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The Truth About Living an Unconventional Life Abroad: Is It Worth It?

photo by Pedro Grimaldi If you asked me about leaving the traditional life for the unconventional life, a new life in a new country, no set 9-5, making a living from different, constantly changing income streams so we have more time to play, I’d say [...]

By |October 3rd, 2024|Categories: Adventure, Empowerment, Travel|Comments Off on The Truth About Living an Unconventional Life Abroad: Is It Worth It?

How to Know When it’s Time to Leave

How do we know when it's time to leave? Should I stay or should I go. What if this is just a phase? What if I regret it? What if I never find anything better? “Do not choose the lesser life. do you hear me. [...]

By |September 26th, 2024|Categories: Adventure, Empowerment|Comments Off on How to Know When it’s Time to Leave

Lady Porn; Best Erotica for Women

Research shows that women’s pleasure is often more multifaceted and responsive to emotional, contextual, and psychological factors compared to men’s. Studies have found that women’s arousal and satisfaction tend to be influenced by a wider range of stimuli, including emotional connection, mood, and mental state. [...]

By |August 9th, 2024|Categories: Empowerment, Sex|Comments Off on Lady Porn; Best Erotica for Women

Why I’m done with beginner’s shame… and you should be too

Why do we get so embarrassed when we’re learning a new sport or skill or craft? I call it beginner's shame.  PERSON: “Are these your paintings?” US: "I mean, yes… but like, I’m JUST STARTING and I haven’t had any OFFICIAL TRAINING and this is [...]

By |March 3rd, 2024|Categories: Empowerment, Surf|Comments Off on Why I’m done with beginner’s shame… and you should be too

TOP 15+ GAME-CHANGING BOOKS

Less scrolling...more reading ! // A great book as the power to completely shift your vision of life, and teach you more useful tips than your whole university degree. But eh ! there is so many out there, it's sometimes discouraging to even make a [...]

By |August 18th, 2023|Categories: Book suggestions, Empowerment, Life hacks|Comments Off on TOP 15+ GAME-CHANGING BOOKS

Dew Promchareon on Thailand’s Growing Surf Scene

In this article, Caitlin Creeper sits down to talk Thailand's Growing Surf Scene with Dew Promchareon. Where are you from? Rayong, Thailand. I learnt how to surf there but I usually move down to Phuket or Khao Lak as they get more swell. I am [...]

By |November 4th, 2022|Categories: Adventure, Empowerment, Surf, Training and fitness, Travel, Wellness|Tags: , , |Comments Off on Dew Promchareon on Thailand’s Growing Surf Scene

Why being called ‘difficult’ is a good thing

Don’t be afraid to be a bit of a pain in the ass Better that momentary echo of guilt, the fear, the - should I have said that? Was that too much? The one we’ve been conditioned to feel Every time we dig our heels [...]

By |August 11th, 2021|Categories: All, Empowerment|Comments Off on Why being called ‘difficult’ is a good thing

Why we need to see more nudity and naked bodies

Why we need to see more nudity and naked bodies. When was the last time you were fully naked in front of someone? When was the last time you bared it all without apology, without explanation? Without manipulating how you were standing or lying so [...]

By |June 11th, 2021|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on Why we need to see more nudity and naked bodies

“I’m done wearing grey-colored glasses.” A note of hope from our contributor Astrid, currently in Italy.

Well, this is one I never thought I'd even begin to type. When I left nearly four months ago on my big adventure, I never expected once I would find myself stuck in the middle of one of the worst hit-countries of a global pandemic- [...]

By |March 23rd, 2020|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on “I’m done wearing grey-colored glasses.” A note of hope from our contributor Astrid, currently in Italy.

Traveling cheap: should we always choose the least expensive option?

Traveling cheap has it’s own exhilarating kind of flavour. There’s something spicy about it, like you’re ninja-tricking the system. The system that wants you to work year round just to ‘earn’ your weeklong tropical vacation at the end of the year. Since I started traveling [...]

By |January 6th, 2020|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on Traveling cheap: should we always choose the least expensive option?

Your at-home DIY retreat

Finding yourself at home more than usual right now? ... Why don’t you do a DIY Salty Retreat at home? This post will show you how to do just that and leave you feeling centred, recalibrated, energized and calm again. You will need: A weekend [...]

By |December 14th, 2019|Categories: Empowerment, Nutrition, Surf, Yoga|Comments Off on Your at-home DIY retreat

JOURNALLING EXERCISE for figuring out who you are now, what you want, and where you’re headed

As things simultaneously wind down and speed up for the holiday season, December is a great season to sit down and check in with ourselves. These journalling exercises are designed to help you figure out who you are now, what you want (and don't want [...]

By |December 2nd, 2019|Categories: Empowerment, Life hacks|Comments Off on JOURNALLING EXERCISE for figuring out who you are now, what you want, and where you’re headed

What is Slow Living?

What is Slow Living? If you looked at my life over the past few years you would think my favourite word was ‘complicated’ or ‘chaos’ or ’crammed.’ I chose to move to the other side of the planet, after all. To pull together some semblance [...]

By |October 4th, 2019|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on What is Slow Living?

How creativity will improve your life

What do you think of when you think of a ‘creativity’ and 'creatives'? Do you consider yourself a creative? Or do you think creativity only belongs to a select few? The employed and commissioned painters, writers, musicians and artists of the world? Those guys? This [...]

