10 Excuses Why You’re Not Reaching Your Goals—and How to Push Past Them

10 Excuses Why You’re Not Reaching Your Goals—and How to Push Past Them

You have an intention. There’s something you really want to achieve in your life, possibly several things, and no matter how hard you try you’re just not able to make it happen. It’s frustrating beyond measure. Eventually, feeling destitute and deflated, you trade in...
How to Find Gratitude in Your Hardest Moments

How to Find Gratitude in Your Hardest Moments

Gratitude comes in many forms and how you experience it can vary a great deal, depending on your intention. It’s easy to hone in on the things you are grateful for when life is going well. A good economy, a happy family, a loving relationship, a successful career, and...
5 Ways to Build a Spiritual Connection with Your Partner

5 Ways to Build a Spiritual Connection with Your Partner

Everyone wants to have meaningful relationships, whether it’s with family and friends, a business partnership, or an intimate relationship. Yet, finding that special someone who is both your best friend and soul mate, and who can bridge the gap of everything in...
Feeling Stuck? Check Your Baggage

Feeling Stuck? Check Your Baggage

Baggage. Everyone has some. To what extent you’re able to maneuver through it is what determines your ability to achieve the success and fulfillment you want—in any area of your life. The key is learning how to know when your baggage is what’s holding you back from...
Fall Meditation to Embody Openness and Self-Reflection

Fall Meditation to Embody Openness and Self-Reflection

Ancient cultures welcomed the changing of seasons by adapting to and synchronizing themselves with nature’s cycles and rhythms. For many of us in modern day society, autumn is marked by the leaves changing color, back-to-school sales, and the arrival of fall décor in...
Everyday Magic: 3 Daily Rituals to Connect You to the Present

Everyday Magic: 3 Daily Rituals to Connect You to the Present

Psychologist Dr. Jean Houston has said that we are the victims of an “age of interrupted process.” Meaning, you generally know a bit about how things begin and how they end, but you are rarely present throughout the middle – or the process. The point she...
A Guided Meditation to Embrace Summertime

A Guided Meditation to Embrace Summertime

With summer rapidly approaching, you may be gearing up for the fun, excitement, and spontaneity that are just around the corner. Out comes the camping gear, hot dogs, bathing suits, and beach towels as you prepare for family vacations, hot weather, and fun...
How to Set Healthy Relationship Boundaries in All Areas of Life

How to Set Healthy Relationship Boundaries in All Areas of Life

Setting and enforcing healthy boundaries can be the thing that enhances or sabotages relationships in any area of your life, having a detrimental effect on your happiness, confidence, and sense of self-worth. Boundaries play a huge role in personal and professional...
Feeling Stuck? How to Create a Strategy to Move Forward

Feeling Stuck? How to Create a Strategy to Move Forward

If you’ve ever felt “stuck,” you know what it’s like to have a certain mood that lingers over you like a dark cloud. Procrastinating on deadlines, confusion about what to do or where to begin, and other experiences of feeling stuck can leave you feeling anxious,...
A Guided Meditation for Setting Intentions

A Guided Meditation for Setting Intentions

More and more, people are doing away with New Year’s resolutions and instead setting intentions for what they would like to achieve over the next 12 months. Resolutions, intentions, goals—whatever label you prefer to use—are only possible if you take consistent action...
10-Minute Meditation Breaks

10-Minute Meditation Breaks

When kids get too rowdy, they’re given time-outs. Regardless of why parents and teachers administer a time-out, it’s ultimately meant to help children slow down, reconnect with the present moment, and begin again. It’s a reset that helps kids re-enter the playground...
99 Reasons to Start Meditating

99 Reasons to Start Meditating

There’s big buzz around meditation, and for good reason. Research points to this once fringe practice as a highly effective technique for improving your life overall. With benefits ranging from physiological to psychological to spiritual, and scientific research to...