Tag: self
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Mid-Year Check-In (1): Releasing a Passion Project
Wow! It’s been a long time! You can say that, as of lately, life has been grand-slamming me with the capital “L” for love. That is, the unrequited, tried and true, yet often very tough, type of love. Anyhow, I wanted to share a little passion project that is the result of a gargantuan amalgamation…
Cassie Tran
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An Exhaustive Hot Girl Summer Guide (because you can and you WILL!)
June is just around the corner (no seriously…hardly 48 hours away), which means that—at least minus the unpredictable nature of Southern California weather—sun’s out, buns out, and the fun’s just begun! We all have different plans for summer, so why not make this the best one yet? I 1000% understand—most of you have to work…
Cassie Tran
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Glowing Up After College: My Story + How-To’s
Remember how I started my blog in the beginning… …then continued in college? Woo boy, we’ve come a long way! Look, I am in no way saying I started from the bottom of the barrel. People have told me I won the genetic lottery, but I understand that I don’t fit everyone’s criteria on what…
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A Word About Romanticizing Your Life
Romanticize, romantic, romanticism, romance…they’re all naturally beautiful words, aren’t they? As of lately, romanticize is a hot buzzword that conveys the illustration of either a person, place, circumstance, or idea in a fashion that reminds people in an idealistic, pedestalized, sometimes dream state. In other words: anything romanticized can easily be dismissed by a skeptic.…
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The Mid-20s Hit: Quarter Life Crisis
Last year, I turned 25. Oddly enough, the surreal sensations have been much, much stronger after a few months of being in my mid-20s have sunk in. I’m closer to being 30 than I am to 20. What I assume in my head starts with a Y (hint: it rotates between “yay!” and “YIKES” depending…
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Cauliflower Rice Sushi (healthy, vegan, and gluten free)
Put me on “My Strange Addiction” because I am officially obsessed with cauliflower rice sushi. Granted it has been a while since we’ve had cauliflower rice in our kitchen…same with raw and crunchy almond butter. By that, I mean it’s been a day. I’m suffering. Sushi tends to be quite expensive and often quite modest…
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Body Dysmorphia: My Honest Experience
Perception is everything, and it is a prevalent concern when it comes to body image and self-esteem. Those who have a tendency to view their physical compositions in a drastically different manner than reality, more likely than not, suffer from body dysmorphia. So many questions surround this condition: is it a true disorder? Is it…
Cassie Tran
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The Most Common Diet Regimens + Maintaining Sanity on All of Them
You’ve heard these words before: clean, dirty, healthy, unhealthy, detox, and cheat. They may have various meanings in their original contexts, but if we’re talking about health and fitness, they all pertain to food and their qualifications of how beneficial for the body they are. However, all of these blanket terms have so much room…
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Basic Homemade Seitan (with flavor ideas!)
Even before my vegan lifestyle, I actually have always adored the taste of fake meat. Some people despise it, because the texture is wonky and is either too different from real meat, or too resemblant of it. There’s something about the slightly chewy and hearty texture of seitan and any other soy-based mock meats that…
Cassie Tran
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Twenty Truths About Myself For My 20th Birthday
Right now at this moment, I turn twenty years-old. Wow, I would have lived two entire decades! It feels unreal to be this far in my lifetime, even though life lives on and on, both in the world above and the afterlife. Given that I’ll be celebrating the ish out of my birthday today, I’ve…
Cassie Tran
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