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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 non-traditional parents insisted we celebrate each year. Gathering around…
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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 on Maui, and a group…
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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…
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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 vegetables are plentiful. It’s natural to be veggie-forward when…
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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 emaciated, dark-lidded mystery of Kate…
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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, pained lump of human. I was wearing…
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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 flowers, gathering comfrey for herbal…
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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 a small silk…
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DAILY 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 dirty. You…
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DAILY 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 a dream” as a kind…
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DAILY 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 and perfect in your…
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DAILY 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 entire vineyard,…
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