in the pursuit of healthy-ness, a toxic relationship with wellness

Here’s the thing 🌙

I started this account in 2013 to house all my yoga and vegan things without bombarding my friends and family. When a weird wellness trend or fitness product popped up, I tried it and would blog about it. There were MANY food pics. It was my digital journal to keep track of and share my discoveries

Then brands started noticing me and sending me products. So exciting! But I was… ✨overwhelmed✨ by this sudden obligation to talk about random products. Then they started offering me money! There was no roadmap. Then, “experts” started coming out - saying we needed to monetize, we needed to provide value ALL THE TIME (what does that even mean??), we had to have formulas, we had to have courses. Like many women, I struggle to trust myself. So I trusted the experts, even though it really, really didn’t align with what I originally set out to do.

A few months ago I started building out a membership of monthly classes, resources, and more. It was exhausting. I never could get myself to sit down and work on it. I realized…. I DIDN’T want to work on it. I didn’t want to go that route. I wanted to go back to the foundation. I don’t want to pump out products because the experts say we have do. I want to share my weird journal prompts and yoga classes and reviews and… connect. That’s why I started this.

All of this to say - I got way too in my head the last few years instead of trusting what I wanted to do - try crazy wellness trends and share my honest thoughts, have convos about diet culture, and just… be myself. So here we are. I’m not going anywhere, but I’m going to share more of what I love with you and less of the stuff we as wellness professionals “should” do. Because I am just really tired of “should-ing” on myself. 😘

(Maxi is always true to her wonderful, bitchy self. She is my inspo 🥺)