Make a Difference: Volunteer With Your Friends
I know in my heart that community service does immense good, but finding the time among other priorities — work, family, friends — feels daunting.…
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How to Handle Financial Peer Pressure
When I left school, I was lucky enough to score a job at an all girls school right away. In the education field, getting a…
4 Questions to Help You Find Your Travel Soulmate
It’s one-o’clock in the morning and I’m trudging up a steep cobblestone hill from our late-night meal. I’m cursing my falling-apart flip-flops, our early morning…
6 Ways to Build Your Tribe in a New Place
The summer after college, I was living the new-grad dream. I had secured a job at a nonprofit in Dallas and was spending my summer…
How to Be a Good Houseguest
An optimist by nature, there are a handful of things that I consistently overestimate. I put twice as many items on my to-do list as…
How to Talk About Your Mental Illness With a Loved One
The scariest part of your mental health journey can often be talking to others about it. When I first learned about my social anxiety and…
How I Turned My Apartment Into a Body-Positive Zone
When I moved into my New York City apartment a few months ago, a roommate-finding site matched me with three random roommates, and the four…
Rethinking Conflict: How I Learned to Have More Honest Conversations
For most of my teens and early 20s, I had this idea that the best way to deal with discomfort or conflict was to pretend…
Why ‘Best Friends’ Don’t Have to Talk Every Day
Kalina and I met our first year of middle school, when I may have well as been Regina George. Not just because I was blonde,…
3 Ways to Rekindle Old Friendships
Sometimes I will go onto Facebook and see an old friend from high school posting pictures, and a sense of longing will crop up in…
