Self

The Older We Get The More Scared We Are?

Jessie Rosen - April 30, 2015

Yesterday I almost did something that my 25-year-old self would have beat me senseless over: I almost refused a free trip to Turkey. I had been hemming and hawing over this opportunity for weeks. The invite came through Turkish Airlines (Europe’s #1 airline, and no they did not pay me to say that; I’m just bragging). I found every reason to question it: it doesn’t …

Introducing: 20-Nothings 3.0!

Jessie Rosen - April 9, 2015

HAPPY 1,000th POSTS TO ME. CHECK OUT MY CONGRATS GIFT! I am incredibly thrilled to introduce the all new look, feel and functionality of 20-Nothings.com! Thanks to the incredible team at Stephanie Todaro Design (lead by the incredible Stephanie Todaro), I was able to put all my hopes and Pinterest board visions into this cleaner, brighter, easier to navigate site. The future fun will be …

Meditation For Beginners, Who Are Terrible at Meditation

Jessie Rosen - March 19, 2015

As I mentioned, I’ve just started one of Deepak Choprah and Oprah’s 21-Day Meditation Challenges. As I failed to mention on purpose, this is the third time… Basically Oprak create this user-friendly, totally guided, 100% free content that is released daily for 21 days. Each installment runs for approximately 20 minutes and includes an intro by Oprah, a lesson by Deepak and timed meditation with …

7 Things I’ll Do While My Husband is Away

Jessie Rosen - March 17, 2015

R is on official television business in two Canadian cities for the next 10 days. This makes me sad because I prefer when R is in the same city as me, plus I just started watching EMPIRE (and loving every second of it) and now I have to recap each and every detail of the episodes for him over Facetime, and I hate how I …

For a Half Hour On Tuesday I Regretted Getting A Dog (And Other Brutal Honesty)

Jessie Rosen - March 12, 2015

Tuesday was a tough day. I had a meeting about my writing and did a lot of thinking about my writing and beat myself up about how much writing I’ve gotten written lately. It was just one of those days where you have a thousand different feelings and they all amount of the headline – “I feel overwhelmed.” And what do you do when you …

My Cheap Jeans Obsession Confession

Jessie Rosen - March 5, 2015

Here’s my #TBT truth: 75% of the jeans I own are from Old Navy or the sale rack at The Gap and cost me under $40. I realized that the other day as I visited both Nordstrom Rack and Old Navy in search of a new pair of flare-legged, dark-washed jeans. My old pair got stained recently, and here in L.A. “meeting jeans” are as …

Everything I Want To Tell My Sister, One Month From Her Wedding Day

Jessie Rosen - March 3, 2015

My oldest little sister is getting married one week from last Saturday. I want to tell her 10,000 things so that she’ll have the greatest day of her entire life, but 10,000 feels aggressive, as does the whole “greatest day of your entire life” set up. And yet I do have some wisdom to impart regarding how to spend the thirty days before the big …

How To Survive a Snow Day…As a 31-Year-Old

Jessie Rosen - February 17, 2015

Hello from my parents’ house in New Jersey where there is 8 inches of snow on the ground and everyone is home from school! I’m here for an extra day because my flight back to L.A. after my sister’s bridal shower and bachelorette festivities was cancelled, and I intend to make the most of this day behind the drifts with my second little sister and …

5 Ways That Storytelling Helped My Writing

Jessie Rosen - February 10, 2015

On Sunday we had a wildly successful Sunday Night Sex Talks (no-boys-allowed edition) at Bar Lubitsch in West Hollywood. Tonight we’ll have what I’m sure is going to be a killer Co-Ed Sunday Night Sex Talks (boys-finally-allowed edition) at UCB Sunset (yes, more shameless promotion, so I’ll go all the way and say tonight’s show is sold out but you’re likely to get in off …

Do Me/Yourself a Favor and Figure Out Where Your Stress Sits In Your Body

Jessie Rosen - February 5, 2015

I’ll get to why as soon as I have permission to talk about it, but for now I’ll say that I recently started working on a very big project on top of a few existing big projects, and I as a result am STRESSED. Like forgetting to breathe stressed. Like go to the fridge every five minutes to eat one slice of the cheese stressed. …