It’s been a while since I’ve updated the blog and surfaced on social media. As I’m sure the same is true for everyone, these past few years have changed me in more ways than anticipated. While I don’t mean to go too deep into all those mental, physical, spiritual shifts that I have endured thanks to this pandemic, I’d rather focus on the evolution of my perspectives of this blog and moving forward.
I used to have a teacher in middle school who would end each week by saying, “Remember kids, follow your bliss.” While my classmates and I would chuckle and roll our eyes at our teacher– who everyone proclaimed to be a new-age outsider– his simple yet wise words have somehow always puzzled and stuck with me.
Following my bliss has been something I’ve learned how to pursue in recent years, and is a focus in my daily internal affirmations– whether they are conscious affirmations or not.
I have found my bliss in spending time with my family, working at a job I enjoy, connecting to my community in faith, being able to travel again, and discovering renewed passions in photography, journaling, sewing, and exercising. I’m ready to document my journeys again, but I know I’m going to do it on my own terms and along my own timeline.
For a long time, I was pressuring myself to live up to a certain standard, especially with this blog. Comparing myself to others with more followers or more time to devote to social media, and trying to win the favor of brands seemed like a never-ending battle, one that I never seemed to win. And I don’t think it was meant for me to win.
The perfectionist in me was literally impeding my ability to move forward– I was writing and taking photos regularly, but thanks to my inner critic, these pieces never saw the light of day because I thought they were not good enough or up to par with other content I saw online..
But with a lot of time away and stepping back from the clean beauty bubble, I learned to evolve what I’d created to fit the way my life and perspectives had changed. And to get back to following bliss in life, with my family, and for this blog.
So finally, I feel excited to get back to the way blogging was for me (and maybe most people) in the beginning– the slower days of simple, low-tech but genuine, meaningful content– more of what brought me joy to document thoughts, and the type of posts I enjoyed reading from others.
I hope you will also be excited for my updates– though they may seem less consistent, still with a focus on clean beauty and skincare, but also more posts on my sewing journey, and perhaps other topics like journaling, motherhood, and who knows what else. Thank you to those who have continued to stick around, even with all the changes. Hello to new readers, I hope you will stay tuned!
-Kasey
Photos I took on a recent trip to London, one of my favorite cities in the world.
