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Melanie is a multitude of things! Her passions include movement, writing, speaking, and mentoring others on their journeys.

This multi-passionate career wasn’t her starting point, however. Melanie spent over 15 years climbing the corporate ladder. A few months after high school she entered the workforce as a young single mother. As part of a career program, she got an office job and was off and running. Along the way she attended night school to get her college degree.

Long hours at work, staying up late to study for her college courses, and being the best parent she could be were draining. At some point, Melanie believes she lost sight of not only who she was, but also who it was possible for her to be. There wasn’t a lot space for conversations or thoughts about what she “wanted”. Instead, each day was jam packed and left little room for contemplation.

Melanie believes that now, at age 41, she’s finally had the chance to pause and consider what she wants to be when she “grows up”. In a way, this was thrust upon her - she was working 40 hours a week at a corporate job, while also running a yoga studio on the side. She was struggling to make it all financially feasible, and then within a few months, she closed the yoga studio, which is also where she had been living, and unexpectedly lost her job.

She feels the universe cleared EVERYTHING off her plate and effectively helped her hit reset. With a clean slate, Melanie took a good long look around and started making changes.

During this interview, Stacey shares openly about many of the stages in her own journey. These included raising a son with a chronic illness,  working her way into her dream career position, and ultimately leaving that role to protect her own health. You can learn about self-care, dealing with the pressure to be perfect, and navigating career change in this informative episode.

I appreciate her candor, her positive outlook, and the twists and turns her journey took!

[Quick Note: If you’re specifically interested in Type 1, Type 2, Type 1.5, or double diabetes (yes, these are all real!), you’ll want to tune in at minute 21 for Stacey’s quick PSA on diabetes diagnosis and types. Crazy interesting!]

Brandy is practicing law full time as she grows her speaking & coaching business.

She attributes her own personal self-love journey to the discovery of her calling and passion, and is excited to empower other women in the same way.

I love her honesty as she shared about the reality of being in the beginning stages of leaving a stable career with solid benefits. (Especially when your education and life have all been geared towards achieving your current role!) If you’re wading through the transition yourself, you’ll appreciate her encouragement. You don’t need to have every step figured out, but you do need to create a plan and start taking action. Following your purpose and calling DOES pay off.

Nothing is a wasted experience, especially when it involved educating yourself. Don’t stress about the time, energy, or finances you put in to a certain degree program or certification. Everything you know can be applied, and it will serve you! Don’t hold yourself back from a pivot just because your new dreams don’t utilize your old degree.

If you’re not building your dream…you’re building someone else’s.

Brandy’s site and business is built around the concept of the “self-love challenge”. She believes that you can accept and love yourself even while you’re working on transforming into your best self. She attributes her own yoga experience, and it’s emphasis on slowing down and appreciating your full self, with the start of her growth. In addition, she was reading personal development and self-help books. As her mindset began to shift, she started actually implementing what she was learning.

The Self-Love Challenge was born as the culmination of all of these personal transformations! (And it started as a squat challenge!)

When you commit to loving yourself wherever you’re at, your self-love will only continue to grow.

Listen in to hear the full interview!

Danielle is the founder of The Thought Card, which is all about affording travel, paying off debt, and building wealth. Who doesn’t need a little help in one of those areas?

The focus of her site and podcast are all about sharing financial tips and tricks (plus real life examples and transparency) in order to help people make better decisions. She got her start by ripping off the Bandaid and sharing openly about her experience with debt, starting with student loans ($63,000…the struggle is real!). Rather than pretending them away, she opened up and found an audience who identified with the struggle.

Once she realized her actual student loan dollar amount, plus the per-day interest she was paying back, Danielle got motivated to pay her debt down and STOP the vicious cycle. A huge part of this? Learning to be honest with yourself.

Rather than burying your head in the sand, or trying to keep up with what everyone else is doing, Danielle recommends facing your reality and making the hard decisions. For her, that meant choosing to live with her mom instead of in a more fun (and spendy) downtown apartment. It wasn’t permanent, but it was a sacrifice that helped her make up huge ground with her debt repayment.

Another great idea - in the midst of debt payoff, think about what’s going to happen beyond the debt. Danielle wanted to become a home owner, so she paired a savings program along with her debt repayment goals. This helped her build on her short term goals, make huge headway on debt payoffs, AND be ready to start house hunting once her loans were paid off. That’s huge!

