Emily Schaye
Bio
I started out as a creative writing major, eventually got my degree in psychology. A Certified Pre & Post-Natal Fitness instructor interested in discussing, Health, wellness, life, loss, Love and everything in between. Examining it all.
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From Clutter to Clarity: Your Clutter Could be Someone’s Saving Grace
2020 ushered in a very different meaning of the word home for everyone in the country. It transformed a shower and a place to keep your clothes into a prison for some. It was a place to realize true love and for others, in the most horrible of circumstances it became a hospital for the millions who ended up contracting Covid-19. It was still a roof over their heads where they could get out of the cold despite these horrible circumstances. Winter is upon us now for many and this begs the question, if home was all these things in a world where we have been ordered to stay home, what happens for those people who don’t have a home to be ordered to right now? This is something everyone should be thinking about.
By Emily Schaye5 years ago in Lifehack
Your Identity Redefined Through Death
When you have all your relatives, parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts and uncles alive and well, your identity remains fixed, whether you are aware of this fact or not. The idea of a shifting identity first occurred to me the day my little brother died. I remember a very dramatic statement made in a “The Faults in Our stars” where a mother was watching her child die and proclaimed “I’m not going to be a mom anymore” or something to that effect. I thought it was heartbreaking but ultimately unrealistic. Then I realized something. We as a society tend to talk about the deceased in terms of the past tense. “He was a wonderful person,” “She had such a wonderful spirit,” “No one knew passion like Elliott did.” So in reality what we are essentially saying is that the person no longer exists.
By Emily Schaye5 years ago in Families
