MOTIVATION + INSPIRATION
Stories, encouragement, and strength to help you dive in and dig deep
MOTIVATION + INSPIRATION
Stories, encouragement, and strength to help you dive in and dig deep
We Go High: An Election Day Survival Guide.
Apparently, election-related anxiety has become so prevalent that it's become an Actual Thing. In a new survey by the American Psychological Association (APA), over half of American adults report that the election is...
Navigating The Freeway.
This weekend, I went home to Los Angeles for the very first time since I'd moved to New York. Driving through the city in the daylight, I was immediately reminded of how MASSIVE Los Angeles is - not massive like New...
On Jealousy vs. Envy: A Primer On Wanting What You Don’t Have
We’ve known each other for over a year, WANTers. We’ve learned what it means to love fully, we’ve redefined what it takes to move forward fearlessly, I've even let you in on the lessons I've learned from a little "too...
Self Love And Smog Checks: On Not Being A 30 Under 30.
I was convinced I'd be a 30 under 30. I didn't know what I would do. I didn't know where I would be. But I knew, in my heart, I was here to make a difference. And to me, there was no better indication that you'd "made...
Breaking Out Of Self Sabotage.
5:30AM: The alarm buzzes, and you refuse to open your eyes. Everything feels heavy. Your body is stuck in the drowned-out stupor of last night’s snackfest, when you raided the pantry and dove into that box of trail mix...
The Right Track: Is It Really Your Intuition Speaking?
(Everyone's got at LEAST ONE crazy story when it comes to dating. I never liked to date...so when it comes to crazy stories, I literally have one. Just one. But I think it's pretty good 🙂 I also talked about this with...
Obsession + Adventure: On Unexplained Loss And The People Who Leave Us.
When I was little, there was a woman who would come over and help take care of me. Her name was Yvette. Yvette was short in comparison to my mother, but to me, she was just the perfect height for my death-grip hugs....
Down In The Slumps: The Simple, No-B.S. Shift For When You’re Feeling Discouraged
I make lists like it’s my job. And for a while there, it was: I’ve gone down the personal assistant route, I’ve written round-ups of everything from the best protein bars to "7 bike shorts that don't suck." My methods...
How To Listen When You Disagree: A Lesson From The Republican National Convention
It's easier to unfriend, unfollow, and tune out when we hear what we don't want to hear. In an ideal world, we tell ourselves, everyone would share our exact viewpoint. In a perfect universe, we say, we'd all think the...
Seventeen-Point-Five: The Underestimation of our Unforeseen Strength.
Another day at the gym, another chance to fit in some resistance work. It was crowded on the floor, the weight rack reminding me of the produce shelves at Trader Joe's Chelsea on Sunday evenings: picked over, plowed...
The Self-Love Turning Point: 17 Badass WANT Women On When They Started To Love Themselves (For Real)
Self-love...it can be so elusive, right? One day we're our own biggest fan, the next we're bashing ourselves for missing the mark. One minute we're flying high, the next we're buried in a pile of shoulds and doubts and...
Being Afraid Of The Friends That You Need.
"We are a group of ladies that like to group hug the shit out of each other and make it feel like home. Welcome to the lady gang :-* " I received this text the other night from a fairly new-ish friend, a rad gal I'd...
