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  • Personal Hygiene Hacks for Music Festivals

    Personal Hygiene Hacks for Music Festivals

    Music festivals are generally messy, and the shower lines can get really long, but keeping clean and staying fresh is an essential part of enjoying a festival. I’d like to list some of my new favorite personal hygiene products that I’m using this festival season.

    Carpe Antiperspirant Underarm Wipes

    ALŌH Skin – Softening Sanitizing Hand Wipes – Peppermint + Eucalyptus Aloe

    Wipes of any kind are super handy at festivals, but these two wipes are my favorite. The sanitizing hand wipes have a refreshing smell that helps you feel extra clean and the eucalyptus helps cool you down. Carpe is a great deodorant brand and I know several people that swear by it. Their underarm wipes are great for a mid-day refresh before heading out for the night-time fun.

    AKT Deodorant Balm

    Kleenex Snap & Go Ultra Soft Facial Tissues

    This all natural, aluminum free and plastic free deodorant balm is a unisex deodorant that actually works! I personally love the cedar and eucalyptus scent. I also find having tissues handy is clutch at a festival. These “snap & go” containers keep the tissues dry in the rain and each tissue is easy to remove individually.

    GuruNanda Mini Disposable Toothbrushes with Toothpaste & Toothpick

    Compressed Towel Disposable

    Brushing your teeth and washing your face at the beginning and end of each festival day is super important. Brushing your teeth helps keep bacteria from developing in your mouth and can help keep your immune system strong. I love these compressed towels because they are disposable and you can easily wash your face with a fresh towel every time.

    YOGAMEDIC OGAMEDIC Double Barrel Nasal Inhaler Stick

    MOXĒ Eucalyptus Essential Oil Nasal Inhaler

    Festivals can be overwhelming for every sensory input. Its important to remember to once in a while find a dark, quiet corner, and mentally rest. But sometimes getting in the right relaxing headspace can be difficult at a festival with so much noise. Thats why I like using aromatherapy to help me decompress from the world around me and it helps me when I’m feeling over stimulated.

  • Happy Birthday to ME!

  • Staycation in the Hamptons

    After being stuck quarantined in my 1 bedroom apartment, I really needed some time away from the city. My parents were kind enough to lend us their house in East Hampton at the tip of Long Island. Its a cozy place that is super close to both the town and the beach. My parents have had the house since I was born, but have added an addition and some other upgrades to the house since. This is honestly one of my favorite places in the world.

  • How to feel grounded in a crazy world

    I’ve struggled a lot with my mental health over the years. After struggling for a really long time in my late teens and early 20s, I’ve now been on the same prescription cocktail for several years now. My longest lasting relationship is my therapist and I would probably never leave the east coast because of her. I struggled for years trying to find “a magic pill” to make my minor problems (which seemed like huge emotional hurtles) go away. I then found Dialectic Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and I found a logical way of dealing with my illogical problems without making myself feel invalidated or “crazy.” 

    In times like these, when things seem so out of control and crazy, I like to fall back on some basic DBT skills to cope with all the insanity. These are very difficult times for everyone right now, but especially hard for people of color and people affected by covid-19. Using these skills may help you feel more grounded. Please read this link for more detailed information, but below is my interpretation of the essential DBT skills. 

    1. Mindfulness
      • Mindfulness is essentially living in the moment. Don’t worry about what could happen in the future, just focus on how you can help yourself in the next 5 minuets.  
    2. Distress Tolerance
      • DBT has a “Do What Works” policy for distress tolerance (obviously without harming yourself). Let it out, scream, cry, smash something! Your emotions are temporary and you will get past this. 
    3. Interpersonal Effectiveness
      • One of my favorite worksheets from this section is called “D.E.A.R. M.A.N.” and it’s about how to ask for things you need in a way that will get you what you want. 
    4. Emotional Regulation 
      • This is the hardest. This skill focuses on regulating your internal emotions by learning where they come from, validating that they are a real emotion coming from a real place, and then learning to get past it and let that feeling go. 

    More reading on DBT:

    Dialectical Behavior Therapy on Psychology Today , Mind Well NYC, Overview of DBT on Psych Central

  • Quarantine Home Decor – Part 2

    I realize I make a lot of ridiculous purchases, however, this one I think takes the cake. I bought a hammock chair with this huge indoor hammock chair stand. Totally ridiculous, but also totally completely relaxing. I put the chair in my bedroom which is far away from my computer desk. I don’t want to even think about a computer when I’m in the hammock.

    Once I sit in that chair at the end of the day, and the sun is exactly in the right place to engulf the entire chair in sunlight, it creates a magical experience that helps make you feel like your outside. I open my window to get a nice breeze and to hear the birds. I recently got a little wind chime bell that will help create a calming environment. All of these things put together really help me relax at the end of the day.

  • #BLM Blackout

    It’s been a crazy couple of weeks so far. I’ve been muted on my social media for the black lives matter protests. The voice of people who look like me have been heard for so long, I wanted to take the time and let others speak and be heard.

  • All Dressed Up with Nowhere to Go

    So after several days in sweatpants and hoodies, I had enough! It’s friday, and I need to figure out a way to make it feel like the weekend, even though all these days are blending together like a fruit smoothie. After taking a hot shower, I put on these wide leg pants (yes, they where still stretchy) and a short, almost cropped, striped shirt. then I went all out on my hair and makeup just to make me feel special.

    My boyfriend and I then put on #coach lands streaming on Twitch. We shut off the lights and turned up the volume on the great stereo system that is in the house we are staying in during this pandemic. After a couple of drinks and several hours of shuffle dancing, we felt like we were at a concert.

    My boyfriend also ordered this huge bluetooth speaker because he thinks large events like concerts and festivals will be postponed until fall of 2021.

    This speaker is load and powerful enough to create a concert-like “main-stage”
    experience. We are planning on testing it next week.

  • East Hampton Nature Walk

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