Jessica Mahler

04/11/2026

Happy birthday to my favorite person & best friend 🤗

I can’t imagine how I’d laugh thru life without you!!

Swipe thru to see some of our most recent greatest hits & for proof of B’s realest laugh 😂 I promise he has clothes on in that last video 😅

04/11/2026

Happy birthday to my favorite 🤗

I can’t imagine doing life with anyone else, the funnest—& funniest—person I know ✨

Swipe thru for some of our most recent greatest hits & proof of B’s real laugh (I swear he’s wearing clothes in that last video!!) 😂

I love to love you 🥰

04/11/2026

Happy birthday to my favorite person & best friend ✨

Life is so much better with you in it. Thank you for being you 🤗

Scroll thru to hear B’s best laughs, one of my favorite sounds (I swear he’s wearing clothes in that last video!)

03/07/2026

LA tings ✨✨

01/03/2026

Perhaps some of you were surprised when I shared this meme from to my stories yesterday. Let me explain.

From my limited human experience, I’ve realized/witnessed/participated we humans have a habit of staying silent when someone—a parent, teacher, elder, someone of prominence—has done us or something wrong.

I don’t know about anybody else, but I was taught to be polite, not antagonize, fear retaliation, so I have kept quiet many times too many to “keep the peace.”

I think many of us have been taught this bc fights suck, can get ugly, ARE UNCOMFORTABLE. And if the person doing you dirty is bigger, older, stronger than you, there is also the fear of things turning violent. So we grin & bear it, stay in the discomfort bc we fear the discomfort of confronting someone is more uncomfortable than trying to change the status quo.

Here’s the thing: As I’ve found the courage to finally address people in my life I should have spoken up to long ago, I’ve come to realize that staying silent just gives the oppressor, the situation more power over you, keeping you in a cycle of silence & forced acceptance.

The longer you stay silent, the harder it is to speak up.

Using the phrase “Go f*ck yourself” might not be the appropriate phrase to use in every situation, but I hope you find the strength to speak up when you feel a boundary has been crossed, you’ve been slighted, or taken advantage of.

Things will never change if you keep your head down & never express yourself.

May 2026 be the year we all start speaking up…if you aren’t already 💛

11/14/2025

RFK Jr just walked past me with his security detail while I was listening to a podcast about how this administration struck a deal to make weight-loss drugs like Ozempic more affordable for common people.

In the podcast, RFK Jr stated that “obesity is a disease of poverty.” Listening to him & then seeing him in person made me want to throw up 🤮 I guess that’s one way to get people to lose weight, but I have thoughts 👆🏼

11/12/2025

i'm making a donation to the Capital Area Food Bank in your name. all you have to do is come to class between now & November 23. more deets inside!

Ever since my husband lost his job at USAID, his entire career in aid work basically obliterated, I/we have been in a constant state of fight or flight. Fearing something worse could happen, that we may have to pick up and move to another part of the country to start over again just to survive, I’...

10/15/2025

3 years ✨

Marriage was never something I thought was in the cards for me.

The first time I heard a girl my age tell me what her wedding was going to be like, I was 4 & remember thinking: I’d much rather play on the swing set or run around outside then consider what a sailor dress would look like on my adult body.

My own parents have a combined 5 marriages between them, not exactly the best role models on dedicated partnership. Someone from one of the above marriages recently found out that B lost his job earlier this year & their first response was: Are they still married?!

Commitment is the thing that I think scares people from tying the knot. And though our lives before we found each other could not have been more different, what made us both decide to commit to one another was the desire to be there for & support one another in good times & bad, in sickness & in health.

With 11 years under our belts, some of our biggest challenges happened this year alone. What marriage has taught me in this short time is that, when going gets tough, we are still by each other’s side, holding each other’s hand. We may not know the right or most efficient way through, but just having someone constantly in your corner is sometimes all you need to find the courage to keep going.

Happy anniversary, my love. I still choose you 💛

10/12/2025

Still a work in progress ✨

10/07/2025

join me for yoga at the National Cathedral 🌟 - https://mailchi.mp/782a9d644e9c/join-me-for-yoga-at-the-national-cathedral

dates & links to sign up inside 🧘🏼‍♀️

10/02/2025

Breaking my hiatus to share a bucket list moment ✨

I think my interest to go up in a hot air balloon was first piqued by the Wizard of Oz, one of my favorite movies growing up.

For the last 11 years, I’ve not so nonchalantly mentioned to B that it’s been a lifelong dream of mine to go up in one.

When we started planning our trip to Albuquerque, I learned that it’s one of the top places in the US to go hot air ballooning.

Things have been really challenging on my end for the last few months, every week a new, intense drama seems to come up.

We had planned to go on a sunrise hike our first morning in ABQ. We woke up in the dark, layered up, got in the car. B decided to take a detour from the GPS to get some coffee to help fuel our morning, but we couldn’t find anything that was open that early. After the 2nd place we attempted wasn’t open, I suggested we go without so that we wouldn’t miss the sun coming up. He wanted to try one more place & suddenly we were in a parking lot for a hot air balloon company.

“I don’t think they’re going to have coffee for us,” I told him, very confused as to why he’d try to get coffee at an establishment that clearly wasn’t open to sell caffeine.

“We’re not going on a hike,” B said, as he put in the car in Park. “We’re going up in a balloon today.”

I stared at him in shock, tears of happiness streaming down my face.

There are no words to describe the feeling that bubbles up you realize that someone not only listens to you, but goes out of their way to make you happy, make a dream come true, cross an item off your bucket list. It’s a feeling that I’m grateful to know, a feeling I hope everyone can experience at least once in your life.

It’s a feeling of pure love & acceptance.

I’m not sure there is anything that can compare.

I wish this feeling for every human, everywhere ✨