Don’t forget to celebrate your wins and notice your progress - it may feel like a slow journey, but you’re making progress every day!

Listen in to learn more Danielle, The Thought Card, and her great financial advice!

What does she do?

Todays guest, Sarah Boxx, is a coach and consultant.

Who she is?

A person who loves finding solutions, and discovering innovative ways of helping people achieve the goals they are pursuing.

Sarah also considers herself to be a matchmaker at heart, which she attributes to her love for helping things fit together. She loves introducing people to other people, ideas, or collaborations that will help them take the next step forward.

I love what Sarah shares about lifting others up - “It has never come back that I have been diminished by that.”

Clarity around values and beliefs are a huge part of Sarah’s philosophy. She describes the resistance and dread she feels when she’s going against her values, and her expectation that will always be able to make hard choices in order to realign with what she knows she needs to do.

Sometimes that means changing directions or switching things up, and that’s okay!

When change is needed, it’s never too late to readjust! Look for ways to get over the gap between what you KNOW you need to do and where you actually are.

Listen in to the full interview to hear the full interview!

Justina Ford, identifies herself as a Jesus lover, veteran spouse, and homeschool mom. She is also a Christian Energy Healer and Intuitive Business Coach who helps multi-passionate momprenuers clear limiting beliefs and walk fully in their calling to create. 

On a practical level, that looks like helping these entrepreneurs with their brand message, structure of their services, and content creation.

Justina left a master’s program to follow her makeup industry passion, which paved the way for her entrance into coaching. She found that doing hair and makeup really provided her an inroad to connecting with women - she loved building their confidence and transforming them outwardly, but also saw the opportunity for more inner work and growth.

After becoming successful in the makeup industry, Justina started coaching women who specifically wanted to join the industry. It didn’t take long before she realized that what she was teaching would apply to many women and many fields. She started branching out and teaching on a wider scale.

The intuitive part of her coaching is a way of bringing in a deeper spiritual aspect, as well as to ensure that her clients aren’t just following the business or entrepreneurial path they think they are “supposed” to be on.

Justina believes in getting to the root of issues; rather than trying to slap a strategy on or try to push past issues, she encourages women to slow down and really deal with their internal struggles and the actual root of the issue. She uses energy clearing and EFT tapping, among other tools.

As her Christian faith is an important part of her life and work, Justina has worked through how she can incorporate various faith elements and healing elements in a way that feels authentic and holistic. If you’ve struggled with how your faith connects with your work, you’ll appreciate her thoughts here!

As a wife, mom, homeschooling teacher, and entrepreneurs, Justina shares that she chooses to put her faith and family ahead of her business. She’s never wanted to feel she has to prioritize work over the things she considers most important in life, especially now that she is her own boss. Having worked in the public sector, she understands the guilt and shame that can come from having to prioritize family over coworkers and job duties. She did not want to go back to that!

Her final advice? Your thoughts can lead you to either success or failure. Mindset really is everything!

Veronica’s background is in public health, and she shares some great information about self-advocacy. I loved her thoughts on empowering women to be leaders in their health care, and definitely want my own medical experiences to be empowering.

At the end of the day, you’re the one who knows your body the best. You’re the only one who can speak to your symptoms, your needs, and your truth. Rather then shutting down, you can speak up. Self-advocacy is about using your voice and seeking help in healthy, proactive ways.

We ended up circling back to the idea of much of our medical problems being connected to systemic failures (this is the 3rd podcast episode this has come up on!), and it made me wonder what WE can do to have a positive impact on the system.

What are your thoughts?

Veronica also shares about her love for all things essential oils (plus some of the science behind where oils came from and why they work). In the course of learning about oils, we touch on the importance of ethical sourcing, pricing, and use of products, both personally and globally.

One encouragement to entrepreneurial listeners is to continually pursue personal development - after all, if you aren’t growing, how will your business?

Heather shares that when things get crazy, she often has a desire to control things (don’t we all!). Like many of us, she’s worked to end those patterns of control in her life.

Part of Heather’s journey involved the inward process of moving from a victim mindset towards a courageous, empowered mindset. She dealt with a lot of anger and impulsivity as a young child, and felt she was “set apart” in a negative way. As a result, she walked around with a chip on her shoulder, carrying a burden of angst and frustration with her.

Rejection, abandonment, ridicule, and pain felt normal.

