TL;DR Food has no moral or ethical value, so you are not “bad” when you consume candies, cakes, frappes, et cetera, and you are not “good” when you’ve had a smoothie, a salad, or sad boiled chicken. Normalize and give yourself grace for consuming more foods than intended this holiday season because companies are intentionally co-opting your brain’s (completely natural!) signals to convince you that you need what they are selling. Recognize the resulting shame spiral, and inte

I enjoy Halloween. [Full stop.] I know I am (as the kids would say) “giving Basic”, but I am unapologetically embracing it. Frankly, I find the general enjoyment of Halloween to be far from basic, and here’s why: I contend that part of Halloween’s allure is that it represents the perfect intersection between what is sacred and what is fun. Let’s break it down. Halloween as Connection Whether or not you are religious, spiritual, superstitious, or otherwise, humans are undeniab