Arranged marriages. They’re all arranged. Even if we arrange them ourselves. An arrangement to fit an image of what a wedding, a relationship, a life is supposed to look like. It’s not just weddings though. It’s our lives in general. How often do we arrange our own discomfort and misalignment? What are all the ways we allow ourselves to be plucked and shoved into a vase with other look-alike flowers? The random bouquet of wildflowers holds a different kind of beauty than the perfectly curated...

I haven’t written in a while. In the quiet season, a lot has happened. Business has grown. I’ve supported many clients toward better health and lifestyle transformation. And somewhere along the way, I turned back toward myself too, re-establishing a solid movement routine and reconnecting with my body after an absence of connection I didn’t realize had run as deep as it did. On the other side of that reconnection, I saw it clearly: a subtle depression had taken root. Not the dramatic kind,...

We tend to think of burnout and gut issues as separate problems—one happens in the brain, the other in the belly. But the truth is,...