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THE MODERN GIRL’S GUIDE TO BEING AN ALL NATURAL BAD-ASS
Hi there. I’m Lily. I’m 35 years old. Since I’m about to download a whole boatload of info about how I live into your mindspace, I thought you might like to know a little more about me than, say, what...
View ArticleDAILY DOSE: THIS IS HOW A HUMAN BEING CAN CHANGE.
This is how a human being can change: There is a worm addicted to eating grape leaves. Suddenly, she wakes up, call it grace, whatever, something wakes her, and she is no longer a worm. She is the...
View ArticleDAILY DOSE: DOING IT ALONE.
DOING IT ALONE You, yes, you who are unpacking the groceries, building the business, doing the laundry, parenting the toddler and the teen, you who are crying and tired and fed up, you who are brave...
View ArticleDAILY DOSE: UNHEARD VOICES.
UNHEARD VOICES In 1962, a year before Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” sermon, civil rights activist Prathia Hall delivered a prayer in which she repeated the words “I have...
View ArticleDAILY DOSE: EARTH, WITHOUT INTERMEDIARY.
At a certain point, you must speak to the earth without intermediary. Start by taking off your shoes. Let the mud in, the dirt everywhere, the wet in places you’re trying to keep dry. You have to get...
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GETTING TO KNOW YOUR FLOW: HOW TO USE A MENSTRUAL CUP.
When I got my period for the first time, my mother took me outside to sit under the towering great-grandmother jacaranda tree in our yard on Maui. Our bodies planted on the earth, she presented me with...
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REWILDING: THE ART & SCIENCE OF CONNECTING TO THE EARTH.
When I was young, whenever I felt depleted or angry or sorrowful, there was one place I consistently looked to for solace: The earth. My mother spent hours on the land every day, weeding, planting...
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#HONESTINSTA: HOW I BROKE FREE FROM THE INSTAGRAM ALGORITHM.
On Monday at 4pm, I was in a sorry state. I was suffering from one of my chronic head- and neck-aches, which, when they’re particularly pernicious, leave me nauseated and incapacitated, a sorry,...
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SACRED BODY PRACTICE & THE BODY IMAGE CRISIS.
Photo by Sophie MacKenzie. I grew up surrounded by images of young white women who were wan, helpless, and tragic. In the ‘90s, we idolized an apathetic Angela Chase in My So-Called Life, and the...
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FROM VEGAN TO OMNIVORE: HOW WE CHOOSE WHAT WE EAT.
I grew up vegetarian. Mornings looked like spirulina-laden smoothies and yogurt bowls with tahini and papaya fresh from the trees outside. We were in Hawai’i after all, where fresh fruits and...
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PODCASTS TO GET YOU THROUGH THE WEEK.
Little known fact about me: I’m a podcast binger. I pod all day as I’m working, and often in the evenings, as I’m prepping dinner or washing up after. I pod while driving, and I pod in the bath. If I...
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WHAT’S YOUR STORY? IS HERE: THE BOOK & PODCAST.
Listen & subscribe now: WHAT’S YOUR STORY? SEASON ONE: WOMEN, POLITICS, POWER. Nine years ago, I walked into a room that changed everything I thought I knew about myself. It was a breezy summer day...
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THE EASY WAY TO HOST A HANUKKAH PARTY.
This post was created in partnership with Whole Foods Market to celebrate their delicious holiday market meals, which make entertaining a breeze. Hanukkah was one of the few Jewish holidays my very...
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10 WAYS TO SLOW DOWN: THE ART & SCIENCE OF DOING LESS.
I think it’s something about the way I speak: slower, more languidly, with longer pauses. And the things that I notice: light, changes in wind, leaf formations, edible plants. Oh, and it’s in the...
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WHY ORGANIC MATTERS IN THE AGE OF GLOBAL WARMING.
This post, and the travel described therein, was created in partnership with Earthbound Farm, who is committed to the betterment of the planet through growing delicious organic produce. “One hundred to...
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5 SIMPLE (BUT LIFE-CHANGING) WAYS TO DEAL WITH GRIEF & LOSS.
The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe. — Joanna Macy, environmental activist. How do you deal with the grief? I get asked this a lot, and it’s a question I love—I’m honored that...
