When I had an astrological reading with Virginia Bell last fall, I couldn’t wait for this 2019 year to start. This is your year! She told me. This is the time when the pieces come together. You’re going to finally make real all of the...
Last year I spent time at the most amazing retreat center in the Santa Cruz Mountains - 1440 Multiversity! I was there to hang out with my friends Kelly Rae Roberts + Beth Kempton who were teaching a creative business workshop that week....
I got to meet one of my heroes a few years ago. Okay, my HUGEST hero. There is one book that sits on my nightstand year after year as a constant fixture. While other books flow in and out, My Grandfather’s Blessings: Stories of Strength,...
Back in college I had the big breakup. You know the one. The one that brings you to your knees, where you can’t speak for days, where the anguish is so crushing you don’t know if you’ll ever recover. It was a love-at-first-sight kind of...
I was talking with friends the other day about how certain activities change your body chemistry, how you can jump in water, or simply walk along the ocean and breathe in that air and your body alters with every step. You feel different....
This might sound like an unlikely love note, but hear me out. I've been in a new, blossoming love relationship. It's rainbows + hearts and all the delicious things! And, as is inevitable, we've also recently stumbled into a patch of real....
What does your heart truly want in 2020? WHERE IS YOUR SPIRIT CALLING YOU NEXT? What do you secretly want to happen? The New Year has always been such a rich time of reflection – a time to acknowledge how you grew this year, how you were...
Some of the best books I've read this year The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You by Karla McLaren This book travels through a whole vocabulary of emotions and truly celebrates them - showing you that each...
Creative practices have always saved me. I believe in their potent medicine and rely on them for my deepest nourishment. Whether that's intuitive painting, journaling, or photography (all included in the bundle!) they all have a way of...
Karla McLaren, M.Ed. is an award-winning author, social science researcher, and empathy pioneer. Her lifelong work focuses on her grand unified theory of emotions, which revalues even the most “negative” emotions and opens startling new...
Hey friends, I've just returned home from a quick trip to Hawaii with my sweetie! He surprised me with this gift for my birthday... and I am filled up with starfruit and pink skies, turquoise ocean and warm saltwater, parrot fish and...
Sweet friends, It's my birthday this week! And since I'm turning 48, I decided to make superhero pendants just $48 ($80) through Sunday! Just a couple of years ago, I decided I would go on a first date on my birthday evening. The date...