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Creating and Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle Wherever You Are
It can be easy to be healthy while living in an affluent urban area where you are a stone's throw away from a juice bar and an equinox...

Emma Lopez
Sep 12, 20214 min read
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Reevaluating My Path to Happiness
Slipping out of the hotel room and into the quiet dark streets of rural Slovenia, I feel as though my heart might be set ablaze. The cool...

Emma Lopez
Jul 27, 20217 min read
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Can I have your life? The Flattering Question That Makes Me Cringe
I posted a picture to social media last week of a moose that I saw while exploring the Bighorn Mountains. Someone commented, "Can I have...

Emma Lopez
Jul 8, 20214 min read
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Is My Life Worth a Hat? Grappling with the Value of My life
Never had I been forced to consider the worth of my life before my last solo-hike. I am hiking a trail called Upper Layout, a modest hike...

Emma Lopez
Jul 2, 20216 min read
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A Park Ranger's Experience Visiting Yellowstone National Park in the Summer
There is a Mott's fruit snack wrapper floating sadly in a bubbling thermal pool. I find myself staring at it longer than the geyser...

Emma Lopez
Jun 3, 20216 min read
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Simple Swaps for Healthy & Sustainable Living
Throwing away all your plastic Tupperware, leftover Halloween candy, plastic bags, conventional makeup, and single-use razors is not only...

Emma Lopez
Mar 17, 20219 min read
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The Fate of Relationships for Young Vagabonds
As a young adult, I am on the move quite a bit. Everywhere my feet land, I am unsure if I will make this plot of earth my home, or if I...

Emma Lopez
Feb 26, 20214 min read
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Fast Fashion: A Fast Way to Destroy Our Planet
Back in high school, I remember getting my first paycheck from my job, going to the mall with my friends, and spending it on poorly made...

Emma Lopez
Feb 11, 20215 min read
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I Love Aging
I love aging. I don't know if I will still be feeling that way when I hit 40, but right now I am in love with it. I love the way my body...

Emma Lopez
Feb 4, 20214 min read
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The Art of Being a Soft Badass
You're driving down the freeway when some ambiguous person in a purple Dodge Challenger comes out of nowhere and aggressively swerves in...

Emma Lopez
Feb 3, 20214 min read
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6 Signs of an Emotionally Abusive Relationship
There is a good chance that either you or someone you know has been in an emotionally abusive relationship. The National Domestic...

Emma Lopez
Jan 25, 20217 min read
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Why I am Vegan (essay)
It is easy to live your life following societal norms, but harder to entertain the idea that perhaps our entire ideology is skewed. I can...

Emma Lopez
Jan 20, 202111 min read
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5 Mantras that Changed My Life
Words only have power and meaning if we give them the means. Logs won't burn without a means to spark a flame, and a piano will not...

Emma Lopez
Jan 15, 20215 min read
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My 1 Week Music Detox - Why You Should Do It Too
It seems like everyone is detoxing themselves from one thing or another these days, whether it be dairy, social media, an ex - You name...

Emma Lopez
Jan 12, 20213 min read
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