What Your Fear is Trying to Tell You

I am living in Costa Rica for the rest of the month to work on my next book, The Joy Seeker Project, and something happened the other night that totally scared me. A big crab came crawling across my living room floor. I don’t know about you, but I've never… READ MORE

How to Overcome Obsessive Thoughts

Do you ever feel like a prisoner in your own mind?  Do you constantly replay or obsess over negative situations?  Maybe you spend most of your time worrying about details that make you feel helpless and out of control.    The average person has over 50,000 thoughts a day, and… READ MORE

Unexpected Ways to Connect to Your Best Self Instantly

It's one of the most wonderful times of the year, or for many one of the most stressful. I spoke at an event last week about how to stay balanced through the holidays, and one of my suggestions was to connect to your joy, become a joy seeker. Afterward, someone… READ MORE

Give the Gift of Love this Holiday Season

This holiday season, help uplift everyone you love with the gift of self-love. For the next two weeks, I am running a holiday promotion to help you give the gift of self-love, and get your holiday shopping done early. When you gift my book, The Self-Love Experiment, I will give… READ MORE

Overcoming Not Good Enough

I have a creative assistant who’s worked for me for many months. He’s more than my assistant. He is a friend and support. He helps me run my company more smoothly by just being by my side. I recently flew him to New York to help support me on my… READ MORE

5 Reasons You Are Unhappy and How to Fix it

Do you feel like something is off in your life? Maybe you’ve been working toward your goals and things are starting to manifest for you, yet something still feels uncertain. Perhaps an area of your life isn’t going as well as you would like—you’re trying to be happy, but most… READ MORE

My Go-To Mantra for Removing Fear and Self-Doubt

Mantras and affirmations are powerful tools to help you align with peace and fight off negativity and fear. I used them to heal depression, eating disorders, to overcome anxiety and addictions, and to find my life’s passion and purpose. Today, I use mantras to stay aligned with my truth, but… READ MORE

The Fastest Way To Fulfillment

You may not know this about me, but besides writing, coaching, speaking, and being a retreat leader, I also have another fabulous job.  When I left advertising to follow my heart and be writer I also started teaching. I teach part-time at the Portland Art Institute for college-level marketing, design,… READ MORE

The Life-Changing Advice My Mentor Gave Me

When is the last time you had a breakthrough? I just got off the phone with my mentor, and everytime we talk I have a major breakthrough and aha moment. I feel revived and energetically more balanced. Mentors and teachers can be great resources to help us get out of… READ MORE