Please welcome my #BeReal guest today, Ashlei Hawley. Hi and welcome all. 🙂 I am honored to do a guest posting here at HastyWord’s blog on her awesome #BeReal series. I’m all excited so let’s dive right into it. For me, to #BeReal is to be an advocate, a creator, a seeker, and a scholar.…
My #BeReal guest today is Shawn Henfling. “I don’t need to be Michael Jordan but I’d at least like to be in the NBA.” I don’t like myself. Rather, I don’t like who I think I am. I can’t really hate myself because I don’t know who “myself” is. I’ve gotten through 38 years of…
Today I am honored to welcome SA Smith to #BeReal. When I was asked to participate in the Be Real campaign I was honored. I thought of course, this is right up my alley. If you are familiar with my column, Byte of Life, at Feminine Collective you know I am all about being your…
Today my RELATIONSHIPS ARE HARD guest is Lizzi Lewis. Just shy of a year after telling Husby I couldn’t be married to him any longer, I stood with the decree absolute in my hands. Unassuming paper and complicated legalese confused me at first – was this really it? It was really it, and after a…
My #BeReal guest today is Amanda Hall. My name is Amanda Hall, I just turned twenty-eight and I’m just now learning who the real me is and how to accept myself for who I am and to not let other people’s opinions of me stand in my way. I am by no means a writer,…
Pulls out my two cents to share… I want to teach my daughter to take care of herself. I don’t want her to have the false sense of security that some laws tend to create. Trust me… being a victim of date rape I want to teach my daughter how to stay safe. Don’t go…
My #BeReal guest today is Lisa Blair. It’s a simple enough question, I suppose, for most people. For me, whenever I am asked it, I can’t help feeling a little sad. Thinking about who I am reminds me of who I once was and all that I have been through. I am reminded of all…
My RELATIONSHIPS ARE HARD guest today is Lindsay Holmes. Lindsay has written for the #BeReal series previously. If you have a relationships story you would like to submit you can find the guidelines here under RELATIONSHIPS ARE HARD. You will find the five other topics I am always interested in sharing.  I hope to see…
Welcome to the #BeReal series! I want to showcase real people. You will judge them. That’s okay. And it will be natural for you to do that. To read all the #BeReal posts to date you can click HERE. I put together this series because teens everywhere are jumping on this #DontJudgeMe bandwagon. Well, I think the…
My #BeReal guest today is Justine Perry.  (@justine_perry) How Twitter Destroyed My Life… And How I’m Rebuilding My Confidence. I promised myself I would never feel worthless again. As a teenager, I made this my life’s mission. I failed. Last October I felt completely broken, the last of my spirit had shattered and my…
