HeyJaredSassafras Revival
I write about movement, wellness, and the messy, beautiful work of sustaining ourselves, each other, and the planet.
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My Tribute to Dolly Parton (opens the original)
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Growing up on a hippie commune in West Virginia in the 1980s, Dolly Parton was my earliest memory of a celebrity. She was glamorous, outrageous, and omnipresent (cue the countless elementary school boob jokes) but as I realized what celebrity was, realized she existed on an entirely different plane. I watched Steel Magnolias more times than I can count, and the lyrics to her greatest hits still take up permanent residence in my brain. But somewhere over the years, she morphed from a punchline ab
A Postcard from Maine (opens the original)
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For my first full vacation in a while, I headed north with the hubs to go outside, play, and eat butter-soaked lobster. Here are a few high points:The Trolls at The Coastal Maine Botanical GardensSassafras Revival is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<input class="email-input" name="email" tabindex="-1" type="email"
Barbells, Backbends, and Splits: My Birthday Fitness Challenge (opens the original)
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“Once you realize that you can do something, it would be difficult to live with yourself if you didn’t do it.” – James BaldwinI completed a self-prescribed fitness challenge to show off, er... test my strength, mobility, and stamina. Over a week, I completed:Maxed out my deadlift at 226 lbsMaxed out my one-arm overhead press with a 55 lb kettlebellA full backbendA full split on each sideA kettlebell snatch test: swinging a 30 lb be
How to Get Strong (opens the original)
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Following up on my strongman series, here’s my approach to strength training.After 25 years of strength training, I familiar with the bravado of the weight room and have noticed bro wellness culture manspreading into our politics, psyches, and postures. Every day I’m doing my own resistance training to reclaim and democratize the tools of strength training.I’ve built a career out of understanding how we move and how we keep moving. I deal with achy, frazzled, and fatigued bodies every day. I res
A Postcard from a Final Farewell (opens the original)
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Last weekend I gathered with my husband’s family in the San Francisco Bay Area to celebrate the 92 years of my mother-in-law, Elaine. Along with over 100 of her friends, we watched a slideshow of her entire life, listened to her children and grandchildren eulogize her, and recited the kiddush with the rabbi. Afterwards we caught up over bagels and a recreation of her legendary cheesecake.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nWFe!,f_auto,q_aut
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