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REBUILDING ENERGY FROM THE INSIDE OUT, WITH IRON.
This post is sponsored by MegaFood®. All opinions are my own, including my love of MegaFood®’s Blood Builder—a vital component of my energy-building protocol—and my appreciation for their commitment to...
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NATIVE PLANTS & CONTROLLED BURNS: A WALK IN THE SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS.
Photos of me above and below, by Marisa Vitale, are on private land where I live—see notes on respectful foraging practices below. A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of spending an afternoon...
View ArticleHOW TO USE YOUR WHITE PRIVILEGE AS AN INFLUENCER FOR CHANGE: THE INCLUSION...
In 1989, the same year that civil rights advocate and scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw introduced the term intersectionality to the feminist lexicon, anti-racism scholar and activist Peggy McIntosh wrote an...
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NOURISH BODIES, CHANGE MINDS: A VEGETARIAN DINNER PARTY MENU.
The weekend is here, but relaxation and restoration may not be in the cards. With the world falling apart every direction we look and womxn’s bodies under siege as eight states pass legislation...
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OLYMPIA AUSET IS READY TO END FOOD APARTHEID. ARE YOU?
When I ask twenty-eight year old Olympia Auset where she honed the skills that power SÜPRMARKT—the organic pop-up grocery service she founded, which provides fresh produce in South Central Los...
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WELLNESS MADE SIMPLE: DO ADAPTOGENS WORK?
It’s hard to wade into the waters of wellness these days without someone suggesting you take a shot of reishi mushroom and a hit of maca powder. So what’s the deal with adaptogens? What are they? And...
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NOURISH BODIES, CHANGE MINDS: HOW TO HOST A HOLIDAY DINNER PARTY.
We’re headed into the thick of it: November and December bring a freight train of emotionally-charged gatherings, from Thanksgiving and Hanukkah to Christmas, Kwanzaa, and New Year’s Eve. Holiday...
View ArticleDAILY DOSE: CHAPTERS.
I walked at sunset tonight, which I haven’t done for many months in favor of morning sun, and remembered the power of dusk falling on the canyon. Drinking in the texture and color of the sky, I felt...
View ArticleDAILY DOSE: THE INVISIBLE WORK.
This week, I took some time to celebrate a few women doing extraordinary work in their communities. It felt good to highlight direct pathways to action. Yet as soon as I hit publish, I felt an equally...
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DAILY DOSE: IN DEFENSE OF LOS ANGELES.
I never, ever thought I’d move to Los Angeles. I was way too NorCal, too tree-hugging, too uninterested in celebrity, too traffic and concrete and smog averse, too uninterested in plastic surgery and...
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DAILY DOSE: RETURN TO THE EARTH // WHAT REMAINS.
On Tuesday morning, I woke up with the knowledge I had less than twenty-four hours left in my sweet, potent home on the hill. I knew, too, that it was time to return to the earth the many powerful...
View ArticleDAILY DOSE: LET ME BE CLEAR.
Creating big, tidal change in your life isn’t easy. It’s also incredibly easy, one might say, so long as you can stay committed to doing, being and thinking in ways foreign to what you currently know....
View ArticleDAILY DOSE: MELT THE CHOCOLATE. SETTLE THE MIND.
Melt the chocolate. Consider the time you have to do this. You are well enough to get out of bed after four days horizontal. Your throat still scratches. You sweat too easily. Stir quickly as the...
View ArticleDAILY DOSE: BIRTH, DEATH, AND THE SPACE BETWEEN.
Just three weeks after I flew off to my new life on Maui, I returned to LA for a birth of another kind: to be with my best friends during the birth of their second child. This will be the fourth birth...
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DAILY DOSE: BEAUTY IN UNKNOWN SPACES.
I’m on the plane, about to take off for Maui, and I’m considering beauty. Considering how I’m less settled in one physical space now than I have perhaps ever allowed myself to be in my life. Which...
View ArticleDAILY DOSE: KEEPERS OF THE LAND.
One week ago, I sat rapt at the feet of US Poet Laureat Joy Harjo. Before she began the reading, Joy told us we must acknowledge the keepers of the land. Wherever we may go, the keepers of the land...
