As the title would suggest, this will be my final blog post of Anotherhungryvegan.com. While I’m writing this post my overall feelings are positive ones, but this is a huge step for me to be taking and I felt that owed my blog readers an explanation. Just to make it a little better I wanted to share some photos to go with this post of some of my favorite experiences over the past few years since starting Another Hungry Vegan.

I’ve used this blog as an outlet to share my favorite foods, review products, and to get creative with recipes that I enjoy making since 2014. I never really imagined starting a blog about anything (especially not food) in the past until 2012 came around. That year, I went vegan on my birthday and didn’t have any friends or family who were also vegans, so I turned to the Internet.

I found it incredibly inspiring to find vegan communities on Instagram, Tumblr, and other platforms that reaffirmed my beliefs in ethical veganism, and I wanted to contribute by sharing my own experiences as well. It was a big deal for me almost 6 years ago when I was able to go out to eat in places like Denver and find super tasty vegan food. I even took my first international trip as a vegan (and ever), when I studied abroad in Denmark and Sweden and was pleasantly surprised to discover so many options for food. A lot has changed since then, with virtually unlimited information on living compassionately available everywhere now.

The amazing thing about veganism is that it has brought so many new experiences into my life. I have made so many friends – mostly vegans I discovered online – and my partner and I even met volunteering for an AR group. My mom went vegan after seeing how passionate I was about it, and I couldn’t have been more proud.  I connected with a ton of vegans who needed my design/photography skills and had the chance to learn a lot while working as a designer for companies like Almost Vegan Cooking School and VeganTravel.

Today, I still continue to be an ethical vegan and support everyone in adopting a lifestyle that changed everything for me in the best ways possible. Another Hungry Vegan encouraged me to try out all kinds of new vegan products and really helped me to branch out with the kinds of food I was eating. Blogging as a hobby became a really fun activity, and it was a completely new way for me to spend my free time.

However over the years, my voice as a blogger quieted down a lot while I was either going to school or working a full time job. I just didn’t have the time or energy to invest my heart fully into this, so I’d often be scrambling to put a recipe together simply to keep a consistent posting schedule. Eventually it became common for me to have months in between posts, although I was still devoting some time to Instagram. More than anything it felt like a chore, whereas it used to be something I truly looked forward to working on.

Beyond my blog, working at a vegan company for over 2 years and having the opportunity to travel and meet other vegans was an unforgettable experience. It ignited a fire within me to want to see more of the world, and was a great reminder that you can travel as a vegan literally anywhere. I am still extremely passionate about exploring more of the world while trying new vegan food, supporting vegan businesses and visiting as many animal sanctuaries as possible. I definitely have VeganTravel to thank for that.

This past February I took a month-long break from both blogging and social media. I had been considering deleting this blog but wanted to take some time to truly think it over before coming to a decision. I used this hiatus to focus more on myself, whether that was to spend less time on my phone, to improve upon my skills/hobbies, or to practice more self-care. I really didn’t miss being online much, because it often came with negative feelings when I would inevitably compare myself to what everyone else was doing. More importantly, it made me realize that blogging and social media doesn’t bring me joy like it used to.

It’s wonderful that some people can make a living off of blogging and that they really enjoy doing so, but I am just not one of those people. Even though we live in an age now that encourages self-employment, working from home and managing your own brand, I see nothing wrong with a “traditional” job. In fact, the world can’t run on bloggers alone; we need a wide variety of people (especially vegans) to keep things interesting. I feel incredibly fulfilled at my current job and feel that I’m making a bigger difference in the world than I am when I’m creating posts for a blog I don’t really feel inspired by anymore. 

So what happens now? This may change, but as of now I plan to keep this blog up until the domain registration expires. Afterwards I will change it to a subdomain and add it as a project on my portfolio site (where I share my favorite projects I’ve worked on) so it can still exist as a resource online. Truthfully I’m very proud of how far I’ve come with this blog in just a few years, especially considering that it was never a full-time project of mine. I’ve grown a lot on both this blog and in my practice of living as a vegan every single day. I’m looking at this as more than a goodbye, but as a welcome to moving on to a new stage of my life – something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time now.

For now and in the future, I will still be posting to my Instagram account, but probably a little less often. I can’t make any promises as to where things will go from here, but I’m making a firm decision that they won’t be happening on this blog anymore. Here’s to spending more time on hobbies and passions that truly enrich our lives, and knowing when to walk away from something that doesn’t serve us anymore.

Thank you so much for reading this, your support means everything to me <3