Its Just One Of Those Croissant Days

it’s just one of those croissant days

ALL 👏🏾 OF 👏🏾 THEM 👏🏾

Please take a moment to read - for the animals

Hey everyone,

As you would all be aware, Australia is still in the grips of emergency. Fires still burn at catastrophic levels, homes are destroyed, lives have been lost, the environmental impact has been cataclysmic. And it’s happening now. Right now.

This is devastating.

I know many of you who are reading this are following me for my Game Grumps content, and you probably would have seen Dan’s charity shoutout to help a family affected by this ongoing disaster. I know that Grumps fans are very generous and would help that cause, and so I would like to leave some links to some organisations that help the animals who have been caught in these terrible fires. There are others out there and I encourage you to look for yourselves as well.

The loss of animal life goes into the millions, and a third of the NSW koala population has been wiped out.

This is devastating.

Please, if you can, please donate to these organisations. If you’re outside of Australia, please be mindful of the conversion rates to AUD dollars. And if you can’t donate, that’s totally fine. Promotion of the cause is great, too!

Australia and the world have been so, so selfless in their donations to the firefighting cause, incredibly so, but these animals need all the help they can get. They don’t have a fire plan, they don’t have anywhere to go. Please help them.

https://www.wildlifevictoria.org.au/?view=article&id=145:helping-wildlife-during-bushfires&catid=11:wildlife-information

https://www.wwf.org.au/get-involved/bushfire-emergency

https://www.wires.org.au/donate/emergency-fund

https://www.rspcansw.org.au/bushfire-appeal/

http://www.koalasincare.org.au/pages/donation.htm

https://www.koalahospital.org.au/act-now/donate

Thank you so much. ❤️

Living with Generalized Anxiety Disorder

It took me a long time to understand that my worries aren’t ordinary worries.

Most people don’t obsessively check if the front door is locked—I can still see a 9 year old me sneaking downstairs in the middle of the night, turning all the lights on, checking the locks, switching off the lights and running back to bed through the darkness. I never told my parents.

I’m realizing now that most people don’t watch the road intensely from the back seat, seatbelt pulled tight, feeling that if they’re not looking then the worst will happen.

It’s probably not normal to scream and jump out of your skin every time someone slightly startles you—as if every moment you are anticipating a jump scare. As if you are in fight or flight mode at all times.

To me, living with anxiety is always holding the stair railing tight, constantly scared to fall, despite having good balance, despite performing beam in gymnastics, despite all logic, there is fear.

But at the root of all my anxiety is this intense feeling of trying to protect what is important to me. There is love and there is bravery buried in my anxiety. On some level, even if it isn’t logical, I am always prepared for the very worst “what ifs” in life so that I can protect myself and my love ones.

I tend to think of it as my mental reflexes are overstimulated, they’re there for a reason but they are acting in overdrive—why? I don’t know but I do know that my anxiety impacts every bit of my life and it is entwined with who I am as a person. But that doesn’t mean I can’t work to cope with the struggles of my mental illness—it means I understand who I am and I understand there are ways to make being me easier. It doesn’t mean I’ll let my fears hold me back.

Remember to breathe. Your worries may not be ordinary but you are not alone.