March 29, 2021 was the day I decided to change my relationship with alcohol. A friend of mine posted a non-alcoholic tequila (Ritual Zero Proof) on her Instagram page and I was instantly intrigued. I had never heard of non-alcoholic spirits before. What started as sheer product curiosity turned into a 30-day experiment to take a break from alcohol. I’d been a heavy…
No point in burying the lead: 2020 was a catastrophically bad year for me. Absolutely horrible. I did not get sick, nor did any of my family members. No one died or lost their jobs. There was no immediate financial wreckage. So why was something that by all accounts did not affect me on the surface fuck me up so deeply? What I came…
Very few people actually knew about this, but I had a plan. A grand plan I was dreaming of and preparing for the past several years. This upcoming January 2021 I was going to quit my corporate job to volunteer and travel abroad for 6-9 months, possibly longer depending how things went. I had already found the organization I was going to volunteer through and had designed a tentative…
Hello friends! Turning 30 felt like the perfect time to re-launch Muscles and Meditations. When I started this blog a few years ago, I was fresh off some major life events and transformations. I was so focused on my physical health journey that it’s really all I wanted to share with you all. The highs and lows fueled me. It was intense. But as I neared 30…
Your girl SKYDIVED. It feels weird even typing that. Skydiving is something I have wanted to do for a long time now. Yes, it’s inherently terrifying but it’s been high on the proverbial bucket list for me. Recently turning 30 didn’t feel like a mid-life crisis to me so much as it just fueled the fire under some of…