Oftentimes, I feel like a fraud in the sustainability community. Sustainability has grown in mainstream culture over the past few years, often being accompanied with images of Hydroflasks, cream colored mesh bags, and metal straws. Personally, metal straws were my entry way to the world...
I Felt Guilty For Slacking on My New Year’s Resolutions Until This Mindset Shift
posted by: aaliyahinspired
June 7, 2024
It’s that time of year. That time where we reach the halfway point and take stock of the New Year’s resolutions we set. It can honestly feel as if an eternity has passed since we set those New Year’s resolutions because, as often is the...
Are Social Media Detoxes Enough or is it Time to Delete Social Media For Good?
posted by: aaliyahinspired
May 28, 2024
I have a love-hate relationship with social media. This type of relationship isn’t uncommon. By this point, we’re collectively aware of both the benefits and detrimental effects of social media. On the one hand, it creates and fosters connections, it provides an international mode of...
Life is a Dance: How Slow Living is Essential to Reclaiming What’s Yours
posted by: aaliyahinspired
April 24, 2024
How come we’ve allowed ourselves to rush through our lives? We’re all privy to the fact that we only have one, yet we still somehow managed to convince ourselves that it should rushed. Maybe we have culture to blame. Hustle culture primes one to constantly...
Manifestation isn’t That Complicated, We Just Need to Return to the Basics
posted by: aaliyahinspired
April 17, 2024
Manifestation has become such a buzz term in today’s culture. There are numerous articles, podcasts, books, and other resources on the topic; this is a good thing considering that I am a believer in the power of manifestation. However, the saturation of this topic leaves...
Vegan Skincare Products I Use After Quitting Makeup: The Ordinary Review
posted by: aaliyahinspired
April 10, 2024
Disclaimer: This is not a sponsored post by The Ordinary. It’s been five years since I stopped wearing makeup. Naturally, once you stop focusing on covering up your imperfections or enhancing certain features, you have more time to focus on what’s been underneath the layers...
Ever since I was teenager, I was drawn to self-help instruction. Whether that be in the form of podcasts, books, or peers who were into self-development, I was there — soaking up as much as I could on ways to improve myself. This is an...
5 Minimalist Principles to Help You Sustain a Life of Simplicity
posted by: aaliyahinspired
March 27, 2024
Minimalism has been a lifestyle adopted by many people for various reasons, one of which being its philosophy of simplicity. Minimalism doesn’t solely speak to aesthetics or represent a vow of aestheticism. Instead, it serves as a tool that can help you take stock of...
Slow Travel: A Wanderlust’s Ticket to Sustainable and Immersive Traveling
posted by: aaliyahinspired
March 18, 2024
Whenever many of us think about vacations, long jam-packed itineraries usually come to mind. Every single day of the vacation is planned to the minute — what time to wake up, what time to get breakfast, what time to sight-see this attraction, what time to...
Death of the Five-Year Plan: We Should Stop Focusing on the Future and Instead Do This
posted by: aaliyahinspired
February 21, 2024
To be here now does not mean that we do not make plans but that we learn to give the making of future plans only a small amount of energy. And once future plans are made, we release our attachment to them. Thich Nhat...