WELLNESS + LIFE

I don't talk about this part very often, but today it feels important. Sometimes I'm scared that the things that happened to me long before this chapter of my life are going to cost me something good in this one. Trauma is strange like that. You can know you're safe and still brace yourself. You can know you're loved and still wonder when that love is going to disappear. You can recognize that the person standing in front of you didn't cause the wounds you're carrying and sti

Being abandoned by someone she trusted with her whole heart and realizing that sometimes the person she thought was safe… wasn’t. Finding out she was lied to by someone who was really good at pretending to be someone they weren’t. Lying next to someone she once planned forever with and realizing the marriage is already over, even though neither of them has physically left yet. Learning just how lonely a relationship can be when she has to beg for the love, affection, and effo

There is so much information available about how to be healthy that sometimes I think we've managed to make wellness incredibly unhealthy. We track our steps, calories, protein, water, sleep and heart rate. We worry about ingredients, supplements, hormones, cortisol and whether we're exercising enough. We hear that we should wake up earlier, get morning sunlight, walk after meals, lift weights, stretch, meditate, meal prep and somehow still get eight hours of sleep every nigh

You've probably heard people talking about “resetting” your vagus nerve but what in the world does that even mean? Your vagus nerve is basically one of the ways your brain and body communicate. It plays a part in things like your heart rate, breathing and digestion, and it helps your body shift out of that stressed, on-edge feeling and into a calmer state. Think about those moments when you can actually feel stress in your body: Your shoulders are up to your ears. Your jaw is

Some seasons of wellness have absolutely nothing to do with losing weight. Sometimes wellness looks like learning to say no without writing a five-paragraph explanation afterward. Sometimes it’s realizing you don’t have to answer every text immediately. Sometimes it’s going to bed instead of pushing through one more thing. Sometimes it’s walking away from an argument you could absolutely win. Sometimes it’s admitting that something you used to tolerate doesn’t belong in your