Transformation came in a variety of ways - joining the Navy, breaking free from the constraints of other people’s expectations, and having the the freedom of a new identity all helped.

They also created a new issue: striving. Heather might have been able to drop the chip, but ended up picking up the need to prove her worth to others

Eventually, she’s processed through that too. Life is always a journey, and not all of her growth as been achieved gracefully. Peeling through layers of hurt, pain, and past issues took time and effort. Being willing to face into what had been and choosing to work forward through those issues was instrumental in resolving and redeeming the past. It also required her to engage with other’s in her life, sharing her story and also learning more about their own perspectives and roles.

She identifies her ability to start TALKINg as something hugely essential in her journey. Processing through things and shedding light on them was so important, as opposed to hiding in the shadows or silencing her voice.

As emotional beings, we sometimes struggle to move from our current reality into something new or different. By choosing to live courageously, we can start to experience more freedom in our lives.

Rather than finding ways to blame others for our pain or pasts, there are ways to reenter the experience, settle what you can settle, and move on to healing and wholeness.

Remember - you’re not alone in this!

Karen is a National Board Certified Health Coach and founder of Rebalanced Wellbeing, where she works with busy women who risk chronic health conditions by putting their own needs last.

She believes we all deserve to have time and energy to dedicate towards our own needs, passions, and desires.

The big idea? You can have a family and career without sacrificing your own wellbeing and health.

If you know what it’s like to just push through, make it happen, and not provide self-care, then this is for you!

Madeline is an amazing Virtual Assistant who primarily works with spiritual coaches. She manages social media, writes content, creates graphics, and is all around incredible. 

She shares how she’s always been interested in the power of our thoughts, specifically positive thoughts! Her parents gave her a copy of The Secret in high school, and she dove right in! 

Looking back, she realizes that had a bit of a misunderstanding - she had felt she needed to use positive thinking to cover over “bad” situations or circumstances - when in reality, she’s come to find that any circumstance is neutral in and of itself, while her own responses and reactions are really up to her.

Madeline explains that toxic positivity is when you ignore reality and put a “happy face” on everything. I resonate so much! I think I’ve created a plethora of issues for myself in the past by faking positivity and then feeling that I had to protect what was, essentially, a lie. Having a positive mindset is NOT meant to be a band aid solution that sinks you into denial and deception.

She suggests looking for cues in your thinking. When you experience an emotion, you can start by NAMING that emotion. Just noticing, naming, and speaking over what you feel can help you start to interact with yourself in a healthier manner.

Be honest, and allow yourself to feel what you’re feeling. 

Once you’ve named it and felt it, you can ask yourself what stories you have about the situation or feeling. 

The reality is, there are stories who serve us and stories who don’t. Nothing to feel guilty about, nothing to label as good/bad, positive/negative. You’ll experience all sorts of things, and the way you choose to process them and weave them into your narrative will change the way you live your life.

Another way to release some of the stress around this topic? Understand that you are human, and you should be experiencing ALL the things life has to offer. So feeling sad, angry, upset, disappointed - those aren’t signs that you’re failing or “less than”. They are signs that everything is perfectly normal. You don’t need to pretend they don’t exist, or put a “happy face” on any of it!

This interview was so fun, and I’m not doing it justice here - be sure to listen in!

Rebecca is a dietician joining us from Salt Lake, Utah. She is a podcast host, and also curates a blog all about Cooking for One!

She shares about the chance conversation she had with a convenience store clerk that put her on to the field of dietetics, and a bit about the journey she’s taken to get to where she is now.

Her thesis was on body image, and I loved her thoughts on how our preoccupation with body image and appearance can take over our head space and zap our energy and confidence. Even when you get to a point of personally loving your body, there are so many messages from society that bombard you with other messaging - sadly, our modern lives are not always that conducive to maintaining self-love and body confidence!

Sometimes even the medical system creates insecurities and doubts about your own body. Our perceptions of ourselves, our weight, and our health can be so difficult to sort through, and one-size-fits-all answers (which Western medicine tends to prefer) don’t always fit us very well. As someone with PCOS, I definitely resonate with this!

Also: ideal body weight? That’s based off a terrible measurement system that doesn’t really take your actually body into account either. The problem seems to be systemic, and the system needs to change!

Cristina brings so much energy to this interview!

