November 7th, 2019 Today, I think my life may have changed. I woke up, feeling the weight of another mundane, ordinary day. I felt tired. Sluggish. Completely unmotivated. But I felt in my heart that I needed to go run. I didn't want to. Since the breakup, my joy for the sport has come and gone. But after lounging around and procrastinating for over an hour, I[...]
In 2018, I watched my first Boston Marathon, and decided right then and there that I wanted to run THIS marathon. It was the year of torrential downpour, freezing temps, elites inevitably on the sidelines, and the runner I went to watch, totally killing it and blazing on through. Something about this race felt....magical. Raincoats, numb fingers, drenched runners[...]
The short version would be that 9 months ago I woke up, felt like I had the flu, dubbed Head Above Water as my life anthem, and knew I needed to get checked out. The longer version - the version I will be word shpilling today - is that in 4 years, I have not felt fully like myself. Aside from my closest circle/primary healthcare providers and coach, I've never re[...]
PART 1: 9 Juicy Massage Questions Welcome back to perhaps the touchiest series of them all [insert fake crowd laughter]: I Touch People For A Living. In part 1, I dissected 9 of the absolute most juicy goods I am asked. I answered all things from how I ethically drape my clients, to as gritty as what the heck I do if a man has a (GASP) erection on my table. We[...]
For nearly 6 years, I was a slave to perfection, unattainable standards, and an insatiable obsession to be skinny, and to feel weightless. The bar felt like it was always raised so high, and I could never quite reach it. You see... When I turned 17, everything changed. It's like I went through a time capsule in a handful of months. No; I'm serious. I got my period[...]
(Written 10/30/19) In my perfect mind, this title would be more like: "I AM BOSTON QUALIFIED AND NOW I'M TRAINING FOR A SUB 3:00:00!!!!" But alas, if anything lately, I have learned that reality has quite a funny way of smashing lofty expectations. In case you're foreign to the term "DNF" it translates to: Did Not Finish. As in - you quit during the[...]
I don't even know what day it is. Do you? No; I'm serious. I literally almost titled this "Fastbraid Friday" (Insta search #FastBraidFriday and you'll catch on), until I remembered it was Thursday. Wait. What? OHHH; right. Wednesday. It is Wednesday, right? Right. Happy Hump Day! A friend from my sisterhood tribe and I were phone chatting yesterday, and I confesse[...]
Something that I am learning lately...is that it is okay to PLAY. I've recently taken a bit of a social media app hiatus, therefore resorting to life updates on HERE! I absolutely love writing about the nitty gritty, grey area, deep stuff, but it also can sometimes undermine the everyday life kinda stuff. It can become a pressure of sorts to always have some sort of[...]
What can I say? I'm young, I'm female, and I touch people for a living. Considering physical touch has never (ever) been my primary love language, it's quite common to get some raised eyebrows when I explain that I work as a Licensed Massage Therapist. And you know what? I get it. 4 years ago, I received my first ever massage. Until finding myself enrolled in a s[...]
I'll bet you you primarily clicked on this link because your bloodhound nose was like *SNIFFS* "SHE'S GOING TO TALK ABOUT CORONAVIRUS!", eh? ;) If you want a couple of fear mongering paragraphs with a mortality rate, you're in the wrong spot. Or, if you're on the opposite end of the spectrum, and assume that because I think more on the "functional" end of medicine/he[...]