My background and beliefs when it comes to health are a weird mix of holistic and traditional Western, a balanced hybrid of yoga, acupuncture, meditation and eating healthy with a well-stocked medicine cabinet.
Staying healthy is a...
This year's mantra, courtesy of Alice Walker: Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.
Every year, I get more confident in my own skin and in my own decisions. I recognize my patterns...
One of my 2014 resolutions was to have a good things jar: a physical place where I could write down the good things that happened throughout the year and where I could watch those happy moments pile up.
On New Year's Eve, I woke up early: I...
I feel like I am one of those rare people who really enjoys the end of the year and thinking about my new year's resolutions because I actually kept them--and I am looking forward to setting new goals for the new year! It's amazing how a) writing...
My high school senior quote was "I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints." A nod to my just-rebellious-enough streak at a conservative Catholic high school, it was my favorite line from "Only the Good Die Young" by Billy Joel--a...
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Christine Amorose Merrill
C'est Christine is my little slice of the internet to talk travel, lifestyle and twenty- and thirty-something struggles. After stints living in France, Australia and NYC and lots of (often solo!) travel around the world, I currently live in San Diego with my husband, daughter and two pugs.