Deciding to stay in Panama was the best decision I could have made. Although the next while was hard, it would have been harder thinking about what I gave up. I kept changing my mind, thinking I should have gone home, but my best friend from home told me to remember my tattoo, living for today, and what my whole life had been about up to this point. Elisa was …
The month I spent in Agonda for my yoga teacher training was unforgettable. There was sweat, tears, mosquitos and pulled hamstrings. It put our bodies and our minds to the test. I learned so much and discovered a lot about myself. Anyone I’ve spoken to about the course says the same thing: It’s hard to put the experience of that month into words: Waking up every morning at 6am for …
The month leading up to India was a strange one. I wasn’t sleeping, I was stressed, and I felt like I had nothing in me left to give – to my clients, my friends, to myself. I think that’s what they call burnout. I never thought of myself as someone who had anxiety, but with the lack of sleep and stress, that’s exactly what was going on. I would lie …
“I ran to the beach to see only two out of the three guys standing there… and I knew…” Someone is missing Our first and last morning at the Palmer Tent Lodge will stay in my mind forever. We woke up bright and early; Carl, John and Frank went to play in the Ocean, and Tara, Elisa and I decided we would take a boat to the mainland to get …
I left home Dec 30th to meet some of my closest girlfriends in Vegas. I had planned on flying to Panama to meet Tara and her friends and we all planned on travelling Central American together for the next few weeks. The thing is, you can plan all you want, but sometimes life takes a turn and a dream trip can turn into your worst nightmare in a split second. …
This is the first tattoo I got, almost 6 years ago, during my first backpacking experience in Thailand, that changed the course of my life forever. Yesterday is gone Tomorrow has not yet come We have only today Let us begin – Mother Teresa To this day, I try to live by these words. When we are depressed it is because we are thinking about the past, when we are …
