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What I wasn’t prepared for, though, were things like rent, the demands of my 9-5 job, tax season, and all of the other stresses that come with being 23. And one unfortunate side effect of stress is the havoc it always seems to wreak on my skin. I love the Bioré Blue Agave + Baking Soda Balancing Pore Cleanser for an intense, conditioning cleanse. Face masking is by far my favorite part of my skin care routine, and the Bioré Blue Agave + Baking Soda Whipped Nourishing And make sure to check out the Blue Agave + Baking Soda Balancing Pore Cleanser and Whipped Nourishing

As I’ve grown older, I haven’t been able to prioritize reading the same way I was able to when I was young, but when I do find myself bitten by the book bug again, here are a few of the books I go back to, and a few recent new reads I’ve loved. Like I said, I read a lot of creepy books, and this was probably the best of the creepy books that I read in 2018. This book does a great job humanizing the tragedies we’ve all seen in the media, and painting a picture of the pain our systems inflict on black people in America. I’m always looking for new books to read – what were the best books you read in 2018 or what books are you most looking forward to in 2019?

Personally, I’m against hormonal birth control on a whole for a handful of reasons (that’s another post for another time, but a lot of my opinions are based on reading The Period Repair Manual by Lara Briden), but for people who are comfortable with hormonal interventions, it can be an elegant solution for treating endometriosis. I won’t eat meat at all, but I don’t grill waiters when I go out to eat, I will eat any meat free dish that a friend or relative cooks for me to be polite, and I will even have a slice of birthday cake if it’s offered to me, but I do cook exclusively vegan food at home and then just focus on doing the best I can do outside of the house. With that said, like meat and dairy, sugar basically feeds inflammation in your body, and that added inflammation really magnifies the pain associated with endo. For me, focusing on gut health looks like taking daily prebiotics and probiotics, eating a lot of fermented foods like sauerkraut and kombucha, and following the diet tips mentioned above.

I’ve spent the past month and a half preparing for my reemergence into blogging, so this time it’s for real (promise! ) I’ve been blogging for almost five years now, and in that time I’d always balanced blogging with first college and then my full-time job at Teachable. Blogging is something I truly love and something I plan to do for the rest of my life, but at the same time, when I’m squeezing blogging into every spare moment and my free time is always taken up by writing or photographing or editing, there was no such thing as a work life balance. I’m Morgan, and I’ve been blogging here since I was 18 years old.