In a world of critique, comparison, and carefully filtered highlight reels it can seem like an impossible task to feel content in your own skin. To my younger self that bought foundation to cover up the freckles on her cheeks, let the boy convince her that she would never be enough, and begged ...
Michaela Reardon
At the ripe age of 21, I was starting to feel like my 10 year plan included a well deserved nomination to the TV show “Hoarders”. Every time I cleaned my room it would be messy the next day. There was clothing overflowing from drawers, hooks I feared would pull out of the wall from bearing too ...
New year, new fitness goals! A little weekend getaway isn’t going to stop you from breaking a good sweat. You lace up your sneakers and head down to the hotel lobby only to find out that the establishment does not have a gym. Now what? I found myself in this exact situation yesterday and it ...
As sang by the great T-Swift, "It was the end of a decade but the start of an age" 2020 marks the beginning of a fresh new decade, a new age. There were some things in this past decade that should most definitely remain buried in history: my deep side part verging on combover from 2012 ...
Hello my lovely readers and Happy Monday! It is a beautifully fresh start to the week, yet many of us can’t help but suffer from the Monday blues. Today is the day to say screw Monday blues! We get seven days each week, why be miserable for 14.29% of them? Here are some tips for increasing your ...
Talking about bowels on the internet? Not the most glamorous thing. But someone I consider a mentor challenged me for being too superficial on my blog thus far, so I figured I would give this taboo discussion of bowels a go. IBS is something I have struggled with for many years and is a topic I ...
Earlier this summer, my boyfriend Austin and I took a two-week road trip through South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, and North Dakota. The first week of our trip was spent camping at various places and the second week was split between time with my family in Montana and Austin’s family in North ...
Ahh, Cortisol. Such a helpful hormone when it comes to situations of emergency. It is our main stress hormone, released by our adrenal glands. Cortisol serves many functions in our body. It is a regulator in our sleep/wake cycle, plays a large role in metabolism and determining how our ingested ...
This past week I came across a fitness instagram account with a caption on a post that really resonated with me. “I don’t workout because I dislike my body. I workout because I love my body, want to take care of it, and actually do enjoy a good sweat sesh” @hollyjfitness For those ...