by Bettina | Sep 5, 2026 | Fashion and style
I figured out my fall color palette the hard way — by standing in front of a closet full of clothes that technically “matched” and feeling like none of it looked right. Everything was black, grey, and one hopeful mustard sweater I never actually wore. So a...
by Bettina | Sep 3, 2026 | Self-care tips
I fell in love with fall self-care by accident, on a grey Sunday in October when I was too tired to do anything ambitious and too restless to do nothing. I ended up lighting a candle, making a pot of tea I actually let steep, and reorganizing my bookshelf while it...
by Bettina | Sep 2, 2026 | Self-care tips
The first time I sat down to do shadow work, I lasted about ten minutes. I had the notebook, the candle, a prompt I’d screenshotted from somewhere, and absolutely no idea what I was supposed to write. The question was “What part of yourself do you...
by Bettina | Sep 1, 2026 | Self-care tips
The first time I noticed the shift, I was standing in my kitchen at 7 a.m. in late August, holding a lukewarm coffee I’d forgotten to drink. Realizing I hadn’t followed anything resembling a routine in about ten weeks. Summer does that to me. It melts the...
by Bettina | Aug 30, 2026 | Food recipes
For years I was a breakfast-skipper, not by choice but by chaos — the snooze button won, the morning evaporated, and by ten I’d be shaky and snapping at everyone over a vending-machine pastry. The fix was never “wake up earlier” (absolutely not). It...
