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"Stop comparing where you’re at with where everyone else is. It doesn’t move you farther ahead,..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:43:52 -0700

“Stop comparing where you’re at with where everyone else is. It doesn’t move you farther ahead, improve your situation, or help you find peace. It just feeds your shame, fuels your feelings of inadequacy, and ultimately, it keeps you stuck. The reality is that there is no one correct path in life. Everyone has their own unique journey. A path that’s right for someone else won’t necessarily be a path that’s right for you. And that’s okay. Your journey isn’t right or wrong, or good or bad. It’s just different. Your life isn’t meant to look like anyone else’s because you aren’t like anyone else. You’re a person all your own with a unique set of goals, obstacles, dreams, and needs. So stop comparing, and start living. You may not have ended up where you intended to go. But trust, for once, that you have ended up where you needed to be. Trust that you are in the right place at the right time. Trust that your life is enough. Trust that you are enough.”

- Daniell Koepke (via wendesgray)

Mermaid life. Corona del Mar ❤

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:29:24 -0700

Mermaid life. Corona del Mar ❤

Super excited for the great gatsby movie!! Also lol it’s gonna...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:36:17 -0700

Super excited for the great gatsby movie!! Also lol it’s gonna be may

insomniacevents: Festival season is here! EDC tickets live...

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:50:07 -0700

insomniacevents:

Festival season is here! EDC tickets live here:

New York tickets available here.
Chicago tickets available here.
Las Vegas tickets available here.

The only thing getting me through work right now. Cannot wait. Been hitting the gym for 6 days now, getting ready ;)

Funtcase and cookie monsta last night :)

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 14:40:18 -0800

Funtcase and cookie monsta last night :)

Deeply dead Dexter dating debutante doxies?

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:31:51 -0800

Reading the short stories the Dexter series is based on, and absolutely LOVING the cleverly designed alliterative sentences.

How To Fall In Love With Yourself, by Chelsea Fagan

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:11:50 -0800

Stand naked in front of a mirror for a long time, under unflattering light if possible. Trace the rises and falls of the little ripples on your skin — the scars, the dimples, the cellulite — and think about how much you try to hide these things in your day-to-day. Wonder why you hate them so much, and if this hate stems from somewhere within yourself, or as a result of being told all your life that it’s wrong to have physical flaws. Wonder what you would think of your body if you never looked at a magazine, if you never thought about celebrities and models, if you never had to wonder where someone would rate you on a scale of 10. Look at yourself until the initial recoil softens, and you can consider your features in a more forgiving frame of mind.

Listen to the music which makes you want to both sob and dance with uninhibited joy, and allow yourself to repeat any song you want as many times as your heart desires. Think of the person you are when you have your favorite song in your headphones and are walking down a street you feel you own completely, swaying your hips and smiling for no good reason — remember how many things you love about yourself during those moments, how much you are willing to forgive in yourself, how confident you are for no good reason. Try to think of confidence as a gift you give yourself when you need it, instead of something you have to siphon from every unreliable source in your life. Dance because the music makes you remember how much you love yourself, not because it allows you to forget the fact that you don’t.

Write a list of all the things you like about yourself, even if you think it’s a self-indulgent and narcissistic activity. Start as early as you like in your life — put down that time you won a trophy playing little league soccer when you were eight and then got an extra-large shake at the DQ on the way home, and don’t feel silly for remembering it. Try to understand how many sources in your life happiness can come from, how many things you could be proud of if you chose to. Ask yourself why you so tightly limit the things you take pride in, why you set your own hurdles for happiness and fulfillment so much higher than you do with anyone else in your life. Let your list go on for pages and pages if you want it to.

Touch and care for yourself with the attention and the patience that you would someone you loved more than life itself. Rub lotion in small circles on your elbows and hands when it is cold and your skin is dry and cracked. Make soup for yourself when your nose is running and curl up, with your favorite movie, in a pile of expertly-stacked pillows. Light a few candles and let their glow flicker against your body. Admire how gentle they are, how delicately their warmth touches you — wonder why you don’t let yourself do the same. Soak your feet in warm water at the end of a long day, until they have forgiven you for walking on them for so long without so much as a “thank you.” Listen to your body when it aches to be touched, and don’t be afraid to give it every orgasm that you may have been too ashamed to ask for in someone else’s bed.

Be patient with yourself, and don’t worry if a switch doesn’t flip in you which abruptly takes you from “crippling self-doubt” to “uncompromising self-love.” Allow yourself all the trepidation and clumsy, uneven infatuation that you would with a promising stranger. Try only to be kinder, to be softer, and to remember all of the things within you which are worth loving. Listen to the voice in the back of your head which tells you, as much out of sadness as anger, “You are ugly. You are stupid. You are boring.” Give it the fleeting moment of attention it so craves, and then remind it, “Even if that were true, I’d still be worth loving.”

~~-i have such a crush on chelsea fagan. i’m in love with almost everything she writes for thought catalog.~~

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Sat, 05 Jan 2013 15:32:54 -0800

White wonderland #whitewonderland #insomniac #insomnicevents...

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 18:14:07 -0800

White wonderland #whitewonderland #insomniac #insomnicevents #snowflake #nye

My galaxy tights <3 #nofilter

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:55:00 -0800

My galaxy tights <3 #nofilter

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Mon, 24 Dec 2012 21:59:02 -0800

Celebrating my birthday with my girls at the Hangar 24 brewery...

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 13:04:13 -0800

Celebrating my birthday with my girls at the Hangar 24 brewery in Redlands :) I ordered a flight sampler (bottom pic) which was a sample of all the beers they brew

Last night, I turned 23. I celebrated at dim mak studios where I...

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:29:11 -0800

Last night, I turned 23. I celebrated at dim mak studios where I briefly met borgore :)

Representing Smog at the Smog 6 year anniversary party at the...

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 21:09:00 -0800

Representing Smog at the Smog 6 year anniversary party at the Roxy last night :)

Finally bought some shoes with spikes. Love them.

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 19:14:53 -0800

Finally bought some shoes with spikes. Love them.

bucket list, travel

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 20:57:34 -0800

talking about travel with amber today made me want to update my bucket list. in no particular order,

Iceland

Belguim [& the Hoegaarden brewery!]

Switzerland

Austria

Sicily (the rest of Italy would be cool, too)

Ibiza

Somewhere northern enough to clearly see the Northern Lights (definitely regretting not going to Lappland in Sweden when I lived there)

Turkey

BASICALLY, I need to take another trip to Europe.

bottomless mimosas in long beach.

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 22:17:14 -0800

bottomless mimosas in long beach.