A month ago, on Valentine’s Day to be exact, I walked into my publisher’s office for a meeting and was greeted by a stack of white paperbacks with my name on the spine. I quickly inhaled a big belly breath like they taught me to do in yoga class, ... Continue Reading about A Sneak Peak of The Wellness Project Book! (Plus Pre-Order Swag…)
The Wellness Project
How to Design your own Wellness Project: A Guide
Two years ago today, I decided to give resolutions the boot and take on a different type of health odyssey. The failure rate for the annual promises we make ourselves is high (92 percent!), with the biggest drop-off date hitting just ... Continue Reading about How to Design your own Wellness Project: A Guide
The Wellness Project: A 6 Month Update
Last year, I decided to make some radical changes to the way I approached my health. After years of living with autoimmune disease and feeling like I was flailing, oscillating from the extremes of wellness fads, to the confusion that made me want to ... Continue Reading about The Wellness Project: A 6 Month Update
What I Learned from My Year of Wellness + How to Apply it to Your Life in 2016
There were some benefits to writing a book about my wellness challenges in tandem with actually doing them. One of them being: I couldn’t procrastinate. I feverishly recorded my experiences in real time, and wrote shorter recaps of them right here. ... Continue Reading about What I Learned from My Year of Wellness + How to Apply it to Your Life in 2016
What I Learned from My Month of Meditating and Perfecting My Mornings
As an only child with no coworkers, I’m no stranger to “me time.” Even with long days alone at the office, it’s still something I need to reset. After the holiday party haul or a wedding weekend away, I’ll find myself craving several nights of kale ... Continue Reading about What I Learned from My Month of Meditating and Perfecting My Mornings
November Wellness Challenge: Stress
There are lots of times as a busy New Yorker, when the subway inexplicably just skips my stop or the line for Trader Joe’s wraps around the block, that I have to take a breath and ask myself: “what would my calm twin do right now?” Stress is one ... Continue Reading about November Wellness Challenge: Stress
What I Learned From My Month of Growing My Gut Garden
One thing I’ve learned about autoimmune disease is that there’s usually a trigger that causes it to take hold in the body. As my acupuncturist Heidi Lovie put it, you probably spent years accumulating imbalances—putting tinder in the box—but it takes ... Continue Reading about What I Learned From My Month of Growing My Gut Garden
October Wellness Challenge: Eater’s Digest
It took two years of intense stomachaches before I finally, reluctantly dragged my butt to a doctor to figure out what was going. But really, all I had to do was look in the toilet to know that there was a serious problem with my digestion. People ... Continue Reading about October Wellness Challenge: Eater’s Digest