07/09/2024
Hey again! It has been quite some time, and I’d like to take a moment to reintroduce myself. My name is Arianna. Photography has been a love of mine since I was in middle school (ages ago), in 2016 I started dabbling in wedding photography, and over the years I began to do photography as a career while also going to school for social work.
As you’ve probably noticed, I haven’t been active on here since 2022. My physical health declined in 2021 with a severe Crohn’s flare up, alongside that, my depression got worse and so did the feeling of burn out.. but I wasn’t in a place to really acknowledge that I needed help and that it was becoming a problem. 2022 and the first half of 2023 were incredibly hard years for me, (TW: mental health/su***de). I spiraled to a place I wouldn’t wish upon anyone and was hospitalized twice for su***de attempts. I was not a good partner, a good friend or good business owner as I could barely get up each day to survive. I tried my best and I know I definitely made a lot of mistakes in my survival mode that I wish I could go back and change. In 2023 I made the decision to move to Utah for a fresh start and to have the support I needed. I began an intensive therapy program and received a plethora of mental health diagnoses - for the first time in my life I felt like I had some answers and could truly start healing past traumas.
2023 is a blur to me as I was still mostly in survival mode, I lost a lot along the way, photography/my career being one of them. In May of this year I graduated from the therapy program I was in, I started working back in the social work world at a job I absolutely love and I’ve come a long way from the absolute rock bottom I got myself into.
There was a long period of time I never thought I’d make it to this moment in 2024, but I did; and I am so grateful and so happy to be here, to start back up doing the things I love and to find myself again.
Why share these things? It’s embarrassing. Here’s the thing.. you truly never know what other people are going through. You are not alone, life is hard, and it can be so damn hard at times. Please know things do get better. So hi again, it’s nice to be here 💛❤️🩹
