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I lived in a tent in the jungle for 3 months

By: Kim Acer I am lying wide awake, unable to sleep. It is the eve of the fourth consecutive Nor’easter that is expected to pummel the east coast in less than three weeks. The power is out across town but luckily we have a generator rumbling that heats most of the house. It’s loud hum penetrates the eerie silence of my neighborhood. Earlier that day, I visited the ocean. Her waves were fierce and wild, relentlessly pounding the shore. Homes…

Living In My Parent’s Basement

photo: James Perilli @lostnights_photography How I Got My Shit Together While Living at Home + Why It's Okay to Be Exactly Where You Are. Senior year of college, I experienced an inner transformation that led me on an adventure of leaving everything familiar behind. My new city (Asheville, NC) allowed me to intentionally create myself without having the baggage of who I had been. I felt a sense of freedom unlike anything I’d experienced. And I thought that in order to…

Unlearning Sex

It’s my freshman year of college around 4am. I’m sitting on the concrete floor of my dorm room in a drunken haze devouring pizza with someone I met at a Halloween party, Andrew. I dressed as a sexy nerd. He dressed as a giant banana. My “sexy” costume consisted of two push-up bras, jean shorts four sizes too small, orange goo (tanner) on my face, thick eyeliner, and poisoning myself with cheap vodka. Andrew interrupts my pizza love-making. He grabs…

A Year Logged Off.

I deleted all of my social media and started meditating everyday for a year .....pretty much everything changed For years I struggled with having an online presence. It felt inauthentic. I portrayed only the happy side of myself. And it felt like I was in a happiness competition with others. My worth was measured by how many likes I got on a post or a photo. I spent an unhealthy amount of time stalking other profiles and comparing myself. First…