Category Archives: Conscious Living

What’s Wrong With Fast Fashion + What You Can Do To Help

Do you ever wish there was an easier way to be a conscious consumer? We live in an era of fast fashion, where clothes are designed to be bought and discarded seasonally. While I’m concerned about the impact that has on our environment and people, I don’t have the bandwidth to become an expert in sustainable fashion. That’s why […]

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Is Your Job Making You Sick?

A couple of my friends are facing difficulties at work. The first one gets a migraine whenever she works with a particular client. The second had to start seeing a therapist because she found her work environment unreasonably stressful. My response to both, when they told me about these situations? “Quit!” I know a little something about hostile work […]

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Why I Write About Personal Development

Have you ever heard the phrase, “you teach best what you most need to learn”? I’ve been thinking about this concept recently and I came to a realization about why it’s true. In 2010, while living in Hawaii, I taught photography to a local woman. Her original goal, she told me, was to learn to […]

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15 Places to Seek Beauty

A Call to Beauty launched yesterday and we’re already having fun posting our findings on Instagram. It’s not too late to join the course, if you’d like to. In the meantime, today I’m sharing 15 places you can seek beauty in this world, straight from my own Instagram feed: Nature’s flora Nature’s fauna Art Architecture Manmade objects Light Places […]

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10 Ways to Discover Beauty

In recognition of A Call to Beauty launching next week (yay!), today I’d like to share 10 ways to discover beauty in your world. #1. Look for it. The #1 way to discover more beauty in your world is simply to be open to it and conscious of it. There is beauty literally everywhere, if you […]

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