I wake up, brush my toes against the rough carpet, and grab my pink fuzzy robe off the hook. I walk to the sink, look at my eyes in the mirror, puffy with sleep, and wash my face with an exfoliating scrub. I go downstairs, and step outside, taking a big gulp of fresh air wet with rain from the ...
Nobody hates the term “influencer” more than I do, and my relationship with Instagram is pretty love-hate. I go from periods of posting aesthetically perfect travel photos daily to not posting for months at a time, feeling bored and indifferent to identical posts with the Eiffel ...
When you ask someone what their greatest fear is, the responses usually range from the seemingly silly, like clowns, to the fairly common, like drowning. Some of our fears go even deeper . In 2018, Chapman University asked 1, 190 adults from the United States about their level of fear about ...
In 2006, Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir Eat, Pray, Love was published and in 2010 the movie adaptation came out, starring Julia Roberts. The film and Gilbert’s story became a worldwide phenomena and suddenly women were leaving behind their lives to re-trace her footsteps. Almost a ...
Do you want love? Do you want the kind of love that can move mountains, and change the world? What I’m learning is that you can give that love to yourself. Some say that people who are “desperate” for love are missing something within themselves and they are looking for ...
At the beginning of 2019 I was going through an extremely tough first trimester of pregnancy. I was throwing up multiple times a day, nauseous 24/7 and the only thing I ate for 4 months was white rice and fruit popsicles. I had once heard about something called a “mukbang.” A ...
Turning 30 can be a very scary prospect in your 20s. As 30 appeared on the horizon, I went from not caring at all about it to a panicked cliché I really thought I was going to avoid. That fear was backed up by the fact I was single, renting and not in my dream job (or even sure what that was). ...
We rush through the holidays, looking forward to a new year, forgetting how much time we still have left. It’s easy to coast along through the last part of the year with one’s eye on the prize; the prize being a fresh start. It can feel as if this year is already lost and it would ...
With the prevalence of social media, the internet has blessed us with new meanings for words like tea, shook, salty and woke. Webster’s dictionary even added the word “screen time” in 2019, balancing it out with the word “unplug” of course, also a recent addition. ...
We can debate whether mental toughness is a developed characteristic or based in genetics, but it’s something we all need a jolt of from time to time. As intelligent beings we crave closeness, and our moods – positive or negative – can have a significant impact on our lives and those around us. ...
