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The Brutalism of Burnout: Finding Wellness in the Shadows
Read Article: The Brutalism of Burnout: Finding Wellness in the ShadowsLet’s talk about wellness. Not the pastel-colored, perfectly curated, green-juice-cleansing version of wellness that usually clutters your feed. I’m talking about the raw, necessary, and sometimes brutal art of simply stopping. If the last few…
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Thriving Thursday: Enacting the Mandatory “Touch Grass” Protocol 🌱
Read Article: Thriving Thursday: Enacting the Mandatory “Touch Grass” Protocol 🌱If there is one thing I have learned about the writing process, it is that sometimes the absolute worst thing you can do for your book is to keep staring at it. I’ve spent the…
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Transformation Tuesday: Trail Therapy, Writer’s Block, and “Strategic” Packing
Read Article: Transformation Tuesday: Trail Therapy, Writer’s Block, and “Strategic” PackingWelcome back to the Starr-Verse. If you’ve been following along with my journey for a while, you know I am a massive advocate for hitting the hard reset button. Usually, when we talk about Transformation…
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Unpilugging: Why This Social Saturday Was Exactly What the Doctor Ordered
Read Article: Unpilugging: Why This Social Saturday Was Exactly What the Doctor OrderedWhat a week it has been, guys. Between sharing some of my most vulnerable moments with you all, hitting some massive new milestones, and spending hours staring at analytics dashboards, my screen time has been…
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Focus Friday: The Art of Productive Recovery
Read Article:I know what you are thinking. It is Focus Friday, and I am posting a picture from bed. Normally, this is the day we talk about locking in, crushing our goals, and pushing through the…
Focus Friday: The Art of Productive Recovery
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The Sunday Reset: Finding Quiet in the Chaos
Read Article: The Sunday Reset: Finding Quiet in the ChaosThe digital world is incredibly loud. If you’ve been following along this week, you know we hit some massive milestones, pushed a lot of boundaries, and kept the timeline moving at absolute warp speed. But…
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The Art of Prepping for the Weekend (and Rolling for Initiative)
Read Article: The Art of Prepping for the Weekend (and Rolling for Initiative)It has been an absolutely wild, chaotic week online. If you’ve been hanging out with me on X or Instagram over the last 24 hours, you know exactly what I mean. But when Friday finally…
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Fresh Cuts, Full Hearts (And a Facial Hair Dilemma)
Read Article: Fresh Cuts, Full Hearts (And a Facial Hair Dilemma)If Self-Care Sunday is about hitting the reset button, I think I took that literally this week.First, I have to talk about yesterday. Valentine’s Day. I woke up this morning to an inbox that was…
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The Art of Soft Focus (Why You Need to Look Away)
Read Article: The Art of Soft Focus (Why You Need to Look Away)By the time Friday hits, our brains are usually fried. We’ve spent five days zooming in—on spreadsheets, on word counts, on emails, on problems that needed immediate solving. We are conditioned to think that “Focus”…
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The Power of Stripping Back (Why My Monday Routine is Getting Simpler)
Read Article: The Power of Stripping Back (Why My Monday Routine is Getting Simpler)Monday mornings have a reputation for being frantic. We are conditioned to think that the moment the alarm goes off, we need to be armored up, caffeinated to the gills, and sprinting toward the first…
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