2026 [Eco-Friendly - Black Owned - Small Business] Yoga Mat Buyer’s Guide

With all the different yoga mats on the market, how do you choose?!?! You choose by making the decision that causes the least harm to the earth, others, and self. No more earth damaging $8 foam mats from Wal-Mart/Five Below/Marshalls that end up in landfills, where you struggle to hold poses anyw... Read More

Juneteenth: A Sacred Remembrance of Resilience + Repair

For Black people, as an act of sacred remembrance, may you frolick in be free in all the ways that nourish today! Happy Juneteenth! For white people, as an act of sacred remembrance, this is time (especially if you have a paid day off work) to do the work of repair. Have you lobbied your elected... Read More

URGENT Supplies needed to Support STL Tornado Survivors

And not just any part, it pummeled the Westside and North City. I grew up in North City. My family is still there. I returned to teach there. My students families are still there. This is my community. I don't care what anyone says about the northside, North St. Louis is my heart. North City and ... Read More

2025 [Eco-Friendly - Black Owned - Small Business] Yoga Mat Buyer’s Guide

With all the different yoga mats on the market, how do you choose?!?! You choose by making the decision that causes the least harm to the earth, others, and self. No more earth damaging $8 foam mats from Wal-Mart/Five Below/Marshalls that end up in landfills, where you struggle to hold poses anyw... Read More

Don't rest. METABOLIZE.

There’s been no shortage of reactivity, opinions, and emotions post-election. Some of us may be in singular emotional spaces (anger, sadness, etc) others of us may be feeling a myriad of emotions. No matter what feelings or emotions are coming up, it’s important that we feel the emotions AND meta... Read More

Tired of “continuous unprecedented times”?

How has this current election cycle left you feeling? I didn’t want to write about it, and then I thought about something that I just have to share. *Short on time? Eyes exhausted from looking at screens all day? Scroll to bottom for the TL;DR. After Sunday’s announcement this reel expressed my... Read More

Ditch the treadmill and Slide to the Left (woooooo): Black Slides/Line Dancing is Intergenerational Wellbeing

I can’t remember ever not knowing how to do the Electric Slide. My family loves doing ALL the slides at the family events. (I thought every Black person knew how to do the Mariah Carey slide, and come to find out, it’s a regional slide.) *Short on time? Eyes exhausted from looking at screens all ... Read More

Are you ACTUALLY hydrated or just drinking a lot of water?

*Short on time? Eyes exhausted from looking at screens all day? Scroll to bottom for the TL;DR.Today is the HOTTEST and (fortunately) the last day of the heat wave enveloping my current locale. The heat don’t bother me none, though. (I’m sure I’m part of the fire nation. I was born after Zuko too... Read More

How to Nourish Your Wellbeing In Alignment With Fall

*Short on time? Eyes exhausted from looking at screens all day? Scroll to bottom for the TL;DR.Does life feel more challenging as the season changes from summer to fall? Did the “life is life-ing” feeling set in about a month or so before the autumn equinox? Maybe the back-to-school frenzy marked... Read More

For Book Lover’s Only...

*Short on time? Eyes exhausted from looking at screens all day? Scroll to bottom for the TL;DR.Where my fellow book lovers at?!?! Shout yourself out in the mf’ing comments (or say hi via email 😊) because today’s OUR day!!!! It’s NATIONAL BOOK LOVER’S DAY!!!! And I’m beyond excited because I LOVE ... Read More