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09/03/2026

Nobody called wrap on my twenties, they just quietly stopped putting me on the schedule. Los Angeles got a proper wrap — a U-Haul and a lot of feelings. And in December we wrap life as a family of three.

Here's what nobody tells you about leaving the industry — you never stop thinking in production terms. I still run my week like a one-liner schedule. I still know how much daylight I've got without checking. I still say "we're losing the light" to a husband who has never once known what to do with that information.

Which means I've spent the last several months treating this like a project under NDA. Locked. Quiet. Completely real the entire time I was out here talking to you about tomatoes.

Baby, December 2026. We have a very excited big brother on standby.

I have little to no idea what I'm doing and I've never been less worried about it. 🤍

09/01/2026

I'm done asking which one I'm allowed to be.

Trad life offered me a costume: give it all up, disappear into the kitchen, call it devotion. Hustle culture offered me a different one: Stay optimized, stay exhausted, post about the grind.

Both of them require you to amputate half of yourself and then perform gratitude about it.

I have a compost pile AND a silk robe. I bake and I still take film jobs. I go to bed at 9 and I have ambitions that would frighten you.

That's not a contradiction. That's a whole person. You can have both. Let me show you how.

Comment GLOW if you want to see how I do it.

08/31/2026

Nobody on a film set ever asked if my nervous system was ok.

Never, not once in over 15 years. I got asked about the schedule, the budget, the weather, the shuttle, the camera truck...the list goes on. But never about the thing that was actually running out.

and the part that still gets me is that I already knew better. I've been through something at 17 that should've taught me everything about what a body can take. I filed it somewhere deep down and kept moving anyway.

Knowing something and doing something are completely different skills and almost nobody talks about the gap between knowing them.

Your body keeps a record whether or not anyone on the call sheet is interested in it.

Comment GLOW if you're ready to start listening to your body.

08/31/2026

Every lifestyle the internet offered me came with a costume.

Hustle culture wanted me optimized, exhausted, and proud of it. Trad life wanted me to give it all up, churn the butter, disappear. Soft girl wanted me to want nothing and stay small.

None of them fit. So I made a word.

Luxalachian. Luxury and Appalachian. Raised in the oldest mountains on earth, went to Hollywood, came back and brought some of the glamour with me.

If you just recognized yourself, welcome sweet friends. Comment GLOW, let's get started.

08/30/2026

Well my whole caption disappeared and I'm tired but seriously a lot of Tupperware is seriously cool and nostalgic and at least for me unlocks a lot of memories that I will treasure forever.

SO babe nobody is judging if your whole cupboard isn't wildly toxic free. Us Gen Xers and Millennials lived through some wild s**t. Ate some crazy s**t. We're exposed to some crazy s**t and we aren't perfect but we made it and we are learning a lot.

It's an adventure and we are doing good things. Keep it up, I'm here for you, we're in it together.

08/29/2026

I have 1 acre and no chickens and I bought bread this week.

Every homesteading account you follow is showing you 40 acres and a barn that costs more than my house.

It's beautiful and it's functionally an advertisement for a life almost nobody can buy.

If you follow people who make you feel behind, Unfollow them. Most of them are selling you the feeling.

you need one thing you grow, one thing you make, and permission to stop there.

Comment GLOW and I’ll send you the short list of what’s actually worth starting with — no acreage or barn required.

08/27/2026

Do not purge. That's the whole tip.

Everybody purges on a Sunday, spends $250, feels incredible for a week, and then quietly goes back - because the new stuff never actually fit the life.

Replace as things run out. It's slower, it's less satisfying, and it's the only version that holds twelve months later.

I did the dramatic overhaul once. Four thing survived the year. Four.

Comment GLOW and I'll send you the order I'd do it in now.

08/27/2026

I ranked everything in my bathroom by how much it actually matters and the results were embarrassing.

Four things do something. The rest are objects that make the shelf look like a life I thought I was supposed to want.

Clean living got turned into a shopping list, and a shopping list is designed to never be finished.

You're always one product from sorted. That is the business model, and it works because it is aimed at women who are already tired and already suspect they're doing it wrong.

You're not doing it wrong. You're doing 11 things when 4 would do.

Comment GLOW for the list.

08/26/2026

I took jobs for 15 years because of the logo on them.

not the work. Not the people. Not even the money. The logo - the thing I could say at a dinner party.

That is the single most expensive mistake I made in that industry, and it cost me time I am never getting back.

Now, I ask three questions before I say yes. Does the schedule belong to me? Would I be proud of this if nobody knew I worked on it? What does my body feel like when I imagine saying yes?

Most projects don't survive them. I like the work again.

Comment GLOW if you’re ready to build your own three questions.

08/25/2026

Every system I ever quit, I quit on day four.

Not day one - day one is easy, day one runs on fantasy. Day four is when the fantasy is gone and the actual behavior has to stand up by itself.

Here's what was happening: I designed the routine on a good day. Good-day me had energy, optimism and forty minutes. The routine required good-day me to show up every single day, and day four is never a good day.

That's a design flaw, not a character flaw. Make the first step so small that worst-day you can do it without negotiating.

Comment GLOW if you’re tired of blaming yourself for a routine that was never built for worst-day you.

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