Reading Time: 3 minutes Whenever I think of my abuelita, I think of her soft healing hands. Her whispers to the plants like she was sharing secrets with them. Her knowledge and cure to everything from a stomach ache to a heartache. My relationship with our plant relatives started early. And as much as I wish I could say […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes     My shoes clung to the floor as I walked through the bar. Every day I would come here, blaming it on the 2–4–1 happy hour and a sweet deal on tacos. But in reality, it was a way to escape. To numb and forget. I’d seen it before in my family, using alcohol […]

Reading Time: 11 minutes These past few months I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about births and periods. Not because my “clock is ticking” — but because of how similar it is to how we heal. Have you ever thought about that? How the way we heal from trauma and stress-related illnesses (both physical and emotional), actually even […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes   I remember being a teenager first learning how to drive. So nervous and scared to even breathe or blink. My eyes locked on a small section of the road right in front of the car. Hands gripping onto the steering wheel so tight that my knuckles were turning white.   “Pay attention to what’s […]

Reading Time: 7 minutes The most common questions I get from people is either; how to feel happy or why nothing is working. Or both.   Why is that? Why is it that so many people are unable to feel happy and every morning have to slowly drag themselves out of bed? That walk to the bathroom is with […]

Reading Time: 8 minutes   Truth is, I don’t like feeling uncertain about anything; but then again, who does? That’s why living in uncertain times is so damn scary.   As humans, we love certainty because it makes us feel like we’re in control. Control is like a warm fuzzy safety blanket for us. And it doesn’t make you […]

Reading Time: 8 minutes   Okay, before we get started, is a zero waste kitchen even… possible? Technically, as long as we are living and breathing, we can’t really produce zero waste. We will always in some way or another, waste *something.* The key is effort. The effort we put in to create less waste, or minimal waste if […]

Reading Time: 6 minutes Do you ever think about how our modern day conveniences could actually be making our lives more complicated?   I know that’s something that runs through my mind every time I’m out in nature. It’s like we are so intelligent that in some weird way it has backfired and made us self-sabotage ourselves.   Isn’t […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes I think confidence is one of the sexiest and more powerful qualities in a person. This is coming from me, the girl who was always referred to as “shy and soft-spoken.” The girl who never wanted to speak in front of the class and who would rather dig herself into a hole than to be […]