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25 Oct 2014
CLEAN Cleanse

CLEAN 28, Day 2: Raw Carrot Cake Cookies & BBG Workout

This is Post #3 in my Quarter Life Crisis series.To start from the beginning, click here. Snack Time! Instead of talking about breakfast and lunch first today, I have to tell you about this snack. This Go Raw Carrot Cake…
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24 Oct 2014
CLEAN Cleanse

CLEAN 28, Day 1: The Mental Cleanse Game

This is Post #2 in my Quarter Life Crisis series.To start from the beginning, click here. The first day of my CLEAN 28 Cleanse was pretty anticlimactic. I started the morning off with a green juice made with cucumber, celery,…
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21 Oct 2014
CLEAN Cleanse

CLEAN 28: My Quarter-Life Crisis

This past weekend, a few friends and I headed over to Princeton for a quick detour before our apple-picking adventures. Truth be told, being on a college campus just made me feel old. It reminded me that I am no…
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19 Oct 2014
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How to Survive a New York Winter { A Californian’s Guide }

Winter is coming… I don’t mean to get all Game on Thrones on you, but the thought of a New York Winter can be really daunting to someone who has never really been through a real winter. Before moving to…
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17 Oct 2014
3 Michelin Star

NYC: Le Bernardin, a Seafood Chef’s Tasting

First, how beautiful and delicious does this caviar and king fish dish look? As if caviar on top of a fresh piece of sashimi wasn’t good enough, Le Bernardin adds to the decadence of it all by completing the dish…
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13 Oct 2014
Recipes

Roasted Pepper and Caramelized Onion Confit

For the past few weeks, I’ve been getting tons of red peppers and onions from my CSA and have been trying to figure out what to do with them. When I came across this recipe for a confit of pepper and…
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10 Oct 2014
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The Best Bites of Italy: Rome, Venice, Florence and Cinque Terre

I love all Italian food – pastas, pizzas and gelato – oh my! So imagine my pure bliss during the ten days J and I spent eating our way through Italy! I’ve been asked what my food recommendations are for…
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5 Oct 2014
NYC Eats

NYC: YUJI Ramen, a Ramen Omakase in Pictures

My friend Pauline is a true ramen lover. She has a mission to try and document as many ramen places as possible in New York City. She’s the one who introduced me to YUJI Ramen which started as a stand…
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💪🏻 Fit at 40 • Pt. 1 • Finding Motivation One way 💪🏻 Fit at 40 • Pt. 1 • Finding Motivation

One way to motivate yourself to make a change is to make *not* changing feel so painful that staying the same feels worse than doing the work. Holding this 20 pound weight, thinking about my 10K in November, is doing it for me.

Follow along as I share all the ways I’m hacking my brain into getting fit AF at 40, whatever that ends up meaning.

Tell me in the comments, are you Team A or Team B. 

✅ Team A: sets a goal and follows through
🧠 Team B: high-achiever who still has to hack their own brain to follow through

#Fitat40 #ADHDwomen #jjyapchallenge
the best time for me to clean is when i feel pisse the best time for me to clean is when i feel pissed off enough to do it. 😅

rage cleaning works because the energy has to go somewhere. but if i just start cleaning without a plan, i end up in two traps: getting distracted by my own visual to do list, or stuck in decision fatigue on stuff i don’t know what to do with.

so before i touch anything, i make a quick list. things that have a place go first, that’s the easy win. everything else waits.

nine times out of ten, twenty minutes later the mess is gone, even if the to do list pile is still sitting there.

tell me in the comments, are you a rage cleaner too?

#adhdwomen #declutteringtips #executivefunction
🧠 what does growth with ADHD actually look like? 🧠 what does growth with ADHD actually look like?

for me, it’s not about never falling into old patterns. it’s about noticing when you’re caught in an ADHD trap faster and adjusting without the inner critic, the shame spiral, the drama.

I quit the 40-day yap challenge after just 1 week, and here’s why I’m okay with that:

• caught myself neglecting my wellness habits in favor of posting daily
• realized daily posting was never actually my goal
• 7 days was enough to build the muscle I wanted for making content

quick note for anyone wondering if @jessijeanhome ‘s yap challenge is worth it, I’ve done some content courses before, and she’s providing the value that she’s promised and then some. completely worth a $300 investment if you’re looking for inspiration and practical advice on yapping on social media.

i’ll continue using her prompts and learning from her, but just not pushing myself to do daily yaps anymore and mix in other formats that have been calling to me. 🫶🏻

💬 tell me in the comments: what’s a pattern you’ve noticed yourself falling into that you’re ready to adjust?

#adhdwomen #jjyapchallenge
🛁 At the peak of my burnout and overwhelm, the Bat 🛁 At the peak of my burnout and overwhelm, the Bathtub Model of Stress was the mental model that *actually* made me believe that it was possible to feel like myself again.

I think my visual brain appreciates the analogy. This model gave me a clear picture of what I needed to do to get out of the vicious cycle.

🔥This is Episode 2 of the Burnout Diaries. 

Follow along if you’re feeling burned out or need more structure in your life. I share one framework per episode to help you get out burnout. 🫶🏻

#burnout #burnoutrecovery #adhdwomen #jjyapchallenge
the perfect planner doesn’t exist, trust me, I’ve the perfect planner doesn’t exist, trust me, I’ve tried. 😅

here’s how my Type-A ADHD brain actually gets organized now.

💬 Tell me in the comments what’s the most unhinged thing you’ve done or bought to try to get organized?

#adhdwomen #showmeyourplanner #jjyapchallenge
For anyone sitting on an ADHD diagnosis and not su For anyone sitting on an ADHD diagnosis and not sure who to tell.

The honest answer is it depends on your workplace. Google has a lot of ERGs like ADHD Women’s groups, and I felt safe with my manager so I told them. But I was careful beyond that.

Because the reality is there are biases around ADHD. People are uneducated, and I’ve heard enough stories from other ADHDers at Google to know it doesn’t always go the way you hope.

Even toward the end I still sometimes worried. What if people found out and used it against me. There’s both an external bias and an internal one you’re quietly working through at the same time.

I feel comfortable sharing more openly now. Partly because I’ve done a lot of healing. And partly because I don’t have coworkers anymore 😅

I’m a safe space. DMs are always open. 🤍

#adhdwomen #adultadhd #jjyapchallenge
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