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RACHAEL

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Writer, journalist, award-winning blogger, copywriter and advocate.

I specialize in lifestyle content such as fashion, health and wellness articles, personal essays and interviews highlighting innovators such as designers and artists. My work has been featured online and in print internationally in major magazines, two books, countless websites, brands galore and my own various sites and projects. As a fashion journalist, I won 2012 Fashion Blog of the Year Award for an interview series I authored in Seattle, and have covered runway shows, collection releases, look book creations and held e-commerce editor roles in various companies. In nonprofit work, I underwent a Year of Service in Americorp, and today use my writing to help causes further their mission locally and internationally. Whether it's lifestyle, fashion or philanthropic in nature, I am committed to lending my expertise to companies and causes that champion individuality, which fuels my work to be all the more brave and vibrant.

Jan 23, 2019

Find Your Vice. Let it Pull You Through.

How I came to eat bacon and champagne every single day and not feel one bit guilty about it...Find your vice and let it be the small celebra

Aug 9, 2018

Morning Routines In Your 30's | Intention & Rituals

What was important was not to let a morning routine in my 30's define me, but instead to grow through the process of letting every day b

Jun 15, 2018

10 Questions To Bring You Back Into Self-Awareness

The desire to become your 'best self' and reach your 'highest potential' is as buzz-worthy as it is ambiguous, as trendy as it is indefinable. While self-help heroes take over Instagram feeds and are self-publishing their ideas, and I'm as hooked as the next gal on finding the secret to being who I am...and making loads of money...and being happy... And this is very good news for a culture in multitudes of turmoil, because bringing about social change starts with personal cha

Jun 8, 2018

Are You Living Your Purpose?

The idea of living your purpose might be a motivating force, but how can you tell if you are? Purpose comes in many forms: it presents itself in the moment, as opportunities to bring light and joy to the people and situations immediately around you. It unfolds in longer spans of time, defining periods of your life and your personal growth through challenges overcome and ambitions realized. And lastly, it is written through the story of your entire existence, through every wor

Jun 8, 2018

"It's Not Fair" Does Not Empower You.

A bad day at work. That guy more interested in your friend than you. How hard it is to lose weight or…of course….cancer. It's almost pathetically easy to view life as not fair, both in minute situations and in entire realms of our existence. I’ve bounced into it’s territory many times, telling myself that the consequences of life after cancer aren’t fair after all I've already been through for it. I’ve willingly, enthusiastically stepped into that mindset, with statements lik

Jun 8, 2018

Don't Apologize For Your Story

Love. Acceptance. Validation. The encompassing, enthralling feeling of being heard and understood for what you've been through in your life. Illness survivors, violence survivors of all types and so many more courageous fighters among us know this feeling too well. You get to know someone, a new friend or a lover perhaps. You open up and tell them your story and - if you're lucky - they hear you. They acknowledge who you are, and the ways in which they should be more tender,