A Brave Journey: Reclaiming Your Identity After 40

I don't know who needs to hear this - but I bet there are more of us who do than who don't.  Having all your stuff together and being empowered and happy and healthy and killin' it 24/7 is NOT a thing.  You are a human being with lots going on - lots to balance.  And you exist in a universe that has other things to do than to make you feel comfortable and "practically-perfect-in-every-way." And th...

What is the story people will make up about you if all they had to go on was observing you walk down the street, or sit on a bus, or enter your office? As much as we are all trying to not care as much about what people think of us (as we should all strive to do!), the fact is that as humans we will automatically fill in the blanks when we see or experience something or someone where we don't get t...

I talk a lot about being on auto pilot in our lives.  And I do believe it's true for most of us.  With everything we are bombarded with on a daily basis, its kind of a survival instinct! But here is one you may not have thought of . . .did it occur to you that things we "need" to have in our lives are more a product of our conditioning rather than actual need?  I hate to break it to you - but its...

It's easy to fall into "us or them," "same or different," "right or wrong," "strange or familiar."  We typically do this when we view the world from inside our own comfort zone or fishbowl so to speak.  The things we take for granted as the way it is, or the things that we do that are second nature to us feel like the whole world. That is . . . .until you actually go out into the world and find th...

When we step out of our comfort zone or normal state of being for any reason - or in any way - our first reaction is often to close down.  We want to protect ourselves, our reality, our equilibrium - to remain a detached observer (at best) so we don't threaten or sully our sense of the world around us. What if instead of needing to protect ourselves from a different way of doing things or a differ...

I always say - the breakDOWN before the breakTHROUGH and chaos before calm.  And one ALWAYS follow the other when you are on a journey to grow, learn, get reacquainted with your authentic self.  When you are in the middle of it, it feels like its the only reality that will exist.  But trust me, you always come out the other side! In this bonus clip, I share my own struggle with this concept as I b...

We tend to opt out of the magnificent and settle for the mediocre because we've convinced ourselves that since we don't have dramatic challenges, we should just be satisfied with what we have. We've justified staying on autopilot because we "aren't suffering enough," but why? Our middle-of-the-road lives are just as worthy of finding full self-expression. Welcome to A Brave Journey. Connect with S...