2022 was a year of phenomenal experiences with intimate moments of mundane sprinkled in. This year, I pushed really hard in my personal life and filled my time with constant travel, new skills, and working towards the person that I want to be. Going forward this next year, I'm going to let myself fully savor the little moments rather than being afraid of accidentally opening the emotional floodgates to negative feelings.

It’s hard to believe that another year has come and gone. 2021 has been instrumental in healing and reframing relationships for me. While it doesn’t look like objectively that much has changed about my circumstances, I feel like I’ve grown so much. Here are my reflections from this past year and my intentions moving into this coming year.

Hello friends! I’m long overdue for a life update on this blog, so this extra short post will cover a few of my intentions and reflections as we move into the winter season.

Hello autumn! Summer is officially over and we’re now in the middle of autumn. I’m a few weeks late, but I figured that now would be a great time to reflect on how the summer season went and set intentions for the current fall season.

Why do we say that we hate work and need time away from work, but continue to throw ourselves into more work when free time is presented? Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about work-life balance and specifically, on why free time feels so uncomfortable.

Taiwan has been in a Level 3 Lockdown since May 15th. It’s pretty surreal to be experiencing the shut-down of all local activities for the second time, but the upside of this experience is that I already have routines established from the first go-around. This post will cover some of those daily moments as well as some scenes from a *more quiet* Taipei.

Anyone who works with creativity can tell you—it’s fickle and hard to control. There are times when the inspiration flows and ideas come easily, and alternatively, there are times when you sit there for hours and get absolutely nothing done. As an exercise, I’m taking today to just reflect on tactics that I use to combat creative blocks.

Between balancing a full-time job in social media and creating content for this space, I frequently find myself on the fringe of burnout. Not only is spending time in a digital space taxing on the body, but the ceaseless stream of media is stressful for the nervous system as well. When I start to feel burnt out, here’s what I do to reset.

It’s been almost two years since I broke up with fast fashion and while my slow fashion journey hasn’t been a linear one, I will say that I’m much more confident about the choices that I make now than I did when I first started. Today, I’m sharing 8 things that I’ve learned since quitting fast fashion and starting my slow fashion journey.

I had the recent honor of being featured in an interview with Secondhand Steph. Keep reading for my thoughts on sustainable fashion, how I got started, tips on thrifting, and more!

There’s so much power in clothing. It’s functional; it’s self-expression; it’s art. Styling is a form of creative expression but I’m also exploring what it means to simply be.