I’ve been working for the past month and a half for an Italian non-governamental organization which provides relief to Syrian refugees by organizing educational programs for children and awareness sessions on diverse topics and for their families displaced in Jordan since the Syrian war broke ...
I know what you’re thinking. Why waste a sick day unless you’re dying of the flu, potentially perishing from pneumonia and suffering to the point of death? Why bother? It might seem counterproductive… but your brain is a part of your body too. Sick days have a bad rap, and ...
Sometime last year, my husband and I came to the realization that our desk jobs in Washington, DC, weren’t speaking to our souls in the way we’d always dreamed they would. Maybe it’s because we’re millennials or maybe we’re just romantics at heart, but we both craved day-to-day lives that ...
Having recently finished my Masters degree I’ve been thrown head first into a world of confusion — one that’s 100% my own making may I add. What do I want to do with my life? Do I want to stick with what I studied? What do I really want out of a career? These are just a few of the ...
I recently read an article in The Atlantic by James Hamblin that commented on Hillary Rodham Clinton’s practice of alternate-nostril breathing (nadi shodhana in Sanskrit). I was struck by the author’s obvious dismissiveness of this practice and HRC’s commitment to devoting ...
I was laid off this week. For all of you that have ever been there, I so feel you. As a teacher, I’ve been laid off countless times before, but this one was unexpected. So, what do you do when you find yourself unexpectedly unemployed? One of my friends told me I was funemployed (fun + ...
Our productivity is a hot topic these days, but can we take a minute and stop telling ourselves what we MUST do and instead remember what we need to NOT do? That sentence was a mouthful, but the argument stands: sometimes it’s more important that we make a mental “do NOT do” ...
Right now, I am 22 years old. About a year ago I finished a degree in translation, but I felt like I wanted to do something more. I just couldn’t see myself as a translator for the rest of my life, but I also didn’t really know what else I wanted to do. (Sound familiar?) And then, ...
Ah, the good ‘ol “Fake it ‘till you make it” advice. I’m sure you’ve heard that one before. “Don’t worry”, they say. “We’re all just pretending.” Um okay. Can we cut the bullsh*t for a second? I never really understood what it meant when people told me, “fake it till you make it”, until I found ...
Navigating the financials of teaching yoga is hard. Figuring out how to make a career out of yoga is even harder. When I finished my yoga teacher training and set out into the world, I had no dreams of leaving everything behind to teach yoga full-time, but even then I had so many questions. And ...
