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Imperfect AF helps humans just like you make realistic changes to be healthy, less stressed + more themselves through accessible group + individual coaching, workshops + motivational materials that meet you where you are. Imperfect AF helps humans just like you make realistic changes to be healthy, less stressed + more themselves through accessible group + individual coaching, targeted sessions, workshops + motivational content that meets you where you are.

โšก Mental Health Awareness Month is here + I'm here to talk about energy. Your mental health is very much a part of your ...
05/11/2026

โšก Mental Health Awareness Month is here + I'm here to talk about energy. Your mental health is very much a part of your holistic wellness + not separate. And it's very much an energy type thing.

๐Ÿ’• When your mental energy is protected, supported, + understood, everything else gets easier. Your relationships feel lighter. Your body feels safer. Your capacity for work, joy, movement, rest just flows better.

โ˜ So this week, I'm breaking down 4 ways to protect + reclaim your mental energy (swipe through):

1๏ธโƒฃ Boundaries: They're not selfish. It's necessary. Every time you say no to something that drains you, you're protecting your capacity.
2๏ธโƒฃ Rest: It's maintenance. Mental energy depletes like physical energy. You need downtime to recover. Period.
3๏ธโƒฃ Asking for help: Carrying everything alone is exhausting. Support such as therapy, trusted people, and coaching as examples, gives you back capacity you didn't know you had.
4๏ธโƒฃ Knowing your patterns: When do you feel depleted? What triggers you? What helps you recover? This self-knowledge is powerful protection.

๐Ÿ’โ€โ™€ Which one of these gives you pause? For me, rest time can be difficult to accept.

โœจ I did a little experiment recently + set an intention to capture moments of joy I found in each day. Sometimes they we...
05/09/2026

โœจ I did a little experiment recently + set an intention to capture moments of joy I found in each day. Sometimes they were bigger moments, but often they were quite small, fairly ordinary, or silly.

๐Ÿ˜Those stickers? They're for letters. Sending mail filled with stickers to people I love is one of my quiet joys.

๐Ÿ’ช I'm a task-focused person by nature, usually planning the day in terms of action items. At the end of the day when I reflect, I do find moments of joy, but sometimes question how present I was. Lifting up our phones to record or snap isn't always portrayed as the most present approach, but when something made me smile, I tried to take a keepsake.

๐Ÿ˜ฉ As adults, it's easy to let the day run away with appointments, calls to make, errands to run, things we "should" do to better ourselves. But including joy, even in moments that seem mundane or mandatory, matters for holistic wellness. This photo set shows moments of intellect, physical strength, emotional connection + more.

๐ŸŒฑ Perhaps a tiny quest for the weekend: find a few moments of joy + capture them or be present in them somehow. And if you feel like sharing through words or images, I love celebrating your moments too.

๐Ÿ‘Ž I'm so over appointments. And some weeks are just back to back to back. Even when I control the timing as much as I ca...
05/06/2026

๐Ÿ‘Ž I'm so over appointments. And some weeks are just back to back to back. Even when I control the timing as much as I can, I have to give in to someone else's availability or urgency.

๐Ÿ’™ When living with chronic illness, this often becomes the baseline, not the exception. We're held to the schedule Tetris of our care team + the urgency of certain tasks.

๐Ÿ”ฅ But this burden of busyness can also rear its unwelcome head during intense work seasons full of project deadlines, roadmap planning, + research studies. Or even by parents juggling a tangle of doctor appointments, extracurricular activities, + errands.

๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ The feeling of complete overwhelm + exhaustion is valid. Even if each individual thing feels "fine," the collection of them all can be draining.

๐Ÿ”‹ Recovery time between these tasks is necessary, but sometimes unattainable in the way we hope. I don't find it dramatic to feel like you're on low battery mode from a calendar full of "small" things.

๐ŸŒฑ If your week looks like this, I see you. Rest where you can, even if it's imperfect.

๐Ÿค– Swipe through for a reminder you might need.โœจ We're constantly sold the next supplement, procedure, app, or gadget tha...
05/01/2026

๐Ÿค– Swipe through for a reminder you might need.

โœจ We're constantly sold the next supplement, procedure, app, or gadget that'll finally optimize us. Finally fix us. Finally make us the most efficient version of ourselves.

