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This is my story – What eczema is really like

I want to be completely transparent. The last 2 months of my life have been a living hell. Physically and emotionally torturous, the worst form of suffering by far I’ve ever experienced in my life. It’s hard for me to explain because you might be thinking, “How can a rash be THAT bad?” Before developing eczema on my hands, I never would have been able to imagine how a skin condition like this could affect you so much or be so debilitating. Traveling to see my family at the end of June this summer resulted in a MASSIVE flare up of …

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Life update – eczema health struggles

I’ve gotten some emails from readers asking about my health after my last post (I know it’s been super quiet on the blog lately – mostly because of various life crazies going on which you’ll hear more about below). Can I just say really quick, you guys are so sweet 🙂 I’m grateful to have such loyal readers checking in on this blog even when I sometimes go months without posting! One thing about me that tends to surprise people is I have no problem dropping pretty much everything else in my life if need be, to focus on health and …

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Leaving NYC: How to deal with the fear of moving

The new year is all about setting big goal and intentions for ourselves, yeah? Well, I’ve got a big scary goal that I’ve been sitting on for a long time… could this be the year it’s finally brought to fruition? I’m talking about moving away from New York City. Not just to travel for a series of months. But permanently. Scary!!!!! Maybe I should backtrack a little. I am originally from NYC – born in Manhattan, partially raised in Brooklyn. As a child we moved all over the east coast so I also grew up in other places but ever since …

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Thoughts on death, spirituality and living intentionally

(All photos in this post taken by my dad) December was a really challenging month for me, full of loss, illness, grieving and bed rest. My dad passed away at the beginning of last month, very suddenly though not unexpectedly. Just two weeks after that, I came down with the worst cold I’ve had in years which then turned into bronchitis, keeping me sick for weeks. I spent the month of December more or less in bed, putting a hold on all work and clients, just focusing all my energy on recovering and healing. To top it all off, the trip …

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How to cope with grief, loss and depression

As a followup to my very raw and personal post last week, I wanted to touch on the topic of grief more and some things that have been helping me weather not only this difficult time but many other losses in the past. Grief and depression are emotions that I’ve felt acutely familiar with over the past year and change, first with the loss of my longterm home, then with the loss of my longterm pet rabbit Alexi, and now with what’s going on with my dad. Grief is such an overwhelming and devastating feeling. I won’t say I have all …

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My cancer story

Cancer. The one word that no one wants to hear. The word that stops us in our tracks and causes us to go completely pale. The one word that has the ability to make every other problem in our life seem completely miniscule and irrelevant because none of that other shit matters when it comes down to this. I never thought I or anyone in my immediate family would ever deal with this horrible disease. Cancer was something that people with a family history got. People with the cancer gene. If you didn’t have it running in your family, you didn’t …

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