People: Emma Allen
Name: Emma Allen
Occupation/Business/Creative Outlet: Everyday Oil
Starsign: Taurus
Favourite Number: 7
First thing you did this morning? Turn off the dance music that is my alarm :)
What does 'wellness' mean to you? To me wellness is doing the things you need to do each day to feel good in the world – choosing to follow the paths that lead to light with food, exercise, positivity, finding supportive people to surround yourself with and being a supportive person to people you love…Every day is a new challenge to find it and to me that is the thing we have to try the hardest to do as humans.
Products found in your shower/by your bath? There is always Dr. Bronners and Everyday Oil, I love sisters body shampoo and conditioner and always have some Giovanni peppermint tea tree shampoo and conditioner as well. I also have a moringa mask from the sweet girls at Ona organics.
Three things that can always be found in your kitchen cupboard? I always, always have raw cacao and a million herbs, sea salt and good olive oil.
Favourite kitchen utensil? I adore the iwatani portable gas burner
Favourite Travel destination? I love to travel and my favorite destinations are off the beaten path ~ often way, way off, haha.
Currently reading? I just started reading The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See, which is a novel about the last women left from a matriarchal community of sea diving women called the haenyeowho lived on a Korean island called Jeju. I adore the photos from that community and have been fascinated by reading about that story so I’m excited to read the book. I always have a few non fiction books in rotation as well. I just started Eddie Stern’s book on yoga, which I am excited for. I have practiced Ashtanga yoga for a long time and he is a legend in that community.
Currently browsing (.com)? I always read Maria Popova’s newsletter Brain Pickings (weird name but she is brilliant), the New Yorker and the nytimes.
Favourite breakfast food? I don’t usually eat breakfast but I always really love it if someone makes it for me and I love going to brunch :)
Three items in your wallet / bag? I always have a reusable water bottle, Burts Bees chapstick and vitamins.
An album/mix that calms your nervous system? Bedouine and Dani Fine are very calming to me.
An album/mix that hypes you up? Reggaeton like this Cuban reggaeton band Gente de zona, Janelle Monae, Lizzo, I also love almost all music I can’t understand the words to, haha.
Most commonly used apps on your phone? News app, audible (I love listening to books!) and I wish it were not true but Instagram.
Favourite form of movement/exercise? I love to run and love yoga, and I love dancing
One thing you'd like to incorporate into your day/week that you're currently yet to? I would like to be an earlier riser. I love the early mornings and the feelings that are there, I just love sleeping too much!
Nighttime rituals? I take a lot of baths and love sitting in a bathrobe with a towel on my head while I read. That is a happy place for me when I’m home, lol.
I feel most creatively fulfilled when... I am doing things – once I am engaged in a creative project I feel really happy. Getting over the hump to start is often where I get snagged!
I'm currently working on... I am currently working on finding the best farms in the world to source Everyday Oil’s ingredients, which so far is really challenging and unbelievably beautiful.
This time last year, I wish I knew... to just live in the moment and not stress too much about outcomes. Always learning this!
I'm grateful for... this life and cold rivers to swim in and the sweetest friends and my family, and for Everyday Oil and the people it brings into my life to work alongside and be in community with. So grateful!
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