Get Smart Mentoring for Young Adult Women
A Rebel Against Society
Since coming to college, I’ve made many new friends. With these friendships comes all of the “get to know each other” questions. Examples of a few I’ve received the most often are: Where are you [...]
How to Cultivate a Healthy Relationship with Food
As many are aware, last week was National Eating Disorder Awareness week. Aside from clinically diagnosed eating disorders, I want to bring attention to the umbrella term of “disordered eating,” a phenomenon that has become [...]
Get Smart: Think (Positively) Before You Speak
“Think before you speak.” This is the phrase that gets you to stop and bite your tongue. Think before you let all that rage out. Think before you say something you can’t take back. In [...]
Get Smart and Get Back on Track
Do you ever feel like you’re trying so hard to get back to your pre-college weight but nothing seems to be working? From juice cleanses to two-a-days at the gym, is nothing getting you to [...]
Stay Young & Stay You
Our fathers’ worst nightmare, but one of our greatest childhood joys. They would be gone for months, and then out of nowhere, they’d begin to spring up everywhere. 11:11 could heave a sigh of relief [...]
A Time at Ashton Woods is a Time Well Spent
Imagine yourself pulling into a degraded, run down apartment complex in the outskirts of Greensboro, North Carolina. The buildings’ brown paint is chipping away, and the ambiance is mellow. You roll over a few speed [...]
Numbers, French, and Air
It’s the time of the year for low productivity and minimal motivation. Whether it’s a rut in the semester or a case of Garfield’s Mondays, nothing is being done. Or worse, nothing is being done [...]
Get Smart: Social Media Detox
Rewind to 16 years ago, year 2000, where desktop computers held AIM chat-rooms, flip phones were used “only for emergencies,” and Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, were simply nonexistent. Fast-forward 16 years later and I sit [...]
Five Ways to Reframe the Negative
"Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change." - Wayne Dyer 1. Think of stress as your friend, opportunity: We’ve all heard "Stress is the #1 killer,” right? So we automatically [...]
Get Smart: What Traveling Taught Me
Saint Augustine once said, “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” One year and one month ago I departed for the journey of a lifetime. Never would [...]
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