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My Thoughts on Wellness Trends, Celery Juice, and What 'Detoxification' Actually Is
My Thoughts on Wellness Trends, Celery Juice, and What 'Detoxification' Actually Is
My Hormonal Acne Journey: Healing + Managing Acne
My Hormonal Acne Journey: Healing + Managing Acne
Pumpkin Sage Risotto (GF + Vegan)
Pumpkin Sage Risotto (GF + Vegan)
The Best of Paris: My Guide to the City of Lights
The Best of Paris: My Guide to the City of Lights
How I Learned Photography, FAQ's, and Starting Film Photography
How I Learned Photography, FAQ's, and Starting Film Photography
Holiday Gift Guides for literally EVERYONE.
Holiday Gift Guides for literally EVERYONE.
A Guide to Clean Beauty: Makeup, Skincare, Haircare + Bodycare
A Guide to Clean Beauty: Makeup, Skincare, Haircare + Bodycare
Apple Cinnamon Tahini Oat Pancakes
Apple Cinnamon Tahini Oat Pancakes
A Berry Good Trip to Wisconsin
A Berry Good Trip to Wisconsin
How to Support Your Skin from the Inside Out
How to Support Your Skin from the Inside Out
Mixed Berry Oat Crisp (GF/Vegan) Recipe + Sustainable Organic Food Farming
Mixed Berry Oat Crisp (GF/Vegan) Recipe + Sustainable Organic Food Farming
#MarketMinnaly Wallpapers
#MarketMinnaly Wallpapers
Happy 10 years, NYC
Happy 10 years, NYC
Blueberry Lavender Tonic
Blueberry Lavender Tonic
5 Ways to Gain Genuine Self-Confidence
5 Ways to Gain Genuine Self-Confidence
Spring Vegan Thai Curry Pasta with Mushrooms + Chives (GF)
Spring Vegan Thai Curry Pasta with Mushrooms + Chives (GF)
Choco Chaga Tahini Cookies (GF, DF) Recipe and all about Chaga Mushrooms
Choco Chaga Tahini Cookies (GF, DF) Recipe and all about Chaga Mushrooms
How to Start Reducing Waste + Live a Greener Lifestyle
How to Start Reducing Waste + Live a Greener Lifestyle
How to Make the Perfect Pourover Coffee
How to Make the Perfect Pourover Coffee
All about Menstrual and Reproductive Hormonal Health
All about Menstrual and Reproductive Hormonal Health
Collagen Fat Balls Two Ways: Cinnamon Pecan Chia + Sesame Tahini Walnut
Collagen Fat Balls Two Ways: Cinnamon Pecan Chia + Sesame Tahini Walnut
Golden Fuel Tarts
Golden Fuel Tarts
Live 24k now at Free People!
Live 24k now at Free People!
Golden Fuel Crepes with Simple Mills
Golden Fuel Crepes with Simple Mills
New Year, Same Amazing You
New Year, Same Amazing You
Gluten-Free Gingerbread Cookie Sandwiches with Cranberry Chia Jam: Cookie Swap
Gluten-Free Gingerbread Cookie Sandwiches with Cranberry Chia Jam: Cookie Swap
Settling my Mom into Brooklyn
Settling my Mom into Brooklyn
Thank-Full: The Skill of Gratitude
Thank-Full: The Skill of Gratitude
Holiday Spice 'Sweet n' Spicy' Blender Muffins
Holiday Spice 'Sweet n' Spicy' Blender Muffins
My Journey with Hashimoto's
My Journey with Hashimoto's
 
 

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  • My name is pronounced Mee-na.

  • I have more houseplants than shoes.

  • I want to adopt all the dogs.

  • You will always find me with a coffee or camera in hand (sometimes both).

  • I love talking about the difficult stuff that no one likes to talk about.

  • I created this space to encourage you to chase fullness over happiness, and to build resilience rather than resistance…. and to give you tools to help you with it all!

 

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Pumpkin Sage Risotto (GF + Vegan)
Pumpkin Sage Risotto (GF + Vegan)
Apple Cinnamon Tahini Oat Pancakes
Apple Cinnamon Tahini Oat Pancakes
Mixed Berry Oat Crisp (GF/Vegan) Recipe + Sustainable Organic Food Farming
Mixed Berry Oat Crisp (GF/Vegan) Recipe + Sustainable Organic Food Farming
 
 
 
 
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5 Important Things You Might Not Know About Stretching
5 Important Things You Might Not Know About Stretching
Should You Workout When You're Sick?
Should You Workout When You're Sick?
Gift Guide for the Fitness Fanatic
Gift Guide for the Fitness Fanatic
 
 

