As An Advocate I Can’t Do Everything But Together We Might
One of the worst ways I’ve seen people wreck their mental health is by not knowing their limits.
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Why Our Stories Matter
So please, even if you don’t want to share your story yet, you never know who you might help by spreading the word about others who do. It helps to know that we are not alone.
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Intention and How Social Media Robs Us Of It
I wrote about this video on my tech blog earlier this week because websites, social networks, and pretty much everything on the internet are in a constant battle for our attention. In the video, Tristan Harris talks about our intentions and how the web is designed to override that. Think about it: how many times have you…
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Stepping Out and Gaining Confidence
Every Sunday evening, I go through the history of the blogs I write looking to see if there’s anything that I wrote this same week in previous years that is worth sharing again on Twitter or other social media platforms. Last night, I found an article I wrote on May 1, 2011, almost 6 years…
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Social Media Connections and Stigma
Earlier this week, I wrote a post on what I refer to as my “day job” blog about how admission offices do actually look at the social media profiles of prospective students. I went on to talk about something that I write about often: using social media to put your best professional image out so…
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Are You Telling Your “Story”?
As an avid user of social media, and the internet in general, I’ve been fascinated watching the popularity of apps like Snapchat, without fully understand the appeal. Recently, however, I’ve blogged about my discovery of how useful something like Snapchat or Instagram’s “story” feature could be: I was a late-comer to understanding what Snapchat could…
