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?”
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”
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 Reasons Why You Should Do More Things Alone
As an introvert, I’ve always cherished my alone time so I never quite understood the desire to be out and about with people all the time. Quite honestly, I love having that time to myself and I feel most energized when I’m immersed in something artistic or just exploring new places. Of course, I alsoContinue reading “4 Reasons Why You Should Do More Things Alone”
Finding Strength in the Darkness
Life isn’t just the pictures we see on Facebook, and the happy faces we put on in our daily lives. All we see are the smiling faces and all of the fun things everyone’s doing and the cool places we’re going. That’s all we want to show the world. We only want to show eachContinue reading “Finding Strength in the Darkness”
Slow Down. Stop. Take a Break…
It sounds simple, but it’s so easy to forget. In this fast paced world we live in, people seem to forget to slow down. They forget to stop when they need to stop. We’re so used to moving, going, doing, constantly on the run to get something done. We need to remind ourselves it’s okayContinue reading “Slow Down. Stop. Take a Break…”
5 Ways that Meditation Changed My Mindset
Learning to practice meditation has changed my life in immeasurable ways. Even when I am not meditating, I have learned to hold a different mindset: a mindset of awareness and openness in everything. I am always mindful (or reminding myself to be mindful). I am aware of my existence and the existence of every otherContinue reading “5 Ways that Meditation Changed My Mindset”
Making Mindful 