Tag: wellness

  • How to Hike with a Chronic Illness

    How to Hike with a Chronic Illness

    I’ve talked about how to travel with a chronic illness before here, how chronic illness changes you, and now I want to talk about ways to how to hike with one. I think people who have recently been diagnosed with one may feel they are limited to doing activities because…

  • Why I Slowed Down A Lot of Things in Life, Like Blogging

    Why I Slowed Down A Lot of Things in Life, Like Blogging

    About 14 months ago, I announced I would quit blogging, or maybe I really meant ‘slowing down’ because I’ll decide to post something at least maybe once a year, because it is tempting to be able to share some of what you had seen, for people’s knowledge. I just don’t…

  • The Highlights of My Travel Blogging for 7 Years

    The Highlights of My Travel Blogging for 7 Years

    It’s the end. It’s time to move on. I decided it was time to say goodbye. Goodbye to blogging, but not goodbye to this website. I’ve had 7 precious years of blogging on this site. It’s the end of an era. There’s nothing as beautiful in this life than throwing…

  • Why I Love Doing Something That Scares Many: Solo Hiking

    Why I Love Doing Something That Scares Many: Solo Hiking

    This was an essay about solo hiking I tried to submit a few times to other media publications but has never actually been accepted to be released so I want to share it here! It was written years ago. “It’ll be tough and very steep,” said a mid-aged man when…

  • 2024 Year in Review: The Comeback Year

    2024 Year in Review: The Comeback Year

    It’s around that time where I provide a yearly recap of where I am in my life and what I’m up to. Each year before the new year comes around, I do this. I may not be planning to do this moving forward after this year because there’s just sooo…

  • 8 Things I Simplified in My Life

    8 Things I Simplified in My Life

    For many years now, I’ve been trying to live a more minimalist lifestyle and although there were many failed attempts and some successful ones that did not last, I can’t forget that part of living a minimalist lifestyle is minimizing the distractions and unnecessary habits in my day-to-day life too.…

  • How to Effectively Recover from a Breakup

    How to Effectively Recover from a Breakup

    Breakups are absolutely the worst events you can endure in this life. We see it a lot in the media where movies are inspired to have a storyline on unrequited love, lost love, or showcase a pivotal point of the storyline that includes a breakup or divorce. To me, breakups…

  • 2023 Year in Review: My Most Transformative Year

    2023 Year in Review: My Most Transformative Year

    I noticed it’s around the holidays or towards the end of the year is when I really start to reflect at my life as a whole and it’s because of all that “new year recap” trend that happens to show up all throughout social media. I write about my year…

  • Know Before You Go: Preparing for an Obstacle Course Race

    Know Before You Go: Preparing for an Obstacle Course Race

    Have you recently signed up or thinking about signing up for an obstacle course race? Then you are in for a unique fitness experience that will test your mind and body! Also, congrats for making that first step to thinking about getting involved in one.  Obstacle course races come in…