When I asked if you wanted a holiday healthy gift guide, I got an OVERWHELMING response of “YES!!!” |
So, today’s newsletter is just that! 🎉 |
I went a little overboard and shared a bit of EVERYTHING that I love and use across home, beauty, books, gardening, kitchen gear, food and more. Hopefully it sparks some fun and meaningful gift ideas for you! |
Before we jump in, I want to share that my friend, the inspirational Cathy Heller, host of the wildly popular podcast Abundant Ever After, wrote a book that is out TODAY, and it’s revolutionary… It’s also called ABUNDANT EVER AFTER, and I recommend it so highly. It’s about creating the life of your dreams, and tapping into the abundance that is the sheer reality of the universe. The way Cathy writes about cultivating a life of more alignment, magic, ease, and joy hits home for me. This book weaves spirituality, Jewish mysticism and teachings from the Torah, meditation science, personal stories, affirmations, and so much more. It is a doorway to an expanded way of thinking and being. A few (paraphrased) lines from the book that just landed so good for me: |
✨ YOU DON’T NEED TO KNOW THE DESTINATION. YOU JUST NEED TO FOLLOW YOUR ENTHUSIASM AND JOY. (Note: I live by this). ✨ PROBABILITY INHIBITS POSSIBILITY. To have a life of wonder and alignment, we are required to shift our focus from the analytical realm to the magical realm of possibility. (Aka, stop overthinking things). ✨ The most successful people are the ones who have the courage to step out of the line for “Door Number One” (the prescribed, linear, predictable path) and look for the Unmarked Door that leads directly to where they want to go. ✨ Ask yourself: If you’re not allowing yourself to even dream of a different life, what is the limiting belief standing in your way? ✨ It is such a turn-on (🌶️ 🔥!) when you start to be BRAZEN, to have the AUDACITY to talk about your standards in plain and clear terms: What’s your standard of care? What’s your standard for life, for people, for humanity, for what kind of food you eat, for how you treat yourself, for how you treat other people, for boundaries? You start to have the kind of audacity and people look at you and go.. Yes, THAT is who I want to be… Be a walking billboard of possibility for other people. ✨ If you’re wondering why you’re not having more breakthroughs, why the money isn’t coming in, why love isn’t pouring in behind you, look at your energy. If you’re feeling defeated, it’s perhaps because somehow you’re in resistance to the blessings all around you. When you’re not in resonance with a higher energetic state (like gratitude), you hold yourself apart from receiving more. ✨ How we choose to perceive reality is the only thing we really have any control over. We can change the channel on our thoughts any second. ✨ Your life is a mirror image of your thoughts. Whatever you’re kicking around in your head creates your life. You can change a belief like changing the radio dial. ✨ What would happen if you stopped believing that you can’t have “it,” whatever “it” is for you? ✨ WHEN YOU ARE ABUNDANT, YOU DON’T TAKE AWAY SOMEONE ELSE’S ABILITY TO HAVE ABUNDANCE. YOU CREATE IT. (i.e., The individual redwood tree isn’t selfish for receiving abundant sunshine and water; in fact, it’s receiving of sunshine and water helps make the forest lush and gorgeous.) ✨ We don’t truly see what is when we’re trapped inside our mind. THERE ARE NO ANSWERS IN THE CHOPPY WATERS OF THE MIND. The biggest insights and creative downloads and clear directives forward exist at a deeper level, in the beyond mind. ✨ Free yourself from being everyone’s favorite. The person who aims to please everyone cannot have a fully expressed point of view and they cannot freely create. The people pleaser has to shrink. You will only be able to tune or to resonate or to influence someone who’s within seven degrees of where you are energetically, so you can’t affect the whole world and you don’t need to. Be authentic and don’t waste time trying to influence those who can’t hear your authentic message. More people in alignment will positively shift the world. ✨ What you’re looking for at the end of the dream fulfillment is simply a feeling, and you can actually have that feeling right now. Dream fulfillment doesn’t happen externally and in the future, it can only happen in the present, so create that state internally and now. So often we look outside ourselves for the expansion that simply lives within. ✨You deserve to have a life that takes your breath away. 💗 📚️ Get Abundant Ever After today |