By |September 6th, 2019|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on How creativity will improve your life

Female Creatives and Impostor Syndrome

Let's talk about impostor syndrome. “Are you scared?” She said. “Yes.” I was on the phone to the illustrator who was going to help me design the cover of my first book. It had taken me almost a year to get on the phone, brainstorm [...]

By |August 6th, 2019|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on Female Creatives and Impostor Syndrome

The word ‘girl’: empowering or infantilizing?

"Paddle, girl, dale!" My friend is in a paddle battle with two other men. She's on the inside, rightfully her wave, but you can tell the dudes don't think she's going to make it. She digs her arms in and paddles with all she's got. [...]

By |April 12th, 2019|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on The word ‘girl’: empowering or infantilizing?

Instagram accounts that will make you feel good about yourself + your life

I refuse to hate Instagram. Do I hate how it can give people chronic fear of missing out, shortens our attention spans, fries our eyeballs and  makes people neurotic that everyone is doing life better than us? Yes. And. Instagram has been the catalyst for [...]

By |February 10th, 2019|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on Instagram accounts that will make you feel good about yourself + your life

Adult friendships: how to take care of them

“And then,” she said to me. “She told me she didn’t need a friend like me anymore, and unfriended me on Facebook. I was sitting in the airport at the time. It made me cry” I’ve been hearing a lot of these stories recently. Friendships [...]

By |February 4th, 2019|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on Adult friendships: how to take care of them

Meet Jenny Troeber: founder of Boundless Betty

Meet Jenny Troeber, founder of Boundless Betty. Her mission is to encourage, inspire, empower and ease accessibility for all women into outdoor adventure sports. Where did your passion for action sports begin? I think that I have mostly my dad to blame for this! He’s [...]

By |January 28th, 2019|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on Meet Jenny Troeber: founder of Boundless Betty

Before anything, belong to yourself

"You only are free when you realize you belong no place — you belong every place — no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great..." -MAYA ANGELOU If your year was a book, what kind of genre would it be? She asked. It would be [...]

By |December 21st, 2018|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on Before anything, belong to yourself

Burn it all Down: Reasons why we Self Sabotage

You’ve just received the career opportunity of a lifetime. A new job, or an invitation into a new project, a new client, a new business opportunity, or a promotion. The kind of thing you’ve dreamed about for years. Like, beyond-the-realms-of-wildest-dreams cool. The kind of opportunity [...]

By |December 21st, 2018|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on Burn it all Down: Reasons why we Self Sabotage

This one is for the WILD ONES

“Some days I am more wolf than woman and I’m still learning how to stop apologizing for my wild.” - Nikita Gill   Coming across this short poem has hit me, shook me, straight to the heart. How to stop apologizing for my wild…? How to [...]

By |December 18th, 2018|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on This one is for the WILD ONES

How to see the light when everything gets dark

Today, I sat still in the ocean, holding on to my surfboard like it was the only thing keeping me alive, and I cried out loud in the middle of the big blue. Drifting away, giving up, giving in, surrendering to the all-mighty ocean. I [...]

By |November 26th, 2018|Categories: Empowerment, Yoga|Comments Off on How to see the light when everything gets dark

How one woman is changing the face of El Salvador through Street Art

[*] artstigator /artsˈtɪɡeɪtor/ noun: street art aficionado who artstigates, or tirelessly covers the streets of a city on the quest to document the emerging street art scene. Slightly addicted. Meet art curator Alexandra Sol. She is the creator of Journey of an Artstigator, a group of artstigators on [...]

By |October 8th, 2018|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on How one woman is changing the face of El Salvador through Street Art

How to show your people you care…

I’m landing in Indonesia, coming straight from Central America. The last few hours before this 35-hour trip have been completely crazy and the whole journey hasn’t been less hectic: i’m still trying to catch my breath when I reach destination. I exit the arrivals door [...]

By |September 28th, 2018|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on How to show your people you care…

The Urgency of Playfulness

This post was originally published in 2016. Some parts have been edited from the original for current day relevance. This article was written about in 2016 in Psychology Today by the late American game designer, author, lecturer and fun theorist Bernie De Koven, a pioneer [...]

By |September 8th, 2018|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on The Urgency of Playfulness

Dear belly rolls; I am ridiculously in love with you

A love letter to my belly... Dude. I love you so, so much. I love how you remind me of my sister and my mother and my mothers mother, all possessing the same swell of flesh perched on the edge of our waistbands. And can [...]

By |September 2nd, 2018|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on Dear belly rolls; I am ridiculously in love with you

If you weren’t afraid of being rejected, what would you do?

Featured image: Théo Gosselin If you weren’t afraid of being rejected, what would you do? I lower my gaze for a second and take a short, shallow breath. My gut is wrapped in a tight ball. Mind racing. Heart pounding. So much to say and [...]

By |July 31st, 2018|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on If you weren’t afraid of being rejected, what would you do?

Why it’s ok to keep your relationship off social media

“I have a question for you.” A friend asked me the other day. That question never fails to jolt me into a state of half-terror / half excitement. It’s a question that gets the blood going and the heart racing, a game that has a [...]

By |July 25th, 2018|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on Why it’s ok to keep your relationship off social media

Your story isn’t finished. It isn’t even close.

I’m in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I need to get back to Albuquerque before nightfall, because I’ve rented out a little tiny wagon home for the night, before my flight out of the States the next day. I don’t know why I chose the tiny [...]

By |May 24th, 2018|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on Your story isn’t finished. It isn’t even close.