Jess Filippi
Bio
Writer and editor.
I believe nature is sacred, movement is medicine, and stories are everything.
I write about why people do the things they do, and how we can do them better.
website: www.jessicafilippi.com
instagram: jfwritingandediting
Stories (4/0)
Stop Chasing Happiness and Start Making Yourself Strong
Chasing happiness doesn't make sense. Happiness is a transitory state that, in order to exist, must be counterbalanced by unhappiness. To live a good life, a much more worthwhile thing to pursue is strength—particularly mental toughness.
By Jess Filippi4 years ago in Motivation
The Song That Revealed a Hidden World of Magic
The first time I heard "Ship of Fools," I went into my bedroom and drew a map. It was a map of the world the song created in my mind. It had a massive forest with towering trees that waned in size and number as the land spread into gold-tinged rolling hills. Those hills were precursors to a low and rocky mountain range whose ridges ended abruptly in a vast desert. On the other side of that were slowly rising forested cliffs, at the bottom of which was a forceful sea crashing against them.
By Jess Filippi4 years ago in Beat
Disconnect from Social Media to Reconnect with Gratitude
Recently I decided to cut back my social media use. I’d noticed a growing dissatisfaction beyond the normal day-to-day struggle of making ends meet as a freelancer that was robbing me of joy. A combination of constant ads trying to sell me pretty things I don't need and a seeming uptick in big-life-event announcements on my friends’ feeds had me focused on all that I don’t have in life rather than being grateful for all that I do have.
By Jess Filippi4 years ago in Longevity
