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Embrace the Winds of Change: How Listening to Nature Can Guide Your Intuition and Transform Your Life It’s a powerful experience to listen to the wind blow before it hits your body. Almost like hearing a wave coming towards you on the shoreline of the beach. But...

Mastering Emotional Reciprocity: How to Balance Your Relationships for Deeper Connections ‘Emotional reciprocity’ exists when you provide empathetic support to someone and, when you’re in need, that person meets you at an equal level to provide you with empathetic...

10 Crucial Warning Signs You're Struggling with Work Addiction I was clinically diagnosed with a work addiction. You might think: Work addiction? Who the heck comes up with these things? Sure, I’m addicted to paying my bills, buying groceries and getting promoted. Is...

Top 12 Must-Read Books to Activate Your Core Values This Summer Did you know that one of the most empowering ways to activate your values is through the books you choose to read? You have the power to shape your summer reading list to align with your values. Looking...

Embracing Life at 40: My Transformative Journey from Bali Retreats to Wild Mustang Adventures In September, I’m turning 40. And after the last 2 very shitty years, I decided I wanted to do something BIG to celebrate life instead of just surviving it. So, in the new...

Transform Your Stress into Serenity: Embrace Unity with Nature for a Calmer Life As we have settled into our 200-square-foot tiny home in the mountains it has supercharged our shared core value of Unity with Nature. We have named it our “Glass Cocoon” because it has...

Essential Life Lessons I Wish I Knew at Graduation: Building Relationships, Living Authentically, and Enjoying the Journey It was the cutest thing you ever saw: a lineup of dozens of kindergarten students in full cap and gown attire, ready to graduate. Like gender...

40 Life Lessons from 40 Years: Wisdom and Reflections on Growth and Happiness As I prepare to celebrate my 40th birthday, I have been tapping into my value of Reflection to ponder the wisdom I have gained over the years. And boy, has it been a lot. At times, it felt...

How The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz Can Transform Your Life As we’re making our 5 day cross-country trip to nestle in the mountains of Idaho for 6 months, we are ALWAYS in search for the best audiobooks to listen to on the road trip. ?One that we’ve listened to...

Practical Strategies to Reduce Anxiety When Facing Big Life Changes Tomorrow is a big day for us as we begin our drive across the country from our Baltimore City townhome to our tiny home in the mountains of Idaho. This is a big trip because it will be our longest...

How to Use Mindfulness to Get What You Can't Have: A Powerful Guide to Manifesting Your Desires Sitting in the steamy hot bath, my body screamed for coconut water as my muscles recovered from an intense workout. I ached to taste that delicious nectar as sweat dripped...

4 Common Reasons You Struggle with Setting Boundaries and How to Overcome Them Boundaries create freedom. ⬆️That may sound counterintuitive, but stick with me here… Boundaries allow you and others to know what’s okay and what is not. When crossed, even the smallest...

From Numbing Out to Waking Up: My Transformative Journey Overcoming Alcohol Dependence In college and into my early 30s, I drank a lot. I would justify it in college because I played lacrosse, and heavy drinking was the culture. During the season, we’d work hard all...

Transform Your Life: How 136 Wellness Experiences in 90 Days Helped Me Overcome Trauma and Achieve Success 5 months ago, I was at the lowest point in my life. So low that I consider it a miracle that I’m here and truly living this one precious life. ? After a series...

9 Effective Strategies to Reduce Stress and Enhance Inner Harmony This Stress Awareness Month April is stress awareness month, and if you are reading this, there is a good chance you may be feeling a little stressed. That’s because 75% of people who have taken...

Transform Your Connection with Nature: A Guide to Sacred Water Rituals and Ceremonies World Water Day is celebrated annually on March 22nd to raise awareness of the 2.2 billion people living without access to safe water. It's the perfect time to explore water rituals....

Embrace Spring: 10 Powerful Ways to Cultivate Growth and Learning This Season It’s the time of year when birds chirping wake you up in the morning, the weather is getting a little nicer, you start wearing shorts, feeling the sun on your calves again, and your evening...

Exploring Core Values: What Drives Women vs. Men? It’s Women’s History Month, so I thought… I wonder what values drive women more than men? I was sure there must have been some clear differentiators based on feminine vs. masculine energy (like compassion and...

How I Overcame Chronic Illness by Eliminating Gluten: A Personal Journey to Health and Wellness Rolling around in my bed in the fetal position in so much pain, I'm writhing from consuming far too much at a party. It was one of the worst feelings I had ever felt in my...

6 Powerful Steps to Tame Your Ego and Embrace Self-Compassion Around the age of 4, your mind begins to form its ego. The ego is the little voice in your head that takes away the joy in the present moment. It whispers and sometimes screams that you’re not enough and...

The Power of Courage: How to Rewrite Your Story and Embrace Change I take a bite of my grilled mahi mahi and instantly spit it out. I can’t even remember the last time I had food this bad. WTF did I just eat?!?! I looked over at my wife, MaryBeth, who was having the...

