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Travel doesn’t have to throw your health off track. Whether you’re planning a hiking trip, looking for healthy travel snacks, or searching for simple ways to stay energized on the go, this space is designed to help you feel your best wherever the journey takes you. From practical tips for staying balanced on flights and road trips, to curated hiking itineraries and outdoor adventure guides, you’ll find resources that make healthy living easy and enjoyable.
Here, wellness meets lifestyle—because being on the move shouldn’t mean giving up nourishment, movement, or joy. Explore travel-friendly snack ideas, strategies for staying active while exploring new destinations, and inspiration for creating healthy routines even when you’re away from home. Whether you’re an avid hiker, a frequent traveler, or someone simply looking for doable wellness habits, you’ll find guidance, tools, and encouragement for a balanced lifestyle rooted in adventure.
Learn how to stay consistent with your supplement routine while traveling. Simple packing tips, travel hacks, and a free reel example inside!
You’ll receive tips and healthy food suggestions for planning a 9-day journey dedicated exclusively to Washington's national parks—Mount Rainier, Olympic, and North Cascades.
As we approach the end of the holiday season, it's the perfect time to indulge in some festive treats. A well-stocked charcuterie or food board is a fantastic way to bring loved ones together. Get inspired with these fantastic food board ideas that are sure to impress at your next event, whether it's a BBQ, retreat, girl’s night or even just a family dinner!
Our recipes and individual ingredients are naturally gluten-free and dairy-free friendly, and include healthy substitutes for traditional packaged products.
Plus, you'll find my favorite serving tools, tips, tricks, and packaged clean food products to help you put together any themed board in no time!
Whether you are driving through, U.S. Route 50 “the Loneliest Road in America” or stuck at the airport due to flight delay, having a snack arsenal is a must!
Key snack items I look for when stocking my travel snack bag include foods that will keep me hydrated, keep my lovely gut happy, are portable, minimal ingredients and that don’t require refrigeration, antioxidants (help fight any free radical damage aka when you are packed in an airplane like sardines) and contains a fat and protein source for optimal blood sugar regulation.
The thing is, healthy traveling doesn’t have to become this huge, all encompassing event. It’s about doing the things that make you feel your best and balanced eating and movement is part of enjoying yourself. All you have to do is find organic ways where these actions will be displayed into your travel schedule.
Back in March when I decided to make a huge life change to quit my job as a wedding director to pursue From The Roots full time, I roughly mapped out possible places that I thought would be cool to put new roots down - Austin being top of the list!
So five months later, here we are! And even though things have vastly changed since March, staying in Georgia will be the best thing for me in this season. But, if an opportunity presented itself to move to TX, then I would pack my bags in a heartbeat!
I sprained my ankle in Chicago after graduating from the NTA program back in February. Ever since my entire right foot has not been the same. I re-injured it a month later that developed into a stress fracture; which leads me to the boot! And even though I am no longer in a boot, the doctors have found that I have a tarsal coalition that can lead to surgery or wearing orthotics for the rest of my life. So while I am weighing my options, I have been getting creative in my workouts so that I don’t make it worse.
As we are driving down to San Francisco, we stopped by this amazing oyster restaurant, Hog Island Oyster Co in Marshall, where you can shuck your own oysters! We didn’t stop at too many restaurants because we have a kitchen in the van, but you must stop here! If you want more information, I love this blog post on the experience.
After stuffing our faces with oysters, San Fran bound for the rest of the day! Depending on what you want to do in the City by the Bay, one to two days is plenty of time! For the day, here is what we did:
The Pacific Coast Highway road trip has been on my bucket list for quite some time! The inner hippie in me has always wanted to rent a camper van (or live in one) and travel down Highway 1 and see what the beautiful scenic route had to offer me.
And that is just what I did this past summer. Flew into Seattle, rented a camper van, and drove down the beautiful scenic highway all the way down to Los Angeles. Now, I understand that the Pacific Northwest has amazing food, tourist spots, etc but if you are wanting a hippie version that is chock full of hiking adventures, living/lodging in a camper van, and getting lost in the beauty of the pacific coast, then you are in the right place!
