A yoga teacher, integrative health coach, wellness instructor, blog writer, and special cookie recipe creator, Michelle owes her successes and passion for life to the challenges she faced in her early 20s. A 10-year cancer survivor of Hodgkin's lymphoma has truly shaped Michelle to become the person she is today. After facing challenges with health at an early age, Michelle realized that she needed to take control of her lifestyle and create a healthy balance of the mind and body. So she packed her shit, got on a flight and completed her first 200 hrs in 2011 from Nosara...

Imagine how you treat yourself on a daily basis as if you were another person, in a relationship with you. Do you say sweet things to yourself? Is there time you set apart to focus on loving your body and mind? Or would you want to ghost you ASAP. We often beat ourselves up with negative thoughts, abuse our bodies with harmful choices, and mute how our body and mind feel despite signals for help. These behaviors wreak havoc on our mental and physical health as well as our relationships with ourselves and others.    In honor of dear old...

  I am an over worker, a perfectionist, and an absolute freak when it comes to productivity. I feel like if I am not doing ten things at once, that I am failing at my business, my relationships, and most importantly, myself. The fact of the matter is - by doing ten things at once, I am not giving my all to one thing; or anything at all.    Occasionally I will have a day when no one is around, I have no meetings planned, I have no deadlines to make, and it’s just me. Panic sets in around noon....

  2019 was a wild ride. I feel like we've just arrived back at the loading gate at Six Flags and my hair is all wind blown from the 6 loops we just did. Through the ups and downs, we laughed, we cried, we ate sticks of goat cheese, and we smoked a lot of CBD. Though there were a lot of downs, we wouldn't be our true narcissistic internet selves if we didn't just show you the good stuff. So hold on tight cause there was a lot of it.   MARCH 2019 Essential Launched! We came running out of the...