{"id":431,"date":"2024-08-17T01:24:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T01:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myascottage18.wordpress.com\/2024\/08\/17\/hello-world\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T01:24:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T01:24:48","slug":"hello-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myanook.com\/?p=431","title":{"rendered":"About the author"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hi, I\u2019m Mya, the host of this blog! I created this space to explore and share my creative interests, personal growth, new passions, and much more. My goal is to offer a welcoming space where other creatives and anyone eager to explore new interests can feel safe and inspired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hi!! Let\u2019s dive a little into my hobbies<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Culinary Background<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I studied culinary arts for most of high school. Initially, I joined as an elective, but I soon realized that I enjoyed the challenge it brought me. This led me to join the Culinary 2 program. I enjoyed the class so much that, for one assignment, I decided to bake macarons for the class to try\u2014mainly to impress the culinary teacher and show my eagerness to join the competition team. About a week later, I became a member of the Florida ProStart Competition team, along with four other teammates. We trained for about a year and a half, creating various dishes for the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Together, we crafted a three-course meal that ranked 8th out of 52 schools in the state of Florida. Since then, I\u2019ve earned five culinary certifications and gained some really cool job opportunities. This experience sparked my passion for culinary arts and food. I began to see food as an art and now love creating pieces through my cooking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Media <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Well, I’ve always been someone who really enjoys all kinds of media. I basically grew up on the internet and loved the communities I built online. It’s honestly my favorite way to connect with people since I can become friends with others from all around the world. I find that really cool, to be honest. I think my love for media definitely comes from my Gemini and Virgo placements, haha. I love to chat and hear others chat too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides social media, I really enjoy online forums and real-life communities. Book clubs, movie think pieces, and similar discussions are things I tend to consume a lot of. I especially enjoy hearing others’ opinions after I’ve read or watched something myself. For example, after watching Sex and the City<\/em> for the first time, I went on a month-long research project. I watched many YouTube videos, TikToks, and even read Reddit subtopics about it. I was just trying to understand certain plot points within the show and see if others shared my dislike for certain characters (Carrie, Big, Steve, and I know this one is crazy, but Aidan as well). What I gained from this extensive research was personal insight and a more grounded perspective. I realized that in the characters I disliked, I could also relate to some of their traits, which triggered me in a way. I had to do a lot of internal work on myself\u2014still am, haha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anyway, that’s basically my history with media\u2014I just really enjoy it and naturally gravitate toward it. Since I took a break from social media in August of 2023, I had to find other outlets for my thoughts, which led me to journaling. Now I have a couple of journals that I just brain dump into, along with my phone’s notes app, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spirituality and Astrology<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

These two things are very important to me! They really helped me heal from a heartbreak I experienced a couple of years ago. Without spirituality, I feel like I wouldn’t know who I am today. I won’t lie, when my spiritual awakening happened, I was going through the worst heartbreak of my life, haha. That was when I truly began to question myself and my past traumas\u2014childhood wounds, unhealthy attachments, and ego boosts. It felt like everything crumbled for me, and it took me years to even begin recovering internally. Spiritual awakenings are not easy and can be very lonely. You question literally everything. The systems that once worked no longer do. Everything just feels like a lesson, haha. To this day, I still don’t know exactly what my purpose is, but I do know that just being is enough. Internally, I feel great, but externally… I’m still trying to catch up. The world we currently live in is really hard for me to grasp. I don’t understand how we’re conditioned to work until we’re old, only to have a few years of retirement before death. I don’t understand so many things. Maybe as time goes on, these questions will be answered. The more I delve into this practice, the more I grow to love it. I cherish my little meditation moments, connecting with crystals, the hard moments, learning oracle, and understanding myself. It seems like the more I connect with myself, the more I connect with the earth and higher beings. I like it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the topic of astrology, I love it! As a teen, I was into sun signs and the random personality traits associated with them. As I reached adulthood, I began to research more\u2014full-on birth charts, how to study them, houses, asteroids, transits, aspects, you know, the fun stuff. I won’t say I’m as familiar with astrology as I am with tarot and oracle, but I do enjoy learning new things about it. On a scale of where I am with astrology, I’d say I’m slightly intermediate. As this blog grows, I hope to connect with more astrologers and gain some of their insights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Health, Skincare, beauty<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You know the saying, “Health is wealth.” Well, I love that statement… or at least I did. Lately, it seems like health has taken a backseat for me, haha. I’ve been so consumed by stress and not building healthy routines that my health is just all over the place. Another reason for me to create this blog is to document my journey of rebuilding the relationship with my health that I once had\u2014something that makes me happy and strong, mentally, physically, and emotionally. I simply want to become the healthiest version of myself, haha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My favorite things to talk about are hair and body skincare. This year, I made it my intention to really nurture my hair and find routines and products that make it happy. Two things I\u2019ve committed to reducing this year are heat and coloring. I made this promise to myself mainly because, since high school, I\u2019ve always used these two things on my hair and felt like I didn’t really let it be in its natural state. My goal is to allow my hair to grow healthy and strong, embrace its natural state, and find hairstyles and color alternatives that aren\u2019t so harmful to its overall health. Since making this promise, I\u2019ve found products that work for my hair, styles I love, and have noticed it growing in a healthier state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As for my skin, I\u2019ve been dealing with eczema my whole life. As a child, it was terrible\u2014I would have rashes on my neck, the back of my legs, arms, everywhere. I hated it and felt so insecure about it. But I wonder… would I have felt this way if the people around me didn\u2019t highlight it so much as a terrible condition? I know it\u2019s bad, but I feel like my overall opinion would\u2019ve been different if it wasn\u2019t seen as such a visually unappealing condition. Anyway, as an adult, it\u2019s still really bad. Stress and overall lifestyle habits have made it spread like wildfire\u2014on my hands, neck, armpits, arms… gosh, it itches, haha, and I just feel so insecure about it. BUT I\u2019m not letting that stop me. To this day, I am still actively trying to find solutions to manage my reactions, outside of steroid creams. Goodness, I hate steroid creams; the withdrawal effects are the worst\u2014spreading, extremely dry skin, thinning skin, the list goes on. I am seeking not only external remedies but also internal ones to keep it in check. I know for sure that healing my gut health and nervous system will most likely help clear it up faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Age: 23<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hobbies: Writing, research, media, arts, baking and cooking, laying in bed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also really enjoy traveling and wish to do more of it in the years to come hehe. Here are some photos from my past new york trip. Omg i should make a post of cool places to go in NY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thank you for reading\u2764\ufe0f let\u2019s connect <\/p>\n\n\n\t

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