Active Minimalist is a space for me to share to inspire.
I am a millennial in her 30’s living in the midwest*, yet thirsts for fresh mountain air and the breeze of the Pacific Ocean. I spent a fair part of my young adulthood on the east coast, but opportunity arose in my hometown, so I moved back to be closer to family and ended up meeting my cat-loving fiancé. Over the years, I have dabbled in various art forms to scratch my creative itch, including drawing (paper and digital), writing, clay miniature-making, aerial silks, photography, and baking. I don’t do all of them anymore, but I wanted a space to document my activities and reflections outside of my professional life.
*Without diving into the details of why I don’t generally ascribe to strict labels, I mention this mainly as a geographic detail and not as a “Proud Midwesterner.”
A Brief History
I started Active Minimalist as a way of sorting through my thoughts on the minimalist lifestyle (which was just starting to become trendy) as I moved and shuffled my belongings across the country multiple times throughout my late teens and early twenties. Over time, I felt that the blog got a little too preachy and I let it go dark for over a year as the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged the world and I sorted my thoughts.
I restarted the blog in March 2021, gave it a facelift, and now have the intention of broadening the content to align with the evolution of my lifestyle as my priorities and goals continue to change and mature.