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January 18, 2020evanpetschke

2019 Year in Review: Books

One of my goals in 2019 was to read two books a month. After challenging myself in 2018 to read one book a month, and then far surpassing that goal, I decided to double it for 2019. I’m proud to say I successfully read 25 books last year. But I am more proud to share […]

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May 7, 2019evanpetschke

On friendship, and why it’s okay to walk away

As a true introvert, making friends is and always has been hard for me. From an early age, I have dealt with what I now know is social anxiety, but for many years I figured was just my own awkwardness. The first time I can remember noticing this feeling was around age 9. That year, […]

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April 5, 2019April 5, 2019evanpetschke

Coming home

It was a sunny March day. The winter chill still hung in the air, but the first smells of spring were starting to peak out. Colors had begun to perk back up after a winter of brown and grey. It was a familiar feeling. That first step on the pavement. The wind at my back, […]

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January 9, 2019January 9, 2019evanpetschke

New year, same me

Like most people, I love the fresh slate a new year offers. The chance to start new, to set new intentions, to wipe away the struggles of the previous year. It’s like the first penmark on a fresh page of a brand new notebook. The beginning of something new excites me, and not knowing what’s […]

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August 10, 2018August 16, 2018evanpetschke

It’s been a while

I haven’t sat down in quite some time just to write. Well, I guess that’s not fully true. I have sat down many times to write. I’ve typed and deleted and typed more and deleted more. Nothing quite sounding right. But I’ve been feeling something inside of me lately. Something that I want to put […]

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April 18, 2018August 10, 2018evanpetschke

Living with anxiety

“Happiness” I tell myself, “is a choice… YOU can make that choice, Evan. The power lies within yourself.” I repeat this over and over in my head, cocooning myself in blankets, holding onto them so tightly that my knuckles start to turn white. Tears streaming uncontrollably. Unable to shake the urge to run at lightening […]

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April 4, 2018April 4, 2018evanpetschke

Let their hearts be soft

We have for so long lived with the widely accepted idea that in order to survive in this cruel, unfair world, we must work to harden ourselves. That in order to persevere through the pain we will inevitably feel, we must find ways to build up our own armor, our own self-constructed shields. That we […]

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January 9, 2018evanpetschke

Manifesting confidence

T O  B E C O M E  M O R E  C O N F I D A N T  I N  S P E A K I NG  M Y  M I N D If I had to choose my most important goal for 2018, that is it. Like most introverts, I often […]

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January 2, 2018January 2, 2018evanpetschke

2017: year of growth

2017 has been, simultaneously, one of the best and worst years of my life. I have not had many words this year to describe all of my many feelings. While I have continued to write and share, there are so many more thoughts bottled up, compiling in my head, that I cannot seem to get […]

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December 14, 2017March 26, 2018evanpetschke

Finding the light

Each time she fell back into that hole, it seemed to get just a little bit darker. Each time, feeling as though more and more of herself was being taken away. And just as she learned how to fight off the debilitating darkness, just as she began to see the light again, the darkness would […]

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