A Candid Look at What My Friend’s Death Has Taught me About How to Live
I sit here on a beautiful white chaise lounge in a natural lit living room with the Florida sun cascading through the windows. It is May 23rd. Today would have been my friend, Anna’s, 49th birthday. Instead of celebrating with her tonight, we celebrate the life she once lived, hoping that she is somehow here […]
3 Ways to Get Everything You Want This Mother’s Day!
Since becoming a mother almost a year and a half ago, Mother’s Day has taken on an entirely new meaning for me. Now it’s no longer just about making sure I get a card to my mother on time (she lives in Montreal) and calling her to wish her well (and to thank her for […]
Did you know I wrote a book? It’s called A 14 Day Nutrition Reset. And guess what: I wrote three more. Find out how you can help make sure I publish them!
A few years ago, Ted (my husband) went off to teach some pro cyclists how to do yoga at their training camp in Spain (aka his idea of Disneyland), and I stayed home with one goal: To write and publish my first cookbook before he got back (aka my idea of Disneyland). It was a […]
What you need to know about depression (and how I responded when I got a text saying, “I’m Kinda Losing it Today”)
Do you ever have those mornings where – for no explicable reason – you wake up at some ungodly hour, and no matter how hard you try, you can’t get back to sleep? That was me yesterday at 4am. After mediating a fight between the voices in my head (one said, “Get up! You have […]
My Not-So-Minimalist Life: A Spring Cleaner’s Guide to Tidying Up
Quick – go to your bedroom closet and tell me: organized or chaos? Or is it organized chaos? You may be a neat organizer freak, but even the best organizers sometimes fill their space with too much crap. Inspired by my amazing friend and wonder of the world, Scott Fifer (it’s true. He knows all. […]
Dear yoga: A cheat sheet for getting present, letting go & shaking up your habits
“How do you feel, dude?” my husband, Ted, asked curiously as he passed by me in his yoga class, trying my hardest to do a warrior one pose. “Like I never left,” I replied without skipping a beat. And I meant it. The last time I stepped onto a mat in that studio was February […]
Facebook Truth: The Great Social Media Hoax (and my dirty little secret)
Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Yes! … Of course! … Well, sort of… … Mostly… … A little bit…. … Does a half truth count? Because if so, then YES! Wholeheartedly. That’s the thing about the photos we post on social media. They are the […]
A Case for Uniting the United States of America
I’ve had a really hard time writing posts these last few months. It feels like every time I sit down to write something, nothing seems to come out. And when something does comes out, I feel like it completely ignores the scope of the political landscape we are experiencing right now. I’ve written three posts […]
This is One: An Unedited Account of What Becoming A Mother Taught me About Life
Photo credit: Eva Marie Pursley This past Sunday, February 19th, I celebrated a very important birthday. No, it’s not the day I was born (that was June 5th about a million years ago, so mark your calendars. I like peonies. And pretty things.). It’s not the day I gave up chocolate (ha, ya right, like […]
3 ways to master your to-do list (even when you’re feeling crippled by it)
Some days I feel like there is so much to do and not enough time in which to do it. But I’m excited about the list of things in front of me, and I can’t wait to get started. Other days, I feel completely unmotivated to the point that I begin to question the validity […]