✨ Dr. Casey’s healthy gift guide |
Note: The sock icon (🧦) means that this gift would probably fit in a stocking! 🎄 |
🎁 Please consider compostable and sustainable wrapping options for gifts. See here for ideas! |
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🤸 Fun + Whimsical Gifts |
Unicorn Candle Disco Lights for Home Dance Parties! 🪩 Stickers 🧦 The Antiquarian Sticker Book: Over 1,000 Exquisite Victorian Stickers Bananagrams 🧦 Lunar Abundance Card Deck 🧦 Lunar Abundance Moon Light 🧦 Animal Spirit Card Deck (Everyone I’ve given this to loves it) Celestial Wonders Sticker Book 🧦 Rumi Card Deck 🧦 Disco Ball Hanging Planters 🪩 Custom Cornhole Boards from Etsy Fun Rubber Stamps and Stamp Pads Custom Beaded Bracelets 🧦 DIY Non-toxic Bath Bomb Kits 150 Life Story Interview Kit Cards 🧦 Crystal Sound Healing Bowls Artipoppe Leopard Baby Carrier DIY Bedazzled Stainless Steel Water Bottle Unicorn Silicon Baking Mold (so many other fun styles) Friendship Bracelet Making Kit BIG Wall Calendar For The Year (WE LOVE THIS!) plus dry erase markers Pizza Hair Clip 🧦 |
✈️ Travel |
Lo + Sons Catalina Bag (I LOVE THIS BAG!!!) Away Suitcase Carry On |
These are the two bags I travel with all the time. In my experience, together, they hold enough for a 2 week trip without any checked bags. These two bags turned me from a check-bagged gal to a CARRY-ON GAL, finally! 🎉 |
Bose Wired Noise Cancelling Headphones (and USB-C to Headphone Jack Dongle) |
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🏋️ Fitness + Health |
Levels Membership and Labwork Non-toxic Yoga Mat and Mat Towel Kettle Bells (I love a 25 lb, 35 lb, 55 lb kettle bell!) Bala Beam Adjustable Dumbbell Set that I love Function Health 1 Year Membership – the best gift you could possibly give a loved one! Oura Ring (I use Oura Ring with Natural Cycles app and In The Flo book for cycle tracking and it has helped me understand my body like never before!) HeartMath HRV Monitors (to work towards managing the nervous system better!) Massage Table (what better gift could you give than gift of MASSAGE?) and Organic Cotton Sheets Organic Massage Oil |
💊Supplements |
Turmeric by Momentous 🧦 L-Theanine by Momentous 🧦 Magtein by Momentous 🧦 Collagen Peptides by Momentous Creatine by Momentous WeNatal for Her (You don’t need to be trying to conceive, this is a high quality multivitamin for any woman!) WeNatal for Him WeNatal Omegas WeNatal Egg Quality supplement Timeline Mitopure softgels 🧦 Timeline Mitopure powder Pendulum Metabolic Daily Probiotic 🧦 |
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📚Books |
Good Energy (duh!) by ME and my brother! 😀 Abundant Ever After by Cathy Heller Lunar Abundance by Ezzie Spencer Forever Strong by Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Comfortable with Uncertainty by Pema Chodron Eat Smarter Family Cookbook by Shawn Stevenson In the Flo (MUST READ BOOK!) by Alisa Vitti WeNatal Manifestation Journal for Pregnancy by Lillian Cohanzad Food, Food, Food by the Ranch Malibu Whole Food Cooking Every Day by Amy Chaplin Forest Feast by Erin Gleeson Marcus Auraelius Meditations (one of my favorite books) Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran Mary Oliver Poetry Book The Captain’s Versus: Love Poems by Pablo Neruda Self Realization Fellowship “How to Live” Books 🧦, To Be Victorious in Life 🧦, Spiritual Diary, The Laws of Success, Inner Peace Any Rumi poetry book (I love this translation by Coleman Barks) Thich Nhat Hanh Boxed Mindfulness Set (Absolutely stunning gift) A Poem for Every Day of the Year Codex Seraphinianus (the ULTIMATE surrealist coffee table book – more about it here) 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership by Diana Chapman, Jim Dethmer, and Kaley Klemp(one of my favorite books) |
