In this post, you’ll learn how to leave behind what doesn’t serve you spiritually or emotionally and go into 2024 ready to kick names and take ass (Guardians of the Galaxy anyone?). You’ll wrap up the year by focusing on gratitude, releasing negativity, and creating your vision for the new year. Get ready to feel aligned and renewed!

My goal since I’ve lived in New York City is to figure out how to exist in a serene peaceful bubble without needing to move. Life can get crazy so I wanted to talk this week about feeling more peace even when things around you feel hectic. It’s been three years and I’ve gotten better but realized a few key things: feeling peace is a lifelong commitment, slow down, be ok with going against the grain. If you feel like you've been searching for a more peaceful life, this is your sign to go for it. You don't need to wait for everyone else to start. You’ll have wasted so many precious years not having peace.

We’ve talked in the past about dealing with negative people, but this week I want to talk about dealing with your own negative thoughts. I truly believe we can re-learn how to think so that we don’t allow our negative thinking to take over our life. I want to share an exercise that I've been using for years that allows me to challenge my negative thoughts and then choose a better one. This exercise helps your true self override the programming of the ego. You'll start to internalize the exercise, automatically challenge them and pull in the reins. Give it a try and then let us know how it goes.

This week I want to get a little more personal than usual. I’m using a recent triggering experience of mine to walk you step-by-step through one way you can process painful emotions. Since I can remember I’ve always shut down when experiencing painful feelings. This time I finally figured out how to redirect from an emotional spiral to a nurturing one instead. Hoping that it will help you process and tolerate painful emotions in your own life, I’m sharing five of the keys ways I was able to do this.

In our culture, we develop negative beliefs around self-care and focusing on ourselves. Things like self-care is selfish, taking time for self-care is lazy. But our guest this week, Katie McDonald, creator of b.nourished, had to learn the hard way that taking care of yourself is the only way you can take care of anyone, or anything else. Through illness, burnout, and a deep desperation, Katie came to the hard truth of why recalibrating and healing your own relationship with yourself is really the key to your happiness, your success, etc. She reminds us that we do have permission. “Self Care is not indulgence. Self neglect is selfish.”

I’m excited to welcome Deirdre Fay this week, author of Becoming Safely Embodied: A Guide to Organize Your Mind, Body and Heart to Feel Secure in the World. Deirdre's message resonates deeply with those who may look successful on the surface, but internally they may be plagued with shame, anxiety, distress, depression, wondering why they’re stuck in these repeating patterns. We had an honest conversation about what trauma really is and how you can feel the better energy you long to step into. She also opened my eyes to why shame is an attachment wound and provides ways to transform it.

I’m joined this week by the host of the News Du Jour podcast & founder of Sugarfree Media, Annie Bowles. She started Sugarfree Media with the intention of speaking her truth and not sugarcoating things anymore. With a career history in politics, Annie noticed a lack of reliable information and news geared towards young women, and has since made it her purpose to fill that hole. We chat about what it means to be “Sugarfree,” how to start finding and consuming the facts, instead of the BS, and how we can start to speak our own truths.

This week, Kellina Powell join me for a conversation about her community, the deaf community. Kellina lost her hearing when she was four years old and since has made it her mission to educate and empower others within the deaf community. She tells us her story and why it led her to this work, how the hearing community can provide support and encouragement, and why we need to stop overthinking it when we come across someone who is hard of hearing.

Hot girl summer. Waxed and vaxxed. The welcome back to society memes are in full force 😂 Yet for some, it can feel like a shock being social again. Or that there’s pressure to over socialize. If that's you then listen to read this post or listen to this episode on coping with social anxiety post-Covid. As much as we needed to transition to life in isolation there’s also a transition time needed for getting back into the fast-paced world. You do you!

If life feels heavy and you’re not sure when you’ll come up for air please know you’re not alone and continue reading this post. I’m not going to tell you to buckle up and press the gas pedal. To get thicker skin and strategize more. If that’s what you’re looking for then this post isn’t for you. I’m going to share the complete opposite of what popular practice would tell you. In hopes that you’ll feel relief and hope again.

We decided to try something a little different this week. And hopefully, for the coming weeks. We thought it would be fun to have little minisodes where I give thoughts or tips or things that I've been learning in hopes that it can also help you. It's something that I have done on Instagram, for many years actually, where I just hop on and share what I'm learning in my entrepreneurship journey, spiritual journey, I usually share things like okay, this is how I'm using affirmations in my life or here's a story about this spiritual principle that changed everything.

There’s a collective desire right now for us to strengthen our self-connection and trust. But many of us lose our voices because of the constant noise from “influencers” and other outside voices. This is why self-connection becomes so important, so I’m exploring what self-connection really is, why it’s non-negotiable, and three things you can start now to begin the journey of connecting to yourself.

When you hear people becoming the designers or leaders of their lives it sounds great in theory. But it’s often just that. A theory. How do you begin taking practical steps towards leading your life? I’m so excited to share the answer by welcoming back the amazing Dr. Amanda Tobe who is teaching us how to simplify our lives by creating our own personal compass. Five steps to creating an inner compass that keeps you aligned like a magnet to your truest desires. In this episode, we walk you through each of the five steps and share some of my insights and struggles.

In this week’s episode, I sat down to talk to Michael Coles; holistic health practitioner, and health strategy coach. Years ago, he made the decision to go from unhealthy, obese, and addicted to substances, to healthy and thriving. We talk about a bunch of simple ways to begin your own healing process and Michael shares how he got to where he is now along his own journey. He also had a bunch of tips on self-care, habits, and changing for good.

If you feel like you need freedom and emotional healing, you’re in trance. Do you feel like your emotions are in control of you? In this post, you’ll learn how to get out of trance and develop a happier existence.

Your mental health is immensely tied to how well you treat your physical body. The body is a tangible form we use to navigate life on Earth and often neglect to see how it connects to our spiritual well-being. In this episode, I’m interviewing Alex Ferguson on how she overcame body image issues and the changes she made to create healthy habits that help her thrive. We talk about finding hope in dark times, the importance of community, and being aware of what you consume. Take a listen and let me know what part resonates the most with you!