She shares about her “now or never” chance to commit to becoming an entrepreneur, and the opening of a new book in her life (not a new chapter...a whole new book!). As someone transitioning from a corporate career, Cristina knows what it’s like to go from the stability and expectations of a traditional job to the freedom and responsibility of running your own business.

She talks about the necessary commitment to your journey, as well as the balance tha

One of her tips: sit down once a week (she uses Sunday) and plan out your next week. I love the visual of using Post-It notes to help yourself visualize where your time is going. 

“Your mindset is the most important thing when you’re an entrepreneur.”

When you’re an entrepreneur, you need to be extremely clear with yourself about you’re trying to achieve. The results you want to achieve are going to be your guide - once you know what you want, you need to determine HOW it’s going to happen.

The key to actually implementing your how and claiming your what?

MINDSET!

Working with a coach to improve your mindset and develop your business goals is a little like having a personal trainer. They’ll push you to your limits, encourage you, and keep you accountable for showing up and making it happen!

Cristina shares she is NOT a “victim of second guessing” - she is willing to just JUMP! As someone who does tend to struggle with that myself, I find that my strategy has been to make decisions and move on. Don’t obsess, don’t circle back, just make the decision and move forward to the next thing. In other words - trusting myself to take imperfect action.

Finally, Cristina reminds us to celebrate our successes! By noticing your achievements and having a mindset of continual encouragement towards yourself, you can create confidence and build excitement about continuing to achieve your goals. (I loved her version of self talk when she says, “Oh look at you!” and names her accomplishments.)

Not every moment is forever.

Don’t be too hard on yourself, and celebrate everything you’re doing because it’s getting you somewhere!

“We were not put on this earth to just exist and do what we are told to do.”

Today I was joined by Margarita Price, a Life and Career Change coach who is dedicated to helping women live life on their own terms.

We discussed signs that you’re ready for change, as well as some of the stress that can come from choosing to break the mold and do things differently than your family or friends. Margarita suggests taking an honest look at your life and answering this question:

If my life looks this way in 5 years, will I be satisfied?

If the answer is no, start taking steps to change it!

Speaking of taking steps...it’s not enough to be dissatisfied and envision living some sort of “different” life. If all you do is think about (or mentally plan for how amazing it could be), you’ll never realize it! You absolutely have to start taking action. Margarita suggests planning for (and then TAKING) small steps that can fit into your current life. You don’t have to suddenly dedicate 5 hours a day - we’re all busy, and that isn’t realistic. You do have to DO something though; action is what makes change real.

Stuck on exactly WHAT actions to take?

Margarita starts her clients with exercises to determine core beliefs and values. Once you know what your values are, you can make decisions from a place of confidence in who you are and what you are all about.

Carly joined us today to share about her journey of becoming a VA and going fully remote. As a fellow member of the Laptop Freedom Program, Carly shares how her own self-confidence and belief in herself have been transformed in the last year.

She had been working two minimum wage jobs and didn’t see her dreams (starting a blog and launching her own YouTube channel) as being attainable. And when we have limiting beliefs about ourselves and our abilities, it’s so easy to slip into the trap of just doing what we see everyone else doing.

An encounter with her uncle made her realize she had nothing she was really working towards. His encouragement to make a plan (and be flexible about the idea that things can always change), really got Carly thinking about what she was moving towards. Since then, she invested in the Laptop Freedom Program, moved to a new house, started a temporary part time job, and is about to go full time as a remote VA!

She credits support from both her fiancee and the group of women from the Laptop Freedom Program as being the reasons she was able to step out, take a leap of faith, and begin the first steps towards whole new realities.

As exciting as working for yourself from home can be, we also discuss its inherent challenges: staying motivated, not getting sucked into the black hole of the internet, and prioritizing “billable hours” over all the other stuff we can so easily get distracted by. Carly shares that getting up early, getting dressed and ready for the day, and getting a solid chunk of work done in the morning helps her make progress and stay on track with her online clients.

Join us to learn more about the power of investing in yourself, believing in your dreams, and taking action steps towards actually achieving them.  

Stacey shares about living in a state of victimhood, where everything that happened was being done “to” her, and she had no control. This included her personal finances, her health, her deteriorating marriage, and her work; it left her feeling frustrated and disempowered.

After being assigned the book Loving What Is (by Byron Katie), she realized that she had so much more agency and power in her own life than she had ever realized! As a result, she started asking herself these two questions:

• “How’s that working for me?” 
• “What else could be true?”

