Bodies

SLEEP IS REALLY IMPORTANT. Here ar six ways to help make your sleep sacred.

On Sunday night, I went on a Christmas tree hunting expedition.

My well-meaning friends would share how their ‘bad cramps’ were cured with birth control or yoga, and I’d feel like the failure with a low tolerance for pain. I’d sit in bed, between pain spells and wonder if my agony was an elaborate form of laziness designed to help me shirk the adulthood. The Bad Cramps Brigade meant to foster solidarity, was inadvertently gas-lighting me.

I can feel the air on my thighs and a jiggle in my step after I slip into my gym shorts. My cellulite, which rarely sees the light of day, is hanging out for all to see. My thighs rub together and stubble stands on end without the protective sheath of my capris. I am ready to get my workout on. And I am uncomfortable.

My version of self-care is a little less “best life” and a little more “no life”, but it works for me.

The other night, I was eating capellini with asparagus and shrimp with a new friend/Babecamp Jamaica alum.

It’s a trend in the photography business, along with bestie shoots and cake smash pics: boudoir photos.

Last month, I turned 30 (gasp!). It still gives me a little bit of a heart palpitation to type that out, but nonetheless, it happened.