Working Through Toxic Friendships: When It’s Time to Re-Evaluate Your Friend Group
Finding supportive friends at any age is hard to come by. Especially for disenfranchised folks, sometimes friends are our chosen family. If you’re feeling like the odd one out, here are some warning signs you might be outgrowing your squad or needing to minimize your presence in the group chat.
Creator of Color: You Are Worthy
Creators of color often get the short end of the stick. From exclusion to being underpaid and often overlooked, we face many obstacles. Maybe it's time creators expose the ugly truth to get the change and equality they deserve. Let's add context to the conversation and validate that we are worthy of success and support.
Surviving Toxic Workplaces: A Conscious Guide for Marginalized Identities
With the rise of conversations about workers’ rights, strikes, and toxic workplace lawsuits, the question begs: How can marginalized identities survive these environments? How can we navigate them while keeping our peace intact and at the top of our minds?
Is Sustainable Fashion Waging War Against the Working Class?
It was rather difficult curating this season’s sustainable style recommendations according to its trends. Primarily because ethical and eco-friendly garment prices are slowly inching their way towards those of atelier ready-to-wear lines.
Sustainable Alternatives for FW22 Trends
A sustainable style guide for fall and winter’s most notable trends.
Working Through Seasonal Depression: Mindfulness Tools & Tips for Getting Through It
You can do everything “right” and still be depressed. Here are some tips to add to your toolkit before the next season of “winter blues” hits.
Here’s Everything You Need to Know About Mindful Dating: A Conscious Guide for Beginners
Where swiping through people like a speed dating session has become the norm, conscious dating apps are attempting to make modern dating more meaningful. But are they safe and inclusive?
Sustainable Alternatives for SS22 Trends
Don’t compromise style for sustainability. Here are a few sustainable alternatives for three notable trends I’m sure we’ll see paraded throughout the summer.
3 COVID-Friendly Sustainable Swaps to Celebrate Earth Day
With COVID impacting us all in various ways, together, we can do our part to care for the planet now that the pandemic effectively exposed the complete disregard for Earth and its ecosystems.
Are “Green” Products Safer for Racialized Consumers?
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) is a nonprofit organization working to uncover toxins in cosmetics. When adding products explicitly marketed to Black women and people to their Skin Deep database, their findings were beyond alarming.
Here’s Why You Need a Trauma-Informed Self-Care Routine
The media may let those with trauma down, but there are ways we can care for ourselves. We can engage in a powerful rendition of self-care, so here are three reasons why you may want to adjust your self-care routine to consider your traumas.
Rest: How to Manifest & Manage Stress
There are a million reasons to be stressed these days, especially in the throws of a world recovering from a global pandemic. When manifesting the life of your dreams or winding down after a full day’s work, typically you want to avoid the overwhelm of those nagging ‘what-ifs’.
2022: The Year to Call In Simple Luxuries
How are you setting your intentions for the new year? I'm trying to be the magazine editor of my life in 2022, y'all. How about you?
It’s Never Too Late to Design Your Dream Life
Are you waiting for the world to change? Or for that goal or thing to manifest before you take action? Take it from me — get out of your head. Stop denying your potential. Take the leap now before years of regret pass you by.
How to Practice Conscious Consumption: A Conscious Guide for Beginners
The act of conscious consumption is but a branch of mindful living that demands personal responsibility, but what is it? From media to diet and purchasing decisions, we invite you to explore the topic with us, and to connect with resources that inspire changemakers everywhere consume and create with care.
10 Things to Know Before Going Vegan
Vegans get a bad rap for shaming or trying to enforce others into their “altruistic” diet. There are a number of articles out there that aspiring vegans will run into that completely skew the facts about animal derived foods. It can make researching confusing and the decision to commit inauthentic or ill-informed. Here’s what to consider if you’re looking to go vegan (as told by a second-year vegan).
The Truth About Being Black in America
Ever wondered what the true impacts of racism and white supremacy are? Or, how racism truly affects black and brown people? Well, today I’m opening up about how racial trauma has impacted my life and brought me back to this blog.
Working Through Loneliness: Self-Love in Quarantine
We all feel lonely for varied and valid reasons, in which we may choose to avoid all acknowledgement or be painfully aware of the fact that we are... especially while in quarantine.
How Slow Living Can Change Your Life
It's inevitable—life will throw you a curveball every once in a while, and you won't be able to dodge every single one. In times of complete and utter chaos, mental reprieve is a must.
Can Boundaries & Privacy Exist in the Digital Age? Here Are 3 Reasons Why You Need a Social Media Detox
Only a social media detox can make you hyperaware of comparison, self-exploitation, and workaholism.