๐ŸŒฑ But you're not a system that needs upgrading. You're a human.

๐Ÿฆฅ Sometimes you're tired because you're tired. Sometimes you're slow because you need to be slow.

๐Ÿ’“ Perhaps the "inefficient" way is the right way for you. Not everything about you needs a hack.

๐Ÿ“ Your space can support your peace.๐Ÿ  I've been thinking about this a lot since my move. The way a room is set up, what'...
04/29/2026

๐Ÿ“ Your space can support your peace.

๐Ÿ  I've been thinking about this a lot since my move. The way a room is set up, what's on the walls, where things live, + how it all affects how I feel when I'm in it.

โœจ You don't need a full redesign. Sometimes it's just moving one thing. Opening a window. Clearing a surface. Lighting a candle. Designating a space for reflection.

๐ŸŒฑ Environmental wellness is real. Your surroundings are part of your wellbeing too.

What's one small thing in your space that supports your peace?

๐Ÿœ๏ธ I've been navigating a messy middle lately. A season of transition that stretched longer than I expected.๐ŸŒฑ I'm on the...
04/27/2026

๐Ÿœ๏ธ I've been navigating a messy middle lately. A season of transition that stretched longer than I expected.

๐ŸŒฑ I'm on the other side now. Sort of. The crisis part is behind me, but the "what now" part has its own weight.

โœจ Through all of it, I've been leaning on the things that help me feel grounded. Familiar shows. Comfort reads. Small rituals that still feel like me even when everything else feels different.

๐Ÿ’ญ If you're in an unfamiliar season too, here's a question I've been sitting with:

What's one small thing that still feels like me, even when everything else feels different?

๐Ÿ“ฌ More on this (+ a revamped article on unsolicited advice during hard seasons) in my latest newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/e66b25b38350/wellness-unfiltered-vol18

๐Ÿ’– Spent time this morning setting up for the week: what my top 3 business-focused  opportunities are, what personal admi...
04/27/2026

๐Ÿ’– Spent time this morning setting up for the week: what my top 3 business-focused opportunities are, what personal admin I need to tackle (annoyed that it involves phone calls), what my moments of joy and fun could be,, and just breathing in what I want the week to feel like.

Alsoโ€ฆ this quail mug ๐Ÿ˜

โ˜€๏ธ What are your beginning of the week rituals?

๐Ÿ“ธ Got my new license. Pretty sure they captured my best angle.๐Ÿคก (They did not.)๐ŸŒฑ Wellness in real life includes the unfl...
04/25/2026

๐Ÿ“ธ Got my new license. Pretty sure they captured my best angle.

๐Ÿคก (They did not.)

๐ŸŒฑ Wellness in real life includes the unflattering moments. The bad lighting. The weird smile. The photo you'd never post on purpose.

โœจ I don't love it. And I'm learning to be okay with that. It's a tiny rectangle that proves I can legally drive. It doesn't define me.

Drop a ๐Ÿคก if you can relate. Tag someone that needs a lil FriYAY giggle!

๐Ÿ’ญ Unpopular opinion: Taking a break at a gathering isn't avoidance. It's capacity management.๐Ÿ›‹๏ธ Stepping away to recharg...
04/22/2026

๐Ÿ’ญ Unpopular opinion: Taking a break at a gathering isn't avoidance. It's capacity management.

๐Ÿ›‹๏ธ Stepping away to recharge means I can actually be present for the rest of it.

โœจ I will find the quiet corner, the empty room, or the back porch. I will take the 15 minutes. I will return ready to engage instead of running on fumes.

๐ŸŒฑ Honoring what my body needs isn't rude. It's how I show up better for the people I'm there to see.

๐Ÿ™‹โ€โ™€๏ธ Who else takes timeouts? It can't be just me.

๐Ÿ’• A new Holistic Haiku for you.๐Ÿ‘– I recently went + bought new pants. The size was bigger. I had a moment.โœจ But then I pu...
04/18/2026

๐Ÿ’• A new Holistic Haiku for you.

๐Ÿ‘– I recently went + bought new pants. The size was bigger. I had a moment.

โœจ But then I put them on + they were comfortable. They also looked better than jumping around trying to squeeze into my old ones. (Sorry, Beyoncรฉ.)

๐ŸŒฑ Your body now deserves clothes that fit it now.

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