<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[emma's thoughts]]></title><description><![CDATA[emma's thoughts]]></description><link>https://emmagbouchard14.wixsite.com/website/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:12:26 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://emmagbouchard14.wixsite.com/website/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The Parts I Don't Perform]]></title><description><![CDATA[I don’t know maybe this is the season where you learn to sit with yourself and be alone with your thoughts. To be content with the person who lives in your head, controlling everything you think, speak, and do. Don’t you want to be happy with your own shadow? Not the one you perform, not the one people applaud, but the silent one that lies beside you in bed at night. I saw something that said, “I found beauty in everyone but myself.”  It made me pause. I reflected and came to the conclusion...]]></description><link>https://emmagbouchard14.wixsite.com/website/post/the-parts-i-don-t-perform</link><guid isPermaLink="false">698a41d2c54aab42f41c8f3c</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:21:42 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>emma grace bouchard</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living in the City]]></title><description><![CDATA[Safe to say some time has gone by since I decided to pour my thoughts out onto my public blog. But I think its time to pick back up the...]]></description><link>https://emmagbouchard14.wixsite.com/website/post/living-in-the-city</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67801a19d974984101b7ccba</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2025 19:08:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d9c131_a13ed2da76264a2985e31e51e8e98e41~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>emma grace bouchard</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reminiscing ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cleaning my room today and I caught myself dusting a framed photo of my friends and I on college graduation day. I paused, picked up the...]]></description><link>https://emmagbouchard14.wixsite.com/website/post/reminiscing</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66396900e1f4815b357e4c8a</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 23:34:39 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>emma grace bouchard</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[2023 is out, 2024 is in]]></title><description><![CDATA[Well, well, well. Quite possibly one of the most transformative years of my life has come to an end. Between soaking in every second of...]]></description><link>https://emmagbouchard14.wixsite.com/website/post/2023-is-out-2024-is-in</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6593330153fc675f2f0ece88</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2024 22:18:02 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>emma grace bouchard</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear Graduates,]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is dedicated to the ones who just walked across a big stage, metaphorically, leaving behind what was left of their adolescence....]]></description><link>https://emmagbouchard14.wixsite.com/website/post/dear-graduates</link><guid isPermaLink="false">64c185c06d916d4acff81794</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Jul 2023 20:45:23 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>emma grace bouchard</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feeling Too Deeply ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Feeling things so deeply it consumes you has been such a downfall of mine since I can remember. As of 3 years ago I stopped. Not a...]]></description><link>https://emmagbouchard14.wixsite.com/website/post/feeling-too-deeply</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63f55dba40a2c77ffc0f3512</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:11:41 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>emma grace bouchard</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holidayzzz]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every year the holidays are bound to come around at some point. As happy as they make me feel, I also get filled with a somber nostalgia...]]></description><link>https://emmagbouchard14.wixsite.com/website/post/holidayzzz</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63b47981a2990377e6b3de52</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2023 18:53:52 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>emma grace bouchard</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home Friends]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is something about the way my friends from home will unknowingly show up at my house just to look through my closet that brings me...]]></description><link>https://emmagbouchard14.wixsite.com/website/post/home-friends</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63292fa218d7c1dfcff9a9a0</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2022 03:46:19 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>emma grace bouchard</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Change I Want to See---Gratitude ]]></title><description><![CDATA[A realistic change I believe we as humans can accomplish by implementing certain routines in our daily life, is being more grateful. I...]]></description><link>https://emmagbouchard14.wixsite.com/website/post/a-change-i-want-to-see-gratitude</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6238d797d456786e9ba29973</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2022 20:06:11 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>emma grace bouchard</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grief is whack]]></title><description><![CDATA[Grief is so weird. Once it had become common knowledge my grandpa was nearing the end of his life, I had tried to picture in my head how...]]></description><link>https://emmagbouchard14.wixsite.com/website/post/grief-is-whack</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6228111013d04904756aa618</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2022 02:30:57 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>emma grace bouchard</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where You Put Your Energy MATTERS]]></title><description><![CDATA[“Let’s focus on making our lives better instead of making other people's lives worse.” -Shannon Fairweather The quote above made me...]]></description><link>https://emmagbouchard14.wixsite.com/website/post/where-you-put-your-energy-matters</link><guid isPermaLink="false">620170e81631fe97ebd04da0</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2022 19:20:12 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>emma grace bouchard</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Thing, Bad Thing, Who Knows]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Thing Bad Thing, Who Knows? By:Emma Bouchard Analogies are one of the best ways to gain perspective. It can shift your mindset...]]></description><link>https://emmagbouchard14.wixsite.com/website/post/good-thing-bad-thing-who-knows</link><guid isPermaLink="false">61dc7fe78fcd4500161ee549</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2022 18:50:18 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>emma grace bouchard</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 3 Components to Happiness]]></title><description><![CDATA[Have you ever heard something either in a song, movie, or book that totally changed your perspective on life? In my case it was something...]]></description><link>https://emmagbouchard14.wixsite.com/website/post/the-3-components-to-happiness</link><guid isPermaLink="false">61a4ef9abbb75d00166d3173</guid><pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:20:17 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>emma grace bouchard</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA["MEN WILL BE MEN" PART TWO]]></title><description><![CDATA[TW: SEXUAL HARASSMENT &#38; THREATS PART 2 If you have not already read part 1 of “MEN WILL BE MEN”, this story might not make a whole lot of...]]></description><link>https://emmagbouchard14.wixsite.com/website/post/men-will-be-men-part-2</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6197dd3fdcfe3200176cf4e2</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2021 17:22:55 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>emma grace bouchard</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA["MEN WILL BE MEN" PART ONE]]></title><description><![CDATA[I've been giving this topic much thought, all the way back since early July when I was put in the shoes of a young lady who had been...]]></description><link>https://emmagbouchard14.wixsite.com/website/post/men-will-be-men-part-one</link><guid isPermaLink="false">618a048999ac6800161abdd7</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2021 05:19:46 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>emma grace bouchard</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn From The Night Sky]]></title><description><![CDATA[If we think the sky at night is beautiful, why are we scared to show who we really are/be honest? That question may not make sense just...]]></description><link>https://emmagbouchard14.wixsite.com/website/post/learn-from-the-night-sky</link><guid isPermaLink="false">606b650bae306700159b103a</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2021 19:30:03 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>emma grace bouchard</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Truth/Empowering Women]]></title><description><![CDATA[As I sit here, my thoughts slowly turn into a spiral of anxiety. The power of our brain processing things we have been through, is almost...]]></description><link>https://emmagbouchard14.wixsite.com/website/post/my-truth-empowering-women</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6047feedcc45470015a17e93</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2021 23:06:44 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>emma grace bouchard</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>