Category: wellness
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French wellness tips I swear by (and some bad habits I don’t)
The French wellness tips I swear by: Eat your meals away from screens. (I swear as I scarf a blueberry orange muffin while typing up this blog). Literally nothing is more compelling than a French woman writing or reading on a cafe terrace or tucked into a cozy booth on a rainy day. Meals, particularly…
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Tips on how to build a meditation practice
I’ve meditated, on average, 10 minutes every day for the last six years. That’s just about 16,500 minutes. Meditation is the way I ground myself at the top of my morning, every day. Meditation focuses my mind, allows me to come back into my body after sleep, and prepares me for the unpredictable, the chaos…
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What to read before a trip to Paris: My favorite Paris books
If you know me, you know I love Paris. I have been countless times, studied abroad there in college, and speak French! In my efforts to read 100 books this year, I have been delving deep into books about and set in Paris. These are just a few of my favorite books about or set…
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Tahini pistachio chocolate chip cookie bars
These gooey pistachio bars are the perfect balance of nutty (from the tahini), sweet (from the dark brown sugar and chocolate chips), and salty (from the salted pistachios). These take all of five minutes to whip up and are the perfect summer treat when friends stop by for an afternoon hangout. Ingredients: Directions: Position a…
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The best, creamy roasted red pepper vegan pasta
Serves: 2-4 Ingredients The sauce The greens: Mix-ins: Steps The Pasta: Add water – and enough salt to make the water taste like the ocean – to a large saucepan. Bring the water to the boil and add half a box of uncooked pasta. Cook until the pasta is al dente (has a slight bite…
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Who’s a good fit for my yoga retreats?
The people who come on yoga retreats with me are diverse in background, identity, interests, and life experience. What they share in common is a spirit of open mindedness to the new: new experiences, new foods, new cultures, new languages, new people. The kind of people who join my retreats are The people who join…
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Why (most of) my retreats are all-women
My retreats (with the exception of my Morocco 2026 retreat) are all women because, as women, we deserve to have a space all our own. We deserve silence. We deserve rest, quiet, and restoration. We deserve to not have to explain ourselves. We deserve a break. We deserve to be surrounded by other women who…
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82 questions to ask other than “what do you do for work?”
The room is crowded. You lean in to hear your new friend over the din of a hundred other people jockeying for attention, leads, prospects, new converts. “So what do you do for work?” she yells. You suppress an eye roll. I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of this question. We have so…
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The 9-5 is dead
For months I have been on edge, stressed by the sheer amount of work that had to be done around our wedding (evidenced by the fact that my last post was in April). When I know writing, like yoga and meditation, calms me, why do I deprioritize it? The hour per day I historically have…
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How to start meditating: From 0 to 10,000 minutes of meditation.
Over the last four years, I’ve meditated for a total of 10,000 minutes. Let me break down for you exactly how I went from 0 minutes of meditation to 10,000, how I created a daily meditation practice for myself that has been life changing for me, and how you can too. 10,000 minutes breaks down…
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The best, healthy granola
This is my go-to granola. I make this simple, easy recipe every couple of weeks and eat it for breakfast every day. Mix it with nut butter to top your morning yogurt, grab a handful when you need a snack, or simply add almond milk for a quick breakfast! Ingredients Steps: Preheat your oven to…
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How to get back into yoga after COVID
COVID’s 4th Anniversary… Four years. A lifetime. The gaping chasm between what was and what is. My brain scrambles to remember, recollect, collect, conform, organize, to make it all make sense, stuff it all into a box somewhere and make it all go away. Simultaneously. To not just move on but move on as if…