Happy Sacred Sunday!
I hope you welcomed the new year with peace, love, and intention … and I also hope you enjoyed the emails I sent you last week to support you in ending 2025 and entering 2026.
After a lovely vacation with my family and officially closing the loop on our North Carolina trip, I’m so happy to be home!
Today, I want to share a story with you that is equal parts hilarious, mortifying, and enlightening. I had a wild experience at a birthday dinner a few weeks ago, and this week I’m telling you the whole story on the podcast. Let’s just say it involved steak and a big mistake on my end.
This is truly one you have to hear, so I’ll keep this email short so you can jump right in.
After you listen, I’d love for you to write back and tell me if you’ve ever had an “extra zero” moment—a time when one detail changed everything.
Sending you so much love,
Life lessons
Happy Sacred Sunday!
It’s my favorite time of the month … the time to set an intention/theme for November.
If you’re short on time and want to go straight into the podcast, click here.
How This Practice Began
It all started in 2019 at the Summit of Greatness conference. We were invited to choose an intention for the conference, and they had a company making bracelets on site with the word you chose to wear throughout the conference.
I fell in-love with that process and began choosing a word of the year to wear on my wrist all year long.
(My friend, Laura, made me my first word of the year bracelet, and to pay it forward, I’ve been making bracelets for my clients and loved ones ever since.)
Every time I’d look at my wrist, I’d remember the word, and I realized how much more intentional I was being in my daily life.
How This Practice Evolved
As time went by, I felt compelled to repeat this practice for each season, and then for each month — and now I even set intentions on birthdays, before events, and even during each of my coaching sessions each week.
It has become a deeply ingrained habit to be intentional in how I show up in the world — and that has made a huge difference in my life.
My word of the year has become the overarching umbrella covering me and all my other intentions along the way.
To give you a tangible example: my word for 2024 is LISTEN.
Then each month I create my theme for the month (Forward February, Interrupt July, Simply Soulful September are a few examples.)
As I’ve gone through each month in 2024, I’ve listened and paid attention to the areas in my life I was moving forward in, patterns I wanted to interrupt or break, or simply soulful moments that were saving my life.
I remind myself to listen to my family, friends, and clients.
I remind myself to listen for the sparks of bliss (the act of blisstening!)
I remind myself to listen to my intuition and trust the process.
Why This Practice Matters
Each month, season, and year brings a new energy and flavor.
When circumstances change or life comes at us fast, these practices help us balance between staying grounded and going with the flow. (We don’t want to get stuck in one place nor drift away without noticing.) They help us connect the dots, look for the meaning, and find lessons in all the moments.
Because even when we have the best of intentions, sometimes we fail to live with intention.
And often we’ll feel called to set an intention that means one thing in our head — only to discover that it had a completely different meaning than what we thought.
This practice invites synchronicities and magic to work their way into the picture.
Since I’ve been sharing this intentional practice with you every month on the podcast, I’ve uncovered the framework I’d been using all along. So that leads us to this episode. I’m sharing the framework and the theme I chose for November.
I sure hope it serves you well.
Sending you so much love this fall season.
Happy Sacred Sunday!
Have you ever had one of those days when you’re in a terrible mood because it feels like everything is going wrong or the world is against you?
Do you ever get stuck in a negative energy loop?
Sometimes this feeling catches you by surprise, but maybe you find yourself feeling like this regularly when you’re in a job or environment that is conflictive, challenging, or problematic.
I feel you!!!
The other day this happened to me, and it was rough.
It all started with trying to get my boys out of bed in the morning to get to school, (cue the teenage years drama) to a spiral of events cascading on me one after the other.
I was in a negative loop and it was a hard one to close.
Buuuttt…. luckily I’ve got tools that help me get through moments like these … and today on the podcast, I’m sharing them with you!
This month we’re implementing the theme of Closing Loops and let me tell you, negative loops are one we must learn to close, otherwise they consume all our other open loops and its no fun.
Tune in today. This episode is like having a chat with me at the kitchen table where I get to spill the beans on all my mental drama … and simultaneously give you some action steps to take when you’re wallowing in your own.
