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This Wasn't the Plan

Brandi Wiatrak

Essays + research about travel, natural health, and the life you didn't exactly plan — for anyone still figuring out what "having it all" is supposed to feel like.

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    Recovering overachiever (still overachieving, still figuring it out). I write about natural health, what's actually in the products you use every day, and the trips, detours, and wrong turns that make life worth writing about. Come along?

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