Life With Lexis K.

What's going on family? It's been a while since I last wrote (or finished) a post. I've been battling with myself for the better of three months now. It's really disappointing to feel like you've lost all the progress that you'd gain in terms of emotional intelligence. But what is really reminded me or taught me rather, is that emotional healing is not a linear process, meaning it doesn't just go in one direction. There are improvements and gains, but there are also some regressions and back sliding. This has been what I've been dealing with lately. Just thinking about all the hard work and brutal honesty I've had to do to myself just to get some sort of peace and to lose it all over almost nothing. That shit will make you suicidal. At least it did for me. "If this is as good as it's gone get, then I don't want to be here at all." My brain can be my worse enemy at times honestly. I had to realize that it's only going to g...

What's going on family. I hate that I mostly write when I'm frustrated or upset, but that's just how my brain works best I guess. So I'm sitting at my job (as always) and I'm trying to do up a mental budget. July/August is always a busy time for me. School's coming back in soon and Heaven wants to change to a school that wears uniforms. That I have to buy. Daycare, credit card, and rent is all due today but I get paid tomorrow. Then cheerleading payments coming up that I'm avoiding paying. I'm afraid to tell Heaven she may not be cheering this year because it would just be another disappointment to my baby that I don't want her to have. Basically, to sum everything up: I'm broke.  But I have a job and I'm always at work. I work between 36-40 hours per week and live well within my means. So why is it that I'm always scraping together pennies to get basic things done? And more importantly, how do I achieve this upward mobility ...

Welcome back family! So glad that you're with me today. Living life and loving yourself. I'm happy to share this time with you. Today I wanted to give y'all a little peak into my year so far. Now I can go as deep as y'all like. After all the blog is called "Life With Lexis K." (me) so y'all don't need to feel like you're all in my business. I want it that way. It may be somewhat late for a mid-year recap because we're like 58.3333% done with the year, but y'all are my new family so I wanted to get y'all up to speed. So this year started off pretty rocky. For some reason I was having a quarterly life crisis (I can't say mid-life cause I'm trying to live way past 40) and nothing was going as I planned. Last year I was working on my peace and trying to find happiness within myself, but this year I felt like I lost all that progress. I was so disappointed in my school work early in the semester, I really considered dropping ou...

What's going on family. I'm just here to brainstorm and chat a little bit with y'all today. I have so many thoughts throughout the day and seemingly no one to share them with. So who better than to share it with my family! Now continuing from my last post about us needing to build up our community and offering support to one another, I want to share some of the things that I've done and plan on doing to do my part in that. Ladies Learning to Lead (L3) Two of my L3 participants (ik they were bigger than me) This summer, a close friend of mine and I volunteered at a leadership conference for a non-profit organization called Ladies Learning to Lead (L3). It was a weekend long program for teen girls in middle-high school and taught them about networking, leaderships, and identity. It was a very awesome and powerful experience for the girls as well as an inspiring one for me. L3 is program local to Tallahassee that I think is much needed in our community. Most of...

It's me again family, your cousin DJ Lex the Flex (iykyk). So, today we're going to talk about life. Now the tagline for this blog is life, love, learn because these are the three main topics that I want to first write about and second share with you all. At the age we're in now, being 20-something and not really knowing where the trajectory of life may take us, it's easy to feel like living is meaningless. I saw a friend of mine make a post a while back basically saying that you were born to just work all your life, pay bills, and die. Has anyone felt like this before? While that's a sad outlook to have on life, it's even sadder that this will be the reality for a lot of people. It will be that way just because they THINK it will be that way. I often think about life and what it means to me. When I'm talking to someone new, one of my favorite questions to ask it, "What does your perfect life look like?" It's interesting to me what peopl...

Hello again family!  Quick side note, are y'all cool with being my family? If not we can be kinfolk or something, I just want y'all to be comfortable with our collective. So today I'm going to be giving you some tips on being your true self. Last post we talked about my struggles with self, but I never really dove into my triumphs. We're going to do some of that today! Nothing New Under the Sun I know you've heard your mama or your grandma say this before. It is actually a paraphrase from a scripture in Ecclesiastes. While there is some truth to it, it should not be seen as the end all be all. What I mean is, you don't have to do what everyone is doing just because someone has already done it. Let me explain cause it's starting to sound jumbled. (here) Everybody sells hair and lashes, does hair and lashes, sells the furry slides, etc. Why enter into an already over-saturated market instead of creating a niche that no one in your community has immed...