244 | friendship, anti-dieting, writing, + more with Kelsey Miller author of I'll Be There for You: The One About Friends

11/21/18 • 112 min

It's a rarity to have a repeat guest on the podcast, when someone returns it means I especially love talking with them. Kelsey's first time on the podcast (her very first podcast!) was in 2015 when her first book, her memoir Big Girl came out, then she was was one of the panelists on my firs live podcast episode in 2016, and now she's back with her newest book a retrospective on the show Friends called I'll Be There For You: The One About Friends. We obviously gush about our love and experience with Friends and how much I loved her book, but we also talk about where she is now in her life. Since she last did the podcast she got married and left her full time writing position at Refinery 29, so I asked her relationship and freelance advice. Recently she ended the column she founded at Refinery 29, The Anti-Diet Project which chronicled her experience, and the experience of others (including this essay I wrote) with intuitive eating and giving up dieting, so I asked her where she is with all of that now. Kelsey is eloquent, dynamic, and oh so articulate so I always love chatting with her and especially loved this conversation, which ranged from friendship to her writing strategies.

Notes from the Show:

-Kelsey Miller on The Web | Instagram

Kelsey's Books:

Likes & Learns:

All original music composed by Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs

Album art by Zoie Harman

Cool Things to Check-Out:

-Come to my event at The Spring Meditation on 12/2. Get tickets here.

-Come to my New Years Eve 2 night retreat at Kripalu Retreat Center. Get your tickets here.

-Sign-up for my newsletter to get updates on where I'll be and what I'm loving!

-Join the listener Facebook Group

-Get my book Let It Out: A Journey Through Journaling.

If you Liked This Episode Try Out:

- Kelsey Miller's first episode- Live episode in NYC 2016- Simi Botic Let It Out episodes

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Notes from the Show:

-Kelsey Miller on The Web | Instagram

Kelsey's Books:

Likes & Learns:

All original music composed by Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs

Album art by Zoie Harman

Cool Things to Check-Out:

-Come to my event at The Spring Meditation on 12/2. Get tickets here.

-Come to my New Years Eve 2 night retreat at Kripalu Retreat Center. Get your tickets here.

-Sign-up for my newsletter to get updates on where I'll be and what I'm loving!

-Join the listener Facebook Group

-Get my book Let It Out: A Journey Through Journaling.

If you Liked This Episode Try Out:

- Kelsey Miller's first episode- Live episode in NYC 2016- Simi Botic Let It Out episodes

This episode was also supported by Care/Of who creates personalized supplement packets for you based on your unique needs and delivers them in daily customized packets.

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243 | corporate to freelance, strict parents, photography, mental health, healing arts, qigong + more with Seher Sikandar

Today’s is a long one but a good one with the very wise Seher. We met at The Wing last spring and recorded this conversation a couple week’s ago in her beautiful Brooklyn apartment. Seher is one of the smartest, most fascinating people I know. As you’ll hear in this episode she was born to Pakistani immigrants in the San Francisco Bay area, then attended Wharton for business, initially attempted a traditional corporate job, but ultimately became a freelance photographer. Now she views herself as an inter-disciplinarian; which we get into in this episode. We talk about leaving her corporate job, her transition to photography, learning a new skills, and becoming a music photographer. We talk a lot about family and navigating her very strict immigrant parents and a move across the country. We also get into mental health stigma, her depression and what helped her with it, including therapy and wellness and healing arts including qigong, and way more it’s a long one and a good one. And at the I do my new my L & L segment.

Notes from the Show:

-Seher Sikandar on The Web | Instagram

-Seher on Cat Lantigua's podcast

-Seher's "Testimonies from the Table"

Likes & Learns:

-Washi Tape

All original music composed by Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs

Album art by Zoie Harman

Cool Things to Check-Out:

-Come to my event at The Spring Meditation on 12/2. Get tickets here.

-Come to my New Years Eve 2 night retreat at Kripalu Retreat Center. Get your tickets here.

-Sign-up for my newsletter to get updates on where I'll be and what I'm loving!

-Join the listener Facebook Group

-Get my book Let It Out: A Journey Through Journaling.

If you Liked This Episode Try Out:

-Cat Lantigua

-Dr. Lisa Spiegel

This episode was also supported by Care/Of who creates personalized supplement packets for you based on your unique needs and delivers them in daily customized packets.

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245 | my first hangover: the best thing for my wellness & intuitive eating + likes & Learns [solo bonus]

Well you guys asked for it, so here I am reading out loud an article I wrote a couple months ago for The Fullest. It's about how my first hangover taught me self-care isn't just green juice and face masks, sometimes it's rest and cookies. It forced me into true intuitive eating when I had to listen to my body's cravings over what my dogmatic-wellness-obsessed-dieting mind would usually allow. Above all, the experience of being hung over made me realize how I prioritized a rigid self-care to-do list over people, creativity, and experiencing life. The entire situation showed me all forms of self-care should prioritize connection and presence over anything else. Most traditional self-care is solo, which can be great and really useful sometimes, yet other times it can be a way of hiding and isolating out of fear. I'm still learned how to decipher which version of self-care I need when. My default has become to isolate, and this article/ episode explores how I'm still learning my version of self-care now includes connecting and putting myself in an uncertain situations more that cozy certain ones. Plus, I give my likes and learns for the week, a giveaway, and more...

Notes from the Show:

Have you seen our Holiday Gift Guide? Sign up here to view the full guide.
My article, Are You Giving To Get?, on The Fullest
Find more of my pieces on The Fullest here
My friend from the article Karolina's chocolate.

Likes & Learns:

I'm having a hot chocolate moment. These are some of my favorites:
- Van Leeuwan (pro tip: if you're in NYC this weekend they're giving away their hot chocolate float for free)
- Dr. Smood
- By Chloe's peanut butter hot chocolate with vegan marshmallows
- Hu Kitchen's pumpkin spice latte
- Four Sigmatic hot cocoa (I use 2 packets and I mix 1 chai and 1 mushroom hot cocoa with macadamia milk.)
Gift guides:
- Beth Kirby of Local Milk curated this beautiful gift guide
- Dearly Bethany created a selection of amazing gift guides including ones for beauty, children, women, and men
- Christine's gift guide
- A Cup of Jo women's gift guide
- Quiddity gift guide that I'm featured in!
- My gift guide here!
My poop analogy - sometimes you have to hold your feelings (or poop) in but eventually you have to let it out so to say...It always feels so much better after whether it's a poop or journaling and getting those thought out of your head and processing them.

All original music composed by Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs

Album art by Zoie Harman

Cool Things to Check-Out:

Come to my New Years Eve 2 night retreat at Kripalu Retreat Center. Get your tickets here.
- Sign-up for my newsletter to get updates on where I'll be and what I'm loving!
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