Kelly in
Crisis
Working my way through existential crises.
existential crisis:
a period of inner conflict during which a person is distraught over questions about identity, meaning, and purpose.
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Digital Minimalism: aka how to stop incessantly checking your phone
This post has been a long time coming due to the fact that I was recently locked out of nearly all my accounts (including a problem with this website)– a timely problem given the topic of today’s blog. Though I do admit that I had a bit of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out for those…
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Activism: How much do we owe the world?
I’m sitting down to write this only a few days after a new video was released of Israeli girls who were taken hostage by Hamas. It is videos, images, and devastating news stories like this that make me want to seclude myself from the world, cover my eyes, and plug my ears. And the saddest…
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Review: How To Be Old by Lyn Slater
Lyn Slater has spent her so-called “golden years” reinventing herself. Slater achieved instagram fame in her 60s as the “Accidental Icon” through her fashion blog, Accidental Icon and instagram account, @iconaccidental, while working as a professor of social work at NYU. As a blogger/influencer, Slater became known for her radical self acceptance and the way…
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What does it mean to be trauma-informed?: An Interview with Professor Janice Carello
Previously on the blog, I’ve written about what I’ve called Trauma-Informed Living, the practice of implementing trauma-informed approaches in our everday lives. In this post, I interview Janice Carello, PhD, LMSW, a professor at PennWest Edinboro who specializes in trauma-informed pedagogy, to learn more about what it means to be trauma-informed, the impacts of trauma…
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Do we have to be vegan to live an ethical life? Part II: leather, shearling, fur, and more
Last Sunday, I wrote about the ethics of eating meat and other animal products. For Part II, I am diving into the ethics of buying other products made from animals including items made from leather, shearling, and fur. What immediately strikes me about this debate is the inconsistency in the popular discourse. On the one…
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Do we have to be vegan to live an ethical life?
My journey with eating meat has been a rather unusual one. Red meat has always disgusted me since I was a young child and besides a year or two where I went through a chicken pot pie and chicken tenders phase, white meat wasn’t particularly enticing either. Due to this, I stopped eating meat in…
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My thoughts on how to grow old
When I turned 25 last summer, it was the first time that my birthday truly made me feel old. 25, after all, was the point at which I nearly crossed over into the “late twenties” and not far beyond that loomed my “early thirties”. It probably didn’t help that it was also around the same…
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Why my new year’s resolution was to stop buying things
My only New Year’s Resolution for 2024 was to stop buying things. To achieve this through all of 2024, I have embarked on what the internet has dubbed as a low-buy year. Low-buy year rules can vary by the person as the concept just outlines the broad goal of reducing purchases. I decided to do…
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Trauma-Informed Living
This blog discusses psychological trauma and its impacts on individuals and society. If you are experiencing ongoing trauma or are suffering from the impact of previous trauma please seek help from a licensed medical professional. Yesterday, I attended a training on trauma-informed ESL teaching for refugees and immigrants. The topic of trauma was something that…
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Welcome Readers
Hello and welcome to Kelly in Crisis! The name of this blog is my name, Kelly, with a fun reference to having an existential crisis. I’ve been in the midst of an existential crisis for the past year and a half, beginning when I graduated from my Master’s degree and started my first full time…
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Meet Kelly
My name is Kelly and I am on a journey to figure out how to live a meaningful life and to be a good person (whatever that means!). I am 25 and have found myself constantly in the midst of existential quarter-life crises since graduating and starting my first full-time job.
“My philosophy must be from life.”
Simone de Beauvoir
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