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Seasonal depression: 10 things to do to boost your energy and mood!

It’s starting to get grey outside AND it’s cold as fuck. You wake up- it’s dark, you come back from work- it’s already dark. Let’s be honest, beginning of winter is definitely NOT the time of the year where we have the most energy. Don’t [...]

By |January 10th, 2019|Categories: Life hacks|Comments Off on Seasonal depression: 10 things to do to boost your energy and mood!

6 reasons why you need to visit El Salvador

“Home is not the place where you happen to be born. It’s the place where you become yourself.” -Pico Iver El Salvador has been my accidental home for over two-and-a-half years. I came to explore her for two weeks and before I knew it, the [...]

By |December 28th, 2018|Categories: Adventure|Comments Off on 6 reasons why you need to visit El Salvador

How to get everything you’ve ever wanted in 2019

“We have lost too many days chasing the wrong things… today is the day to make things right. Today everything can be yours.” -unknown If someones profile is going to piss you off, don’t look at it. Just don’t. Mute or unfollow every profile that [...]

By |December 28th, 2018|Categories: Adventure|Comments Off on How to get everything you’ve ever wanted in 2019

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

Bali Style Corn Fritters w. Avocado-Yogurt dip

↠ Défilez vers le bas pour la version française The cool thing about Bali is that the breakfast/brunch culture is very strong (at least in the foreigners’ parts Canggu and the Bukit-Uluwatu). You literally can have breakfast at every moment of the day. I don’t know [...]

By |December 1st, 2018|Categories: Nutrition|Comments Off on Bali Style Corn Fritters w. Avocado-Yogurt dip

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

Chocolate hummus

I love to swap ingredients into desserts to make them more healthy. Like putting tofu or avocados in brownies to cut on fat, for example. Actually, let's be honest here; it's tricking people that I like. Simply for the pure satisfaction of thinking; Ha! You [...]

By |November 21st, 2018|Categories: Nutrition|Comments Off on Chocolate hummus

Empowered Sex Series – Why some women are still having bad sex

The sex-positive movement began in the 3rd wave feminism, and the 4th wave boasts a new brand of digitally driven sex-positivity. With things like the slut walk and sex-positive resources on social media instigating social change, people are realizing that a woman's worth has sweet [...]

By |November 18th, 2018|Categories: Sex|Comments Off on Empowered Sex Series – Why some women are still having bad sex

What is a real surfer?

"I hurtle on too long through the pounding submarine mist. End over end in my caul of bubbles until the turbulence is gone and I'm hanging limp in a faint green light while all heat ebbs from my chest and life begins to leach out [...]

By |November 4th, 2018|Categories: Surf|Comments Off on What is a real surfer?

PRANAYAMA – How learning to control your breath will make you a super-human

Have you ever met someone who was just so full of life, it felt like they were radiating? Someone that had a perceivable magnetism, and therefore seemed to be attracting all the good into their field… A freakin' gravitational force…!? The Chinese call it chi, [...]

By |October 16th, 2018|Categories: Training and fitness, Yoga|Comments Off on PRANAYAMA – How learning to control your breath will make you a super-human

Why Travel Makes You a Better Person

Traveling has never been this accessible. More and more, we are using school exchanges, working visas or just backpacking around as a common rite of passage. We all want to see the world, to live the dream, to pursue our passion and hopefully make money while [...]

By |October 11th, 2018|Categories: Adventure|Comments Off on Why Travel Makes You a Better Person

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…

Les Salty Souls dans la série Surf Inc. de Ouisurf

L’automne dernier, Benjamin Rochette, fondateur de Ouisurf, nous a proposé de prendre part à son nouveau projet: Surf Inc.  À travers une web série, on présente le parcours de 10 entrepreneurs qui ont choisi de s’expatrier afin de mettre leur passion au centre de leur [...]

