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?”
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”
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”
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”
Find YOUR Path
That’s always the struggle, right? Trying to figure out what we’re doing, where we’re going, what we want out of life. Maybe we don’t know what we want. Or maybe we do, but we don’t know how we’re going to get there, or that goal just seems so far out of reach. Maybe we’re startingContinue reading “Find YOUR Path”
4 Simple Yet Powerful Ways of Overcoming Fear
One of the biggest mental challenges for so many of us is facing our fears. Whatever it is that scare us the most, most all our fears stem from two categories — the fear of uncertainty and the fear of inadequacy. We’re afraid of the unknown and we’re afraid of failure. Ultimately we realize thatContinue reading “4 Simple Yet Powerful Ways of Overcoming Fear”
Serenity
[08.15.18] Cazadero, CA I’m sitting on a mountain of evergreen and redwood forests overlooking these magnificent trees and the ocean beyond them. You can hear everything out here – the sounds of the wind blowing against the trees, every slight movement of animals amongst the dry meadow, and occasionally the slightest hint of humanity –Continue reading “Serenity”
Making Mindful 