By genuinely reflecting on the answers to these questions, she finds that there are often pathways that she hadn’t noticed or been aware of when initially facing the issue or problem. In that same vein, she realized that a lot of her initial thoughts and reactions weren’t coming from any inward process, but were actually external - maybe the pressure of what everyone else wanted, or even just the understanding of what you’re “supposed” to think, do, or feel.

If she had to offer a single piece of advice, it would be this:

To thine own self be true.

You CAN do the uncomfortable things, no matter how hard they seem, because choosing to summon the bravery and courage to be true to yourself will change everything.

Belle Jenings is a Mindset coach and the leader of Rise Into Purpose: A Program for Finding and Achieving Your Entrepreneurial Calling. She does all this while being a digital nomad, and has already enjoyed three countries in 2019 (with more in the works!).

She joined me on the podcast to discuss what it means to invest in yourself with joy, which she connects to self-worth and our ability to truly love ourselves.

We both found that some of the earliest investments we made in ourselves were massage and counseling - those smaller monthly costs opened the door to understanding that money spent on self-care and mental health are positive, worthwhile investments, and likely made it easier to embrace spending much larger amounts of money for coaching and support for our businesses down the road.

Belle also shares about making the mental shift from “It’s possible” to “I’m going to make my dreams come true”. She wrote:

“I would get so hung up on practicalities and the “normal” heights that others had reached, and I would limit my visions to that. How in the world could I expect to live a fabulous life if I wasn’t a lawyer or banker, or stunningly beautiful, or born with a trust fund? I didn’t see how that was possible, until I started to see that others were doing it. Others are literally making livings by traveling the world, in a van, with their rescue dogs. 

As soon as I saw just a few examples of that, I started thinking “Why not me?” I started dreaming without limits--other than gravity and physics and such. I asked myself “What do I want my life to look like? How do I want to live?” and then started figuring out what would fit within that dream in terms of hours, independence, values, freedom, and opportunity. And that’s how I pieced together being a mindset and entrepreneurial coach while traveling the world out of a suitcase! “

If you’ve been contemplating an investment or life change for awhile, I’d encourage you to ask that very question:

Why NOT me?

As a former teacher, content curator, and now coach, Belle invites us to invest in ourselves while understanding that every career or experience isn’t something we need to hold on to forever - in the same way you purchase a winter coat that you’ll only wear for a few months out of the year (but still value, need, and be willing to invest in), coaches, programs, and courses may be perfect for you (and worth investing in) without having to be the “forever” plan.

Her final words of advice: be courageous, and do it fearful.

It’s 100% okay (and normal) to be scared of growth and change, but that doesn’t mean you have to stop. Commit to making your dreams a reality and follow them courageously!

If you’d like to connect with Belle, you can find her here:

Karissa shares about her experiences with mindset growth over the past few years. She’s found that her journey has been a series of progressive changes and discoveries: her marriage, community, and business have all been areas impacted by her exploration into personal development.

As someone who tends towards logic and analysis, Karissa initially found the online space to be bit “woo woo”, an idea she connected to spirituality as well as to mindfulness and personal development. After being very closed off to these avenues, she eventually became more open to the idea of expanding her perspective, which led to various shifts in how she views herself and the world.

One thing that was impactful: personal connections.

She recognized that her perceptions of others had created a “box of what I thought ‘these’ people were like”....and that making real connections broke those barriers down and opened the door to a variety of new relationships and ideas.

She also came to realize that so many reactions we have to the world (and the people in it) are based on internalized conflicts that have remained unresolved. By acknowledging and processing these areas, she’s found healing and growth, a lot of which was tied to releasing control and letting go of things she has no power to change.

Her parting advice:Be open to different perspectives, and make connections with people who think differently from you.

Most of us know about stage hypnosis (and the attention seekers willing to cluck like chickens for the show!), but that is not the point of actual hypnosis.

Guest Jennifer Schleuter joins us to share about the art of relaxing the mind and opening up the subconscious in order to remove limiting beliefs and "blocks", most of which are connected to our past.

Her journey in hypnosis actually started when she was living in Los Angeles, living a full life with an inspiring job, nice apartment, and great friends...and yet somehow feeling deeply unfulfilled. After a single hypnosis session she knew with great clarity that she was going to begin traveling and gain time freedom.

