You may be familiar with Amy Cuddy from her Ted Talk about body language. If you haven’t seen it, watch it here: If you have seen it and are looking for more, start with her book Presence. The main idea is that our body language shapes who we are by shaping how the world perceives us. This idea fascinates me,… View Post
Carrie Brownstein, guitarist from the rock band Sleater-Kinney and comic co-star of Portlandia with Fred Armisen, wrote a memoir that quickly was listed as a New York Times Bestseller. This sums up my Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl Book Review: I love Carrie Brownstein. Reading the memoir went quickly – I finished it in about 2 days. It surprised… View Post
Wellness can cover so many different aspects of your life. When I set out to make this wellness podcast list, I first had to define what I meant by wellness. For me, it’s all about balance and positivity. Healthy living includes fitness, eating well, and caring for your head space, but it also includes finding a good work-life balance and… View Post
Now that 2017 is well underway, I wanted to loop back around on my organization situation to review where the cards – or rather notebooks – have fallen. What am I actually carrying around in my bag? Which notebooks do I write in every day? Do I have too many notebooks? Sure, some may say that. But I love them… View Post
Ever wonder what the yoga teacher means when she starts talking about “dharma” in the middle of practice? For one thing, she’s helping to keep your mind off a physically challenging practice. But there’s also this whole other world to yoga outside of the asana practice. Yoga isn’t specifically religious, but it has developed alongside some pretty interesting spiritual practices… View Post
In The Company of Women, Grace Bonney of Design Sponge’s latest book, brings together interviews with over 100 women who are makers, artists, and entrepreneurs – and good company it is! I’m always fascinated by women who work as creatives and small business owners. How do they make it work? What did they do differently than I did? How did… View Post
Ok, so I finally caved and read this book. #GIRLBOSS has topped the list of basically every woman’s business book resource list lately. What is #GIRLBOSS about? It’s Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso’s memoir about her experience going from a broke dumpster-diving teen to building a successfully retail business with a cult community following – all without acquiring any real… View Post
Mississippi. The softly sibilant state most often spoken in the shortest span of time. When was the last time you said it without counting in the same breath? My mother’s family is from Mississippi, and for as long as I can remember in our youth we would make a yearly visit to my grandmother and cousins. First in Yazoo City, then… View Post
Since finishing yoga teacher training at Joy Yoga a few months ago, I’ve been soaking in all of the information we learned and letting it settle. We read so many good yoga books leading up to and going through training. Here are a few yoga book reviews from my yoga journey. The theme of these books is different types of… View Post
As promised – the Barbarian Days book review. I’ve finally finished Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan. I’d had my eye on the book for a while, and when it won a Pulitzer Prize for autobiography this spring, it suddenly made it’s way into my hands. Surfing. Chris calls it “the fever”. As in “he has the fever” – the… View Post