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Is Your Inner Voice Building or Bullying You?
You may have escaped the people and experiences that once made you question your worth, yet still hear their tone inside your own mind. Discover how changing that conversation can soften your...
1 day ago10 min read


Why Leaders Keep Trying to Change Behaviour When Behaviour is Only the Output
For decades, organisations have invested significant amounts of time and money attempting to change human behaviour. We develop leadership competencies, introduce values and behaviours frameworks, run...
2 days ago7 min read


From Karate Champion to Founder – An Exclusive Interview with Sarah Wittl
Sarah Wittl's path into wellbeing began at nine years old, watching a flyer of a karate practitioner mid-flight and knowing instantly: I want to do this too. What started as a childhood fascination became...
2 days ago7 min read


Before You Can Lead Anyone Else, You Have to Lead Yourself
Over 25 years at sea and in the boardroom, I have developed a framework that sits at the heart of everything I teach. I call it SHINE. Each letter represents a dimension of leadership that every...
2 days ago5 min read


Sunscreen Isn't Just for Summer and the Truth About Why Your Skin Needs SPF All Year Round
Summer arrives, temperatures rise, vacations begin, and suddenly sunscreen appears everywhere. We pack it for the beach. We apply it before the pool. We remind the children to put it on before spending...
2 days ago6 min read


Is Your Workplace Mentally Healthy? Seven Signs Your Culture Needs Attention
A company can have a wellness programme, an Employee Assistance Programme, mental health talks, gym memberships and even a beautifully written wellbeing policy and still have an unhealthy or underdeveloped...
2 days ago7 min read


How Late Summer Rituals and Nervous System Regulation Create the Foundation for Lasting Wellness
As summer begins to wind down, many of us instinctively speed up. Back-to-school preparations, overflowing calendars, work deadlines, and the pressure to "finish summer strong" can leave us feeling depleted...
2 days ago5 min read


What Will Your Leadership Leave Behind?
Legacy leadership is not measured by how long your name remains on a door. It is measured by how deeply your influence continues to live in people. This article explores how leaders shape people, cultures...
2 days ago10 min read


There's Nothing Wrong With You, You've Just Been Stuck in Survival Mode
You've done the work. You've gone to therapy, read the books, followed the frameworks, and still, self-sabotage shows up right when you're closest to the goal: the video you don't post, the book you...
2 days ago7 min read


The Belief-Perception Loop and How Identity Shapes What We Notice, Interpret, and Reinforce
There is a popular idea in personal development that says the brain searches for evidence to prove whatever we already believe. If you believe you are incapable, you will notice evidence of inadequacy...
2 days ago13 min read


The Nervous System Response Nobody Plans For
Most crisis management focuses on processes, plans, protocols, and decision trees. What it rarely considers is the nervous system of the person managing the crisis. Leaders often believe they know...
2 days ago4 min read


Capacity Changes Before Burnout Happens
For years, burnout has been treated as the point at which something has gone wrong. By then, a high-achieving professional woman may be exhausted, struggling to think clearly, questioning decisions...
2 days ago7 min read


Merula Manifesto IV – My Heart Scares You, and a Gun Doesn't?
When a sociopathic, narcissistic mother raises you, you grow up entirely devoid of an identity. “You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me!” (Taylor, please, I just started typing, but you go, girl!).
2 days ago13 min read


The Three People You Need in Your Corner Once You Start Making Real Money
A client called me a few weeks ago, excited. He runs an HVAC company, does really well for himself, and has just found a property he wants to buy. Two units on one lot, both already rented, close to the...
2 days ago6 min read


Stretching is an Outdated Band-Aid for Chronic Tightness and Pain
If you've been stretching for years but your tightness keeps coming back, your body may not need more stretching–it may need more stability. After years of stretching my own body, I began to question...
2 days ago7 min read


You Were Good at Everything, So Why Does Motherhood Feel So Hard?
Before I became a mother, I was successful. I had built two six-figure businesses. I was independent, driven, capable, and very good at figuring things out. If there was a problem, I solved it. If I...
2 days ago8 min read


Is Self-Awareness Helping or Hurting You?
It usually arrives at a quiet moment. You were the one who felt the tension in the room before anyone named it. You read between the lines, softened your words, chose the higher ground, and...
3 days ago10 min read


Remembering Who You Are and Healing Through the 6R Ascension™ Process – An Interview with Reena Pathak
Reena is the creator of the 6R Ascension™ Process and a passionate advocate for healing beyond symptoms and transformation beyond awareness. Drawing from her personal journey of grief...
3 days ago8 min read


Turning Strategy Into Execution and Legacy – An Interview with Angela Lewis
Angela Lewis is the founder of Strategic Acceleration℠, a distinct approach to executive advisory built around one belief: strategy is incomplete without execution. As a Strategic Accelerator℠, she...
3 days ago8 min read


When Doubt Gets a Vote and the Hidden Intelligence of Skepticism
Skepticism is often treated as the enemy of confidence, but I have learned that it can be something more useful. It can slow us down long enough to notice what excitement overlooks, challenge assumptions...
3 days ago5 min read


Stop Treating Every Date As If It Must Lead to a Relationship
Sarah has been a nurse for fifteen years. She has held countless hands and comforted countless families. But during the pandemic, she was ordered to keep a dying man's wife from entering his room...
3 days ago4 min read


Reimagining Nonprofits and Philanthropy Through Lessons From a Market in Haiti
This year marks 20 years since I officially launched the nonprofit Soles4Souls. At the time, the world had come together after the natural disasters of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the 2010 earthquake...
3 days ago4 min read


10 Evidence-Based Nutritional Supports for Women
Women's nutritional needs evolve throughout life, from supporting healthy cycles at the onset of our flow to supporting fertility and hormonal balance during reproductive years and managing the physical changes...
3 days ago6 min read


Taming the Little Psychopath Within Before the Shadow Bites
From a post-Jungian perspective, it may be more useful to imagine the psyche not as a collection of traits that we either possess or do not possess, but as a field of potentials. In each of us, there is a seed...
3 days ago4 min read
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