Looking Back on August 2025

Weddings, professional transitions, spanx, and so much more.

Astrologically speaking, I knew August 2025 didn’t have the most ideal horoscope aligned for me. No matter how many times I checked my personal transits, I knew this month was going to be a bit of a dumpster fire. Still, I held out hope.

July’s overall tone was a major attitude shift for me. Work (and therefore, money) was flowing from all directions. I hit my motherfucking stride creating non-stop content, writing articles, and putting out banger email newsletters for one of my contracts. None of my nails broke (a semi-ongoing issue that neither I nor my nail tech can figure out). Normal dreams. 10,000 steps per day, if not more. Looked good, felt great.

And then August came around, and so much went to shit so fast. Granted, August wasn’t all bad. I had a few highs this month, a win here and there. But for the most part, August was a bummer. I’m trying my best to look on the bright side of things, but life is admittedly a little scary at the moment. Everything feels very unsure, very delicate. Like one wrong move, and bam!, instant regret. Assuming I even make a move. The state of the world feels so ominous, so making any move feels heavy and loaded, like any one of my decisions could expel shrapnel into a million different directions at any moment.

I try my best to be optimistic, but lately, it’s been hard to do so. Optimism only seems possible when I’m comparing my situation to someone else’s: at least it’s not as bad as so-and-so, or this, or that. Realistically, I know stress is stress as the day is long. One of my psychology professors made a point by saying that the physiological stress response is the same regardless of the situation. In other words, anxiety is anxiety, and your body doesn’t know the difference. So, I guess I’m not really sure why comparing my situation is my chosen coping mechanism when, in reality, my situation and the other situation might not be all that different stress-wise.

So, I figured, why not create a list of highs and lows? It’s so much easier to focus on the lows and let that be the experience, but recording the highs may put things into perspective, how okay things actually are. In other words, why not compare me to me? Using myself as a mirror through my list of highs and lows could potentially help me see a clearer silver lining.