I hope you all had an enjoyable week! I sure did! And am now in serious countdown mode for my trip to Seattle, less than 2 weeks to go! I'm thinking I might make a few changes to The Weekly Bit but I'll let you know before anything happens!
Enjoy and have a great week! :-)

I think I've found my happiness. Finally. Here's my theory right - happiness comes from within, yeah? This is something that I've been struggling with for quite a number of years now and have finally, in the past 2 weeks, come to find. People who try and argue with you that happiness comes from the outside and materialistic things are pure liars (that may be too strong)... I had been told this previously and had worked on myself from the outside; clearly, it didn't work. I thought that I could control my happiness by eating a block of chocolate, having a glass of wine, buying myself a pair of shoes, or hanging out with people I thought others "wanted" me to hang out with. Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. It took my 18 years, 9 months and 4 days to realise how I could discover my own happiness. It's been a combination of being happy with my uni grades, work life, relationships and weight - along with a few other things.      


I am single for the first time in about 6 years, which is weird to say considering I'm only 18... But it's true and, honestly, one of the most liberating feelings ever! And I'm totally embracing it too! Not feeling obliged to be texting somebody 24/7, not feeling guilty for staying in bed all day instead of going to see someone, having a girls night and not feeling bad about it - but most of all, being able to completely find myself and discover who I am as a person. If I'm honest, I was terrified to be single and out in the world on my own. But if I can recommend anything to anyone, it would be to spend some time being single and being on your own. I've now been single for about 3 months and in that time I feel like I've grown into a totally different person, someone who is confident(ish), independent and totally fine going solo (for now). It's such an incredibly liberating feeling to have the ability to discover yourself and I am incredibly grateful for this time.

I never had much desire to lose weight or become more 'healthy' or anything but it just sort of happened. I use the term healthy in quotations because it's such a broad and complex topic now... In November 2015 I decided to book a mini health vacation for a week to distance myself from reality to try to better myself. Since then, I've somehow managed to lose about 16kg's and completely changed my diet. It wasn't an intentional thing to lose that much weight, but I told myself that I wanted to feel more confident when I looked at myself in the mirror. I now do. I think I still have a little way to go, but with the help of my PT, eating healthy and doing yoga a few times a week I'm slowly on my way to reaching my goal. Overall changing my diet has completely changed how I feel, I just feel a lot happier and it's definitely true that what you put into your body adjusts how you feel!

Enjoy!

A very relaxed and calming week - you'll see in the photos! I was lucky enough that for most of my week I was surrounded by my beautiful friends, which came as a welcome distraction from certain aspects of my life.
I hope you all had a lovely week!!
Enjoy :-)

What a beautiful morning it was this morning! - Saturday, May 14th 2016 - After the week/month/year I've been having I figured I needed to mix up my routine, wake up early enough to watch the sunrise and enjoy the beautiful beach with my friends. Sorry for the late upload (only 4 hours, but still) but because I wanted to upload a photoset of the sunrise/beach from this morning today it had to wait a little. Last weekend was quite an opening and awakening weekend for me and as cliche as it sounds, I feel a little differently within myself since then. This week has, therefore, been quite a 'get to know myself again' week and it felt incredible to start the weekend with a beautiful sunrise. There's a post coming up somewhat soon about my 'perspective' on a few things, so watch out for that :-)

Anemice and I woke up at 5.15am and met the boys down at the lighthouse at 6am to watch the 6.15am sunrise. Afterward, we headed down to the beach to play cards, write this blog post and eat a 1 litre acai bowl for breakfast.

A change of pace for once. I'm going to start incorporating more posts like this because they seem to be quite loved by all of you :-) !! I don't put much effort into getting ready when I'm going to university because all I'm going there to try and learn something, write down a bunch of notes, probably drink a coffee and then go back home to work on either an assignment or work stuff. So, I figured I'd do a photo post of what I put on my face before I go to university / what I wear most days when I can't really be bothered to make a huge effort but still want to look somewhat presentable - emphasis on somewhat. I've linked everything in the captions of the photo, so that if you're interested in a product it's easier to find.
Enjoy!

I'm taking today's post off; this weekend I am going away to spend some time relaxing, reflecting and teaching myself to start a fresh. It's about a 4 hour drive to my family's beach house that I'll be staying at for the weekend and am excited to spend a lot of the weekend relaxing on the beach reading, writing more of my book and spending some quality alone time!

Thank you so incredibly much in advance for accepting these posts and recognising that I need to take time off!

There will be a Weekly Bit post uploaded on Monday :-)