Okay but WHY does being a teenage girl sometimes feel like a full-time unpaid internship in emotional damage control. Like one minute you’re: -loving Jesus -trying your best -drinking your little iced coffee -reading your giant fantasy books in peace …and the next minute your brain is suddenly spiraling at 11:42 PM like: “WAIT. If I accidentally fell asleep before praying am I now spiritually illegal???” Meanwhile somebody else is over here terrified of getting their period.

Okay wait—be honest with me for a second… Have you ever started praying… and within like five seconds you suddenly become someone else? Like your entire personality just… leaves your body. You go from: “Hey God, um… today was kinda weird—”to suddenly: “Dear Heavenly Father, we just come before You humbly and graciously—”And it’s like…who is “we”??? Because last time I checked, it is just me, alone, sitting crisscross applesauce on my bed, wrapped in a blanket that has not bee

Let’s just start here. You already know. Like—I could end this episode right now and you’d be like, “Yeah… I know exactly what she’s about to say.” Because there’s that one thing. That conversation you keep replaying… but not actually having. That situation you keep thinking about… but not actually changing. That feeling in your gut that keeps going, “Hey… this isn’t it.” And what do we do? We stall. We overthink. We re-label it. “Maybe it’s not that deep.” “Maybe I just need

Okay, so you know when you’re watching a video, and it hits that part you’ve been waiting for… and it just stops. Buffering. That tiny spinning circle mocking you like it knows every ounce of your impatience. You tap the screen, you shake the phone, you whisper “C’mon, come on, load already” like you’re negotiating with the universe itself. And meanwhile, your brain is sprinting ahead: Who’s going to like me? Will I ever get asked to the dance? When will my life actually feel

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