Avery Phillips

Avery Phillips is a freelance human based out of the beautiful Treasure Valley. She loves all things in nature, especially humans.

Lessons Learned After My First Car Accident

Car Accident-Chispa Magazine

Car accidents can be some of the most terrifying learning opportunities people ever get. Hopefully, your first car accident will be a minor one; maybe a fender bender or a slow turn that was too close to the car at the intersection. Mine was a little scarier than that, but fortunately, no one was hurt,…

Tips on Job Hunting While Pregnant

Tips on Job Hunting While Pregnant-Chispa Magazine

Looking for a job can be a stressful process. When you’re pregnant and job searching, that stress can be even greater. The last thing you may want to think about when growing a human is finding new employment, but that’s sometimes how life goes. To make the process easier, it’s important to go into your…

The Need For More Women Involved in Environmental Protection

Women-Biologist-Scientist-Chispa Magazine

The offerings of both men and women are valuable to creating diverse and cohesive teams. The unfortunate truth, however, is the female gender is still wildly underrepresented in scientific fields, including those that contribute to environmental protection. According to Forbes, only 12 percent of available jobs in the green energy field are held by women.…

How to Organize a Small Storage Space

Organize-Chispa Magazine

No matter how much we may try to pare down to the bare essentials, storage seems to remain a problem. Finding ways to store your items to allow for easy access, storing important items in a safe and secure manner, as well as use the space to the best of your ability requires some ingenuity—but…

Hiking to Cope and Reset

Hiking-Avery Phillips-Chispa Magazine

There is never a shortage of events around the world to make you both grateful and cynical about life. Whether it’s natural disasters such as Typhoon Mangkhut in Hong Kong, or Hurricane Florence on the east coast of the U.S. or suffering the personal loss of a family member or friend, loss is constant and…

The Importance of Maintaining Relationships with the Elderly

Maintaining Relationships with the Elderly-Chispa Magazine

Our relationships with other people can be one of the most wonderful, joyous aspects of life. Connecting with and sharing our lives with others is one of the most human experiences we can have. As we get older, we have the opportunity to experience a wide variety of relationships in different contexts, from romantic partnerships…

The Importance of Staying Informed About Natural Health Options

Staying Informed About Natural Health Options-Chispa Magazine

For as long as recorded history has allowed us to look back, natural health remedies have played a major role in the course of human development. While many of these remedies often had no alternative (modern medicine didn’t see its beginnings until the 19th century),they often proved effective. From managing life-threatening chronic conditions to smaller…

Healthy Ways to Handle the Stress of Being an Entrepreneur

Anti-Stress-Chispa Magazine

Starting your own business can be an exciting time but also a stressful time. Creating healthy habits from the first moment that you take on this new endeavor will ensure that you practice self-care to avoid burnout. There are many different factors that influence your body’s ability to handle stress that, if out of balance,…

Self-Care for Buying Your First Home

Home Ownership-Chispa Magazine

According to the 2017 National Association of REALTORS® Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, 34 percent of home buyers were first-time buyers and the median household income for first time buyers was $75,000. It also found, 53 percent of all home buyers undertook a home improvement project within three months of purchasing their home and…