Well you guys asked for it, so here I am reading out loud an article I wrote a couple months ago for The Fullest. It's about how my first hangover taught me self-care isn't just green juice and face masks, sometimes it's rest and cookies. It forced me into true intuitive eating when I had to listen to my body's cravings over what my dogmatic-wellness-obsessed-dieting mind would usually allow. Above all, the experience of being hung over made me realize how I prioritized a rigid self-care to-do list over people, creativity, and experiencing life. The entire situation showed me all forms of self-care should prioritize connection and presence over anything else. Most traditional self-care is solo, which can be great and really useful sometimes, yet other times it can be a way of hiding and isolating out of fear. I'm still learned how to decipher which version of self-care I need when. My default has become to isolate, and this article/ episode explores how I'm still learning my version of self-care now includes connecting and putting myself in an uncertain situations more that cozy certain ones. Plus, I give my likes and learns for the week, a giveaway, and more...

Notes from the Show:

1. Have you seen our Holiday Gift Guide? Sign up here to view the full guide.
2. My article, Are You Giving To Get?, on The Fullest
3. Find more of my pieces on The Fullest here
4. My friend from the article Karolina's chocolate. 

Likes & Learns:

• I'm having a hot chocolate moment. These are some of my favorites:
  • Van Leeuwan (pro tip: if you're in NYC this weekend they're giving away their hot chocolate float for free)
  • Dr. Smood
  • By Chloe's peanut butter hot chocolate with vegan marshmallows 
  • Hu Kitchen's pumpkin spice latte
  • Four Sigmatic hot cocoa (I use 2 packets and I mix 1 chai and 1 mushroom hot cocoa with macadamia milk.)

• Gift guides:
  • Beth Kirby of Local Milk curated this beautiful gift guide
  • Dearly Bethany created a selection of amazing gift guides including ones for beauty, children, women, and men
  • Christine's gift guide
  • A Cup of Jo women's gift guide
  • Quiddity gift guide that I'm featured in! 
  • My gift guide here!

• My poop analogy - sometimes you have to hold your feelings (or poop) in but eventually you have to let it out so to say...It always feels so much better after whether it's a poop or journaling and getting those thought out of your head and processing them.

All original music composed by Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs

Album art by Zoie Harman

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