Elyse's Breakdown | Speaker Series Ep. 204
It's cool to take know when to take time for yourself.
Hey y’all!
How have you been? I hope good. March was…a lot but not terrible. April…April was not good. April was filled with a lot of emotions (lots of crying and irritation really). I wanted to bring this up because in this month’s letter, I interviewed Elyse Fox, the founder of Sad Girls Club and I also started going to group therapy. In our most recent session, we talked about change. As an Aries, I’ve always loved change. I’d like to think I’m good at embracing it because it is the most constant thing in my life. I’m used to people coming in and out of my life, changing jobs, and changing my mind about what I want out of life. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve started to realize how much I’d like to actually embrace consistency. Consistency in work and friends in particular. A lot of my closest friends would say I have a pretty low tolerance for BS and I think as I get older it feels more apparent to me. So maybe April wasn’t bad - it wasn’t great but I guess it wasn’t that bad. Anyway…
In the third installment of this speaker series, I chatted with Elyse Fox,. Elyse is a founder, director, activist and tastemaker. She is the founder of Sad Girls Club. In which she founded in 2017 after she released a documentary about her experience with depression. In addition to this Elyse is the creator of Teen Vogue’s Soft Launch. She’s also a MOTHA.
My introduction to Elyse was when I worked at Squarespace and she was talent for one of our many influencer-based projects. She’s one of those people who is effortlessly cool but incredibly approachable. Since then, a mentor of mine has brought me into the Sad Girls Club ecosystem through volunteering and learning about what life is like in the mental health space.
In our conversation, we talked about the origins of Sad Girls Club, her column with Teen Vogue, and how community has impacted her life. One of my favorite parts of our conversation is how she says we as adults don’t make room for play and spontaneity. I know that me, I had to learn to actively seek out hobbies and community-based organizations. It began with me joining my neighborhood block association and transitioned into me working with ENVSN. I guess you can call that ‘planned play’ but it is fun, makes me feel like I am doing something good with my time, and also helps me meet new people who keep me outside of the bubble of people I went to college with. I’m still getting better at the spontaneity part, but so much of adulthood relies on structure. I guess, as I get older and work towards balancing my life I hope that I can allow myself spontaneity. For now, my version of recklessness is waking up late and blocking my old boss who created a hostile work environment.
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Bre
This was a wonderful read omg! Bre’s breakdown breaking it DOWNNNNNN ‼️