Personal development
Personal development is a lifelong journey of growth and self-improvement, including a wide range of topics aimed at enhancing your skills, mindset, and overall well-being. Learn how to develop new habits and push beyond your comfort zone with actionable advice and inspiring stories, our contributors will motivate you to take charge of your personal development and unlock your full potential.
Why Willpower is the Wrong Tool for Health Change and What Actually Works
Every January, millions of people reach for the same tool to change their health: willpower. They resolve to eat less, move more, and force themselves into a better life through sheer determination...
Who Gets to Decide Who You Are?
Most of us will never be diagnosed with schizophrenia. Yet many of us know what it is like to have somebody else tell us who we are. Perhaps you were the difficult child. The anxious one. The underachiever...
Success Without Emotional Regulation Often Leads to Burnout
From the outside, many high-performing people appear successful, driven, disciplined, and completely in control. They are building businesses, managing teams, supporting families, achieving goals, and...
The Alphabet Nature Never Taught Us 26 Observations About the Species That Calls Itself Intelligent
We spent centuries studying animals because we assumed we were the more intelligent species. We measured their memory, communication, migration, cooperation, problem-solving, and survival. We asked how much...
How Ikigai, Purpose, and Pure Alchemy Create a Path Toward a More Meaningful Life
Explore how Tori Johnson’s Pure Alchemy approach combines Ikigai, purpose, and whole-person wellness to help individuals navigate life transitions, reconnect with meaning, and create a more aligned life. Discover insights on personal transformation, intentional living, and the connection between purpose, wellness, and human potential.
Your Thoughts Are Trying to Tell You Something – How to Process Rumination
Intrusive thoughts and rumination are hitting us hard right now, leaving each of us who overthinks with the daunting feeling of being trapped in our minds. I’ve had several questions from those I...
Harnessing the Power of Our Emergent Reality
“Life is just one thing after another. That's the good news.” I have always liked that idea. Because life really is one thing after another. One moment becomes the next. One decision leads to another. One...
Why Success Doesn’t Guarantee Fulfillment and What Actually Does
There is a question few successful people ask until they’ve achieved everything they once believed would make them happy, "What if success was never the thing I was actually searching for?" From an...
10 Ways to Develop Positivity as a Skill
Positivity is often treated as something you either naturally possess or simply don’t. What if positivity is less about disposition and more about development? Like any skill, our capacity to recognize what is...
Why Self-Awareness Isn't Enough and How to Close the Gap Between Knowing Better and Living Differently
We have more language than ever for understanding our trauma, attachment styles, triggers, boundaries, and relationship patterns, yet knowing why we behave a certain way does not always help us...
Why Preparing for Uncertainty Begins Before Uncertainty Arrives
Over the past several weeks, I have been thinking differently about uncertainty. Not because uncertainty is new to me. I was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and in many ways, I have learned to live...
Motivation vs. Habits – A Better Way to Approach Your Fitness Journey
If motivation and discipline were the answer, every gym and yoga studio in every city around the world would not only be full, but they’d also have a waiting list. Everyone would be effortlessly thin...
I Am Who I Think I Am and 10 Practical Ways to Break Limiting Beliefs and Transform Your Life
Our beliefs influence the meaning we assign to our experiences. When we learn to examine those beliefs with truth, compassion, faith, and action, we create room for growth.
9 Ways Your Own Enneagram Type Shapes How You Show Up With Teens
You bring your whole self into every room you work in. This includes the parts of your personality you've never examined. The Enneagram isn't a personality quiz; it's a map of your core motivation...
What Being a Curvy Model Taught Me About Taking Up Space
Being a curvy model has taught me that taking up space is not about being the loudest person in the room or demanding attention. It is about allowing your personality, experience and strengths to come...
