Some of my passions include leisure, personal growth, relationships, and creation. In my free time, I love to cook, bake, write, read (I have a huge book collection), play the piano, and do things by myself such as shopping, going on night drives, and exploring the city. Most recently, I've found that doing these things helps improve my mental health when it is in its best state. I deal a lot with anxiety and depression and I have for years due to those factors, it's been really difficult to find joy in things that I like anymore and get motivated to try new things. However, I started utilizing therapy and it has helped immensely. Before therapy, I had a hard time communicating with people and being motivated to better myself, which lead to many challenges in the development of relationships and personal growth. However, since I started seeing my therapist, I've been able to learn more about myself and identify the negative patterns in my life that have affected my ability to grow over the years I've started my journey to self-improvement and it's going pretty well. I feel as though I am in a better place than I was during the previous years and am beginning to find peace in things that I cannot change while taking each day one step at a time. I am proud of myself for breaking the patterns that have dragged me down for so long and now I can focus on what I want to do in the future. I'm still figuring out what I want to do in life, but I am working towards declaring a major in Business with a concentration in Marketing as well as a minor in Communications or Journalism. I also have a strong passion for writing and I plan to write a book at some point in my life about the journies I've been on (both good and bad) throughout my life, in hopes of helping other young girls like me not feel alone in such a big world and show them how I got to where I will be in the future because I know my future will be bright. I love helping people in any way that I can and I wish that I had a good support system growing up when it came to mental health. Especially being a black woman, mental health isn't taken as seriously in my community, it's almost taboo. Reasonably, I want to change the narrative and be a motivator to people who may not be able to help themselves or have someone in their life there to push as well assupport them.