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Why I quit performing
I started dancing at 3 years old when my parents enrolled me in ballet classes as an after-school activity. It seemed like something I enjoyed and I was very consistent with practice, so it eventually became formal dance training that lasted for almost 17 years. From preschool to high school and even college, dance was…
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Showing up in a broken world
Hello! I’m back again after quite a long writing hiatus and while life had certainly happened over the past year that I couldn’t even keep my blog alive, I’ve also been quietly going deeper into the things that I’ve been openly talking about here: my shame, perfectionism, people-pleasing, and lately, how my inner world plays…
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What we don’t talk about in 2024 highlight reels
Happy New Year’s Eve! 2024 is officially over and I couldn’t pass up sharing some of my thoughts about this year coming to a close. My social media feeds are now full of year-end celebrations, highlight reels, and big wins—things we all want the world to see and celebrate with us. While this is always…
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Shunning the voice of shame
My theme lately has been about acknowledging and dismantling shame. For a while, I was caught up in situations and interpersonal conflicts that elicited strong uncomfortable emotions, and that made me react in ways that were detrimental to myself and my relationships. Despite feeling so heavy and crushed, I tried to remain curious about my…
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Embracing slow and steady
Lately I’ve been struggling with a discomfort that usually shows up when I’m on social media and I see others “live their best lives”. It’s like there’s this subtle but powerful weight of comparison that settles deep in my heart by simply looking at other people’s lifestyles and achievements. Why does a simple post about…
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Always evolving, always healing, always human
Lately I’ve been reminded that healing is never linear. I feel like the world doesn’t really talk about how intentional inner work is a lifelong journey, and how self-discovery and growth is forever. We never just heal from our issues in a snap of finger, and there’s always something new to learn and uncover about…
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Returning to our bodies
The past few months have so been chaotic. I felt like getting pulled from every direction, dealing with so many different things all at once. For a while, it seemed like the world was moving 10x faster than usual and I had to exhaust every single atom in me to keep up. Like a hamster…
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Healing in romantic relationships
Relationships can reveal and teach us so much about our inner selves, but I only really understood this truth over the last few years. With a fully developed prefrontal cortex and the ability to make better choices, breakthroughs on love and relationships were certainly bound to happen. Ironically, my most powerful ones only came about…
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Confessions of a perfectionist
My battle with perfectionism has been a lot more grueling than usual, and it all started when I entered new seasons in my career and relationships at the start of this year. It was a time when a lot of my old patterns and toxic defense mechanisms began to resurface, but it was also when…
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The power of nostalgia
There’s been a common theme circling around the recent events of my 2023. The universe seems to been handing me a lot of opportunities to look back at fragments of my past that have somehow helped me gain a better understanding of my present self. In the last few weeks, I’ve been reconnecting with old…
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Farewell 2022
I attribute my biggest realizations this year to the indisputable seasons of sun and rain. Circumstances I had to deal with in 2022 ended up consuming my entire headspace, altering my perception, and narrowing my sight—like the feeling of standing under the blazing heat of the sun, and letting it painfully pierce through your skin…
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7 for 7 (intro & week 1)
In an effort to be more consistent with posting, I thought of starting a weekly series called 7 for 7 which is basically my 7 highlights for 7 days. One of the questions my friends and I usually ask each other when we catch up is “What are you watching/reading/consuming these days?” and I love…
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Korea Visual Diary: Lessons from traveling solo
I was so close to not finishing this but as I was randomly going through all my travel clips, I thought I’d still want a summary of those 7 wonderful days. This is a little gift to myself so I have something to look back on every time I want to remember this meaningful birthday.…
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A letter to my 20-year old self
Dear you, Hello from your future self. Can you believe it’s been a month since you turned 26? Somehow it feels like nothing and everything has changed. I know you kept thinking about your late twenties. You had so many hopes and dreams for this age. Didn’t you want to settle down and start a…
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korea day 2
Celebrating my 26th birthday in Seoul This whole trip was meant to be my first birthday celebration alone and out of the country after what became the most transformative 2 years of my life. I’d already given so much meaning to it even before I left, but I didn’t plan on doing anything grand just…
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korea day 1
Exploring Yeonnam-dong & Hongdae
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korea day 0
It’s already been a little more than a week since I got back from the solo birthday trip of my dreams, and best believe that I’m still wallowing in post-trip nostalgia. I want to blog and remember everything about this meaningful trip, but I’m honestly still trying to process everything that has happened. Right off…
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5 habits I learned to prioritize for my holistic health
Estimated reading time: 8 minutes Hear me out. I know you’ve seen this headline literally everywhere, and you’re probably thinking, “Ah, this is just going to be another one of those self-help articles”, but I’m writing this because I wish I found something honest and realistic about this topic instead of something so romanticized and…
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Bukid Visual Diary: On safe & secure friendships
Exactly a week ago, my group of friends from high school decided to go on a spontaneous day-trip to the mountains. Three of us left our lives in Manila to settle back into our hometown because of the pandemic, so almost all of us are finally in the same city after years of only seeing…
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MNL Visual Diary: How do you get out of a slump?
Maybe it’s all the vlogs I’ve been binging on YouTube but I’m rediscovering the value in documenting crucial seasons in my life and having something to look back on. I honestly didn’t expect to enjoy this whole process of making a visual diary—from shooting all the clips to editing and putting everything together. I also…
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productivity & fries
I always seem to make collages whenever I feel the need to express myself through digital art, so I thought of this mood board segment on my blog. Also just recently came from a 9-day trip to Manila and have been feeling so refreshed and inspired, which why I also started finding felicity. This week…
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Hello, stranger
I’m Trish and I’ve always wanted to start a blog. I had one back in 2013 in the hopes of documenting my life as a teenager heading off to college and leaving home for the first time, but I didn’t really find the time and energy to maintain it. Actually, I might have dipped my…
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a 20-something Filipina navigating young adulthood. saved by grace. introspective, curious, creative, and intuitive. kind of a nerd but loves pop culture, beauty, and fashion. marketing manager on weekdays, bookworm & homebody on weekends. part-time designer. full-time dog mama. an advocate for therapy and mental health.
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