The Alignment Edit, Week 2: On My Goop Sh*t
A practical health & wellness overhaul for ambitious material girls.
Hello, angels! Welcome back to The Alignment Edit <3
If you’re new here, this is my 6-week project to go from good enough to great in the core areas of my life before my 27th birthday — an experiment in building the systems, habits, and structure behind a life that actually matches my potential.
The goal? To go from feeling like a solid B in life to an A+ Grown Woman™️ who can handle the big life she’s been dreaming of.
Turns out, being exceptional takes strategy, structure, and stamina — and I’m running into that in real time.
Week 1 Recap: When the Systems Get Tested
Last week, I focused on building my foundation: organizing my workflows, calendar, and task systems so I could handle the opportunities I’ve been calling in.
I set up Superhuman to finally conquer email jail (she’s a responsive queen now), and got my long-term projects organized in Notion in a way that’s both aesthetic and efficient. I can finally see how all of my creative work connects — because let’s be honest, you can’t run an empire out of your Notes app, no matter how bad you want to.
The biggest shift wasn’t the tools, though, it was the mindset.
During a 3 p.m. crash-out — quite common for those of us solopreneurs who live entirely inside our own heads most days — I recognized the pattern I was in. I’ve identified with being an “overwhelmed person” for most of my life. It’s familiar. It’s dramatic. And it’s unhelpful.
This time, instead of collapsing, I looked at all my projects with gratitude.
If I’m overwhelmed, it’s because I’m at capacity, which also means I said yes to opportunities I value, which also means…I’m living the life I wanted!
Overwhelm is just an opportunity to prove to the universe (AKA myself!) that I can handle what I asked for.
I say I want to be a multi-hyphenate entrepreneur with full control over my time and creative output. That means I have to build a life that’s structured enough to hold it.
So I made the small upgrades — clearing my home screens, smoothing out workflows — and felt myself relax into control again.
But, of course, the universe immediately decided to test my new systems.
I started the week feeling sick, had an allergy attack that only two Benadryl could handle, had to re-shoot two brand deals that took triple the time I’d planned, and had to say no to a project I actually wanted to do.
It was frustrating, but it wasn’t failure. It was feedback.
ANDDDD….every time something went wrong, the same pattern emerged: when my health fell to the bottom of the to-do list in favor of editing another video or attending an event, and everything else was worse because of it — my mood, my energy, and my creativity.
That’s when I realized: if my health isn’t FULLY integrated into my systems, my whole structure will collapse.
So Week 2 became about my physical vessel — not from a place of fixing, but of cherishing.
Reframing My Why
Disclaimer before we get too deep into my “Goop Shit” era: I never deny a glass of champagne, I drink with my friends all weekend, I eat Ritz crackers like they’re a food group, and I do not concern myself with calories when I’m out to dinner. I take my greens powder most mornings, but sometimes I skip workouts in favor of TikTok scrolls. I’m not perfect — I’m just building a better baseline.
And as much as I’d love to look like Candice Swanepoel, my health goals can’t come from vanity — they have to come from love.
