Life, Style, Travel
I can’t believe we’re already in 2023. It seems like 2022 flew by. I am still wondering where 2020 and 2021 went. Last year, for the first time, I published my vision board for the […]
One of my new year’s resolutions is to eat real food. I’m not going to name a diet specifically or limit myself. I just want to eat real food – meaning nothing processed and nothing […]
Maybe it’s my Gen X perception, but all this talk about “self care” just seems silly and selfish to me. It conjures up images of women in bathtubs drinking wine or spending way too much time and money on spa treatments deemed necessary by all those influencers on Instagram. It grants permission to be selfish and self indulgent and while everyone deserves to treat themselves in whatever way makes them happy, over-emphasizing self-indulgent behaviors under the positive guise of “self care” seems all kinds of wrong to me. I decided to take a look at what self care really means.
In today’s world we do everything for social media. We plan everything out. We use GPS so we ensure we never get lost, take Ubers in strange cities instead of wandering the streets and we miss out on the adventure, the unexpected, the beautiful connections that happen when you’re not looking. Being disconnected can be surprisingly liberating. Try it sometime.
Welcome to The Faye Files! Here I share my love of food, fashion, photography, travel and more. It’s a lifestyle blog of a real, everyday person, not a “content creator.” Sometimes I have a lot to say, sometimes I’m quiet as the everyday life gets busy, but I’m always real.
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