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Wellness for the working woman on a budget. What you wear paints a picture of your inner thoughts and beliefs to the world.

Books, statistics, sunsets, modern art and entrepreneurial endeavors are just a few of the topics that interest me besides fashion, of course. My name is Madison and I want to share with you my outfits and how I express my other interests through the clothes that I wear. A topic that may seem so superficial, I truly believe fashion is a way of showing what someone is thinking without using words.

07/09/2025

snaps from Puglia and El Bruc 📸 a very kinda trip 🫒🍝🦑⛰️

14/07/2025

the perfect cape may summer night 💕

there’s something about watching little kids dance to live music- the pure joy, no awareness of the people around them, just intention and moving their bodies to the beat

this is the energy we need to bring more of into the rest of the summer

and we teach these little humans that they need to grow up and pay bills and work in cubicles and stare at the computer!?

31/05/2025

Hello Saturn return 👋🏼🪐

Nothing says “happy birthday!” like being laid off from your full-time job. This week, I was laid off just two days before my 29th birthday.

To some, this may seem like the end of the world. And for a second, it felt like that.

Luckily, I am one who always tries to look at life the same way I prefer my eggs- sunny-side up.

I try to see the good that can come out of any situation. I now have the summer to spend time with my family at the beach. I can build that analytics engineering course I’ve been wanting to bring to life. I have space to relax and focus on my health during a period when I’ve been feeling god awful.

With every end comes a new, beautiful beginning.

Call me woo-woo or delusional, but I believe in golden birthdays and Mercury retrograde. To me, it feels like no coincidence that the universe has given me a fresh start on the same week that I embark on my last year as a 20-something.

The universe saw me peeking over the cliff at the crashing, midnight blue waves eroding the shore. A fierce but magnificent sight. Seeing that I was only looking from the edge, admiring from afar, it decided to send a wind gust my way. A wind gust that just so happened to send me flailing into the fury of the unknown.

If these last few months have taught me anything, it’s that nothing in life is certain. We can’t wake up and predict which days we will feel amazing and which we will be bedridden watching S*x and the City reruns. We aren’t guaranteed to achieve our dreams if we never face the unknown that comes with them. Our days with our loved ones are limited- live them and love them to the fullest.

I don’t want to enter my 30th year on this planet in fear.

I want to enter it knowing I have the confidence to chase my dreams, live abundantly, and have all the time in the world to enjoy my life in the process.

So here is to a golden birthday full of everything I could ever want. No more settling. No more waiting. Just living and blooming, like a sunflower that opens every day towards the bright, warm sun.

22/04/2025

5 years ago I was living in DC, constantly stressed out, surviving on less than 6 hours of sleep, working under constant fluorescent lighting, and constantly bloated.

I didn’t feel good in my own body and my mind felt fuzzy, and I didn’t understand why.

Then the pandemic happened.

I moved back in with my parents and started to finally slow down. I didn’t have a 45-minute long commute. I was able to sleep. I was surrounded by nature in the suburbs. I had my parents’ dogs to walk and play with.

Something in me shifted. I switched from survival mode to being able to finally relax.

A few months after the pandemic began, when things started to slow down, Sebastian and I decided to travel to Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona.

I fell in LOVE with the outdoors.

Keep in mind I had never been camping and always “hated nature” (I think I more so just thought it was cool to not be about the outdoors, but this is for another time).

I finally started feeling like myself again. I began to relax. I finally had energy again.

Being outside in nature calmed me into a state I had never felt before. I finally learned it was OK to slow down and take it easy.

Now, instead of running from one place to the next constantly stressed out over work, my health, and other responsibilities, I choose to spend my time in the garden, paddle boarding on the river, and hiking in the mountains.

In turn, nature has helped heal me.

It’s shifted me into a state of ease where I finally feel energized in the mornings and ready to take on the day.

Thank you Mother Earth! 🌎💙💚

Show her some kindness today and pull some stink net, clean up trash, or plant some flowers.

Say thank you to the birds, bees, and even those insects you love to hate 😉

15/04/2025

Maybe Sebastian and I are the only people who wake up at 5am on a Sunday morning to drive up north, enjoy time outside, hike, eat, and then return back to Phoenix by 2pm 🤷🏼‍♀️

GOOD THING WE FOUND EACH OTHER 💗

Here’s the perfect little Sunday Sedona itinerary featuring our favorite .az in Rimrock.

Organic vegetables, farm to table, no seed oils, the cutest porch and tables and vibes. I just really love it. It’s a special place!!

11/04/2025

As you can tell, I love a good bowl for a weekday dinner.

Bowls allow you to meal prep a bunch of different ingredients ahead of time and mix them together in different combinations throughout the week.

