Adventures of Juicy Jay

      Mental health is any numbers of things with anxiety, clinical depression and bipolar disorder. These are some of the smaller disorders or illnesses that almost most or even all the people have or are affected by. That being said, does NOT give anyone with these illnesses the right to treat anyone else any less than they are.  There is nothing wrong with taking the things that make yourself an imperfect being and becoming the absolute version of yourself.      Anxiety is driven by the worry and fear and can eventually include panic attacks, obsessive compulsive behavior and post-traumatic stress. If left unchecked and untreated, these three effects could have truly manifested and can cause hysteria inside ones own head and drive said person insane.       Clinical depression is persistently depressed mood or loss of interest in activities which WILL lead to daily impairment if left unchecked. If someone goes completely unchecked...

     Being part of something that is also a part of you, your family and a culture that you're still discovering is one of the best feelings in the entire world. Being part of the african american culture is learning more and more about myself each and every single day and loving who I am because of it.      I've learned that it's okay to treat others with love and kindness even when all they want to do is judge and disrespect you because of the color of your skin instead of judging you based on who you actually are a person. In middle school, someone in my grade told me that black people aren't real people. They weren't when they were slaves back in the day and nothing has changed. After he told me that, all I remember was being upset and pretty mad. I might only be part black but I am definitely a huge part of this amazing culture and everything that it has to offer me.       Recently, someone that I used to see quite frequently said t...

     Being strong doesn't mean you have to be this tough person all the time or that you need to try to look or act intimidating. It simply means that no matter what you give everything that you have and are striving to always be the best version of yourself.              In highschool, you think that the strongest people are those that are the most athletic or the most popular. By the time I finished high school I learned that the strongest people were the ones that didn't say much. They minded their own business and dug their head down and did the things that they needed to in order to graduate and move on to the next big thing for themselves.              After I returned from being a missionary, it was the same thing. I thought the absolute strongest people that I knew were those who were in leadership positions or those that would eventually come into those positions. There was...

Sometimes it's scary to move forward with your plans for your life and sometimes it's so fun that you really just don't want it to end. I like to think it's a bit of both.  Maybe you just started dating and you feel that he is the one for you. Next thing to do would be to seal the deal and start planning for your future together.  Or maybe you just got engaged and you have already started planning your life together. So right now, you need to start planning the big and glorious wedding.  And just maybe, you have already had the amazing wedding and now the next big thing is children. Neither you or your spouse are ready for children so you are telling family and friends it'll be awhile. They seem sad and disappointed but you know in your heart that this is the right thing to do since you don't want your incredibly cute babies to struggle the way that either you or your spouse did.  Life is really just simple planning and making sure all the bases are covered.  Lu...

    I have found that sisters come in all shapes, all sizes and usually they look similar to you but for me, my sisters in Idaho definitely do not. I have four biological sisters and I talk to them as much as I can and I have a great relationship with nearly all of them but, after I moved to Idaho I ended up with soooo many more.    Danni,Sara,Nats,Kate,Mary,Erika&Emily     When I started dating Joe, I had no idea that it would be a family package. After we had been dating for a couple of months, one by one I was introduced to his family members. First was his little brother Jake and his girlfriend Kate, and if you get to hang out with Kate for an hour or more then consider yourself lucky. She's a hoot!! We took a little while to warm up to one another but after that, it's hard to not drive over and spend hours upon hours with this woman. She really encourages everyone around her to be the best version of themselves and to never change but simply just b...

         People that serve missions have lots of different reasons for going and doing what they do. Maybe they go because that's what everyone in their family did, maybe they don't know what they want in life yet and this will help them figure it out, or maybe just maybe they are doing it because they know that they love the savior and believe in the gospel and want to help others come unto him in this way.                     For me personally, it's that last one mixed with a very important promise to a very special lady. When I was close to the end of my freshman year of college, I was attending college and things just working out. Naturally, I did the one thing I was absolutely sure of, I prayed with everything I could for guidance. I was really trying to find out what I should do. My answer was not, "serve a mission". Heavenly Father and I don't talk to each other that way, he makes me work for it....

     No matter what you do, sometimes it's just hard to be exactly what everyone wants. Some people may think you need a tan or maybe others think you should stay inside because "you're looking really dark". Maybe some people think you should let your stay in your natural state or maybe others like when you straighten or curl your hair. You have every right to choose what you want.      When I was a young girl, I was really chunky and I felt like I would never be good enough for my family and friends. I remember telling my grandma Susan, and she took my hand and said, "there is not anything about yourself that makes myself or God love you any less. You are beautiful and however you want to look, I will always love you". I was a freshman in high school when she told me that and I have tried my best to live by that as much as I possibly could. I have tried to build myself up each and every time that someone may say something negative or rude to...