Understanding Your Wiring (Instead of Fighting Yourself) Part 1: The Four Tendencies — Obligers: Why Doing Everything for Everyone Gets Exhausting

Starting a series on the Four Tendencies, which is one of my favorite frameworks for understanding why humans do what we do.

We’re kicking off with Obligers, aka the ones who show up for everyone, take on too much, and then wonder why they’re exhausted.

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Empathy sounds like such a soft skill, but it might be one of the hardest things we do. Remembering that every person you run into has their own history, their own stress, their own reasons for being the way they are… that takes work.

Wild concept… this Thoreau guy might have been onto something.

Who Do You Want to Be Right Now? Emotional Intelligence Part 3: Motivation — Choosing What Matters Most

Part 3 of my Emotional Intelligence series is up.

This one’s about motivation. Not productivity or hustle, but the kind that comes from asking:

Who do I want to be in a world like this?

When everything feels intense, reacting is easy. Choosing your response takes intention.
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Small talk is the pits. I want real talk.

Tell me the dream.
Tell me the fear.
Tell me the weird theory.
Tell me what makes you feel alive.

Anything but “I’m fine, how are you?"

Why “I’m Fine” Is the Most Dangerous Emotional Sentence EI Focus: Self-Regulation — Learning to pause instead of pretending everything’s okay

“I’m fine” might be the phrase we use the most… and mean the least.

Part 2 of my Emotional Intelligence series is about self-regulation, learning to notice what we feel instead of running on autopilot and stuffing it down.

We can’t regulate emotions we won’t admit we have.

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Emotional Intelligence: Making Sense of Your Inner World Part 1: Self-Awareness — Where Emotional Intelligence Begins

The house is full of moving boxes. The world feels…intense.
My dog just got her stitches out & is acting like she got a factory reset. So naturally, I started a blog series on emotional intelligence.

Part 1: Self-awareness- noticing what you’re feeling while it’s happening.

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A Different Way of Seeing (According to the One-Eyed, 4-Legged Queen of Nidra)

Vet Surgeon: “There’s a small chance she could wake up totally blind.”

My brain: “WHAT IF?! My bébé!!!”

Reality: It didn’t happen. She’s healing beautifully.

Most of our stress is borrowed from a future that never shows up.

New post: A Different Way of Seeing 🏴‍☠️✨
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Creating Space Between Trigger and Reaction (Or: How the Universe Threw the Kitchen Sink at Us and We Didn’t Flinch…or barely, at least)

The last few weeks tested us hard.

Storms, stress, surgery, big decisions. Instead of spiraling, we paused.

Turns out the space between trigger and reaction? That’s where your power is. Sometimes the storm is clarity.

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Happy Lunar New Year 🐎🔥

Snake shed.
Fire Horse energy activated.

You are a wildly lovable badass.

Go. Do the thing.

The Illusion of Control And the DEEP Relief of Letting It Go

The past few weeks were chaos.

When I stopped trying to control it all… I didn’t fall apart. I just noticed.

Turns out, most of what we grip was never ours anyway.

Mindfulness = notice what’s happening. Then choose your next step.

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If the world is doing the absolute most, you don’t have to.

Control what you can:
your breath
your boundaries
your Bad Bunny playlist.

Everything else? Let it unravel if it must.

Notice. Get curious. Then choose.

Joy is resilience, mi gente. ¡Wepa!

What Living Through Two “Ice-pocalypses” in Less Than Five Years Taught Me When systems fail, people show up.

Two ice storms in five years will teach you things you didn’t ask to learn.

This week’s blog is about systems failing, people showing up, and the quiet wisdom of watching ice melt without judging it as good or bad.

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"Don’t let the bastards get you down."
— Moira Rose

This week: systems failed.
Also this week: humans did not.

Hold onto the people. Laugh when you can. Cry when you need to. Keep going anyway. 💛

The Things You Think “Don’t Count” Might Matter More Than You Think The strengths you use every day (and rarely give yourself credit for)

What if the things you think “don’t count” are actually the clues? 👀🌱
This week’s blog explores Ikigai, self-trust, and the quiet strengths we’ve been minimizing for years.

