hii, my name’s ivana elise but everyone calls me ivee :> im turning 21 in january and im from the gta- sauga bound. my goal is to take up space intentionally and what i hope to accomplish in doing so is being a source for grace and perspective; i’d like to offer my wisdom in trade of yours and hope we can take what we’ve learned from each other to evolve. i’ve struggled with consistency and so “getting better” always seemed like an inevitable rise and fall cycle i didn’t want to participate in for the rest of my life, philosophy and religion helped in making sense of my time here as well as my emotions. because of this, i got a sisyphus tattoo on my back <3 gotta keep it pushin peace, ivee

Hey! My name's Valéry (Vee) for short. I'm 19 years old and I'm from NYC. By being in this community I'm hoping to overcome self-doubt and being authentically myself wherever I go (I think that's also the vulnerable fact tbh). An interesting fact about me is I'm a pescatarian, slowly trying to be vegetarian.

My name is Anna, I’m 19 , I’m from Belarus, Europe. I joined this community to learn something new and change my life for the better. I have a problem with being quickly attached to people and situations, often depending on other people's opinions and trying to control things that are out of my control. So I hope that by the end of this course I will be able to change something in my life and start to get different results, which in turn will help me to achieve my goals and attract better people and situations into my life.

The question l consistently ask but never get an answer to is am l enough like do people like me for me or are they just pretending to like me It has been on my mind and l never for the answer at a point l was going to give up but l never did l kept looking for the answer

My name is Makaiya, I'm 17, from Edmonton Alberta, and I'm trying to focus on self love because I always search for the love I can't give myself in other people, often becoming to reliant on those around me. I want to know how to become the person that I want to befriend, I want to be what I need. I have never been okay with just being on my own and I really want to figure out why. I love to socialize but it makes me painfully nervous becauseI always ask myself who would want to talk to me, hang out with me, or even be friends with me I have so many problems and really nothing to offer. The same goes for romantic relationships, I want to be able to give as much as I take from someone . I just want to become what I want so I don't have to search for it someone else, putting all the weight on the them to make me happy. I Know I'm still young and everyone says give it time but I think about cutting that time short everyday and I wanna stop. It feels like I'm breaking down and picking apart my youthful perspective. Being young is so chaotic. Social media either justifies our repeated damaging behaviors as okay or tells us all the thing we should do to get better. If it were as easy as following a few steps everyone would feel better in no time, but it's not. I seek guidance in a world that's also lost as of right now, I don't know where to go or who to ask.