Shattering Stigmas: Taylor Swift and My Recovery from Self-Harm

Welcome to the last day of Shattering Stigmas! Since October 6 I’ve been highlighting voices from the book community on mental health. I co-hosted this event with Taylor from Stay on the Page, Shannon from It Starts at Midnight, and Amber from YA Indulgences so make sure to check their blogs out to see different content.

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Content Warnings: depression, anxiety, self-harm

I’ve been an anxious bean for as long as I can remember but it was when I was eight that my anxiety really started to manifest – though I didn’t understand it at the time. I couldn’t figure out why it seemed like all of my friends could play and carry on conversations so easily when I second-guessed my every move and had to practice sentences in my head before speaking them. It felt like everything I did was being judged and any time I walked away the people I left behind would start to whisper about me.

This is a lot for a young person to carry – especially when it isn’t recognized as anxiety by any adults in their life.

I guess you really did it this time
Left yourself in your war path
Lost your balance on a tightrope
Lost your mind trying to get it back

Taylor Swift’s Lover Book Tag [Original]

Lover has been on repeat since it’s release and I’m head over heels in love with it! I was planning on doing a post where I matched a book up with each song but it seemed like a million people were already doing that so I thought why not make a book tag instead?

Rules

• Know somebody who loves Taylor? Tag them! If you don’t know of anybody though, that’s okay too, you should still do the tag!
• There is a prompt for each song but don’t feel pressured to do them all!
• Link back to this post so Mari will get a notification that you did it and can come see your answers! Also because crediting creators is nice.
• Feel free to use any of the graphics or make your own if you want!

Hungry by H.A. Swain is one of my least favorite books. The premise is interesting but the execution was one of the worst I’ve ever seen. And what was that ending?! A dumpster fire.

Taylor Swift Book Tag [Original]

TS7 is coming and oh my god I’m so excited! When she started changing her social media icons and teasing what I’m assuming is a new single I was taking a bath and I just sat there for like ten minutes crying. Then I didn’t go to sleep until 5 am because there was too much excitement running through my veins.

Pretty immediately I started wondering if there was a Taylor Swift book tag, because if there was I knew I wanted to do it, but I had trouble finding one. I found a couple of album specific ones but I was really wanting a tag that did songs from all of her albums. When I couldn’t find one I decided that it’s creation was long overdue so I present to you the Taylor Swift book tag!

Rules

• Know somebody who loves Taylor? Tag them! If you don’t know of anybody though, that’s okay too, you should still do the tag!
• Link back to this post so I’ll get a notification that you did it and I can come see your answers! Also because crediting creators is nice.
• Feel free to use any of my graphics or make your own if you want!

If I Stay by Gayle Forman gets me every. single. time.

Friday Jams Week Four

It’s Friday which means it’s time for another Friday Jams! I feel like these are my least popular posts, so honestly I’m not sure if I’m going to continue with them on a weekly basis, maybe dropping it down to a once a month type thing. My husband though asked me to continue them, “even if they’re just for [him]”, and I enjoy them, so I don’t know. What are your thoughts?

Friday Jams Week Two

Welcome to the second week of Friday Jams! If you were around last week you may have noticed the name change. Originally I had named this feature Music Musings, because I’m all about that bass alliteration, but for some reason it just didn’t feel right, so now we have Friday Jams!