It’s finally the end of 2018, and thank God for that! It has been quite the year. I’m not going to lie to you, 2018 has been a challenge for me. There has been a lot of ups and downs, mostly downs but hey, that’s life and I want to keep it 100 with ya’ll.
I’ve learned a lot of hard lessons this year, mainly with the people I surround myself with. After struggling with major anxiety at the end of 2017, I was forced to really re-evaluate everything. I realized a lot of the people I was surrounding myself with were not helping my anxiety, but actually hurting it. I used to be the girl that wanted everyone to like me (and I guess in some ways I still am). I wanted to be best friends with everyone and looked past people’s actions and made excuses for them. This year I learned that I need to be a little more selfish. I’m not going to like everyone and not everyone is going to like me, and that is okay. I also need to realize that when people show you who they really are, to listen. It’s amazing when you go through a hard time in your personal life, the people that are true friends really shine. To all my supportive and amazing friends and family, I just want to say thank you. You guys have really helped me through one of the hardest years of my life and I am so grateful.
While I struggled with anxiety at the close of last year and the beginning of this year, I worked really hard to try to overcome my anxiety. With the help of therapy, meds and a lot of self work, I’m really happy to say that I am in a much better place than I was a year ago. My tips for those of you who are struggling with anxiety are to take it a day at at time, meditate, exercise and surround yourself with people that support you.
This year, I also made a big move. I left Los Angeles, a place I called home for the past four years, to move back to New York. I honestly never thought I would move back here, but here I am. I can’t tell you how happy I am to be back, and I’m looking forward to the next chapter of my life here in NYC. I’m ready to take on the city more than ever and have my Carrie Bradshaw moment (minus the whole getting left at the alter sitch).
I also started a brand new business in 2018. I opened up my own online boutique, John + Suki! This has been a huge dream of mine since high school and I can’t believe it’s finally live. I’m so excited to continue to grow my business in this up coming year and make it even bigger and better!
Now, I’ve never really been a big New Years resolution type girl but I do have things I want to work on this year. Growing John + Suki is definitely #1, but I also want to continue to work on myself. I want to workout more, eat healthier, travel more and love more. So bring it on 2019, I’m ready for ya!