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no filter. am I brave? let's discuss. _____ this has long been a thought ruminating on my mind. generally, people who comment on people's unfiltered photos showing imperfect skin, real bodies with real stretchies / dimples / rolls, with a sentiment like, "you're so brave for putting yourself out there!" mean it with sincere intentions. they are just acknowledging how for many, it is indeed scary to expose your insecurities to the world, so it's a commendable. but now there is a wave of women (I've seen this in particular w/post-partum body posts), fighting back on this asking to not call them brave because that implies that showing their real bodies is something to be feared and overcome. think about it, if someone walked up to you on the beach and said "wow, you're brave for wearing a 2 piece!" you'd probably feel like, uhhhh should I not be and be scared to show my body off in a bikini? 𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲? I don't think there's one universal answer here. because I also don't think that we all share the same preference. 𝗜 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀. when is it okay, if it's ever okay? would you like to be on the receiving end of this? how would that make you feel? I elaborated more on this in my stories with my personal take on things, but would love for you guys to comment here to share your thoughts so we can all see it and discuss ❤️
🌊all I knew is that I didn't want to look back on my life and see opportunities for connection, joy, and new experiences missed, because I let my fear of the unknown + my pain I buried deep about myself win over my desire for what I wished to experience in my one life. tomorrow isn't guaranteed. forever isn't guaranteed. security of any kind isn't guaranteed. possibility of failure + pain will always exist. 𝘀𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗿𝘆. 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗻. 𝘀𝗼𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿. ❤️ #wordsbymi · wearing sustainable swimwear @londrebodywear which also doubles as one cute bodysuit🌊🌎
🌎mother nature is some kind of magical, and our Earth should be cared for every day🍃 · did a little roundup of sustainability tips and resources over on my Stories just now for #earthday, linked my guide on how to start reducing waste and living more eco-friendly, and I have a 'Green Living' highlights saved to my page! I haven't been sharing a whole lot of my day to day sustainability practices because many of them are super ingrained into my lifestyle now that I don't think of them as anything to note-- but it wasn't always that way, and there are definitely a LOT of areas I can improve on in this regard. so I'll be making more of an effort to share my bits of knowledge and resources I am lucky enough to know, have, and have learned with you guys-- because our earth direly needs EVERYONE to make imperfect efforts every day, rather than perfection on some days💚☺️ happy #earthday2019
🌷i'm an INFJ. i'm incredibly connected to my mind + body through years of deep, sometimes really agonizing work. i'm a scrappy entrepreneur that knows her strengths + weaknesses, and how to manage them to excel at work. i know what makes me feel fulfilled and I know the things I cannot tolerate that will drain me. while I've worked so hard to reach this more enlightened place, I'm realizing that the security in knowing oneself like this can also be dangerously self-limiting. lately, a lot of my beliefs about myself have been challenged-- in really good, but difficult ways. while I know that I usually prefer quiet nights in and need my recharge time, I am realizing this can stick me into a comfortable pattern. I realize that it's not good to stay in the comforts of what I'm most compatible with, ALL of the time. it's stunting. I learn and expand my mind the most when I'm confronted with new people or unexpected situations when I lean IN, rather than immediately saying, "this is so not my scene," and concluding it at that. it can be not my scene, but I can still lean in and see how that affects me. some of the best times in my life have come from situations that I could have easily dismissed as "not for me." it's important that your self dialogue not end there. this is why life is about ebbs and flows, and is NOT about trying to maintain perfect equilibrium🌊if you hold tight to equilibrium, you sacrifice the opportunities to expand in the highest peak of waves and to learn the lessons of the crashes of them. my point is this-- it's imperative to know yourself, and respect your limits. but it's equally as imperative to try to not use those limits to limit yourself ALL of the time. hope you all take this mindset into this week with you to forge some new ground☺️❤️ happy monday, fam!
✨happy Sunday (and Easter Sunday + Passover weekend to those of you celebrating!!)🥳 · my weekend has been filled with training clients, brunch with my clients whose wedding we're going to next week, cooking a steak dinner + and game night for a double date at home with my best friend and her dude, and then I just cooked brunch for my family all at my house this morning ☺️today is a good day, and it feels like this perfectly colorful little bouquet of flowers in my life 💐I am a lucky girl in this life. #MarketMinnaly
✨reminder that you are not what has happened to you. you are what you choose to do about it.✨ happy Saturday, fam🥳pretending I'm in sunny Arizona instead of rainy NYC right now!
✋stop✋ look up. look within. 2 beautiful things. you are here now. you have everything within you that you need. _________ just wanted to remind you of that ☺️ happy friday, friends❤️ was so happy I caught this bloom in Washington Square Park last week ✨
