The ship metaphor has been significant for me since my early adult life when someone reminded me of the importance of keeping my purpose and goals top of mind to keep me on track whenever obstacles arise.

In the case of technology, eliminating it from our lives just isn’t viable for most of us. We rely on it for work, for play, and to maintain meaningful personal relationships. This means we need to learn to live with it in a way that works for us, not against us.

One of the fundamental components to living a healthy, balanced life is the process of continual realignment. For many, this might be a foreign concept. Let’s break it down. I’ll start with the key themes of continual realignment, then unpack how to use this practice to bring more stability and joy into your daily life.

It can be all too easy to dismiss the things in life that you love, those little things that light you up and bring you joy, as ‘silly.’ When we have a lot on our plate, one of the first things we ditch are the simple pleasures. Well, I’m here to give you a permission slip to prioritize joy.

Every single day, we have the opportunity to grab hold of the reins and make more time and more space for more joy to enter our lives.

I’ve found that prioritizing real, embodied joy has been more important than ever as we move through our collective COVID crisis. That’s because the way out of digital overwhelm is not by heaping on more tasks and shame-inducing to-do lists; the way out of digital overwhelm is leaning into the simple pleasures in life.

Ever see a notification light up your phone and get a little rush of excitement? Or find yourself scrolling through Instagram and by the time you look up somehow 20 minutes have flown by? Today, we’re going to get to the heart of why the “free” products we use every day—from Twitter to YouTube—are actually costing us huge when it comes to our attention and well-being.

Staying informed on what’s happening, around the world and locally, is a natural and healthy instinct. But it’s too easy to over-consume and feel drained after reading the news. So how do we make that shift? How do we consume responsibly?

Friendships help balance our mental health and nourish our souls. But finding friends, and maintaining those friendships, takes time and energy.

An amazing thing happens when two humans communicate face to face: their brains synchronize. And communication technology, while advanced, can’t match our natural equipment. I challenge you pause and asses how you feel after different types of interactions and to understand how our minds and bodies are wired to communicate.

Falling out of love with social media inspired graphic designer John Morse-Brown to create a line of stationery designed to revive the tradition of letter writing. I explore why this analog act brings a type of gratification no text message or email can rival.

When we get some spare time, we can feel paralyzed because we don't know what to do with it. Could it simply be enjoyed? I make the case for why we need to take mind vacations—a daily reprieve for the processing capacity of our brains.

There’s a reason that religious and spiritual practices have been part of human civilization since the very beginning: we’re wired to love rituals and routines. This short history lesson explores why we feel pleased, comfortable, and secure when we find them.

These two concepts get tossed around a lot, and similar to words like “envy” and “jealousy,” we tend to conflate, misuse, or completely confuse their meanings. They’re related. In fact, they’re importantly connected to one another—but they represent different facets of our conscious experience and they’re each worth understanding.

The fear of missing out seeps in from somewhere outside of you. It deceives, saying: “You are not doing enough. You don’t have enough. You are not enough.” But I urge you to ask yourself: “where does time stop for me?”—and here’s why you should.