WELLNESS, HAPPINESS, FEELINGS, EMOTIONS, HEALTH, HEALING, PLEASURE, SELF-HELP, SELF-CARE

"Why don't we make some new emotions" - Alice Notley

Why “rest” is the next big wellness thing, for ELLE magazine.

Wrote about how “wellness” used to be part of the self-help paradigm, but is now part of the self-care paradigm, for the New York Times. (It’s more fun than that little description I just did, though.)

Wrote about Recess, a sparkling water infused with CBD, and marketing wellness to Millennials, for the New York Times.

For my “Feel It” self-help column at VICE, I wrote about how phones are trash (or, you know, screens more generally.) And, how to create and maintain boundaries (but fun!); and also how to deal with stress, and also time, and how to spend it; plus plus plus how and why to make use of “ritual” in a self-help routine. There are more “Feel It”s over on the relationships tabby-thing, take a look.

Wrote about meditation and how it made me less of a classic mean girl, for FASHION magazine.

I wrote about self-care, soon after the phrase floated from nurses and therapists down to the rest of us, for FLARE magazine. "What I like the most about the idea is that it isn’t code for what I think of as the fallacy of balance, which makes women feel that happiness would totally be available if they just got better at updating iCal, and maybe lit a candle. Sometimes, focusing on what truly makes you happy—and, as a result, letting other aspects of your life slide, or fall away—is the only solution."

I've written, oh, endless articles, columns, tweets, texts about crying, this one for the Globe and Mail.