Hello everyone! My name is Elle.
I'm 26 years old and I currently live in an Airstream travel trailer in the Pacific Northwest. I've been off almost all social media for a few years, but now I'm excited to start sharing again on this new platform.
I used to be a fashion blogger on Tumblr back around 2011-2014 when I was living in NYC. This was me back then:
I was 19 years old when I started posting outfit photos of myself online and progressively the more I posted these images and my blog grew, the less I felt like myself. I was advertising fast fashion brands, under-eating to stay thin, and after a few years had passed I looked around at what my life had turned into and wasn't happy with who I had become.
After graduating with a degree in photography from an art school in NYC, I deleted my fashion blog which I had been developing throughout the whole time I was in school and decided to stay away from sharing my life.
For a while I felt so lost and became so depressed that I couldn't eat so I continued to lose weight and became dangerously unhealthy.
It was around this time in 2014 that I knew I had to make some big life changes if I wanted to live and not let my depression, anxiety, and eating disorder ruin my life anymore.
I started reading self-help and spirituality books and started a meditation practice to finally take a look inside and see where all of this destructive behavior was coming from.
Slowly overtime I made the decision to start taking better care of myself. I started with food and went from eating small meals of processed junk food to actually learning how to cook whole healthy foods.
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Once I started nourishing my body, the anxiety and depression I had been feeling for so many years faded away and I came to understand just how important nutrition really is.
Around that time I decided to also go vegan and stop supporting unethical clothing companies. I stopped buying new clothes, gave away all my leather and vintage fur to friends, and poured all of my attention into learning how to cook healthy plant-based food.
In 2016 I obtained a certificate in Plant Based Nutrition and started a new blog called Wholesomely Elle.
Then in 2017 my partner and I and our adopted rabbit, Violet, decided to ditch NYC and move into an Airstream travel trailer to live in full-time while we moved across the country from NYC to Seattle.
We filmed the whole trip and posted our videos on Youtube.
I started sharing my recipes on there as well as on Instagram but due to the algorithm changes on both of those platforms in 2017, I couldn't fully get into it, so when I heard about Steemit I decided to give it a try.
This is my first post and I can't wait to share more. I intend to post recipes, recipe videos, articles on overcoming anxiety and depression, what it's like to live minimally in an RV, vegan related content and more!
I'm so excited to be a part of this community.
Thank you for reading my story ♥
Welcome to Steem :) I hope you will really go forward an post some stories in the #health section - Many girls are where you were a few years ago - I hope your stories will help them! Resteemed you via @welcoming, my page for sharing promising newcomers! Greets!
Thank you so much! I really appreciate the share and I'll definitely be making a post in the #health section very soon!
Really touching and inspiring story! those instagram algorithms make it impossible, I hope we can all co-create on this amazing platform.
I just joined steemit, follow and I follow back and upvote
If you or and anyone else is interested in transformation and protecting planet earth,
please join the FOOD REVOLUTION!
check my intro out....
http://steem.link/bLD24
And article, Mc D’s vegan burgers
http://steem.link/7sUm7
hope you like :) ✌ 🐮
You are a beautiful addition to our community! Upvoted! Good luck!
ellev, great share and intro. Looking forward to see more of your posts and nutrition ideas. This is a great community to join. Upvoted, followed and resteemed.
welcome to steemit... am sure you will enjoy it here.
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Nice to read that you arrived at a nice place, after some struggles Elle! It's a journey!
What an exciting turn of life for such a young girl!
I´m glad you managed it and became healthy again!
Since the soul influences the body long before you have any idea about what´s going wrong your story is another evidence that you might become very sick and depressive when you don´t act authentic. I wish you a very good start at Steemit, authentic success and a lot of fun!
u do so hard work may be the start meetup
Heyy elle
Welcome to Steemit
Hope you’re doing good!!
Let’s follow upvote eachother
Love your hair ❤️
Thanks so much! Followed :)
Thanks :)
Hi Ellie, welcome to steemit. We are happy to have you here.
Thank you! Happy to be here :)
awesome @ellev
Welcome to the community! I just got accepted today and made my first post too ^_^ Thanks for sharing your story Elle! Looking forward to some healthy recipe and travel pics you'll be posting. Followed & upvoted :)
Welcome to Steemit Elle! Thank you for sharing your courageous story with us. I hope one day I can make the change to a plant-based diet as well.
Best of luck!
thank you, your post
Your welcome to this wonderful community, eating the right Food is very important. I wish you success here.
Welcome to Steem! Thank you for sharing your touching and inspiring story. We need more sharing like yours to build a strong community of learning.
On a lighter note: You are literally the 8th person i know that left NYC and went into the RV life! Wonder what percentage of sales come from former burnt-out NewYorkers :P
Looking forward to your content and welcome to Steem!
Thank you for reading my story! I've never shared anything quite this personal on any social media platform before so it means a lot to hear that.
And that's so funny- it really does make so much sense that city life would be the catalyst for deciding to live and travel in an RV for so many people. I think part of it is that there's often not much downsizing to do when you already live in such a tiny apartment in NYC!
welcome to steemit have a good time
I just checked out your blog and I absolutely love it! Your cauliflower Alfredo sauce just got added to my shopping list 😝 welcome to Steemit. It's so good to have another vegan foodie here 🌱
Your photos are absolutely gorgeous 😍 I cannot wait to see what other goodies you have to share with us!
