Road To Legacy

 As a young child, I always admired the muscular dudes in football uniform, hitting and crashing into one another. I thought they were superhuman and I thought that I wanted to be just like that: big and strong, and quite plainly- buff. I never saw anything wrong with it. I just wanted to be strong.  Then the pressure of society weighed in on the very impressionable and vulnerable mind of a thirteen year old girl and that's when my eating disorder controlled my life. I've mentioned before how I really got over my disorder, but what truly made me confident was a whole other thing entirely. Once I got to college, I would run a mile everyday on the track inside our campus gym, never really setting foot inside the weight room. I would always look in there and see all of these muscular gym guys bench pressing, or walking around in muscle shirts, giving out fist bumps to their guy friends and hitting on the girls brave enough to actually go in there and workout on the machines or fr...

 Good evening everyone, I hope you are all staying cozy and warm on this chilly December night. As I was thinking this week about what I wanted to write about, I got to the root of the reason why I created this blog: to further my social impact initiative for the Miss Southeastern Pageant- which is now only 47 days away. I can't even believe it! I've waited so long for it to be so close and now it's almost just a month away! Anyways, back to the topic of this post.  The Lifter's Project. What is it? It's my social impact initiative. Every contestant in almost every pageant system must have something that is their foundation. It is basically something they stand for and want to teach people about. For example, Miss America 2020, Camille Schrier, hers is "Mind Your Meds" and it focuses on teaching people on how to be mindful about prescription medicines. Mine is the "Lifter's Project", and it integrates my journey through recovery. So many of u...