Read now or save for later.
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Choosing alignment creates ripples.

Somewhere, someone notices and thinks,
“oh… wait… maybe I don’t have to shrink anymore.”

That kind of permission spreads fast.
In the best way.

Anywho — go ripple. ✨

Ikigai & Energy: How Honoring Your Energy Leads to Lasting Alignment Rebuilding self-trust before you change anything

Ikigai isn’t about becoming someone new.

It’s about noticing how much effort it takes to live out of alignment — and choosing differently.

I shared more in this week’s blog and opened a self-paced Ikigai journey for anyone ready for change that actually feels supportive. 🌿

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If 2026 has already been a lot…

Please, for the love of all good shiz, do the silly thing.
If it makes you laugh for no reason, that is the reason. 💜

#yourgritandgrace #dothesillything #goofballenergy #playispower #adultrecess

Right?! She was very persistent for her human to "shut the butthead laptop" and hang with her. Hard to resist her precious face. The harder the world gets, the more I lean into the tiny joys like petting the dog. Sending you deep love and smiles!

Luna would like you to know that today still counts, even if everything feels weird and uncertain.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow isn’t real. Pet the frigging dog. 🐶💛

#yourgritandgrace #dogsarethebest #lunasaison

I don’t have tidy words today.
What happened in Minneapolis is horrific.

Calm beats chaos — every single time.
Take one breath. Stay human.

I’ve been watching cardinals in my yard lately.

They don’t disappear in winter. Respect.
They’re out here singing without trying to impress anyone. Love it.

It made me rethink motivation, clarity, and Ikigai — a gentler way I’m approaching purpose this January. 🐦

What Fell Away This Year Wasn’t a Mistake An honest reflection on rest, shedding, and not rushing what’s next.

Mid-winter was never meant to be a hustle season.
If your body is still resting… trust it.
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Happy final days of an arbitrary calendar moment made up to stress you out.

Nature’s still asleep.
If you are too?

Dayyyyyummmm.
Hottie-boom-body behavior.
Let’s rest.

Almost 40 and still eating grapefruit like a T-rex.
Sticky hands. No phone. Full presence.

Also: check your grocery store’s zero-waste bins.
I find citrus there all the time. Cheaper, less food waste, unexpected joy 🍊

Mindfulness doesn’t have to be elegant.
#CitrusMindfulness #MindfulEating

The Soft Reset: Beginning Again Without Becoming a 'New You' Why starting softer might finally change everything.

What if January wasn’t about reinventing yourself…

…but about finally supporting yourself?

I wrote about a softer way to begin again—no resolutions, no fixing, no pretending you’re broken. 🌱

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We lose our minds over tiny inconveniences.
But tolerate years on autopilot.

The real emergency isn’t the delay.
It’s letting your life pass you by.

You’re allowed to notice.
You’re allowed to change.
Even on Christmas Eve. ✨

Merry Christmas Eve, Eve.
In a world of corporate nonsense, this silly Mint Mobile holiday card actually made me smile.
We love small joys where we can get them. Tammy Reynolds for the win.

#MintMobile
#RyanReynolds
#HolidayHumor
#ChristmasEveEve
#SmallJoys

The Week of Nothing (aka The Most Productive Thing You’ll Do All Year) Or: How I Stopped Turning Rest Into Homework

What if December didn’t need a plan?

New post is up about The Week of Nothing — an experiment in not optimizing, not rushing, and not trying to earn rest.

Just space.
And the surprising things that show up when we stop filling every moment.
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The people who seem most at ease made a quiet choice:
they do less.

Not less care.
Less pressure.

Busy fills time.
Peace creates space.
We get to choose. ❄️

#WackaWednesday #MindfulMoments

Noticing small things on a walk and deciding they’re adorable feels like a very underrated life skill 🍂
(These leaves absolutely have personalities.)