By |September 24th, 2018|Categories: Adventure|Comments Off on Les Salty Souls dans la série Surf Inc. de Ouisurf

Marie-Christine Amyot: “Make Your Own Reality”

We say things happen for a reason. Usually when someone is having a hard time in their life. My life is falling apart and you’re telling me “Everything happens for a reason”?! F*ck you… Seriously! Because, do you know what? Some things happen for absolutely [...]

By |September 19th, 2018|Categories: Adventure|Comments Off on Marie-Christine Amyot: “Make Your Own Reality”

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

How to find and land your dream job

So. You have finally reached that point; you’re done with school, you’ve managed to find a job that is more or less related to your field, you’re getting paid, you’re safe… But, between you and me, this job doesn’t really get you excited in the [...]

By |August 27th, 2018|Categories: Life hacks|Comments Off on How to find and land your dream job

Surf Terms Glossary 101 – The top words you need to know

Being introduced to the surfing world also comes with a whole new dialect. You’ll find yourself in conversations where you’ll think “what da fack are they talking about ?! What does 'swell' even mean?" Yep. The Saltyz got your back! Here are the top surf [...]

By |August 21st, 2018|Categories: Surf|Comments Off on Surf Terms Glossary 101 – The top words you need to know

What do you weigh? How one woman is revolutionizing this question and fighting body-shaming online

What do you weigh? For some women, this question makes their blood run cold.  We live in a world that that treats every belly roll, every cellulite dimple, every thick pair of thighs like a crime. An outrage. A joke. Some sort of personal failure [...]

By |August 17th, 2018|Categories: News|Comments Off on What do you weigh? How one woman is revolutionizing this question and fighting body-shaming online

My introduction to the world of training (a tale from someone who hates working out)

I’ve never been a fan of working out. Just hearing the word “cardio” makes me want to throw up. Oh, and I hate gyms. Throughout my life I kind of tried to train here and there, just because I was told that exercising was good. [...]

By |August 16th, 2018|Categories: Surf|Comments Off on My introduction to the world of training (a tale from someone who hates working out)

How does nutrition relate to climate change?

Hi, My name is Ari BC. And I feel like crying every time I see a picture of a starving polar bear stuck in the middle of a melted iceberg ocean. Planet earth sure is taking an ominous turn. It seriously kills me that we [...]

By |August 15th, 2018|Categories: Nutrition|Comments Off on How does nutrition relate to climate change?

Festival Mudra – Les recettes!

Les boissons végétales De toutes les variétés possibles, la première qui nous vient en tête en matière de boissons végétales, c’est le lait d’amande. Étant le plus neutre au niveau du goût, vous pourrez l’utiliser en substitution au lait de vache dans la majorité de [...]

By |August 1st, 2018|Categories: Nutrition|Comments Off on Festival Mudra – Les recettes!

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

How to Survive Being an Introvert in an Extrovert’s World

"Why are we like this?” I found myself saying to my friend over the phone the other day, the guilt and embarrassment hot in my throat. I was in my room, alone, with the doors shut, while conversation buzzed outside. I had been around people [...]

By |July 23rd, 2018|Categories: Life hacks|Comments Off on How to Survive Being an Introvert in an Extrovert’s World

Quinoa walnut sliders w. granny smith & fennel slaw

Many a brave soul has made the heroic attempt to make the transition from the classic meat burger to a ''healthier' meat-free version. However, as the great Eminem once said, you usually only have one shot -one opportunity- to convince your family, friends (or the [...]

By |July 14th, 2018|Categories: Nutrition|Comments Off on Quinoa walnut sliders w. granny smith & fennel slaw

Best Surf Spots (Beginner+Intermediate): Las Flores, El Salvador

What's the Surf Spot Series ? It's the Salty Team's favorite surf spots ;) When it comes to surfing, it’s never easy to pick the right spot, especially as beginners. There are so many and they all work better at different time of the year, [...]

By |July 10th, 2018|Categories: Surf|Comments Off on Best Surf Spots (Beginner+Intermediate): Las Flores, El Salvador