Since then, she left her job, lived off her savings while attempting to become an influencer, scrapped that to become a VA, and eventually transitioned to hypnotherapy, returning to the practice that had caused her to change her own life so drastically.

Jennifer primarily works with entrepreneurs who KNOW they want to do more in their businesses...but find that it just isn’t happening. By using hypnosis to identify internalized stories, Jennifer is able to guide clients through the process of changing those narratives and breaking free from the past.

Her parting advice: love others and love yourself.

To connect with Jennifer, you can find her in a number of places:

Priscilla Johnson, a Nutrition Therapist, specializes in the profession of helping people with skin issues like acne, rosacea, and eczema, with the ultimate goal of helping them clear their skin through dietary and lifestyle changes.

She joined me today to talk about using nutrition to achieve holistic healing. She has personally experienced skin issues (and went through a six-year journey to reach healing), as well as an early diagnosis of PCOS.

She realized early on that a lot of the treatments being offered were just prescriptions that she was supposed to “try out” to see if they would help with anything – each one had a slew of its own side effects, and none of them were guaranteed to even help solve any of her problems.

Join us to hear more about the “hamster wheel” feeling that modern treatments can give you, as well as information about the programs Priscilla has created to help women achieve clarity and allow their bodies to heal naturally using nutrition.

If you feel like that limiting mindsets pretty much speak your language because they’ve taken up so much space in your life…this one is for you!

And I’m going there because I get that; I am the queen of selling myself short because of limiting beliefs in all areas of life . I’ve seen it play itself out in my relationships with other people again and again: taking the blame, assuming I’m the problem, believing I won’t be liked/wanted/cared for.

And even when I’m not consciously trying to be negative…the reality is that when my underlying belief system tells that I won’t be wanted or accepted, it’s going to come through in every single interaction I have with others.

In my life, that looks like searching for an escape route before I’ve even walked in the door, shutting down before anything has a chance to develop, and generally sabotaging my own attempts at connecting with others.

So if you tend to take all the GOOD in your life and tell yourself that it’s all chance, luck, or an absolute fluke….you’re dealing with some major limiting beliefs. I love that you're here, I love that you're listening, and I would love to connect with you more.

I spent a decent amount of time in my counseling sessions talking about taking up space - not physical space, but emotional or mental space. That sort of intangible presence that we each have in the world? Yeah, I tend to not do super well there!

I’m a natural minimizer, and I will make myself small if I think it would make your life easier/better/more enjoyable. It’s not something that I tend to put a lot of though into; it’s something I just habitually do, and have done for a long time. For me, this impacts my hopes, dreams, desires, and general day to day life.

Why it worked?

It protected me from conflict, from drama, from having to stand up boldly and fight for myself. It kept others from knowing I was hurting, and it kept me from having to be vulnerable. It’s no wonder I kind of liked it there!

Take a listen, and see how you rate on a scale 1-10 (from Hannah-bottoming-out to Lady-Gaga-in-a-meat-dress).

How (and where) do you take up space, and what does that look like to you? I want to know!!

Having realized that I tend to have a pretty negative primary question, I decided to go ahead and create something NEW, a questions that could help me possibly engage with my world and the people in my world differently.

I realized that my default question was giving me huge issues with conflict resolution (because I was SO worried about what other people were thinking)….and by changing up my question and focus I could remove a huge amount of stress from my life!

Speaking of conflict: when you don’t deal with it, it doesn’t go away. It just lies there, taking up space in your life and requiring you to put all sorts of time and energy into managing its existence.

I seriously do want to know: what is your default question, and what would you love to change it to?

You know that fall back question? The one that's always rolling around in the back of your mind? The one that's probably really not that healthy?

Yeah, mine has tended to be all about what other people are going to think, or how they might choose to judge me. It's just where I naturally tend to fall.

So when I heard about naming your primary question and then crafting one that was NEW and that actually made your life better, I was super excited.

Join me as I talk about my own process with primary questions, and please do take the time to name (and reshape) your own.

Rorschach Your Reality was the result of my desire to create something that was mine (in an online world filled with other people's voices), to explore meaning (even when I don't think I have any answers), and to share my love of story (because you can never go wrong with a good story).

It's new, so things will change and shift and grow because that's how life works. I would be so honored if you wanted to walk with me through the process. 

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