Curated by Bianca Henao, 131 TESS Every year, a new group of Peace Corps volunteers arrives in Thailand with new goals or habits to be achieved and ready to tackle their 27 […]
Healthy Living: Runners Ques
Healthy Living: Social Media
Bianca Henao, 131 TESS Social media consumes much of our daily lives. If you think this doesn’t pertain to you, take a look at your screen time reports. Being in a country […]
Healthy Living: Ashley’s Yoga Retreat
Bianca Henao, 131 TESS Bpit term: the month-long break for Peace Corps Thailand volunteers that occurs twice a year and sends us just about anywhere. Most of us take advantage of the […]
Healthy Living: Challenge Yourself
Bianca Henao, 131 TESS Sawas-dii ka! Take a deep breath. A really big one. Tummy expanding and mind clearing breath. Hold it! … Okay now release. Empty out e v e r […]
Super Simple Abs Workout with Natalie
Natalie Garro, 129 TESS Salutations! Once again, we are embarking on a follow-up to my article: A Beginner’s Guide to Running. I’m not sure that sentence made grammatical sense. Anyway, here is […]
Post-Running Yoga Series with Natalie
Natalie Garro, 129 TESS Greetings, Homosapiens (and potentially any other species that, by some miracle, have learned to read)! 6 months ago, Sticky Rice Magazine published my article: A Beginner’s Guide to […]
A Beginner’s Guide to Running
Natalie Garro, 129 TESS Greetings, humans! If you’re at all like me circa 2011, you hate running. (If you’re not like 2011 me, excellent, too!) 2011 Natalie had a history of chronic […]
Simple Guide to Personal Health Care When You Don’t Have Time for Personal Health Care
Natalie Garro, 129 TCCS Greetings, friends! I originally wrote this article in March, 2018; however, we decided to delay its posting for a more relevant time – that was not bpit-term! That […]
Caring for Yourself: Fitness
McKenzie Paterson, 129 TCCS Healthy Living: Caring for Yourself to Care for Your Community We all want to be the best Volunteers that we can be for our communities. That means we […]
Caring for Yourself: Nutrition
Editior’s Note McKenzie Paterson is a 129 TCCS Volunteer in Kanchanaburi. She is a health and fitness enthusiast, and she has graciously agreed to contribute a three-part article! The first section will […]
Cooking With Cait: Jackfruit Sandwich
Caitlin Denton, 128 YinD I’m a huge fan of fusion foods. There are many approaches to fusion though. Some try to combine foods from their different backgrounds or experiences in cultures. Some […]
Cooking With Cait: Holiday Edition
Caitlin Denton, 128 YinD There are specific aromas we nostalgically associate with the holidays. For some it may be freshly fallen snow, a honey baked ham pulled from the oven, or a […]
Running in Thailand: Part 2, Nutrition
Olivia McGeever, 128 TCCS One of the great gifts my Peace Corps service has given me is an endless lesson on nutrition and my body. Eating well is essential to running well. […]
Running in Thailand: Part 1, Training
Olivia McGeever, 128 TCCS Living abroad, particularly abroad and alone, has been the best thing for my running. While being tested mentally and emotionally, running has helped me realize the ways I’ve […]
The Monthly
Erin Harden, 128 YinD In honor of International Women’s Month (note from the editor: sorry, this is way late!), I will be talking about the monthly curse, surfing the crimson tide, and […]
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