As someone living with asthma, I’ve often heard the common advice to simply rest when symptoms flare up. For years, I followed that guidance, believing that sitting out of activity was the safest route. But over time, I discovered that avoiding movement can actually make asthma worse, not better....

Building lasting habits has always been one of the hardest challenges in my life. I’ve tried countless routines, downloaded productivity apps, and read every self-help book on the market. Yet, most of the time, my motivation would fade within days, leaving me frustrated and back at square one. Th...

Back in 2022, I found myself over 40 pounds overweight. Like many people, I had tried countless diets, fitness routines, and lifestyle changes, but nothing seemed to stick long-term. Over the years, I realized that the most effective tool wasn’t a complicated diet or intense daily tracking. Inste...

When I turned 21, I celebrated the way a lot of people do. I drank my way through London with friends I had met while studying abroad, wearing a ridiculous sombrero and treating alcohol like the main event. At the time, it felt normal. Turning 21 felt like a rite of passage, a moment where drinki...

For most of my life, I trained by feel. I ran, lifted, recovered, and adjusted based on intuition, energy, and experience. That changed when I discovered I have a hole in my heart. Suddenly, understanding what was happening inside my body stopped being optional and became essential. That moment i...

For most of my life, I believed I was doing fitness the right way. I worked out consistently, trained hard, and used movement as a way to decompress after long, stressful workdays. But despite all that discipline, something felt off. My workouts were helping my body, but my mind stayed stuck in s...

When I talk to people about their health and weight, the most common phrase I hear is that they feel stuck. It shows up in almost every message, podcast comment, or YouTube reply I receive. People tell me that they have changed their diet, started exercising, cut out sugar, stopped drinking, or e...

Every morning, my dog Sniktau and I head out for a run. She has never once cared about the route, the pace, the mileage, or the weather. She wakes up ready to move, tail wagging, eyes wide, and fully rooted in the world unfolding in front of her. Meanwhile, for years I ran like so many other huma...

Many runners talk about the power of routine. I am still one of them. Routine helped me become an elite ultra runner with asthma, and there was a time when running the same loop every day felt like the foundation of my discipline. But this year, everything changed. I tried running a new route, an...

For most of my life, I believed drinking alcohol was simply what people did. It was part of growing up, part of college, part of adulthood, and part of almost every social gathering. Looking back, I never once asked myself whether I actually wanted to drink or whether I was simply playing along w...

There is a popular belief that energy must come from something external. People turn to coffee to wake up, grab sugar when they crash, and then reach for even more caffeine when the cycle repeats. I used to watch people move through their day like this, wondering why they felt trapped in a loop o...

There was a moment in my ultra running journey when everything changed, and strangely enough, it began with a simple question: what am I asking my body to recover from? For years, I followed the typical rhythm that so many athletes fall into, training hard while occasionally enjoying a beer or tw...

Earlier this year, I woke up feeling an overwhelming sense of stress—the kind that sits heavy on your chest before the day even begins. My first instinct, like many mornings before, was to grab my phone, check messages, and dive headfirst into work. But something inside me stopped. I knew this pa...

When I made the decision to drastically cut back on alcohol, I found myself asking a big question: what am I going to drink instead? That question might sound small, but for anyone who’s built habits, memories, and social rituals around drinking, it’s a defining one. I quickly realized that remov...

As someone who has lived with asthma my entire life, I’ve learned that my symptoms shift with the seasons. What triggers my asthma in the spring is often completely different from what challenges me in the winter. Over time, I’ve learned to tune into my body, my environment, and the patterns that...

When people find out I’m an ultra-endurance athlete, they assume I run every single day for hours on end. They picture endless miles, blistered feet, and early mornings where all I do is hit the trails. But the truth is, that approach nearly broke me. I don’t train like most runners anymore—and t...

Until recently, I worked out almost always in the afternoon or evening. For years, I justified it by telling myself it was my transition from work to play, a ritual to mark the end of my professional day and the beginning of my personal one. And in many ways, that was true. Having a transitional ...

A little over a year ago, my life changed in a way I could never have anticipated. I was 45 minutes into one of my favorite workout classes when suddenly, my right eye went completely dark. One moment I was pushing through another set, and the next, I couldn’t see a thing out of half my vision. P...

Most people stop training the second they feel a cold coming on. I take a different approach. Instead of curling up under a blanket for a week, I decided to move—lightly, intentionally, and consistently. I worked out every single day while sick. What happened over the following days genuinely sur...