The Genesis of Cosmic Psyche: How My Blogging Career Began

Hiii friends!

I have been asked so many times the who, what, where, when and why's of blogging & figured this post has been LONG overdue.

It's sort of a funny story, to be honest; which is part of the reason I just have to share with you guys:

Backstory: I made my first blog when I was 12 years old on a website called weebly.com. I was in junior high school, and had absolutely no idea of what the internet was capable of, but I chose to create a life blog (with a chat room that included games like tic tac toe and pool LOL) and shared my life with my "friends" (i.e. the entire damn internet) from a young age. My childhood blog lasted no longer than 1 year or so, as I began living the high school life while still keeping up with my social media woke posts and creating statuses about whatever facts or ideas where on my mind that day. I pretty much thought my days of actually blogging were done but boyyyyy was I wrong.

Why Now?

I have had this blog for nearly 2 1/2 years now. I actually created Cosmic Psyche in 2016, but didn't post anything until January of 2017 because I wanted to make sure everything on it was perfect (which as you can see by the layout took LOTS of time and effort). During the time I decided I was going to blog, I was actually going through a "serious" break up. I was very much all over the place mentally and emotionally (no, he didn't cheat and no I wasn't crying) but I had been a girlfriend for SO LONG I honestly had no idea what I was supposed to be doing with myself in my free time and it completely scrambled my entire life. Coming out of being in long relationships (two of them) from the time I was 12 until I was 19, I hadn't had much time to really find myself. I didn't know what I liked or what talents I really had, because I hadn't ever taken the lone time to figure those things out! It's a bit upsetting how much toxic relationships can effect your identity, and I hadn't realized this until I began this blog. One day I had enough of trying to cope alone, so I decided to "type it out". I created this blog with the intentions to make it something personal that I could hold my memories and express my current thoughts/situations, but it turns out God had bigger plans for me and Cosmic Psyche. I shared my very first post to twitter because I was super excited that everything came out looking so nicely, and people actually started to subscribe to my page! It hit me very quickly that I could use my blog to help people be better people..

I began to publicly share my blog no more than 2 weeks after my first post, and the subscribers started ROLLINGGGGGG IN from ALL OVER THE WORLD YALL. I couldn't believe how many people enjoyed my authentic ass content. I went from being lost to being so aware of how creative and inspiring I could be. I found my niche. I found my tool to show fellowship and speak into others' lives. My way to give back and be a blessing. My passion and my calling.

THAT is what Cosmic Psyche is to me. It saved me from myself. It has molded me into who I am, as minute a blog may seem to you. It got me through rough times, and has continued to be my source of therapy. I am so thankful for the support, the 2345678 suggestions everyone sends me, and most importantly I am so thankful for the STRUGGLE that I had to go through to get to this point in life where I am such the example to so many people around me.

Sometimes God will make you uncomfortable to get you to make your move and find your calling in life. Blogging is such a passion of mine whether I'd have 1 follower or my 300+ followers. Making a difference to at least one soul has made me such a better version of myself.

THAT, my friends, is my reason why. ❤

-Dom

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