Sarah Anderson is Canadian blogger and freelance writer currently back home in Vancouver after living in Vietnam. She believes in being healthy, being kind to yourself and the planet, and traveling authentically. Mindful Urbanist is her personal blog where she writes book reviews, lifestyle articles, and travel logs.
For me, travel has been the most challenging and rewarding thing I have ever done in my life. To call it a great experience is reductive — it’s FAR more than that. Returning home a new person, genuinely changed from experiencing so much of the world you’d only ever read…
They are unequivocally doing something right. Over 300 people in the isolated Italian village of Acciaroli are centenarians—they are living past the age of 100. It may not seem too remarkable, but consider that the population of Acciaroli is 2000! Researchers from the University of California San Diego School of…
Cooking mindfully is an opportunity to turn off your brain and tune into your primitive senses. Mindfulness in the kitchen means staying engaged with the process instead of rushing through. It means being open, non-judgmental, and curious. Like all forms of mindfulness meditation, mindfully preparing food can lower your stress…