May for My Mental

If you’re part of the ThrifTheorem community on Instagram, then you most likely saw my update last month when shared how I was furiously planning away on content for the month of May. Then a couple of weeks later, you saw the update that May’s newsletter would be a few days late. Man - life can come at us so fast.

After a few new follows and a couple of cool finds in April, I had a whole blog post drafted, ready for editing, and then - tbh - life started life-ing. I’ve had some time to reflect and the reality of it is, I spent so much time planning for the future that I didn’t take enough to time to assess what was happening in the present. And then everything started seemingly going left at the same time; I quickly realized that my mental and emotional state was unbalanced for a number of reasons and that meant everything else needed to go on the back burner while I (literally) got my life together.

I considered trying to push through to pull something together even though I knew it wouldn’t be as good as it could be, but that just didn’t feel right. This community brings me so much joy and the thought of half-assing anything to share with y’all is just not it. So I decided I’d just be honest and transparent about why I haven’t been my most consistent this month. So many of you responded with love, understanding, and a reminder that I am human and it will happen - and it made me fall in love with this community all over again. I know this is a style community first, but I’ve also wanted it to be a space where people can feel like they can be their true and whole selves. This month y’all have shown me that our ThrifTheorem community is exactly that.

You always hear the saying, “showing up is half the battle” - and I try to keep that in mind when I feel like I’m slacking or not doing enough to stay engaged with our community. I can’t promise perfection, but what I can promise is I will continue to keep showing up for you all in the best way I can, every time. I appreciate all of you and can’t say “thanks for rockin’ with me” enough!

I’ll see y’all back here the first week of June (on time!) with some really exciting updates!