Y’all, Austin is still Austin. Thank god. This has been my longest return home since I lived in Austin full-time, and I’m startled, relieved, thrilled to find out that fundamentally Austin is still Austin. I thought I didn’t know it, but I do. I know the people, the friendly waves, the gravelly sands of Town…
VB, FB, bike rides, yoga, Chalk, catch-ups, boy bonding with Nali pup—it was a great week of activities. Now I’m headed to the river! The river! Grateful for fun already had and fun anticipated … Also. I was feeling insecure about any number things—because I’m a girl, mostly—last night, so much so that I literally…
It’s no secret I love me some BCAAs and electrolytes. These are my new faves. Enough my faves that I was walking out the door when they arrived on my doorstep via LuckyVitamin.com and I turned around and swapped Nalgenes in order to take my Mestrength powder-filled Nalgene to the gym instead of the previous…
Because recycling/upcycling/donating is the best. Mail in any secondhand athletic apparel (any brand) to GRACEDBYGRIT by May 1, and you get 40% off one item! They are donating everything to the Community Resource Center in Encinitas, a center aiding women, children and victims of domestic violence. All you have to do to get the discount…
Yeah, I probably definitely caught that last touchdown because of my LuckyVitamin – Spread the Wellness Sunnies. $4. Here are all the goods from my latest Lucky Vitamin order—I tried all new products this time! Always fun to try things, and LuckyVitamin.com offers such great deals especially when you’re trying new-to-them brands that it’s a…
But I don’t wear flip-flops. Last week I wrote about putting too much identity pressure on myself for sports and fitness. This week, I (actually kind of accidentally) focused on activities that aren’t fitness and … drumroll … ONLY WENT TO THE GYM ONCE. Whoa! But it was still a busy, jam-packed week with a…
I am grateful for my yoga practice, and how it centers/grounds me. I spend a ton of my time playing a lot of sports, CrossFitting with friends, hitting the gym solo, and doing yoga. I LOVE all of these things. But sometimes, I start to wrap too much of my identity in these things and when…
This was my very first Feel Good Friday post. FIVE years of gratitude! In it, I name yoga, fitness, friends, love ferns, fashion, and wine. About sums me up—and my gratitude list posts for the past five years, no? So today, five years after that fateful first post, living in a(nother) new place, with new friends…
Before I even moved to the ocean, one of my favorite quotes (not attributed to anyone as far as I can tell) was: the waves of the sea help me get back to me. Which is true. But yoga does that for me too. Which is why I headed down to the beach during the magic…
I average 2 nalgenes at work a day, and consider 3 nalgenes a good day. This doesn’t include a nalgene consumed during fitness—and I believe at least one nalgene should be consumed per fitness activity. In short, I’m all about hydration. I drink BCAAs and electrolytes and use lemon and do all sorts of things…