Transform Your Relationship: How One Simple Question Can Save Your Marriage I have a confession… James (my gorgeous, kind, smart, loving husband of 11 years) and I almost ended our marriage twice.? Until we learned how to save your relationship... While we had a...

Transform Your Valentine's Day: Discover the Power of Shared Core Values for Lasting Love Picture this: Two newly coupled young adults awkwardly fumbling through their first Valentine’s Day together. The guy is wearing far too much axe body spray and the girl hopes...

How to Choose the Right Mentor: Key Questions to Ensure Values and Goals Alignment As we close out National Mentoring Month, I find myself reflecting on the transformative impact of mentorship not only in professional endeavors but, more importantly, in the grand...

Discover True Happiness: How Minimalism Transformed My Life and Boosted My Well-Being When I was younger in my career, I remember going to different people’s parties in mansions and thinking… This is it! This is what happiness looks like! Happiness was being able to...

Reflecting on 2023: 23 Milestone Moments of Growth, Healing, and Empowerment I can’t help but smirk at the MaryBeth, who declared that 2022 was “the hardest year of my adult life.” Today I learned just how much harder things can be. 2023 was easily the year I wasn’t...

How We Pivoted Our Business for Full-Time Tiny Home Living: Lessons in Trusting Ourselves and Staying Aligned For the last 9 months (well more like 2 years), my partner, James, and I have been hell-bent on figuring out how to pivot our business so we could live...

Unleashing Your Inner Power for a Transformative Year with Poems of Power Now was the time to gather her power From all the places she had dropped it and hoped someone else might pick it up Now was the time to embrace her power From every fiber of her being and...

Top 2023 Must-Read Books, Must-Watch Shows, and Must-See Movies: Your Ultimate Year-End Review We don't know about you, but at the end of the year, we LOVE looking at the "best of" lists from the year. We're always looking for reliable recommendations on media that...

Embrace Your True Self in 2024: A Journey to Becoming More You Contrary to popular belief, I'm not trying to be a "new year new me" in 2024. I'm becoming "more me". And I hope you are too. Because you’re not just the latest version of yourself. Or even a quick...

Discover Your True Self: Uncovering Authenticity in the Age of AI (2023) 2023 was the year that artificial intelligence became a commonplace tool and household name. To many, that may seem scary; to me, that seems like a transformative evolution! The more artificial...

Transform Holiday Stress: Create New Traditions for a Joyful, Relaxed Season Statistically speaking, if you are hosting for the holidays you're probably already bogged down by the weight of your to-do list. Research shows that 3 out of 4 Americans are feeling holiday...

4 Proven Strategies to Enjoy Stress-Free Family Gatherings This Holiday Season Whether you grew up in a tight-knit tribe or barely ever connected, the holidays tend to be an expected time for families to come together for family gatherings. I heard a client refer to...

How to Align with Your Values During the Holidays: A Guide to Living Authentically The holiday season is designed to gather and carry out generational traditions that some people expect to stay the same… forever. But what happens when you change? When your values...

3 Essential Boundaries to Prevent Holiday Burnout and Boost Your Well-being Like clockwork, every holiday season I’d get sick. And I mean reaaallly sick. Like body aches, sore throat, runny nose, headache, can’t get out of bed sick. It got to the point that I was...

Effective Strategies to Manage Your Energy and Prevent Year-End Burnout I used to think my end of year burnout was because I had so much to do. How could I find the time to do it all? And I have to do it all! (so says my ego) I used to get so drained trying to manage...

Transforming Your Reality: How to Create a Life Aligned with Your True Values I’ve got a bone to pick. It’s become a pet peeve of mine when someone says, “Time to get back to reality!” As if whatever you were just experiencing WAS NOT real. This is often the case when...

The Key to Strong Relationships: Your Trust Account Balance All our relationships have a running balance in an unspoken “trust bank.” Our interactions either increase or decrease the balance of trust and connection through the emotions they elicit. That is how to...

Transform Your Energy: The energy you get is the energy you give. I wake up still fuming. It was bugging me all night. Seeping in and out of my thoughts as I drifted in and out of sleep. And I thought...I don't have the energy for you today. But, I still grab my phone...

Learning from the Pain Teacher: Embracing Mindfulness and Body Awareness for a Healthier Life We pull up to the freshwater spring right as the rain stops. A glimmer of sun cuts through the mist as I excitedly jump out of the car to start getting water for our tiny...

How Letting Go of Your Ego Can Transform Your Life: 3 Essential Lessons to Embrace It’s 2 am, pitch black in the middle of South Dakota, and I’m driving cross-country for the first time. My eyes feel like they are about to pop out of my head. I am having trouble...

39 Powerful Lessons for Living an Abundant Life: A 39th Birthday Manifesto Leading up to my 39th Birthday, I activated my value of reflection to go into the depths of gratitude I have for the abundant, aligned, and dynamic life I have the privilege of creating for...