I hope you’ll enjoy it, and I’d love for you to write back and let me know how it served you. I personally open every one of your emails and I so enjoy hearing from many of you each week.
The episode was a little longer than usual so I’ll keep this email a little shorter for balance 
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Cheers to a sacred Sunday and a beautiful week!
Happy Sacred Sunday!
The hardest part of going to law school for me was learning that there is no right answer.
Until then, there had always been a right answer.
Growing up, whenever I took a test, it was a multiple choice (choose the right answer) or a fill in test (write in the right answer).
During undergrad I majored in accounting, which revolved around math. Math is specific — and you’re either right or wrong.
Being right or wrong gave me certainty, and that made me feel safe.
But law school was a different animal.
Welcome to the land of grey.
In this setting, I was being taught philosophies and laws — and they all had arguments for and against.
Every opinion has a dissenting opinion.
I’ll never forget sitting in a criminal law class talking about facts of a case in which a person committed a crime, but the courts overturned his guilty verdict on appeal. I’d think, oh, he was innocent; he didn’t commit the crime. And then I’d learn he had committed the crime, but there had been procedural mistakes in the investigation which made it impossible to convict him.
But wait, did he commit the crime or not?
Turns out, that wasn’t the point of the lesson. I was so confused!
At first, I hated this part of law school.
But I now realize it trained me for something bigger.
The skill of being able to argue both sides of an argument, of looking at things neutrally, and of understanding the grey makes me a great life coach.
It’s what has helped me take my clients out of an all-or-nothing mentality and help them stop self-sabotaging themselves because of it.
These skills taught me there’s always a flip side to things, that you don’t have to be married to everything you believe today, and that you can always change your mind, adjust, and grow.
Recently, I also learned one crucial piece to this puzzle — that you don’t have to use things against yourself — which is another way of saying it doesn’t have to be all or nothing.
And that’s what I’m talking about in today’s podcast episode.
If you tuned in last week, we spoke about the power of changing your identity when you want to achieve a new goal, desire, or outcome.
This week, we’re exploring the flip side to that and making sure you don’t use the tools against yourself.
I’m sharing deep insights on how to balance working on new identities while understanding which parts of your old identity still serve a purpose.
This is one of my favorite episodes so far, and I can’t wait to hear what you think about it. Once you listen, (or blissten … I couldn’t help myself!), write back to this email and share your thoughts with me.
Until then, sending you so much love and light on this beautiful Sunday.
Hey!
Have you ever surprised yourself when you finally change something you thought you could never change?
There’s an adage that says, “A zebra can never change his stripes.” We’ve long believed that deep down inside, people don’t change.
But over the years, science has disproven this theory. Research shows we can change our brains, reprogram our minds, and reinvent ourselves — proving that we don’t have to be stuck on “that’s just the way I am.”
Even though I know this to be true, I help my clients make this their truth, and I have witnessed radical transformations — it still shocks me when I do this for myself!
This week on the podcast I’m talking about changing your identity when it no longer serves you and how I am tackling a part of my identity that no longer serves me — the fire-drill personality.
Some habits are hard to break and identities that are hard to step into. This one has been a personal challenge of mine for a long time.
That’s why I blew my mind when I recorded my podcast ahead of time in lieu of the pending Hurricane Milton. It was in the process of planning the episode that I found myself asking, “Who even am I?”
When you put your head down and do the work, one day you get to look up and realize how far you’ve come and how much you’ve changed.
If you’ve ever had a habit you want to adopt, a part of your lifestyle you want to change, or an aspect of your personality you wish you could change, this episode is for you.
Tune in and happy Sunday.
P.S. Our five-day RejuvaFAST challenge is starting on October 20th. This fast, which mimics the effects of a full fast while allowing you to eat, is an excellent reset for your mind, body, and soul. It aligns beautifully with our theme of October and offers a chance to enhance your emotional and spiritual well-being. Plus, the first participants will receive an “I survived rejuvafast” t-shirt!
March is here and it’s time to name our monthly theme and set our intention. I know today isn’t the “first day” of the month but who cares?
