04/22/2026
Happy Earth Day! 🌎
Some of you already know this, but in 2018 I sold almost everything I owned and moved onto a sailboat with my family. I lived aboard for 5 years and traveled over 8,000 nautical miles. This experience completely changed the way I think about waste… and connection.
When you live on the water, you become part of nature. I learned to feel the wind before it came, to read the water, to recognize which clouds would bring rain. We went to bed with the sun and woke up with the sun. Life slowed down and I became much more present.
I saw beaches covered in plastic bottles. Fishing gear tangled in places it didn’t belong. Flip flops, hair ties, everyday things that somehow made their way into the ocean and on beaches. (Side note: I never once saw a straw so I’m not sure why one of the things that should actually remain plastic became the biggest villain… but the plastic cup you put your paper straw in is just fine. But I digress…)
Anyway, this life-changing, unique experience will always stay with me.
My business doesn’t create much physical waste besides the occasional tissue from a good healing cry, or the occasional abandoned coffee cup. But I’m very intentional about cutting down on single-use water bottles. I keep reusable cups everywhere (office, home, car), a cold Brita pitcher in my office fridge, and biodegradable cups as a backup if a client comes in without their own water bottle. (Another side note: I also keep cans of sparkling water in my office fridge. Why is non-sparkling water in a can so much more expensive than sparkling? I digress again…)
Living on a boat also made me think about a different kind of waste. Because I lived in a very small space with not a lot of “stuff”, I still live very minimalistic. I don’t spend my life collecting things I don’t actually need.
Moral of my story… even small changes, or just paying closer attention to the rhythms of nature around you, can change the way you move through the world. I think this is why I love astrology so much. I live on land now but I still follow the stars. ✨
