Energy & Stress, Priorities

Weary Feet: A Day Well Spent

Are your feet aching? Are you feeling completely DONE at the end of the day? As a field agent for the United States Government, a day of fieldwork meant an evening of weary feet. This was especially the case when I struggled with obesity. As a civil investigator...

Eating, Energy & Stress

Juice: Supplement NOT Substitute

In recent years, juicing has become trendy and juice fasting seems all the rage. I have come to LOVE juicing to supplement my micronutrient intake and highly recommend it. However, I would argue that juice fasting can be dangerous and is really unnecessary. It is...

Confidence

Sans Sulfates for Silky Strength and Length

I recently noticed my hair had grown much longer seemingly overnight. I kind of thought I had just been distracted and not noticed, but then other people started making comments about it. It made me curious. Why was my hair growing so much better recently? What was...

Confidence, Eating, Exercise

Transformation

If you saw a picture of me ten years ago, you would not recognize me. So here it is. The picture below was me in 2007; 12 years ago and two years before I had gastric bypass surgery. On April 7, 2009, I had gastric bypass surgery and proceeded to lose 155 pounds....

Nikola Rosa
Charlotte, NC

Nikola Rosa is an artistic rendering of the soul that has come to exist after rising from the ashes. Her thoughts are from Nancy Gass, and yet they are in some ways, a different person entirely. We all have hearts and souls that are a deep ocean of complexity and this dichotomy is no different.