06/27/2026
When starting a seggsual health and wellness business turns into helping pay for your degree. Officially done my BSc. Psychology + minor in Political Science and what an enlightening, challenging, stressful, and equally rewarding ride.
The things that got me through:
• The insanely inspiring women in these spaces who are fearlessly blazing the trail for us all. Learning from their wealth of knowledge, wisdom, activism and being in awe of their unwavering commit to social justice and collective liberation.
• Giving myself more grace, credit, and self compassion + working on managing stress.
• Scheduling and prioritizing pleasure, play, joy, crafting, and creating like it was my day job. Treating them not as luxuries but as serious necessities. I’ve been so inspired by the work of and her book Pleasure Activism. It radically changed my relationship to pleasure and joy.
• Heating pads, muscle relaxant, and all the products from hot tubs, saunas, + mind numbing reality shows like love is blind and love on the spectrum.
• Leaning on support systems, speaking up, reaching out, being vulnerable, sharing, learning and talking more about endo + chronic pain, stress and struggles.
• Taking a realistic inventory of my spoons (thanks to learning about spoon theory) + finally realizing I can’t do it all. Still ambitious!! Just not at the expense of my mental and physical health and wellbeing.
• The emotional, moral + academic support from profs, faculty, tutors, my fam jam, friends and so many others. The humans who read my very long, dry essays, listened to me rant about statistics, and brainstorm topics. Every ‘you got this’ and ‘how did your exam go’ text meant the world and really kept me going. 🥹🫶🏼