i'm going to a Caribbean island in a week for the first time in 8 years. 8 years ago, I was in the gym for an hour everyday as a cardio bunny, weighing myself every morning, eating packaged snacks with 'lite'/ 'skinny' in the name, and trying on my bikinis frantically to look at all the spots I had to 'fix' to deserve the right to be seen on the beach. that 'bikini' body, ya know. i had an autoimmune flare last week I'm still feeling the effects of. my legs feel like weak noodles, my stomach seems to have forgotten how to digest things so hello post meal food bebes, my inflammation is making my jeans feel like spanx on my hips, and my workouts are the kind i'd give to a fitness newbie bc I don't have much energy. Q had this situation I'm in happened 8 years ago, I would have outright cancelled my trip bc the anxiety of my insecurity + terror of my eating disorder demons would have paralyzed me. but today? I had a burger a few days ago bc I felt like it. I'm not forcing my body through workouts it can't recover from, bc now I care more about my body than to run it into the ground. I discovered I have a few new dimples on the back of my right thigh yesterday when I was walking around my house in my underwear🤷🏻‍♀️I haven't tried on a single 👙. I haven't owned a scale in 6 years. the only prep goal I'm focused on in the next week to prep my body for the beach is to nourish it w/ anti-inflammatory food, good sleep, and appropriate movement so that I can have FUN w/enough energy to swim, explore, eat local cuisine, and 🕺all night at my clients wedding. my responsibility is not to get my body get ready for anything-- warm weather, events, what magazines deem as bikini body ready. 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗻𝗻𝘆 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻. 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗮𝗺𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴. my only responsibility is to take care of my body + mind so that I can do life in a way that my body enhances + enables my life to be better-- not disabling or detracting from it. I am so thankful for this mindset I've earned in the last 8 years❤️ #wordsbymi
✨🌸spring in NYC brings out more smiles in New Yorkers than puppies in bags on subways🤣 · the magnolias budding + blooming over classic west village townhouses always get me 🥰 I'm so lucky to live in this magical city.
I've partnered with @samsungmobileusa and @popsugarfitness to keep myself accountable to working on my weak links in my wellness-- remember that pledge I made a few weeks ago (on 3/20)? While I’m very disciplined when it comes to goals that push forth (work harder, work out more, nutrition), I’m usually not as kind to myself when it comes to slowing down (recovery, sleep, stress management). But BOTH are key to the success in the other, and you can’t have overall health and well-being without working on both-- after all, you can’t pour from an empty cup. So that’s why I had pledged to empower myself more by being more aware of BOTH stress levels and sleep, daily, as that is my weakest link in my well-being! Since I made that pledge, I’ve been using the #GalaxyWatch Active consistently to do breathing exercises when I feel my stress levels rising (and I can see my heart rate slow down as a result 🙌), and also during my nightly wind-down before reading to get my cortisol lowered to get that quality sleep, which I also can track on my watch. This has translated to me instinctively doing breathing exercises during the workday when I’m stressed out, as well as more consistently sleeping through the night because my stress hormones are more in equilibrium with these practices. I swear, this is something that has kept me sane when I was on 4 flights in 8 days for work last week! Something about vocalizing your commitment to yourself has a powerful effect, so I’d love for you guys to also make a pledge to yourself and your wellness-- head to my Stories to do so!❤
🌿if you were a salad, what kind of salad would you be? of course @veggiekins is her vegan mother earth bowl w/perfectly symmetrical tofu slices, lots of greens, no dressing; meanwhile I'm always into mixed greens, protein, as many veggies as my wallet will allow, and can't decide between two dressings, so I get both on the side 🤷🏻‍♀️♎️ this might be the most ridiculous thing I've asked you in a caption, but now looking at the descriptions, they're pretty accurate🤔 maybe this salad quiz is the next Myers Briggs 🤣 tell me YOURS👇👇👇
✨have you ever thought about these before?✨ · ❀ what success should look like. ❀ what being a wo(man) should look like. ❀ what being happy should look like. ❀ what being cool should look like. ❀ what dating should look like. ❀ what love should look like. ❀ what sex should look like. ❀ what family should look like. ❀ what friendships should look like. ❀ what having fun should look like. ❀ what enlightenment should look like. ❀ what health should look like. we picture a lot of things for ourselves. and a lot of how we paint that picture of expectations is colored by societal messages, pop culture, family upbringing, input from those around us, and these little 3x3 grids on your screen. many of those expectations or what we deem as "the norm" or "good" ruin a lot of amazing things right before our eyes-- simply because they don't align in our pretty little box of preconceived notions. so I just want to remind you this Monday, 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗯𝗼𝘅 𝘄𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝗽 𝗶𝗻, 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗴𝗶𝗳𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗹𝗹. try those above statements by replacing "look" with "feels," and abolishing the "should." THAT is a better use of your mental space to reflect on ❤️ · #wordsbyMi #minnalyHQ // wearing my beautiful new @ashapateldesigns jewelry✨
 
 
 

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