Intentional Living
Starting Small: Five Steps to Getting Involved in Your Community
How to show up for your city or neighborhood when you don't know where to start.
Accompanying Yourself Through Times of Transition
In times of change, we do well to be present to ourselves.
Our Relationships with Animals (and People) are Going to the Dogs
Our love for fur babies comes at a time when there’s an atrocious lack of investment in people.
City Mindfulness: Seeing Your City Through Travelers’ (and Urbanists’) Eyes
How adopting a traveler’s curiosity can help you rediscover your city
A Perspective that Helps Me Process Covid Trauma in the Now
We can't avoid going through the dark to get to the other side.
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Rethinking Normal: How to Make Car-Free Living Work for You
Regain a sense of place in your local area by trying these alternative forms of transit.
From the Editor's Desk: Choosing What We Consume with Intention
Avoiding toxins isn't just for one's nutritional diet.
Dread Laundry Less by Sprucing Up Your Space
A little light, a little encouragement, and a little foliage go a long way.
What the Olsen Twins’ Success Paving their Own Path Can Teach All of Us
A rare interview with Mary-Kate and Ashley reveals how much intentionality is required to choose a less noisy, simpler road.
How I Stopped Pretending Suffering Is Avoidable
Leaning into uncomfortable tasks helped me overcome a fear of suffering
Looking Ahead By Looking Back: Accepting Help
Leaning on others to be freed of negative self-talk and self-pity
When Emergency Contraception Is Commonplace, Are We Losing Introspection?
What I wish I had known before I took Plan B
A Spring Wedding and Coronavirus: Embracing What Is Essential
What I learned adjusting my spring wedding plans
Lessons on Surviving a Quarantine from a Military Spouse
For me, a pandemic feels somewhat familiar
Cultivating Holiday Traditions as a New Family While Honoring Your Past
Shifting your mindset to create a unique, new holiday schedule that weaves old traditions with the new
Lessons Learned from Being Steeped in the World of Tea
Valuable knowledge and experience gained while volunteering at a tea festival
What Russian Novels Taught Me about Tending to My Inner Life
These famously long novels can teach us that personal growth takes time
