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Holiday Gift Guide 2020
This year, I’ve been trying my best to support local businesses with all the gifts that I buy for my friends and family. But, I’ve seen some really innovative, sustainable brands online that I’ve been supporting as well. Here’s a short but very quality list of some gifts that I’ve purchased for friends, family, and…
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What’s Been Keeping Me Busy During Quarantine
After lockdowns this spring and a very cautious summer, my university has spent the past few weeks in another quarantine. While it’s been tough spending all my time working, sleeping, and learning in the same room, I’ve managed to keep myself busy and balanced. I think it’s become easy to spend all day and all…
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Productivity: The “Just One More” Method
Let me paint you a picture: You’re working from home. You can’t focus for more than 3 minutes at a time before reaching for your phone, typing in twitter or sephora.com and you think “if I restructure my week, I can push these last few things off until tomorrow”. Stop right there, put down the…
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Budget-Friendly Wellness Routine Menu
Welcome back! Recently, I’ve been trying to motivate myself to take part in those wellness routines that make me feel really good. Things like painting, yoga, reading, writing for my blog. It’s a common experience to have low motivation during quarantine. I think I ran out of steam as it seemed like this would never…
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Books, Movies, and Influencers to Read, Watch, and Follow
All the news lately highlighting how centuries-old racism manifests in our modern-day society has been upsetting to say the least and constantly leaves me with the feeling of “how can I help”. Beyond protesting, signing petitions, and donating to causes, there is a lot of self-work we can do to create change. Over the past…
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Quarantine Wellness Routine
My wellness routines have changed quite a bit since we began staying at home about 2 months ago. My normal routine included going to a class at my yoga studio about 4 times a week, taking the time to walk between classes, dinners and nights in with friends and roommates, and taking time to stop…
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