For the past few years I’ve been mostly avoiding these two food groups: carbs and sugar. I never used to before I turned 30 and in fact, growing up these two were a healthy part of my diet. Dessert after dinner was as natural as brushing your teeth before going to bed and any form of carbs from pasta to rice was a must with every meal. My “high metabolic” constitution didn’t stop me from going for seconds or lets face it sometimes eating half a pie in one setting. But between my late 20’s and early 30’s I began packing on the pounds – precisely the time that I began a more sedentary lifestyle which consisted of sitting at my desk for ten hours a day and sacrificing any form of physical activity.
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I used to hate cleaning. In my twenties I became a naturally messy person and a lazy cleaner – probably subconsciously in defiance of my childhood upbringing which included rigorous weekly chores courtesy of…
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Last week, I made it all the way into the jungles of Nosara, Costa Rica for a thyroid healing yoga retreat with the amazing and beautiful Fern Olivia. I had been diagnosed with hypothyroidism…
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My whole life I’ve been aspiring to get to the next phase of it. In high school I couldn’t wait to be in college, in college I couldn’t wait to have a career. When…
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Photo by freestocks.org on Unsplash I came across this amazing heart meditation by Deepak Chopra on Spotify a few months back, and it has now become my favourite go to mini guided meditation. Just wanted to share this…
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I am loving this new card deck from Gabby Bernstein! Created from her book The Universe Has Your Back, these cards are my go to before I head out the door for work. They are…
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Hey Beauties! I wanted to create a space on my website to share daily tidbits of inspiration. Here’s a first glimpse of it! ♥Diana…
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I had an addiction…a false lash addiction. And just like any addiction, this one was no different. After almost a year of getting my lashes done at three different “artists”, I came to a…
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Sitting on my mat with my eyes closed at my first yoga class of the year, our instructor shared a beautiful story about letting go of our attachment from outcomes. The story was about…
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Scrolling through my Facebook feed, I came across a post that a friend had shared on the Hang Son Doong cave in Vietnam. You might have already heard of this story : how a…