For these meals, I usually make:
- rice
- quinoa
- pickled veggies
- cabbage (pre-shred it)
- crispy chickpeas
- sauces

This is the stuff that takes more time. By doing it in advance I have no excuses not to eat when I’ve planned for the week because the last few steps only take 15-20 minutes!

More deets on the recipes:

1. These seasonal spring grain bowls are perfect because you can just use whatever is in season at the farmers market! Luckily we had fresh garden peas 💚

2. Salmon bowl recipe is from newsletter. I am OBSESSED with the ginger miso dressing. I add cashews for a crunch.

3. These bowls were inspired by a meal we had in Moab. Pickled veggies are so much easier to make at home than you would think!

4. Burger bowls are a staple. Sebastian and I had these for 3 meals in a row when we got back from Utah. Pickles, burger sauce, raw cheese- it always hits.

Cooking is something I enjoy as it allows me to decompress and stay present. Healthy meals make me feel my best! This is something I will ALWAYS prioritize.

03/04/2025

Believe it or not, it’s the simple things that make the biggest differences.

Yes, lifting weights is still important. And so is balancing blood sugar and eating enough fiber.

BUT it’s the small changes we make that accumulate and really begin to throw us out of (or in) balance.

For me, it was the constant stress and living in adrenaline that led to my demise. I was always running around, not eating enough and drinking too much coffee. I never allowed myself to relax or chill out.

Well, allowing yourself to relax and reducing stress is what helps you stay healthy!! Shocking right??

These last 5 years, I’ve shifted my mindset in so many ways, leading to a decrease in all of my health issues.

Sure, there are things I still struggle with.

But they are nowhere near as bad as they used to be.

09/03/2025

Spring season 🌼💐

1. My first rodeo
2. Iris from .vivendo
3. Sunset hikes & yap
4. Pistachio croissant and Seb’s sips
5. Cortados in my monarch mug and gardening
6. Calendula
7. Tinctures, greens, and foraged lobster mushrooms from friends
8. My first quilt I sewed for my sister-in-law and future niece

12/02/2025

Here’s to more connecting with nature 🦋 last week I got to experience something I’ve been wanting to do since I was a little girl- witness the winter Monarch migration in the mountains of Mexico!

We spent the weekend in a town of 400 people, watching the sunrise and sunset each day. After breakfasts cooked by the bnb’s mom, we headed out to the mountains to visit the butterflies. We hiked and rode horses to the top to see them.

Once we got to the top of the mountain, the butterflies were hidden in a select few trees, all within 200m of one another. In the cold, they lie dormant, trying to keep one another warm. When a spot of sunlight hits them, they scatter and begin flying between the trees. It’s truly so magical!

Every time I experience such beauty like this in nature I wonder why I ever spend my vacations in cities 😅 Nature is truly so miraculous. It can’t be explained. It can’t be copied. We can only appreciate it for exactly what it is.

I encourage you to explore the great outdoors, admire the flowers, observe the animals- there’s so many little miracles just in your backyard. 🌼

(also who remembers this song?? 🥹🥹🥹)

02/01/2025

Our bodies are our best teachers.

They can tell us more about ourselves than any health influencer, doctor, or dietician.

We have just been trained to shut them down… to silence them… to cover up whatever they are telling us.

If something is off with your skin, hair, gut, smell, etc. that is your body asking for something or asking you to take away something.

It is a cry for help that something is off!

Maybe 2025 will finally be the year that we stop and listen to it instead of looking for bandaid fixes like pharmaceuticals and deodorant.

01/01/2025

A cozy week of rest ✨

I’ve never been good at slowing down and not feeling guilty about it. Some may think this is because you’re an achiever or go-getter, but really it’s because your nervous system is out of whack.

Rest is so important. Physical rest, mental rest. Learning to slow down and appreciate what’s in front of you. Rest is good!!

made a great post about how to properly rest- go check it out.

True test is about being in the moment and now worrying about tomorrow, or work, or all of the things on your to-do list.

Rest (when done right) is great because it forces you to be in the moment and present with where you are right then.

This week I went on walks, ate work food made with love, enjoyed delicious raw milk lattes while reading, did some feel-good workouts, and watched lots of 1883 (you must watch, it’s so good).

What’s your favorite way to rest?

21/12/2024

When our definition of beauty drifts from natural wonders to concrete jungles…

… that’s when you know there’s more of a disconnect now than ever with beauty, the world, ourselves…

Everything man builds either is to mimic nature or to pull us further and further away from it.

Why?

The more disconnected from source we are, the easier we are to control and manipulate. Just as we’ve been manipulated into thinking concrete and gray and dreary neutrals are beautiful 🥴

The more you connect with nature, the more you’ll find the beauty within you and the rest of humankind, no matter how much it’s hidden by modern society.

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