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How I’m Re-balancing My Life

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Post published: October 14, 2021
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I'm kind of writing this post for myself, as a follow-up to what I wrote a few weeks ago about feeling overwhelmed. I know that part of that feeling is that I'm just... out of balanced. I'm not taking care of myself the way that I should, and then it just starts to spiral. So I'm trying to focus on making some small, manageable changes. Since it seems like lots of people were feeling the way that I was, I thought I'd share in case these changes are helpful for you, too.

Feeling Overwhelmed

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Post published: September 23, 2021
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I mentioned in my Life Lately post this week that I've felt busier lately than I have in... probably the past year and a half. It's honestly been a bit of a struggle - on one hand, I'm really excited to have things to do (safely), and to see people that I hadn't seen in months and months. But on the other hand, everything just feels like a LOT right now, and it's hard to add more plans to everything already going on, even if they're things that I want to be doing.

Back to School Reflections

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Post published: September 9, 2021
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At the end of last month, I had the chance to talk to the incoming first year students of Carnegie Mellon's engineering program about the importance of diversity in STEM. It was truly wild to be on that end of orientation events - it forced me to sit with the reality that my own orientation was fourteen years ago! It just doesn't seem possible.

Thirty Three and Thriving

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Post published: September 7, 2021
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I turn 33 today!! I am very much a birthday person, and am happy to be able to share my birthday excitement with all of you!

Disability Pride Month Q&A

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Post published: July 26, 2021
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On Friday I had the incredible honor of doing a takeover of Elizabeth Holmes' Instagram! I put up a Q&A box during part of it and got SO many good questions, and then put up another Q&A box on my own Instagram on Sunday because there just wasn't enough time to answer them all. I'm going to answer a few of them here in more detail - some that I already partially answered, and some that I didn't get it.