From Exhaustion to Insight: Lessons Learned from Life in Slow Motion The Beginning of it all…It’s been eight years since my life changed. I was twenty-three years old, I had graduated from college just a year prior and had taken a gap year to work as a teacher in Thailand. After seven amazing months ofContinue reading “Gifts from a Chronic Illness”
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Stagnancy or Stillness?
The Space Between Doing & Being– Reflections From an Unemployed Girl & a Summer with an Empty Calendar Time. We base so much of our lives around it, these numbers on the clock that tell us what we need to be doing and when. When we’re busy, there’s never “enough of it,” and then onceContinue reading “Stagnancy or Stillness?”
Fear
[12.29.20] Point Reyes, CA Diving head first into the unknownStraight into the abyssIt’s always been enticing to meYet simultaneously absolutely terrifyingBut I think that’s kinda the point, right? I remember the things I used to think aboutThings I would associate with the word “fear”Things like skydiving, rollercoaster drives, cliff jumpingBut maybe it’s not about theContinue reading “Fear”
Learning to Stay with my Anxiety
It’s been getting easier… to let myself feel fully, to let myself be happy without fear. Sometimes I almost even forget it’s there. There’s moments where I’m just fully here, without worry or doubt about what I’m supposed to be doing or how I’m doing it or whether what I’m doing is right. Some daysContinue reading “Learning to Stay with my Anxiety”
Reminders during a Crisis
It’s easy to get caught up in our ways and get comfortable with our daily routine. Naturally we get used to having a schedule and so we start to expect things to run a certain way in our lives. We get lost in the ideas and expectations we have for how our lives are supposedContinue reading “Reminders during a Crisis”
In the In-Between
Recently, on a flight to visit home, I started thinking about what it means to be a traveler. Ever since my first travel experience about five years ago, my life has entirely changed direction – literally. It became apparent to me just how routine traveling or at least going from place to place had becomeContinue reading “In the In-Between”
Roadblocks and Reminders
It seems that the moment we find ourselves in the place we think we want to be, something gets in our way. No matter how good things seem, no matter how straight the road seems to be going, there’s always more roadblocks and things coming along our path to “mess it up”. The truth isContinue reading “Roadblocks and Reminders”
Nobody Gives A Shit
We’re always thinking about what everyone else is thinking. We’re constantly comparing and criticizing and finding ways to bring ourselves down. I know I’ve spent way too much time in my life feeling inadequate, unworthy, or simply not good enough. I’ve spent way too much time obsessing over my imperfections and comparing myself to others. Continue reading “Nobody Gives A Shit”
Blissful Loneliness
[10.29.19] Santa Cruz, CA Suddenly I felt this tangible sense of loneliness. Only I kind of like that kind of loneliness. There’s a little bit of sadness in it but it’s so real. I looked at the sky and the ocean waves breaking beneath a slight pink light behind an empty boardwalk and IContinue reading “Blissful Loneliness”
It’s Okay to Let Ourselves Be Happy
Is anyone really happy? What does genuine happiness even look like? It gets hard to tell in a world full of standards and ideals, full of people constantly trying to one-up one another or get the next best thing. One of the most seemingly simple yet surprisingly challenging realizations that I’ve made recently is thatContinue reading “It’s Okay to Let Ourselves Be Happy”
Making Mindful 