We Love An Update: 2022!
Hiiiiiiiii. It has been a while! How are you? How’s your health? How are your plant/fur/human babies? Since the last time I’ve posted, my mind has been running around at about a bajillion miles a minute, as usual. I was planning my wedding that FINALLY happened with the love of my life in July, while simultaneously looking for a new job, and started teaching online yoga classes since receiving my 200hr RYT Certification in January 2022. The Chill Babe was *not* chill, which was very hard on me emotionally, mentally and physically. Unfortunately, the blog ended up taking a back seat. Not to say I love you less, I just needed some actual down time to recover from the whirlwind of life that was just thrown my way.
Since I care so much about mental health and wellness, and making it as accessible as possible, I thought that I wanted to solely focus on that topic while making this blog. After having so much time away from it, it made me realize that although I still care just as much about mental health and wellness, there are so many other things that I’m equally passionate about that I’d like to share.
As I mentioned before, I received my 200hr Yoga Teacher Training certification in January, and my goal with that is to make yoga practice as accessible as possible (i sense a pattern here), while doing my best to decolonize Western stigmas of yoga, and expand education on the practice to include all eight limbs of yoga and incorporating them into everyday life. This is a big job, and something I still aim to do in my personal and eventual professional practice.
After my long awaited wedding day happened, my (public) new husband and I went to the coast of Oaxaca for our honeymoon, where we got matching tattoos, were reminded that “La vida es una playa,” activated my inner child and rediscovered my love of surfing. I originally learned how when I was around 12 at a Roxy Surf Camp in Cardiff, CA, and was able to only briefly live my Roxy Girl dreams since I couldn’t afford a surf board or my own. 17 years later we bought our very own surfboards, wetsuits, and booties and off we were to catch some waves 🤙🏽🌊
All this to say, a lot of big changes have been happening in my life. Finally feeling legit married and a dog mom, yoga teaching, surfing, my new Buddhist spiritual practice, figuring out balancing work and friends, all while trying to maintain my mental health and overall wellness. All of these things are so important in my life, and want to share all of them with you! We are all such multifaceted people, I want this to be a space where I can share my full self including successes, lessons, grief, celebrations, and everything else in between. Hope you’ll stay with me on this journey, and thank you for being a reader thus far.
