THE ATTITUDE IS GRATITUDE By Sara Stepa

Holy Sh*t party people there are only 11 days left in 2020, 11 DAYS! Maybe less depending on when you read this. I know so many people are counting the days until 2020 is over, but honestly peeps, things aren’t going to change dramatically and magically once the clock strikes midnight on December 31 st . The same shit you’re going through now will still be real. The same reasons you are grateful will still be true. Wishing away a bad year is like wishing away a pimple on picture day, it doesn’t go away just because we want it to. The only way for the coming days, weeks, and the next year to get better is to make it better. We gotta deal with the hard stuff, revel in the good stuff, and make a choice that our life is worth it, because we are. So to end out this year instead of simply counting the days until 2021 arrives, use your final days. My family made up this little joke, I don’t know how many years ago, that everything we did in the last week of the year would be our "las

Hey Party People, Connection is hard, especially when life feels hard. What’s unfortunate is that the times we need friends, family, or connection the most, those are the times we least want to reach out for it. I’ve been there and I do it all the time. I see friends do it often, they retreat, they isolate and stop chatting or calling anyone altogether. Pandemic or no pandemic this isn’t a new behavioural response, but rather a common behaviour so many of us have. Why do we do this? Are we afraid to let people know that we’re sad, upset, or down in the dumps? Or is it that we’re not actually as close with people as we thought, we’re not comfortable reaching out to say we’re not ok. Or is it that we have no idea what’s really wrong and don’t know what to say. Personally, I have been in all three of these boats. Unfortunately, what I’ve noticed with some friends is that when they are feeling crappy they really just want someone to reach out. They really need a shoulder to cry on, a

Hey Party People, The holiday season is officially here and the year is coming to a close. How many sleeps until Christmas?! How many sleeps until this crazy year is ova? What have you gained? What have you lost? What have you LEARNED? I’m a reflection nerd and like to take stock of my year as it comes to an end. Reflect upon my successes and failures, my experiences, new family editions, relationships and friendships and I am always amazed at how much happens in just 12 months. I do this every year but this year will be particularly interesting I think. Has this year felt like it just lasted a few months but also like a freaking decade? Anyone else feeling me on this? Like where did 2020 go? Our worlds were turned upside down, schedules completely wiped clean. The world SHUT DOWN you guys, a GLOBAL pandemic hit our world and rocked us to our core. So What has this taught us, truly what have we learned? And if you say nothing, dig deeper because there’s no way 2020 left you unchanged.