How to Live Deliciously
Living a delicious life starts with defining what that means to you.
Not what Instagram tells you is beautiful.
Not what hustle culture tells you is impressive.
Not what anyone else says you should want.
A delicious life is personal. It’s built from the details that make you feel most alive, the rituals, rhythms, relationships, environments, and choices that nourish your body, expand your mind, and steady your heart.
It’s choosing quality over noise. Presence over performance. Depth over distraction. It’s knowing your enoughness, protecting your energy, savoring beauty, and nourishing yourself, physically, emotionally, spiritually, with intention.
Before you can live deliciously, you have to decide what “delicious” looks like for you.
This is where it begins.
My Journey to Deliciousness
I spent much of my twenties chasing money, impressive things, and an ego-centric version of a successful life, a nice car, a beautiful place, designer bags, extravagant vacations. I look back at some of the writing in my first book about what I was dreaming up at the time, and I cringe. Was that the real me?
After publishing that book, I felt a call to go inward, to cocoon, to refocus my energy on who I was becoming and wanted to become, not out of ego, but out of truth. To find my authentic code, and to live into that authenticity with every decision, from my career, to my home, to my family, to my calling.
At first, I thought living truthfully looked like my aspirational Pinterest boards and ambitious ten-year plans (for world domination, obviously). But the more time I spent peeling back the layers of my identity, the more I realized that living truthfully, living deliciously, wasn’t a physical manifestation. It was a feeling. It was total-body, cellular alignment and nervous-system knowingness.
A knowingness that feels like peace, despite achievement, and challenge, despite moments of excitement, or activation, or triggeredness, those moments come with those surface level emotions, and also a deeper inner steadiness. It’s not performative. It’s rooted, grounded, unmoved, patient, undaunted, and yet, willing to bend… but only for what is true. True friendships, true love, true purpose.
There wasn’t one singular moment where I woke up and realized that living deliciously was the point. It came one intentional choice at a time, each choice pulling me closer to my authentic core. The more I discovered her, the more I became her. The more I became her, the more I enjoyed her. And the more I enjoyed her, the more others did too. Every decision began to feel truly mine. My outer life became a reflection of my inner world.
From someone who once tried to take her own life, to someone deliberately building one worth living, I’ve come a long way. I’m proud of who I’ve become, the lessons I’ve learned (and relearned), the ones I had to learn the hard way, and the ones I am still learning.
But I know this much with certainty: I am meant to guide other women through their storms so they can find this kind of peace too. Because peace is the point.
And when we truly know ourselves, when we accept that the one person we always have to come home to is ourselves, we stop trying to outrun her. We stop trying to bribe her. We begin to understand her, love her, and fully embody her.
Living Deliciously
In the grand scheme of things, life boils down to a finite list of essentials: how you feel in your body, who you spend your days with, how you spend those days, and what all of it feels like. Realizing this, and intentionally noticing who, what, and where makes you feel the way you want to feel (and, inversely, what pulls you away from that) is what living deliciously is all about.
Have you ever taken a bite of food and felt every neuron in your brain fire at once? The sight, the smell, the taste, the mouthfeel, the sound of the crunch, time stops as you savor every layer of the experience.
What if life could feel that way?
Defining your delicious means getting clear on the symphony of flavors that is your life and living it with detailed intention. It isn’t something you define once and achieve overnight, it’s a 1% more delicious, everyday practice. A lifelong commitment to becoming who feels most true to you.
It’s knowing your truth, wandering away from it, and returning again with more grace and compassion. It’s not a destination. It’s not material. It’s a lifetime of discovery. It’s a feeling of alignment, peace, fullness.
For me, the discovery and embodiment living deliciously comes down to a few things, which will be the themes of exploration for this work:
Health is wealth.
Your body is a temple. It is the one vessel that carries every dream you have. Protect it, nourish it, move it, rest it. Nothing you build matters if you don’t feel well enough to enjoy it.
Relationships are your real riches.
Success is empty without people to share it with. Invest in those who make you feel expanded, safe, and seen. The quality of your life will always mirror the quality of the relationships you choose to keep.
Money is freedom, not status.
Earn enough to feel safe. Save enough so future you is protected. Spend enough to enjoy the life you’re working so hard to build. The goal isn’t always more, it’s knowing what is enough and planning wisely so your choices today become gifts, not burdens.
Your calling lives at the intersection of what moves you and what challenges you.
Pay attention to what stirs emotion in you, frustration, passion, curiosity, even envy. These are clues. Your purpose is often hidden in what won’t leave you alone.
Life itself is the point.
You can’t add days to your life, but you can add life to your days. Savor beauty. Celebrate small moments. Let joy be part of the plan, not the reward at the end.
Surrender is a superpower too.
Believe that you are guided, supported, and never walking alone. Whether you call it God, the universe, intuition, or something higher, faith anchors you when logic can’t. It softens fear, strengthens trust, and reminds you that not everything is meant to be controlled, some things are meant to be surrendered to and believed in.
Defining your Delicious
Before we begin this journey together, sharing meals and mantras for a delicious life, I want you to define what living deliciously means to you. The purpose of this work isn’t for you to adopt everything within it, but to take what resonates and leave what doesn’t, always honoring your own authenticity.
Here are a few questions to begin discovering your version of a delicious life:
When do I feel most like myself, calm, grounded, and fully alive?
What environments make my body feel safe, open, and expansive?
What relationships energize me, and which ones quietly drain me?
What does “enough” truly look like for me in this season of life?
If my future self could thank me for one decision I make today, what would it be?
