A teenage girl's blog

Hello beautiful! I'm so happy to be writing for you all this week! I've been in a bit of a slump these past few days, and writing always helps me feel inspired again. I know I'm a bit early for this, but in today's post, I'm going to be talking about body image during the summer. From my experience, something about the season of summer makes the demons of negative body image ever more present. Summer fashion and summer heat usually call for more revealing outfits, so those of

Hello, beautiful! Sorry I haven't posted in two weeks! I've been super busy and overwhelmed because I had tech week for a musical at my school. It was really fun, and I'm so proud of myself, but I didn't have time for anything other than homework after I got home from rehearsals, which meant I couldn't write for you all. But anyways, for today's post I'm going to talk about periods and menstruating. This is different than a lot of the topics I've written about on my blog, be

Hello beautiful! Today's post is about one of my favorite hobbies: journaling! I started journaling almost a year ago, just to document my life, so I could read my past journals and look back on my life. Now, journaling means so much more to me, and it's one of my favorite hobbies. I have a bullet journal for cute collages and spreads to get my ideas on a page, and I also have a journal for my thoughts where I write recaps of my day and respond to prompts that make me think.

Hello beautiful! I hope you've had an amazing week! Today's post is going to be about clothing, aesthetics, and feeling confident wearing what you want to wear. I've spent some time over the past few months trying to develop my own personal style. I wore a uniform at my old school, but at my new school, there's not much of a dress code. It feels like somebody just handed me the reigns to a personal style carriage, already moving at 50 miles per hour, when I started going to a

Hello beautiful! I hope you all are excited for this blog post, because I know I am! Today's topic is academic stress and validation. Especially because I go to a private school, my family and peers have always been very focused on getting good grades and making good impressions on teachers. The main issue with this is that whenever I get overly obsessed with my grades, I bet my entire self worth on them. So the second one of my grades dropped, I would feel like I was worth n

Hello beautiful! Today, I want to talk about a mental health and confidence issue that I'm really passionate about: imposter syndrome. For me, imposter syndrome has been the experience of feeling like I don't deserve the recognition that I get. For others, it could mean feeling like you have to do everything perfectly or else you're just faking everything. 5 Types of Imposter Syndrome I did some research about imposter syndrome and the different ways it appear in your life, a

Hello beautiful! Welcome to my first post! I'm so excited to start this blog, and it feels so surreal that I'm actually writing my first post right now! I wanted my first post to be a bit of an introduction to why I started this blog, and what this blog can do for you. But first... Who am I? My name is Helina, and I'm a teenage girl. I love reading in my room, journaling and making collages, and baking for my friends. Some of my passions are advocating for women's rights and