People living with diabetes have everything other humans have on their minds, plus a constant stream of concerns that come up when you have to take over the job of your own pancreas or die. So a sense of humor becomes very necessary. It’s that or cry.

You are the only one who determines your worth, who you are, how you show up in the world, and your true value to the world. You and only you. No one else, ever.

We often say things that are very true, but don’t always feel quite true. Telling the truth and living in truth are sometimes very, very different things. Here’s how to start living in alignment with your inner truth.

How does resilience work for real people? What in the world is resilience anyway? Artist, Writer, & Speaker Kristen Girard gets real and down to earth about what resilience looks like for real people, like you and me.

Sometimes we feel so frayed, full of holes, and stained worse than a well loved college sweatshirt. Sometimes we feel like this so much that we forget who we really are. You might start to feel like you don’t matter at all. Not one bit, to anyone or anything. And it can feel like the world does nothing but reinforce that. Yet, you do matter. So do your dreams.

Finding your happy place isn’t something to put off for another day.

You matter, and so does how you feel. Happiness is essential for your well being because when we experience happiness we are reminded of who we really are.

Listen to your inner goddess of nature... speak up for the natural world you love and cherish.

Let's take a moment to do small expirement that will help you find the peace and clarity that comes from unleashing your inner goddess of nature. When you are coming from a place of fact, not the whim of opinion, you have all the strength you need to shine on.

What does it truly mean to be inspired by a goddess? 

In a world where jungles of concrete seem to caging us all into cubicles of anxiety, being inspired by a goddess can shift how we see ourselves and what we do with our talents.

Oceans of Light

A goddess of water is born as the rush of ocean waves crash upon the shore. The clean smell of ocean salts in the air. The glimmer and shimmer of light upon the waves dances like magic renewed.

Without clean water, life vanishes. 

Clean water has the power to heal, to wash clean, to nourish, and to create biologocally rich homes for all kinds of fantastic sealife from turtles to humpback whales. Yet today clean water is vanishing rapidly, and being replaced by toxic water devoid of the ability to sustain life.