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🫚Foods |
Apricot Lanes x Jacobson sea salt 🧦Figure Ate Persimmon Vinegar Zen Basil Seeds (super easy way to get fiber!) Florasophy Fiber Daily Fix (ANOTHER super easy way to get fiber!) Glowing Greens Powder 🧦 Flamingo Estates Farm Box (for people who live in LA!!) Peppermint Mocha Laird Superfood Creamer Plastic Free Salt Alter-eco Chocolate Truffles (the packaging is totally compostable! LOVE) 🧦 Hu Kitchen Sampler Pack Organic Spices Assortment Organic Hot Sauce Artisana 8 lb Tub of Raw Organic Nut Butter Organic Tahini Farmer’s Juice Green Juice Box Daily Harvest Metabolic Health Collection box (I created this with Daily Harvest!!) Apothekary non-alcoholic tinctures (such a great stocking stuffer – we use these every day for mocktails!!) 🧦 Pique Ceremonial Grade Matcha Packets (LOVE – I drink this every day!!) Pique Fermented Pu’er Tea Pique Ceremonial Grade Matcha Tin Pique BT Fountain Electrolytes (I drink 3 packets per day!) Pique Nandaka Coffee Alternative For spice lovers, put together a kit with ingredients to make world’s best chili oil (note: I’m having trouble finding organic gochugaru so we’ve used all chili flakes and it tastes just as good) – get this organic avocado oil, this chili, this star anise, this allulose, and 1L jars! Put it all in a basket! Recipe here. White Oak PasturesMeat (gift 1/8th of a regenerative cow!)PreservesApricot Lane Farms Olive OilApricot Lane Farms Avocado Oil |
🍳Kitchen Gear |
Reusable Beeswax Wraps (these are handmade in Kauai!) 🧦 My Favorite Glass Water Bottle (24 ounces) My Favorite Yeti Coffee Mug Reusable Klean Canteen Straws Trash pick-up kit for walks and hikes (get a trash picker, a bunch of old plastic or paper bags, work gloves) Stasher Silicone Plastic-Free Baggies Set (LOVE!) and all their products HERE Compostic Baggies (we compost these after using the bag a few times!) Glass Tupperware Glass Tupperware with Bamboo Lids BLING Stainless Steel TumblerGlass Cups/Straws with Bamboo Lids (I love these for smoothies) Sushi Rolling Mats (for cauliflower rice sushi!) Lodge cast iron skillets (Amazon, Sur La Table) – the main pans I use! Bamboo and Marble Salt Cellar – I love this as a gift with healthy salts Whipped Cream Maker (to make healthy whipped cream with organic coconut milk, raw milk, etc) and nitrogen pods Handmade Cutting Boards from Etsy Anthony Bourdain’s Favorite Knife Organic Spices Assortment Mini-donut Pans to make Healthy-ish donuts Spiralizer + Spiralizer Cookbook Mini-food Processor(I use this at least 3 times per day for chopping garlic, ginger, nuts, etc!) Silicon Blender Spatula for Vitamix or Cuisinart Cherry Pitter (such a fun stocking stuffer) 🧦 Tea Infuser with high quality organic loose teas 🧦 My Vitamix – Life changing gift!!!! 🌪️ 14-Cup Custom Food Processor – I use this ALL the time Spice Grinder to quickly grind fresh or dried spices (like whole cumin seeds) Silicone Baking Mats |
🧽 Cleaning |
Branch Basics Glass Starter Kit Favorite Bamboo Toilet Paper Seventh Generation Dishwasher Detergent Packs Dr. Bronner’s Pure-Castile Liquid Soap Refill (I use this for everything – dish soap, hand soap, body wash, household cleaning soap) |
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🏡 Home |
Flamingo Estates All-Natural Candles and Soaps Los Poblanos All-Natural Candles Primally Pure All-Natural Candles (CASEY10 gets 10% off purchase) Bedside Carafes for Guest Rooms Beautiful Ceramic Pour-Over Sets from Etsy Face VaceDinosaur Vase (put a little air plant in!) Another Dino Vase! Levitating Air Plant Holder Mushroom Bud Vases Rechargeable Table Lamps for outdoor dining Wind chimes (I love gifting these!) From Etsy or Amazon Salad Tongs Framebridge Framed Photos Blue-light Free Lightbulbs (for bedroom)A bonsai is always a nice gift from a nursery! Art by Yehonatan Koenig |
🖥️ Home Office |
Walking Pad (I love my pink walking pad! Currently $66!) Standing Desk (I have used this Jarvis model for years and love it!) Glitter Jar by Jonathan Adler (can fill this jar with gratitude notes before you give this to a loved one! 💗) Favorite Pen for Daily Use 🧦 Bamboo Office Organizer BinsK-safe to LOCK YOUR CELL PHONE UP! 😀 (I love this thing!) |
