First post of (hopefully) many!!

Hi, welcome to what I hope can be.. well I am not exactly sure what I hope this can be other than sharing my struggles and my strengths and hoping that maybe someone will relate and that it fills their soul for even just the smallest amount of time. Maybe that sounds weird, and maybe I am the only the person on the planet this way (which I highly doubt), but I know that when I do my daily Pinterest or Facebook scroll and I see the blog post titled "Courtney, this is relevant to whatever is going on in your head right now," I give it a read and I actually feel sane for a moment. Maybe because I am facing something that I feel like I cannot beat and if I see that this writer has faced (past tense) something similar and lived to write about it, then maybe I can actually make it. Well, not to be all gloom and doom, because look.. here I am, living to write about it!! I cannot wait to share these trials and successes with whoever decides to read this, but we will save that for another post. To begin, let me introduce myself.

My name is Courtney Clark, I am currently one of those college students that goes from wanting to cry/scream/throw up/dropout all at once to randomly getting bursts of motivation and thinking I can pull off a 4.0 semester with 18 hours on deck. I have two dogs, who I literally do not know what I would do with out, their names are Sunny and Gunner. They were both very foolish decisions, as I was only a sophomore in college so consider me poor, immature, busy and reckless and I got both of them just 3 months apart. But I tell you what, I would do it again a million times over. I have a wonderful family and wonderful set of friends. I am an avid Netflix watcher, I'm not ashamed. I take myself on dates to Rosas, Torchy's Tacos and Target all too often. I am teaching myself how to survive by placing my identity and strength in Christ and I promise I am very far from perfect. I either give way to much of myself to people or not enough, I mess up constantly, I hold on for WAY too long and I'm usually striving for something way out of my league. Honestly, I'm okay with all of it. All this means to me is that I can love fiercely, because just like Hannah Brown said in Colton's season on the bachelor, "I deserve to be fiercely loved." So, I will love fiercely because thats what I need in return. I will give me all, because thats what I need in return. I will hold on and fight for what I want, because that is what I need in return. But lastly, to know me best.. I will always strive for things out of my league, because how do you expect to get in the league if you never try for it.

I so look forward to sharing my words with you all!!

Thank you for reading :)