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I'm a New York native who left my home to explore the world slowly and thoroughly. I’m just a little obsessed with photography, scuba diving, and reading guidebooks to countries I have no immediate plans to visit.

Home is where the… LLC is registered?🗽 New Y

Home is where the… LLC is registered?🗽

New York (city, but also state) is where I’m pretty sure I’ve slept the most cumulative nights in these last years. And it’s where I pay my taxes. So i guess that makes it home, even though im still struggling quite a bit with that concept since 2019.

Tonight I’m posting this from Tel Aviv, where ’m I’m spending the week in a fairly similar way to how I spent this one. Dinners and nights out with friends, days working and pursuing my movement passions, getting sunshine wherever and whenever I can. While I’m beyond lucky to have keys to places I sometimes reside in in both upstate and downstate New York, is either one my home anymore, any more so than this apartment I rented this week in this city that I love?  After a few years of torturing myself trying to commit to a place to call home, but not finding the place that felt just right, I wonder often if I’d be happier if I just truly fully embraced being nomadic again — after all, it’s basically what I’m doing.

Then, I think back to my old apartment back in Thailand, and the island I called home for seven years. And I know there’s not a gem of an Airbnb or a fabulous five star hotel in the world that could compare to that feeling.

But, my travel business is thriving, and I can’t seem to find my next Koh Tao, so… out of a suitcase I live, for now.

And I feel pretty lucky that my default, in the meantime, is such a stunner. From Brooklyn to Albany and back again one million times on the Amtrak, I do in fact love New York.

Curious how my other former/current expats and nomads who’s lives got shaken up by the circumstances of the last few years are feeling about all this. I’d love to hear where your heads and hearts (and suitcases) are at!

Forward my bills to Tel Aviv ✨ Haha, I’m so f

Forward my bills to Tel Aviv ✨

Haha, I’m so far behind on my feed that I arrived back in Tel Aviv last night — but these photos are from my quick stop back in March en route back to New York from the Maldives!

Five days flew by but after feeling a true Tel Avivian winter in February, March felt like spring… and now May feels like summer!

It was true on my first trip here in 2018 and it’s still true now. This city is one of those magical places I feel like I am always coming home to, every time I land.

Can’t wait to show it through my eyes to my @wanderwomenretreats crews.

Maldives, I 🤍 you — and I hope to get back to

Maldives, I 🤍 you — and I hope to get back to ya soon!

Guys we are trying to make some big decisions about future @wanderwomenretreats Maldives trips! Do we skip a year? Do it again in 2023? Keep the cultural extension? Do an overwater bungalow extension?

This is my last post from the Indian Ocean (for now!) so after weeks of seeing it my feed and stories, I’m dying to hear all the details what y’all would love to do with me in the future!

PS: Mega OG Alex in Wanderland reader credit to anyone who recognizes this first photo from my own photo I plagiarized it off from many many years ago, ha!

Onward to Israel, the USA and back to Israel next… ✈️

Do it from a place of love ✨ Regular workouts,

Do it from a place of love ✨

Regular workouts, a fitness routine, a movement practice, whatever you want to call it — it’s been a part of my life for a long time.

But in the last few years, I’ve felt an incredible shift.

Today I can honestly say that my desire to move my body every day comes primarily from craving the endorphin boost or sense of clarity that it brings to mind and soul.

In the past, I can say that my primary motivation was wanting my physical body to look a different way.

Ironically, I’m in some of the best physical shape of my life, building more strength and endurance all the time.

You know those studies about how plants that people say nice things to grow faster and larger than plants that people say mean things to? It sounds crazy right? But what if our bodies are the same?

Because the other swap I made around this time that I had a huge attitude change around fitness was to breakup with out-loud negative talk about myself. I’ve shared this before, but I LITERALLY banned myself from talking about weight loss, joking with friends about being “fat,” making self-deprecating comments about my body, or picking myself apart out loud.

You know what? Once I stopped verbalizing those thoughts that were once a constant yelling in my mind, they became a mere occasional whisper that I’ve learned to have a loving conversation with.

I feel like if it’s really hard to talk about all of this without sounding like an asshole 😅 but if there’s any advice I could give my past self or anyone else who struggles with this, it would be to find some joy in movement that isn’t tied to a future physical result — but rather the instant gratification of a mood boost, the time away from your screens, the community of a shared practice, whatever. And see if you can motivate yourself from a place of loving that instead of hating some part of your body.

Post-retreat in the Maldives, I was exhausted, and so what felt nourishing was only one day meant going to the gym, and the rest kayaking, paddle boarding, biking, swimming, and doing aerial yoga. And napping 🙃

Does this resonate? Let me know if you want to have more conversations like this here 💛

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