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This is a space for thoughtful insight, meaningful connection, and honest questions about life, growth, and what’s next.
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Show Up for Yourself: The First Step to Stronger Relationships
Showing up in relationships starts with you. Explore the first pillar of the Show Up Framework: self-awareness, clarity, and confidence, and take your first step today.
The Show Up Framework: How to Move from Deciding to Doing
Deciding is powerful, but by itself it doesn’t move the needle. A decision without follow-through is just a thought. The real shift begins with showing up. That’s why I’ve created an entire framework around one simple idea: Show Up. It’s not just the first step, it’s the whole process of building meaningful, supportive relationships.
Nothing Changes Until You Decide
Every day, you have choices. Most feel routine. Some barely register. The ones that truly shape your life are hard, uncomfortable, and demanding. They require courage, attention, and a decision. Growth only happens when you choose to show up.
Remembering How to Talk With Each Other
We haven’t lost the ability to talk with each other. We’ve just stopped reaching for it. Here’s why that matters more than ever, and how to start rebuilding the kind of everyday connection that grows real social capital.
How to Show Up When Social Situations Feel Hard
Even as someone who teaches connection for a living, I sometimes find myself stuck at the edges of the room. If you’ve ever felt awkward or unsure how to start, you’re not alone. But there are ways to design better experiences for connection and small steps that make it easier to begin.
Why Real Connection Requires Courage
Creating connection is deeply rewarding—but it’s not always easy. This week, I’m sharing what happened when I took a risk to bring people together, and what I learned about joy, criticism, and why the work of connection is always worth it.
A Better Question Than “What’s Next?”
Sometimes “what’s next?” creates more pressure than clarity. In this week’s article, I explore why softer, more revealing questions can help you reconnect with yourself—and make decisions you’ll feel proud of.
Invisible Growth
Even before the renovations, the retreat, and this RV trip, the real growth was happening where no one could see it. This is a story about invisible work, growing capacity, and what matters most when things don’t go as planned.
Redefining Success, One Connection at a Time
I’ve been thinking a lot about how relationships shape our growth especially during seasons of change. This piece explores what it means to redefine success through intentional connection, the evolution of friendship, and how making space for new relationships can open the door to something even better.
Nothing’s Wrong, But Something’s Off
Lately, I’ve been hearing a familiar theme: “I should be grateful… but something feels off.”
This post is about the quiet ache underneath a good life—the kind we don’t always name, but feel. You can be grateful and still long for more. You can be surrounded by people and still feel unseen. And naming that doesn’t make you selfish—it makes you honest. What does it means to hold that tension—gratitude in one hand, longing in the other—and how we start listening to what that ache is trying to tell us?
Wake Up to Your Own Life
Are you standing at the door of your life?
I watched a client’s skydiving video today. As she stood at the open door of the plane, looking out into the unknown, fear and excitement mixed on her face. And then, she jumped.
It made me think: how often do we stand at the edge of our own lives, dreaming and planning, but never taking that leap?
Life doesn’t happen in the planning.
It happens in the doing.
We don’t need to be fearless. We just need to make one brave move. The life you’re waiting for isn’t out there someday — it’s right here, on the other side of a decision to live fully awake.
Owning Your Emotional Energy
One morning, just before sunrise, I had a realization: I felt energized—not in a caffeine-fueled, push-through way, but in a grounded, rested, truly okay way. It caught me off guard. What had changed?
I’ve been learning how to hold emotional boundaries more gently but firmly. I’m practicing not carrying what isn’t mine—other people’s moods, their stress, their expectations. And it’s paying off.
In this post, I’m sharing what that shift looks like in real time. Not perfectly, but honestly. Because maybe the tiredness we feel isn’t always about how much we’re doing—but about how much we’re carrying.
Psychological Richness
Have you ever felt like something is missing, even when life is good?
Maybe you have stability, success, even purpose—but there’s still a feeling of flatness. That’s where psychological richness comes in.
This kind of life isn’t just about being happy or having meaning. It’s about deep experiences, shifting perspectives, and stepping into the unknown. It’s about saying yes to the unexpected.
The best part? You don’t have to get anything to start living this way. It’s already available to you—you just have to notice the opportunities, question the status quo, and be open to new experiences.
Finding Your Way Back to Yourself
Lately, everything feels a little heavier. Like there's a miasma in the air, making it harder to see the way forward. I felt it too last week.
The hardest part of discouragement is that it convinces you that you have no control. But listening to your inner voice is an act of agency. It’s how you take back your power, one small choice at a time.
Renaissance Moments
What if transformation isn’t about leaving the past behind but about rediscovering the best parts of yourself? A renaissance moment is a return—a chance to reconnect with the pieces of you that once brought joy, curiosity, and confidence. The next chapter isn’t a goodbye; it’s a welcome back.
One Different Choice
"One day when..."
We tell ourselves we’ll start when life slows down, when we have more time, when we feel ready. But what if waiting is the very thing keeping us stuck?
What if one small choice today could change everything?