Words & thoughts & stuff.
Jai Dee | fight & live with a good heart
by Jillian Bosserdet
2y ago
I feel like I used to write a lot more. Not just publicly, but also personally. Journaling, random expression of life through words used to be a daily thing for me. Lately, sitting down and getting out what’s rattling around in my head seems less like therapy and more like adding to the bullshit already circulating in the universe. It must have started with the social media explosion, everything we do broadcasted for all to see, and then came this soapbox phenomena. All of a sudden, our tiny sphere of influence just got a lot bigger and a lot smaller at the same time.  We can scroll throu ..read more
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Asking a fighter why they fight is like asking a p...
Jai Dee | fight & live with a good heart
by Jillian Bosserdet
2y ago
Asking a fighter why they fight is like asking a painter why they paint or a dancer why they dance. It’s like asking you why you breathe. Fighting is like living a thousand lives, reincarnation within this one life. The person that emerges after a fight is not the same as the one that entered the ring – win or lose. Your soul is cleansed in a way, a version of yourself left there on the canvas as you move through the ropes and down the stairs to begin anew ..read more
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Still Fighting
Jai Dee | fight & live with a good heart
by Jillian Bosserdet
2y ago
2020, what have you done. Up is down, down is up. The tension in the air is palatable. The fuses are short. It’s silly to ignore or worse, deny it. So, why not just go with it chaos.  Use what you are given, treat it like fuel. Let it motivate you instead of consume you. Find peace within the chaos.  It’s fight day every day, right now. And not in the sense that you should be out there fighting everyone you meet. It’s the hard work to get to the hard work. Anyone who has ever fought knows the feelings well. You put in all this effort and training and work yourself into the ground, to ..read more
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If life were to live through you,
Jai Dee | fight & live with a good heart
by Jillian Bosserdet
2y ago
what would you want it to experience? Stay with me on this one. Take yourself out of the equation, calm your ego and tell your doubt to relax. If life was a being, a physical manifestation, what would you want it to see, feel, touch, taste? I feel a lot of fear in the world right now. Fear of the unknown, worry about the future, anxiety about the past. Fear can be good. It’s healthy to have a little dose of fear in our lives, but when it becomes domineering and shakes us to our core, that’s when hate seeps it’s way in, when anger and ugliness take hold, sadness lingers longer than we can learn ..read more
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Took a pandemic to get me to write & share again
Jai Dee | fight & live with a good heart
by Jillian Bosserdet
2y ago
I used to write all the time. Especially after fights. Just pour whatever was in my soul out on to paper or a keyboard. And I shared some of it, not to be boastful or to try to gain followers or anything other to put it out into the world – to get thoughts and feelings and ideas that I had out of my physical being and out from just my eyes reading to someplace bigger than me. In a way it’s therapeutic, like releasing things we hold on to so tightly out into the wild – letting them run free to take whatever path they’re meant to, connect to who ever they’re supposed to. It’s something a little ..read more
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Fight 17
Jai Dee | fight & live with a good heart
by Jillian Bosserdet
2y ago
I’ve opened emails and sipped coffee, starred at this page, doodled, walked around, and came back to stare. I can feel my heart racing as I type, physically aching, and then it subsides and I’m filled an indescribable feeling that can only be semi understood as gratitude. My hand wasn’t raised, but this fight saved me. I’ve been struggling. Struggling to understand my place, what I’m supposed to be doing, what I should be doing. So, I poured all of that uncertainty into things I can semi control- my training and my nutrition, to the point of insanity. I was strict and when things wavered, sch ..read more
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Life isn’t a given.
Jai Dee | fight & live with a good heart
by Jillian Bosserdet
2y ago
I started talking with my mom today about being a millennial and being surrounded by a generation of this gotta have it now attitude, this I deserve this, the participation award. The more I talked, the more I realized it’s not just a generational thing, it’s an age – we are in the age of the participation award, from 8 – 58, we feel like we are owed something, we hunger for validation, we thrive on the external. Our internal connection has fallen wayward. We work hard, yes, but we expect a prize at the end and if we don’t get one, there’s something wrong or something we need to fix, or screw ..read more
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I am something more.
Jai Dee | fight & live with a good heart
by Jillian Bosserdet
2y ago
I am not the body. I am not even the mind. A mantra given during yoga class with Rachel Miller at the Body Electric Yoga Company. Simple. I am not the body. I am not even the mind. I am something more. Photo by Jenna Corey @shutterandcycle   It clicked with me. I found myself reciting it in my head during training, on a run, driving. Whenever I felt out of control, or like I couldn’t possibly continue doing whatever I was doing, these words found their way into my thoughts. And you know what, it gave me my control, the push, I needed to continue.   You’re probably sitting there think ..read more
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Chaos
Jai Dee | fight & live with a good heart
by Jillian Bosserdet
2y ago
  I’ve been running from chaos my entire life. Now, some might disagree after seeing the state of my house at times, but in the grand scheme of things, the big life picture… I like things to be orderly, have a reason, have a time and place, I like control. I’ve never embraced the natural rhythm of life, the chaos that life essentially is. I’ve flitted from thing to thing, trying to find my purpose, trying to fit into the box of what I think life should be, how it should go. I’ve been driven by this idea that I need to be innately good at something and then perfect it in order to share wha ..read more
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Top 5 Ways to Stick to Your New Years Resolution
Jai Dee | fight & live with a good heart
by Jillian Bosserdet
2y ago
Don’t. , 3. , 4. , & 5. Just stop. It’s one week into the New Year. Did you make goals and plans and big dreams and schedules and all the things that come with that new year, new me attitude? It’s been one week. Have you stuck to them? Are you currently beating yourself up because 1. No, you haven’t or 2. you couldn’t even begin to make some last week, but you really want to, so you keep banging your head against the wall trying to think of something you can force yourself to do better. (If you’re #3 and your rocking it out with your goals and such. Keep that shit to yourself. KIDDING. G ..read more
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