There was a time when I didn’t understand depression. When I knew someone was going through it, I would often think that they should just “cheer up”. And if they were a Christian, they needed to cheer up fast, because Christians don’t really struggle with things like that. My misconceptions all came to a halt […]
There was a particular type of job that I really wanted but although I felt capable, I also felt unqualified on paper, and that’s what I kept telling myself. The result of that self-talk was refusing to even apply to those types of positions. A spiritual mentor rebuked me on that frame of thought and […]
If someone acts in a way that’s prickly to you, what’s your natural response? You know. They talked over you while you were telling a story, showed up considerably late and didn’t apologize, or maybe talked behind you when you weren’t around to speak up for yourself. Does your blood boil to where you secretly […]
How did you get into modeling? I’m from the Dominican Republic. When I was a teenager, a lot of people would tell me that I should do modeling because I was very skinny and tall. I was not really interested because I was really shy. But my mom was excited about it. She was the […]