My husband got Backstreet Boys tickets for me, and what should have been a straightforward, exciting experience somehow turned into a whole thing. 😂 If you’ve been following along with my little ticket-buying saga, you’ll know what I mean. Between the presales, comparing seats, checking prices, and second-guessing my decisions, I’ve probably spent way too…
Category: Emotional Well-Being
Make Things, Not Content
I’ve always loved pottery, and lately, I’ve been thinking about getting back into it. I’ve taken a few classes here and there over the years, but I never really stuck with it or made it a regular thing. Then I went to Japan and Korea, and oh my gosh, the ceramics there! Everywhere I went,…
Your Life Doesn’t Need To Be Content
How many times have I picked up my phone to check a text, only to look up half an hour later and wonder how I ended up watching someone turn an old tire into a fancy coffee table? I do this all the time. I open Instagram to check one thing, then I see a…
My Kind of Wellness? K-Dramas
Modern wellness loves to tell us to sit in silence, meditate, and journal our feelings. Not me. I watch K-dramas. I think they might be one of my favourite forms of self-care. It feels like every time I open my phone, there’s someone telling me to wake up at 5 a.m., jump into freezing water,…
What Even Is Wellness?
Ask ten people what wellness means, and you get ten different answers. One person talks about green juice, another swears by 5 a.m. workouts, and someone else is buying whatever expensive powder they saw online this week. Between nutrition advice, hormone changes, and all the talk about getting older, the word gets thrown around so…
A Dream I Keep Coming Back To
I have this café completely made up in my head. The afternoon sun hits these worn wood tables through the front windows. You hear low chatter, spoons clinking against pottery, and whatever quiet music is playing in the background. It smells like dark coffee, warm cake, and cinnamon. The cups are handmade, a little crooked,…
You Can’t Make Everyone Happy…And That’s Not Your Job
For most of my life, I really thought that if everyone around me was okay, then I’d be okay too. Like my own wellbeing depended on everyone else being happy first. So I got really good at reading people. I could tell when someone’s mood changed, even if nothing was said, and I’d adjust myself…
Maybe We Need to Pay More Attention to How We Actually Feel
Not rules. Not a plan. Just seven quiet observations for anyone who’s doing everything right, and still wondering why something feels off. I actually ate healthy the other day. Like, genuinely healthy (which I haven’t in a while, to be honest). Good breakfast, good lunch, didn’t even snack (usually sweets), and I felt pretty good…
Top Reasons to See a Holistic Nutritionist
A lot of people think seeing a nutritionist means sitting across from someone who’s going to hand you a meal plan and being told to eat more vegetables and drink more water like you haven’t heard that a hundred times already. But holistic nutrition is different. It looks at the whole picture: how you’re sleeping,…
Mental Health Is More Than Just How We Feel
Every May, there’s a lot of conversation around mental health. I see the posts, the statistics, and the reminders to check in on the people we care about, and I really do think these conversations matter. But I also think there’s more to mental health than we sometimes talk about. Think about how we feel…
The Role of Nutrition in Children’s Mental Health
When we talk about kids and mental health, we usually talk about things like screen time, school stress, sleep, or therapy. But there’s another part that flies under the radar, nutrition. There’s also a growing amount of research looking at how what kids eat may affect things like mood, stress and how they handle everything…
Understanding Yin in Women’s Health
There’s a kind of tiredness that a good night’s sleep doesn’t always seem to fix. You go to bed, get up the next morning, and carry on with your day. You’re functioning. You’re getting things done. But you still don’t quite feel like yourself. It’s almost as if you’ve charged your phone overnight, only to…
Why Some Foods Just Work Better Together
Have you ever tried to eat healthier, added more greens to your plate, cut back on junk food, and chosen the healthier option when you could, but wondered whether it was making much of a difference? Something I’ve found interesting through studying nutrition is that it’s not just about the foods we eat. Sometimes, what…
The Organ That Doesn’t Exist (But Runs Everything)
So, here’s something interesting. In Chinese medicine, there’s an “organ” that doesn’t actually exist as a physical body part. It’s called the San Jiao, or the Triple Burner. There’s no tissue you can cut open or see on an ultrasound and Western anatomy doesn’t recognize it at all. But TCM treats it like one of…
Holistic Nutritionist vs Dietitian vs Naturopath: What’s the Difference?
If you’ve ever tried to eat better, feel better, or just understand what your body actually needs, you’ve probably come across terms like dietitian, naturopath, and holistic nutritionist… and thought, okay… but what’s the difference? Because on the surface, they can seem pretty similar. They all deal with food, and they all talk about wellness,…