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DAILY DOSE: SMALL CHANGES MATTER.
It’s easy to imagine we can silo our efforts to reduce our carbon footprint to one area of our lives: We think if we just reduce meat and dairy in our diet, or stop using single-use plastics, or nix...
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WHY EATING LOCAL MATTERS: FOR HAWAI’I, FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, FOR YOU.
This post was created in partnership with the Hawai’i Department of Agriculture and Foodland, part of a year-long celebration to Eat Local. What does it mean to eat local in Hawai’i, an archipelago...
View ArticleDAILY DOSE: YOU DON’T HAVE TO.
You don’t have to smile. You don’t have to have it figured out. You don’t have to have the boyfriend, the wife, the kid, the life, you don’t have to have the family, the friends, the perfect pants, the...
View ArticleDAILY DOSE: BUT IT IS PERSONAL.
“You don’t have to take it personally,” someone said to me Wednesday morning after I started crying again about the meager vote for Senator Elizabeth Warren on Super Tuesday. It wasn’t that she was my...
View ArticleDAILY DOSE: A POEM FOR THE PANDEMIC.
This week, a poem for the times by Lynn Ungar. Pandemic What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath— the most sacred of times? Cease from travel. Cease from buying and selling. Give up,...
View ArticleHOW TO BE A RADICAL IN THE TIME OF CORONA.
Take a good look at yourself in the mirror. Wonder who you dare to be in this moment of mass alarm, canceled everything, communal seeking, social distancing, self-quarantine. Remember being a young...
View ArticleFOUR WAYS TO TAME FIGHT-OR-FLIGHT IN THE FACE OF THE UNKNOWN.
We’ve never been here before, and it’s wild in every sense of the word. We are a species that has adapted, after many millennia living in synchrony with the wild, to thrive in the known, the cozy, the...
View ArticleTHE BECOMING: CAN YOU FEEL IT?
Can you feel it? That discomfort, that being stretched beyond your skin, that longing for what was, that not knowing, that anxiety, that spinning out and shutting in, that itchiness, that boredom, that...
View ArticleTHE LAND THAT TAUGHT ME.
This is the land that taught me: I am not an exception. I am nothing without earth, I am inextricably connected to earth, the health of the earth, the sky, the ocean is my responsibility. I’ve been...
View ArticleDO YOU REALLY CARE? #JusticeForAhmaud
Friends, tell me what happens to you when you hear the news that a healthy, vital black man named Ahmaud Arbery was shot to death doing nothing but jogging in his own neighborhood by two white men with...
View ArticleBUT WHY IS IT RACIST?
There was quite an Internet scuffle last week, as a prominent white woman made some appalling comments about two wildly successful women of color (WOC) in the food and wellness spaces. I could care...
View ArticleWHAT I WOULD SAY TO YOU TODAY, MAMA.
For Mother’s Day, 2020. Mama! This is my twelfth year without you, and still you are teaching me about time, sand through hands, losing what I love most, the beauty of iris on a one day bloom, your...
View ArticleEVERYTHING WE MADE UP.
At the beginning of quarantine, I read an article about how the new rules of coronavirus revealed what a sham so many of the habituated regulations we abide by are. Suddenly, rent could be frozen!,...
View Article“IF I REALLY WANT PEOPLE TO BE FREE, IT’S NOT ABOUT MY COMFORT.”
“If I really want people to be free, it’s not about my comfort. I’ve been comfortable long enough in this privilege.” — EbonyJanice addressing the necessity of white womxn de-centering our (yes, my!)...
View ArticleFOOD AND WELLNESS ARE POLITICAL.
Hello, and welcome to the fresh faces around here, and the ones who’ve been around a while, too—I’m so glad you’re here and I can’t wait to get to know you. I’m a writer and photographer working to...
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CALIFORNIA IS BURNING. AGAIN.
I was born on this land, where fire now burns. And for the last decade of my life, I lived in California, both north and south, in cities and in urban-wildlife interfaces where the toll of human...
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YOUR STORY ISN’T LINEAR.
It’s my birthday and I have a message for you: Your story isn’t linear. Your story is written and rewritten with every breath, every thought. We spend so much time plotting how we’ll get the job, the...
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