designing august! curating the everyday, medicinal luxuries, favorites & more.

it’s august, the last glow of summer. The fruit is extra sweet, the harvest season is beginning, and it’s the time to prepare for fall.

fauna (my medicinal makeup line with no seed oils or synthetics) is also restocking this month on august 23rd at 12pm edt (make sure you get on our text list to get early access to shop!) AND we’re moving on the 31st.

this month is really busy so it’s extra important to be ahead, nourished & organized.

& with the beginning of a new month, it’s time to curate the everyday: medicinal luxuries, ins & outs, & all of the little details that not only make life feel more intentional, but flood your body with nutrients in the process.

making jams to preserve the ripe summer fruit, swimming in the rivers, flooding your body with nutrients and savoring the everyday while planning & prepping for the cooler months.

it’s the season of savoring summer, but also of find the routines you love so much, you want to savor them as well.

august also reminds me of back to school season. when you’d go and pick out your pens, planners, maybe some new clothes, & essentially who you’d be for the coming school year.

i always loved that season & took it so seriously. i’d be so meticulous about picking out every pen and make sure all of my binders and notebooks matched perfectly to my planner, and that they all stuck to a theme. it wasn’t about deciding my school supplies, it was about deciding who i was before anyone else did.

i want to keep that same energy for august.

i want to meticulously plan & curate the next version of me. of life. not only what I want from it, but i want to give to it. who i want to be. what i want to learn. what i want it to feel like in the process.

& here’s what no one tells you: once you truly decide what you want, it fills you with a wave of energy. suddenly, you can see exactly what belongs in your life- and exactly where your energy has been leaking.

which brings me to wellness.

so many people think wellness requires stripping all of the pleasure out of life. but i wish i had understood earlier that true wellness does the exact opposite.

real wellness makes life more pleasurable, more beautiful, and more luxurious than “normal living”.

the ancestral, nutrient-dense version of living is also the most enjoyable one: ripe fruit, fresh sourdough (breaks down up to 90% of gluten in bread) mineral-rich sea salts, raw honeys, slow meals, sunlight, herbs, beautiful movement, deep rest, and food who’s flavor comes from the earth & can never be recreated by synthetics.

the sterile version of wellness (protein powders, synthetic supplements, ultra-processed “health” foods, and joyless routines) doesn’t just drain the pleasure from life. it drains the nutrients from it.

planning a beautiful life & planning a nutrient-dense life are not separate pursuits. in fact, they are completely aligned.

& that’s why i absolutely love the beginning of a new month: planning what i want more of, deciding how i want my days to feel, and intentionally designing the everyday details that will shape who i become. curating a life that inspires me!

So let’s get into it, shall we?