Did you know that having positive self-care can improve your diet? As a society, we often run ourselves ragged trying to keep up, thus compromising our self-care. We can often overwork ourselves, carry more stress than the healthy amount, and often don’t stop to think about how all these things can impact our diet and well being in a negative light.
So in honor of our 5-Day Whole Wellness Challenge, I will be sharing my top 5 self-care tips.
At the beginning of January of this year, Southernmost Illinois provided me a four-day lodging experience so that I could explore the most beautiful National Forest in the state of Illinois. Not a bad way to start the new year, amiright?! If you are looking for a winter retreat in the Midwest region, then look no further.
Almost every time I go on a road trip or fly, I get travel bloat. Anybody feel me?! One time when we traveled to Savannah, GA, it was so bad I had to take almost half of the day just lying in bed because of the pain. If you are anything like me, when you travel, you want to see the world. You got things to do and you are on a schedule! Well, when it comes to belly bloat while traveling, say goodbye to itineraries, Instagram-worthy food dives, and looking cute in that new outfit because bloat is here to stay!
What if I can tell you that travel bloat doesn’t always have to ruin a great time? In my recent experience traveling, I have found products, tips and tricks to combat bloating while traveling, vacationing, or for any occasion.
Even though your butt can look great in tight jeans or help to build confidence, there are so many more reasons than this! There are three major glute muscles that will be targeted in this short workout, gluteus maximas, gluteus medius and gluteus minimus. These muscles extends the hip (pulls the thigh behind you), does internal and external hip rotation, and abducts the hip (your lateral movement to the side). They are basically highly important! But for people who live a sedentary lifestyle or sit for the most part of the day, these muscles are often weak and under-worked.
By sitting, our glutes “turn off”which can lead to our hip flexors (the muscles that pull the thigh forward) get tight and can lead to injury. So with workouts like this that focuses on squatting with the addition to weights/without weights (strength/endurance), we can alleviate back pain, increase athletic performance, prevent knee pain, and improve posture! Now you know what your glutes do for you, here are four moves you can do for them!
Tabata workouts are a great way to improve endurance or if you are short on time. It’s a high intensity interval training (HIIT) workout that last about 4 minutes! There are many varied tabata style workouts that you can do, all you have to do is follow this simple guideline:
20 sec: work out
10 sec: rest
Complete 8 rounds
So for the first 20 seconds, you workout as hard as you can and then rest for 10 seconds. This is for one set. In total, you will complete 8 rounds. You can do whatever workout you would like that targets large muscle groups: burpees, squats, lunges, planks, etc.
For this particular tabata, we will be targeting the most love/hate muscle group - abdominal; using planks as the workout!
I wish I could say that I was the one who created this amazing citrus cleaner but that would be a lie if I did. If you search “citrus cleaner” or “DIY citrus peel cleaner” on Google then you will get this recipe. The reason why I am showing you this is because the recipe actually works and it aligns with my core values -- clean ingredients for food and home!
A great article I read recently explained that the first three hours of your day will make or break the rest of your day. This makes sense since our brain and energy levels are most vulnerable in the morning after being well rested.
When I was in college, I would use this time to do most of my studying since I was more awake and susceptible. Now that I am working and taking classes again, I take about an hour and a half getting ready/commuting to work. As soon as I get to work at 8AM, I tackle the most important tasks. By 11AM, my mind is ready for a break. From the time I am awake until 11 AM, I completely unplug from social media. This has become a vital non-negotiable since I can get VERY easily distracted.
Ever since we moved to the Midwest we knew we wanted to travel to Chicago. The architecture, speakeasy bars, and the food -- Who wouldn’t want to travel there!? My husband and I were very fortunate to have company along for the trip that knew the town inside and out. Without them, I don’t think we would have figured out the transit system or have been able to do as many things as we wanted in just four short days!
We visited Chicago during Memorial weekend and let me tell you, that was the best time to go! The sun and warm air definitely looks good on Chicago!
A realistic look inside my travel bag and the wellness essentials I never skip while traveling. From protein packs and electrolytes to snacks, supplements, and travel-friendly routines that help me stay consistent without overcomplicating things.