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Playing the Hero

By NataliePosted on January 11, 2020January 11, 2020
  • Self-Care

It doesn’t have to be this way. Not eating or not eating properly with take-out containers lining my kitchen counter. A spiraled stress process that […]

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Everything Is Figureoutable

By NataliePosted on January 10, 2020January 10, 2020
  • Books
  • Habits & Goals

This is the kind of mantra I need right now. I wasn’t familiar with Marie Forleo before listening to her book Everything Is Figureoutable (tagline: […]

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The First Thing To Go

By NataliePosted on January 9, 2020January 9, 2020
  • Self-Care

It’s groceries. When life starts overflowing a little, I mostly stay on the tracks. Save for turning into a full-on scavenger and piling up take-out […]

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The Gap

By NataliePosted on January 8, 2020January 10, 2020
  • Happiness

I hear this quote all the time, but I still remember the first time I read it on Tumblr when I was a freshman in […]

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Writing Update: Wrestling

By NataliePosted on January 7, 2020January 7, 2020
  • Writing

The other night while fighting my weekly Sunday battle to fall asleep I turned over suddenly and flipped on my light. Grabbing my notebook that’s […]

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Stop Moving

By NataliePosted on January 6, 2020January 6, 2020
  • Habits & Goals

After doing my running course for over a month now, I’ve had some highs and lows. I’ve never thought consciously about how to run before […]

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The Finish Line

By NataliePosted on January 5, 2020January 5, 2020
  • Poetry

The mirror — vertical, curved, mounted on the wall next to my bed — Showed me this — myself, fourteen, nearly fifteen Resolute, victorious, humbled […]

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What I’ve Learned From 2 Years of Meditation

By NataliePosted on January 4, 2020January 4, 2020
  • Habits & Goals
  • Self-Care

I didn’t believe in meditation for so long; or rather, I didn’t understand it. When my friend Jenna first talked about practicing meditating every day […]

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Dry January

By NataliePosted on January 3, 2020January 3, 2020
  • Habits & Goals

This is one of the more mainstream “resolutions” that I am taking part in this year: no alcohol for the month of January.

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168 Books: 2019 Year in Review

By NataliePosted on January 2, 2020January 2, 2020
  • Books

I ended 2019 logging 168 books on Goodreads. 88 were physical books; 80 were audiobooks. The split between fiction and non-fiction was roughly the same, […]

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