Bloom Your Mind

We were camping in the mountains with a group of 20 kids and their parents, when the ground began to shake. The first things I noticed were quivering leaves on the trees around us, followed by a soft…

Have you ever stood behind someone in the grocery store thinking they should put the divider between your groceries and theirs? 

Or thought someone should turn off their fanny pack music blasting down…

Let’s go back to emotions 101. Your emotions ARE your superpower.  

There are three ways that we naturally deal with them; we stuff them down, we act them out, and we buffer (put something else on top…

When I thought of time management, I used to feel and think… ’Blahhh.’

‘That is NOT sexy.’

‘I am not wasting my time on that. I want to be here in the present.’

‘It’s so boring. It’ll melt my face off. …

Have you ever gotten roasted or teased for things you were kind of surprised about? 

Or what about this…have you ever been teased for saying something that you didn’t know was unique to you? 

I’ve rece…

A client recently asked how I get up at 5am in a house with squeaky floorboards and a husband who’s a night owl. The answer to this, and to so many other things comes from knowing my priorities. 

Whil…

There are two ways of looking at the world. We can think that there is one truth to everything; “one thing is true”…OR we can realize that many things are true at the same time. We call this “two thi…

Two things stop people from taking action on the ideas that they have to make their own lives, their communities, their workplaces, families, and the world a better place. 

• They think that they’re not…

Grace was sitting across from me, with her hands wrapped around a mug of tea. Our session was first thing in the morning for both of us, and I could imagine that the rain that I could see falling so …

Did you know being an excellent listener is a way to practice great boundaries?

It’s hard as hell to do, with a human ego standing right in the way…but it’s also the skill with the single biggest payo…

Bekah Salazar and Marie McDonald are lifetime sister-friends. We are also all about becoming EXPERTS at loving ourselves so that we can give our best to the world...and even more importantly than tha…

Ever feel like stress just piles on stress? We all know stress is a part of life, but are we handling it right?

For most of us, we tend to get stuck in a cycle of feeling stressed, instead of finishin…

Do you want your big idea to stop being just an idea? Or are you constantly starting and stopping, never actually reaching your goals?

In this episode, I dive head first into the second main ingredien…

This year, I decided to live a "Year of Zero Lies." Everything that I do or say, I commit to being 100% authentic.

In this process  of personal discovery, I have learned five simple, but incredibly p…

Recently, we celebrated my parents' 50th anniversary, which means they've been together for half a century! If you think about it, their relationship is an idea they made real and stayed committed to…

Do you ever make New Year's resolutions? This episode isn't about if you should or shouldn't. Instead, it's about a great way to make any idea – big or small – happen.

We'll talk about three month goa…

Before the end of the year, we usually spend this time to make up a list of things that we want to do or change. We call that our New Year's resolution. Today we're going to be more specific on that.…

Have you ever noticed how we often approach new things with a fixed idea of how they should be? Whether it’s a trip, a project, or even a conversation, we tend to follow familiar patterns. But why? 

I…

Imagine puffing a dandelion into the air. As you blow on the dandelion, all its little feather-like flowers go out into the world.

When we put our ideas out, they spread like a dandelion and other pe…

Are there miracles around you that you're letting pass you by?

Right now, we are the youngest, most flexible, and strongest we'll ever be. And when miracles such as our ideas come up, it's important t…