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What Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show Meant to Me

spicy jen

February 10, 2026

This Was Not Entertainment. It Was a Reckoning. When Bad Bunny stepped onto the Super Bowl Halftime Show stage, this was not just a performance. This is what the Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show meant to me as an Indigenous woman living abroad. It felt like a pulse.A call back to memory.A declaration that […]

The Six Pillars of Returning

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February 5, 2026

The Foundation of the Rooted Living When I began writing the Rooted Guide, I was not trying to design a framework. I was trying to survive my own disconnection with honesty. I was asking questions that do not come from curiosity alone, but from lived tension. Am I walking in a good way?What happens when […]

Why So Many Women Feel Disconnected From Their Lives

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January 31, 2026

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that does not come from doing too much in a single day. It comes from living too long without yourself fully present. You can have a life that looks fine on paper.A family. A job. A business. Responsibilities handled. Boxes checked. And still feel strangely distant from your […]

Decluttering Your Life: Making Room to Live Rooted

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January 30, 2026

Decluttering is not about having less. It is about having enough room to breathe. Many women approach decluttering as if it’s a house problem. Too much stuff. Too many piles. Drawers that no longer close. But clutter rarely starts in your home. It starts with how fast you are moving through your days.Your attention.The way […]

Why I Left AI for a More Rooted Life in a Disconnected World

January 30, 2026

This Was Not a Rebrand. It Was a Reckoning. I do not hate technology. Actually, far from it. Nor am I here to shame your phone. I have one too. But I stepped back from AI and tech-heavy spaces because something in me started to feel hollow. Not tired.Not confused. Hollow. Like my work was […]

Nature Does Not Hurry. Neither Did Rooted.

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January 30, 2026

A Guide to Return to What Matters I thought finishing the Rooted Guide by December 2025 would be a matter of discipline. Why? This has been living in my head for years, and if I didn’t get it out now, it would simply die as another great idea. And I couldn’t have that at all. […]

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