Welcome! Hope you enjoy your time here!
Wow great story. Thanks for sharing it. I loved your decision on traveling throughout the country :) It's amazing :) Please share more of your experiences.
Good to know about you. Welcome on this beautiful world... I’m a fashion and lifestyle blogger 😊
Hi darling,
What a great post. Thank you for sharing. I am very excited to follow you - as you saw on my intro, we are also just moving into the van-life and we are super excited. And also so great to have a fellow vegan on here. Yay! Also, great that you have been to a meditation centre, I practice Vipassana meditation and my boyfriend and I are thinking of moving into a meditation centre to volunteer in May for a longer time, which is also exciting. Looking forward to your future content lovely.
Roberta <3
Hi Roberta,
That sounds amazing! We've been living in our travel trailer for a whole year now and love it so much, but we definitely dream of downsizing further in the future and would love to try traveling in a van someday.
At the Osho ashram in India I met a few volunteers who had live-in positions there and they highly recommended it. It wasn't all Vipassana courses, though there were some Vipassana courses available, but they had a lot of really fun dynamic meditations. The Kundalini meditation there was my favorite! I would love to do a 10-day vipassana course sometime though. I'm looking forward to seeing how you like it! <3
Hey Elle, it's really nice to have you here! Welcome :)
Thank you! :)
Congrats on your wellness journey! Can't wait to read more about your vegan and minimalist journey - things I'm very interested in :-)
Wow you have changed quite a lot! From a fashion blogger to selling your clothes and only buy clothes from ethical companies!!! This must have been really hard! My respect!
I am already waiting for your vegan recipe posts!!! I think I can learn a lot from you ;)
Anyway welcome and have a great time here!
Elle, I enjoyed reading your introduction so much! Thank you for sharing your stories of depression, anxiety and ED. I have a similar story, and I am happy to say that I am also healing, and making progress on loving myself again. Have you heard of the podcast called "The Hilarious World of Depression" by John Moe? https://makeitok.org/the-hilarious-world-of-depression-podcast
Such a great podcast that normalizes depression and anxiety. I was able to overcome my own prejudices about mental health thanks to this podcast. It's funny and insightful. I hope you take a listen if you haven't yet!
Thank you so much for the recommendation! I'll definitely check that out. It's so important to talk about these things because they are such normal, integral parts of life, but for some reason we feel so much shame around them. I'm so glad you we able to heal and progress as well! <3
hola! I like your post! Thanks for it! lets make stemit togheter to a better place with our content! I would like to read a bit more about you and maybe do you have some more pictures?
I also just wrote a introduceyourself. maybe you upvote me and follow me aswell as I do? https://busy.org/introduceyourself/@mykarma/first-post-or-should-i-talk-about-jail
I followed you
Kindly follow back to check out my upcoming posts
Anticipating your posts,, you can as well follow me back
hey gumpul ;). Thanks for your post!
I would like to see a bit more text about you and your hobbies...and more fotos?
look in my post. and I also wrote and introduceyourself just like 20min ago. I actually wrote my first post today! Help me to get more upvotes and follow me like I do with yours... So i can help you in future with your post, that you become more famous...
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@mykarma/first-post-or-should-i-talk-about-jail
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That was an inspiring story! Always be positive! You have to keep on going!
Hi elle welcome to steemit
Hi ellev.welcome to steemit!nice presentation friend.my pleasure to follow you.@natz04
Hey there @ellev nice too meet you! Really enjoyed reading your post, got my follow and upvote
Hope to see you around for more of what you have to share! Feel free to follow me at @kimmy95
Hi Elle,
Welcome. I am also fashion blogger. Feel free to take a look at my profile. It's great to meet you
hello..nice to meet you..welcome to steemit...great to have you..u can free tofollow me...@ellev
Dear Elle, that is a wonderful post! How beautiful that you are such a brave person. very inspiring to read and I am looking forward to seeing more of you :)
Wow! Nice pictures you got there. You are welcome to this wonderful platform. Follow me @papaessel as we share knowledge and ideas together. Together we grow steemit!
Girl this is great! I can't wait to follow you and read more of your recipes and adventures! We have common interest so check out my blog too if you get a chance. Would love to connect with you and trade recipes!! Upvoted and followed =)
you have such beautiful hair
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Welcome to Steem! Your profile already looks awesome, I'm so excited to follow along with your posts. And as always, its great to see a fellow vegan! :)
Great story, sounds like you've really turned your life around! Welcome to steemit, I've been here just over 2 weeks now I'm I'm throughly enjoying it. I have so much faith in this platform, I've literally moved from YouTube and instagram completly! Look forward to seeing your posts 😊
Welcome to Steemit, looking forward to your content, I'm glad Steemit's vegan community is ever growing :)
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Really touching and inspiring story! those instagram algorithms make it impossible, I hope we can all co-create on this amazing platform.
I just joined steemit, follow and I follow back and upvote
If you or and anyone else is interested in transformation and protecting planet earth,
please join the FOOD REVOLUTION!
check my intro out....
http://steem.link/bLD24
And article, Mc D’s vegan burgers
http://steem.link/7sUm7
hope you like :) ✌ 🐮
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https://steemit.com/health/@truthtrain/my-top-4-read-food-labels-supplements