🧑🌾 Garden |
Sprouting Company sprouting kit (I LOVE THIS!) Amazon Sprouting Kit (cheaper, works well too!): Jars, lid, stand and organic broccoli seeds Cedar Composting Bin Pitchfork for Turning Compost Vego Garden Comprehensive Raised Bed Systems Lettuce Grow Farmstand Outdoor String Lights Gardening Tools Jizo Protection Sculpture (I got one at the Portland Japanese Garden years ago and it brings me so much joy!) Look on Craigslist for gardening supplies, like used terra cotta pots, plants, raised beds, etc! |
💄Beauty |
Timeline The Night Cream Timeline The Day Cream EVERYTHING from Osmia Skincare! Osmia Mud Cleanser Osmia Body Oil Osmia Lip Doctor 🧦 Osmia Lip Repair 🧦 Osmia ALL SOAPS 🧦 Osmia Balance Face Serum 🧦 Osmia Body Mousse 🧦 Dr. Bronner’s Soap Minis 🧦 ACURE Dry Shampoo 🧦 Non-toxic hairspray from Giovanni Non-toxic hair serum from Giovanni Dr. Tungs Cardamom Floss (this floss got me to floss!!!) 🧦 Eyebrow Razors (good stocking stuffer, these work great) 🧦 Lehlani Face Balm (I love this!!!) 🧦 Primally Pure (CASEY10 gets 10% off purchase) Cycle Soothing Spray 🧦 Soothing Mist 🧦 Soothing Serum 🧦 Gua Sha Stone 🧦 Hand Soaps 🧦 Saalt Period Cup (I love this product! No more tampons or pads!!!) Dip Shampoo Bar (Unscented) 🧦 Non-toxic Powder Toothpaste (takes a minute to get used to, but I LOVE it now) Thrive Mascara (the world’s best mascara, hands down) 🧦 Thrive Liquid Eyeliner 🧦 Thrive Color Stick (blush and lip) 🧦 Ilia Super Serum Skin Tint SPF 40 (this is what I use as foundation) Westman Atelier Face Trace Contour Stick Leaf Sustainable Razor Kit Organic Mini-Essential Oil Set 🧦 The Hair Straightener I’ve Used for 20 years Hair Dryer I Swear By |
👗Clothing |
Rothy’s Shoes – Made from recycled water bottles, washable – (my favorite style is “The Point,” run true to size) OuterKnown Sustainable Clothing for men and women (my fiance loves their swim trunks!) Pact Organic Cotton Clothing Leather Accessories from White Oak Pastures (Regenerative farm!) Hill House Home Nap Dresses (Ellie style is fave- these run large, I get a small) Eberyjay Pajamas (my favorite PJs) Happy Socks (fun patterns!) Balega Socks (fave for running and working out) Darn Tough Socks (fave for backpacking) Filson 1970’s Logger Socks (we live in these in the winter) Sheertex Tights (life changing– these are un-tearable; and come in sparkly colors; I get the classic semi-opaque and wear them all winter) Aviator Nation sweatsuit in a fun pattern 🐅 |
💤Sleep |
Silk Eyemask Organic Lavender Oil 🧦 Elite Sleep by Momentous 🧦 Valerian Root Drops 🧦 Ra Optics Blue Light Blocking Glasses |
🎨Art Projects |
Japanese Watercolors (these have such rich pigments!) Japanese Sparkly Watercolors Watercolor Paper Watercolor Colored Pencils |
🎉Experiential ideas |
Avocado of the Month Club AirBNB experiences: Sound Bath CeremonyGardening Lesson Fermentation ClassMassage or Facial gift cardIntroduction to Pottery Class, like this one in LA |
🛍️Other stores that always have creative things! |
MoMA Design Store The Whitney Gift Shop Kikkerland – great for stocking stuffers 🧦 Jonathan AdlerPaxton Gate Natural Curiosities |
| Happy Holidays! 💗 |
| Dr. Casey |
| ICYMI |
| My friend Dr. Michael Breus (The Sleep Doctor!) came out with a book TODAY called “Sleep Drink Breathe.” You can order it HERE. This book reveals how three fundamental habits directly impact your metabolic function, glucose regulation, and cellular health. Before diving into complex interventions, we simply must optimize these basics that affect every aspect of our metabolism. |
| Dr. Breus provides a practical 3-week plan showing: |
How sleep quality affects insulin sensitivityThe link between hydration and metabolic healthHow breathing patterns influence cellular energy production |
| With all the complicated health info out there, I love that this book goes deep into three of the key basics for health. Thank you for writing this, Dr. Breus! 🎉 |
| Note: This post contains some affiliate links, which means I may receive a commission for purchases made through some of these links. |
✨🎁 Dr. Casey’s healthy gift guide
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