How I became dessert curious (and I’m not mad about it) — Cutting alcohol out of my life was surprisingly easy. It started with a 30-day Dry June challenge, followed by a public declaration of identifying as sober curious. In this article on VeryWellMind, Sara Sheppard says being sober curious is the option to choose, question, or change your drinking habits for…

How I realized my relationship with food was f’d up. — Sometimes I fantasize about peanut butter. There, I finally got that off my chest. I’ve been too ashamed to talk about my bizarre food cravings — like my longing for peanut butter — until now. …

Camping is the perfect metaphor of a minimalist lifestyle. — When my boyfriend told me we had to empty the “black water” tank from our camper before leaving the campground, all I could picture was Randy Quaid standing in a bathrobe exclaiming, “The shitter was full!” Conversations about the differences between “gray water” and “black water” (otherwise known as the…

Eight months ago, a fortune-teller told me my spirit guides sent me a message. — “June. Baby. June baby. Your spirit guides keep telling me, June, baby!” The spiritual Medium I had hired for my house warming party to celebrate the beginning of my life 2.0 held my hands in hers and shared the last thing I’d ever want to hear. It was October 2021…

Mindfulness is the fourth sport. — As my legs cramped with fatigue and dehydration, running uphill on a hot and humid spring morning, all I could think was, “I’m going to finish this fucking thing,” and believe it or not, over the last six months, I don’t know if I’ve thought a happier thought. The steep…

Going up was easier than coming down. — My heart is in my throat. Reality is sinking in — and I haven’t been this scared in a very long time. …

Letting go is peaceful AF. — “I don’t feel right, I need to lay down.” Even as I uttered these words, I knew what was wrong. I was slipping into energy-draining tendencies. My old demons were creeping back in. I had been awake since the wee hours of dawn. My mind stuck in a perpetual hamster…

Your crisis is nobody else’s crisis. — Five months ago, I was losing my shit at a pumpkin patch. I had two school-aged kids, one naughty AF puppy, and a wheelbarrow full of semi-grotesque and heavy pumpkins. …

#3 I’m bringing sexy back to carbs and my digestive system is thanking me. — Somedays, I don’t know what the fuck I got myself into…but once I put something out into the Universe, I’ll be damned if I don’t follow through. What started as a New Year’s resolution has quickly become an obsession. I started training for a sprint distance triathlon the first week…