Essentials for an amazing life

Hi lovebug,

Last time I started talking about all the pressure and angst that I experienced as a young person in finding my path. If you haven’t read part one, you can do that here.

Now onto part tw...

Hi lovebug, 

When I was fifteen years old, I remember sitting in the kitchen with my mom, crying.

Not just crying.

Teenager crying.

You know... It's that delightful combination of sadness plus ang...

Hey lovebug,

You know how all those spiritual teachers online (me included, lol) are always telling you to surrender?

UGGGGHHHHH.

Don’t you just want to tell them to SHUT UP already?

_*laughing*

N...

Hey lovebug,

I was talking with a friend of mine a few months ago.

This guy is a super achiever. 

He’s got a great job with a beautiful home in a great city. He’s traveled all over the world. He’s ...

Have I told you that I live in a gated community?

I do.

It’s something I never thought I’d say since I love neighborhoods with big trees that run parallel to city streets—the kind of street with a l...

I’m not going to talk about how overwhelming the world is right now because, um, hello.

It’s bananas.

B-A-N-A-N-A-S.

I swear. My brain does this EVERY TIME without fail.

(No idea what I’m talking ...

I was talking to a dear friend of mine a few weeks ago.

She said, “Hey… do you have anything to help with eco anxiety?”

Why yes. Yes I do.

Just a reminder/disclaimer, before we get into this: I’m n...

Today we’re going to talk about shaking yourself out of your hum-drum-numbness.

I feel like since I started writing these weekly posts back in January of 2020 it’s been one damn thing after another.

A couple of weekend’s ago I went to a wedding.

Being my boyfriend’s plus one meant that I knew exactly one person going in—him.

Although he is a VERY fun person to do anything with, he had friends a...

A couple of years ago, I was on a flight from the east coast back to Portland where I live.

We were nearing landing, but we were in that time where you have to put all of your electronics away and ju...

I don’t know when authenticity became such a easily tossed around buzzword, but somewhere in the 8,000 blog posts, articles and books on self help I’ve read, I feel like it lost its oomph for me.

Aut...

Have you ever been super excited about doing something?

You get this magical IDEA.

Either you download it from your guides or it comes to you in a vision in meditation or it bubbles up from your hea...