My name is Katy, and I used to be so anxious that I couldn’t even walk down the halls of my high school without worrying if I was breathing in a socially acceptable way. At night I would lay in bed for hours with racing thoughts, wondering, “Is this normal?”

While I still notice anxiety in my body sometimes, now I am the boss of it rather than it being the boss of me. It’s been helpful to surround myself with women I want to be more like. Perhaps I can be that woman for you.

As a human, I love thrifting, going to bed early, and fancy grocery stores I can’t afford. I can’t stand graduation parties, small talk, and toxic sayings like “no bad days.”