you. Happy one year my darling. xx #anniversary #kiss #travelling #gratefulheart #iamgrateful #peacefulwarrior #selflove #Love #life #wanderlust #adventure #travel #explore #neverstopexploring #journey #gratitudeproject #affirmation #manifesto #cntraveler #yogaeverydamnday #yogagirl #mantra #thetravelwomen #girlaroundworld #sheisnotlost #love #loveandalliscoming #practiceyogaandchangeyourlife #yogajourney #minimalpeople (at Amsterdam - Netherlands)

I dream of the places I have yet to wander, of the people I have not yet met, and the magic that exudes from the memories I hold dear. There is something quite extraordinary about memory. It is something that although may fade with age, begins to gain clarity with each passing moment. These moments are what I hold onto, the memories of magic, the memories that have taught me lessons, allowed me to grow, and the memories of what is to come, something to always hope for, to always help when I'm in doubt to believe is yet to come. xx #neverstopbelieving #inthepursuitofmagic #memoriesmade #freeyourmind (at Martha's Vineyard)

She sat with herself, she faced her fear of stillness acknowledging the moments that she continued to run, to find that when she ran it was a way for her to disconnect. She ran from the people and the places that hurt her. She found herself unable to accept the stillness, to be okay with who she was in the here and now, she found that she ran from her flaws. There was a moment that stopped her, or a series of moments. A series of reflections that forced her to see the light, to admire the sun in its stillness, in its precise movements that are what one may call balance. She looked to the sun as it lit the whole sky yet it still rose and set each day. She realised that she could do the same, she could rest when she needed it and she could remember that with each day came a potential for light or darkness to win. The sun was one of her teachers, among the moon, the rain, and the stars. She slowly uncovered her state of peace, her sense of finding herself. The process whilst always in progress came to a close and a whole new beginning began. xx #sheisnotlost #trusttheprocess #darlingescapes #stillness (at Stockholm, Sweden)

I felt the freedom in my heart and soul today. To the awakenings that I have felt and to all that lie before me. xx #beautyisnow #foreverchanged #youarebeautiful #yogaislife (at Hagaparken)

I had a realisation with myself today, with my body actually. In the midst of "the class" led by my dear friend Zoë I awakened a part of myself that had become stiff, had become silent, and had become complacent to the numbness in a sector of my life that I had long forgotten about. I was reminded to check in, to close my eyes, to find stillness, to feel the way my body felt with the movement. When it was time to open up and let out a sound, I found myself unable, I found myself silent, as I had wanted to scream in so many aspects of my life, to shout out, "I am here", or just to scream out the pain, the anger, the sadness, the depths of my soul that I had silenced and in turn had allowed my heart to harden around. I opened up today, I let a small sound and it got bigger and bigger and the movement in my body expanded. I let my exhales take over, I let my heart expand, and I felt myself come together; the stagnant energy moved, the cells in my body tingled, and for the first time in what seemed like forever I gave gratitude to my body and it soaked it up, every inch of the love, the gratitude, and the beauty I poured into it, it drank as if the desert that once was my body had finally become an oasis. xx (at Malibu, California)

Always free & always loving. To the independence that fiercely lies within each of you. xx #independenceday #fourthofjuly #loveismagic #kisskiss (at East Village, Manhattan)