Personally, I wasn’t ready on Friday the 1st to name my March because I was still savoring the “leap year” energy. 2024 was the first time I truly appreciated the concept of a leap year:
One extra day, offered only once every 1,460 days, giving us the opportunity to recalibrate, realign, and harmonize our own lives with the rhythms of Mother Nature.
The energy from this extra day in February, coupled with the excitement of welcoming the spring season, prompted my personal theme for March…
which is….
Drum roll please ….
Activation March
The last few months were about retreating inward, hibernating, and resting to give you the space to recharge, dream, and get some clarity.
Now it’s time to wake up, from the wintering season and spring forward to catch some momentum.
And that starts with ACTIVATION.
(In order to leap, you must activate the jump, even if you’ll look clumsy doing it
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Activation is about execution.
It’s about starting the thing or restarting the thing. It’s about jumping back in — because you’re ready and because you can.
For example, I just finished writing the 17 Tips to a Bliss-Full Relationship Series. As I wrote each secret, I realized there were some things we used to do in our relationship that have fallen off the rotation.
This march we’ll be activating some of these tips in our family again, and seeing where else this project takes us…
Maybe this is the month you activate a mindfulness practice, spring-cleaning, or outdoor adventures.
Whether you’re focusing on professional or personal goals, March invites you to jump right in, for it’s as ready to bloom as you are.
Now I want to hear from you!
Reply to this email and tell me, what goals are you activating this March?
Happy Sacred Sunday!
My great-aunt said to me once, “There are problems that come to us, and there are problems we look for.”
Those words have never left me.
Recently, a conversation with my son reminded me of that saying, but it led us to a deeper reflection that I thought was so important. I wanted to share it with you.
Orly was asking me why I do quarterly fasts if I’m already healthy and fit. I brought up my dad’s cancer and how I’m trying to speak to my genetics, yara yara.
As I was saying this, a thought came into my mind:
What if you get cancer, anyway?
I was so grateful for this thought because it was an intuitive nudge reminding me to make some things clear to my teenager.
1. What is within your control and what is not
I didn’t want my son to confuse me saying, “I do these fasts because I don’t want to get sick” with “By doing these things I won’t get sick.”
We all want to have a sense of control in our lives. But in reality, it is a false sense of control. Life is full of mysteries and often things happen we simply can’t explain.
There are no guarantees of what your future will hold, no matter what you do.
Therein lies the detail I wanted to convey:
I have decided to step into the identity of a person who does not look for the problem.
That’s why I try to eat a clean diet, exercise, fast, do the sauna, avoid drugs, alcohol, and smoking, work with a life coach, work on my relationships, etc.
I do those things because those things are within my control. But you know what’s not in my control?
Anything else.
So that’s why you…
2. Do the work, surrender the outcome
If you want a result, you have to be proactive in getting that result.
You want to be healthy? Create healthy habits.
You want to have a fulfilling relationship? Do your part in your relationships.
You want to be wealthy? Focus on creating wealth.
Work for what you want.
The tricky part of life is, though, sometimes you do the work, and the outcome is not what you wanted.
You maintain healthy habits, and you still get sick.
You work on your marriage, and your partner leaves you for someone else.
You save all your money, and a financial crisis wipes out your savings.
I wanted Orly to understand that even when we don’t look for the problem, sometimes problems come — and no matter what, we will be okay.
3. Life is rigged in your favor
That little thought “what if you get cancer, anyway?” which intruded my brain as I was explaining myself to Orly, sparked another thought, “then that means you were supposed to learn something from it.”
What did we come into this life to do, if not to learn?
Every problem you have teaches you something about life or about yourself.
I felt this sense of peace and rush of confidence consume me.
Although I want to be a person who doesn’t look for problems, I know that when problems come, they are vehicles for me to learn, grow, and evolve.
This is the knowing that allows you to behave as if life is rigged in your favor. It is not being attached to a favorable outcome, rather, to a favorable perspective.
That changes everything.
Watch the video I did about this on Instagram.
As you reflect on this Sacred Sunday, I invite you to do the things in your life that avoids problems, while simultaneously accepting the problems you have as teachers in your journey.And once again, we carefully walk the fine line of this complicated, yet blissful experience.
Sending you so much love.