No Pressure

     I think I have a very heightened awareness of feelings. I can feel people's feelings for myself. Some call this empathy...I just call it experience.      I  think that I know what a lot of pain feels like. I know what it feels like to have no one there...or think you have no one there when you really do. I know the feeling of putting on a brave face and saying everything is going well, but crying until your stomach hurts when you get to be alone. I also know the feeling of not wanting to ask for help, or being upset that no one apparently sees you. I just know. I have a lot of experience with a lot of different feelings and that is because I let myself feel them.      Now I can say all of these things and I can genuinely understand those deep and dark and truthfully exhausting feelings, but I cannot fix them. I don't have the power to snap my fingers (omg Thanos again wow) and make them go away. (Boy, I wish I did though...I would b...

  I want to be more, do more, and feel more. I want to be better, do better, and feel better. I want to be enough, do enough, and feel enough. I want to be me, do me, and feel like me.  

  Well. The title is true. Sometimes everything just completely sucks. Sometimes life just feels like it is out to get you. This post is to show everyone that it is not just you who feels like the world is against you and never wants you to succeed or be happy. And hey maybe you feel like now it is just me and you who the world hates...don't worry I got you, we can get through it together :)  As an overarching theme of the last month or so of my life, change has been everywhere. While I will spare you of the details, many things in my life are no longer what I had gotten used to. Some for the good, some for the worse. But if I am being honest, for a while, it felt like everything was for the worse. I remember one night sitting in my bed I was staring at my ceiling and just thought to myself:  Can everything please just take a pause ?   I felt like I had been running sprints for weeks and never got to take a break. But while running the sprints, there was someone...

My name is Liza and this is the time I....kidding. Well, actually not kidding. This is the story and background to my love for skincare. I love to learn about it, read about it, and talk about it all of the time. It is something that I find joy in and I find joy in sharing the things I have learned...but I did not always feel joy about it lemme tell ya... Road to 'Skin-ceptance' I have never been the girl to have picture-perfect clear skin with zero blemishes or dark marks or fine lines....yeah no, not me! I experience all the works when it comes to all of that. My skin was something in high school that I cared so much about, but for the wrong reasons. If my face had even one blemish that could not be properly and cautiously covered up with concealer, my confidence was crushed (more than it already was in high school lets be real here).   Anytime anyone would look at me I would think they were only looking at how my skin appeared. I struggled with cystic acne, hormonal acne (s...

12~11~2021  If I am being honest. I have no idea what I am doing. I know that a blog these days sounds super millennial-like or something like that and I do not know if anyone would ever read any of these things I post on here, but I want to put things down somewhere so that I can share, create, and reflect. The title of this post is what I want to start off talking about on this blog. I had what I have been calling an 'epiphany' last night. Now this was not some evangelical epiphany that I had and now I have a gold halo around my head, but it was a moment that clicked.  Essentially, I have been experiencing a lot of change in my life and in myself personally over the past couple of years. I have done things that I am proud of and I have done things that I am not proud of. I felt like I just needed... something.  I buried this feeling of needing something else in my life. I genuinely could not pinpoint what I needed, but I knew that I just needed some sort of sign or anyt...