Welcome to My Awakening, my blog will explore my spiritual journey and evolution and I will share with you my experiences into "diving deep" into spirituality and creativity that have helped me along my rise to awakening.  I will also share with you short stories I have written and am in the middle of writing, my personal struggles with Mental Health and being a voice for those that struggle with mental health or mental illness--I want to be their voice, not because I have a Mental Illness but this is a topic of interest to me and my whole life I have observed the way people think and wondered what drives them to do the things that they do.  This introspectiveness, stemming from the curious little girl inside of me, has led me to observe human behavior and our psychology.  Today in this modern world, I don't feel like mental health has been given a strong enough voice, sure there might be some good advocates out there, but nonetheless, they are not as passionate as I am about fighting for those who might not be able to speak up or share their story.  I say this personally, because I have experienced debilitating anxiety for most of my life, in my early to late adolescent years, and even still do sometimes at 20 years old, but back then I wish I had the tools to help my younger Self deal with the micro-stressors--and I wish I knew how to be more Self-loving towards this meek little girl inside of me instead of constantly being at war with her--because those are the ones that are most harmful, studies show that our daily stressors are the most detrimental to our mental, physiological, and psychological well-being.  To go along with the topic of Mental Health, I also want to stand up for those with disabilities, not because of the stigma that they cannot speak up for themselves, but in my humble opinion, I feel that they get the short-end of the stick when it comes to education and I know my words might not be able to make "Significant" changes but if I bring daily readers or visitors or even open up the minds of some people, this makes it all the more worth it!

Namaste xoxo

Julia Salice