#expiriences

Happy halfway through the week beauties! I’m here enjoying my new natural hair style 🤩 yes this is big chop number 7 sometimes we must let go of the old in order to see the new 🥳 starting over is gonna be fun 🤩 the advantage I have is all the experience I’ve gained from my journey I’ve started since 2011 the pros and cons so this time around should be much easier 😅 WHO WANNA JOIN ME? To the next 🥂 12 months of growth and dedication 🥰 #lifewithpaulette #naturalhairjourneycontinues #expiriences #iskey🔑 (at Honolulu, Hawaii) https://www.instagram.com/p/CN7rg0KBfmO/?igshid=164gjcm3yern3

I don’t feel guilty for having fun 🤘🏼. @30secondstomars I’m in love with u, never been on a concert where a band it’s so open to the audience like u do, u made as all feel part of the show. Unforgettable 🖤. #notguilty #30secondstomars #rock #best #music #liveconcert #madisonsquaregarden #groupie #band #expiriences #live #love #dance #swipeleft #bymyself (at The Garden)

I've had sloppy kisses, and first kisses, accidental kisses, and kisses that should have never happened, kisses that stole my breath away, and kisses that left me wanting more. The only problem I have is that I was always looking for a perfect kiss not looking at what I had in front of me, I missed a lot of feelings that other people were showing me.

My name is Ericka. I am 25 years old and I am a fairly new vegan. I have adopted the vegetarian way for 6 months then transitioned into a vegan about 3 months ago. As I continue to live this lifestyle, I have seen quite a lot of skepticism, both negative and good. Good usually comes from people trying to adopt the lifestyle or already have. The bad obviously comes from all the meat eaters and chefs I know, which in my case is quite a few. I get many questions like “where am I gonna get my protein?” or “don’t you know you will end up anemic and malnourished?” Most of the time I don’t have much of a response. I also have been told I am going against the bible and what god says (yes people have went there). Again I have no answer. Well here I am to document my vegan journey and everything I learn along the process. As far as right now, I cant begin to explain how dramatically my body has changed. Already at 25 I had a lot of medical issues. I was overweight, suffered from major depression and anxiety, extremely bad GI problems (every problem in the book) and I felt so tired and fatigued everyday. I couldn’t sleep at all but yet my body always felt weak. I was a complete mess. But on the bright side, that was then and is no longer a now. As soon as I started cutting meat, dairy and animal products, my problems pretty much vanished. And it almost happened instantly. I have lost a total of 20 pounds since April and continuing losing weight every week. Its like I took a miracle drug and all my problems went away. I sleep so well and my mood has changed for the better. I overall am just an overly happy vegan and proud of it.  

I really don’t think religion should have been brought to this conversation in the first place because it seems like my “relative” is hiding behind it to express her homophobia but if you ask me, God or whatever is out there just wants us to be the best version of ourselves that we can be and to keep trying to help each other.

Kare Raisu-Tembi’u Paraguay 2014 Nuestros agradecimientos a Revista Alacarta. Foto Laura Mandelick  Nota: Silvia Sanchéz. Editorial Dervish Genotv/CNN.ZeroPointZero Fotos: Natalia Galeano…