Shift Your Perspective, Travel (and Burning Man)
Did you grow up taking road trips with your family? Were the destinations places like the National Parks, or to visit the big “must see” attractions? When I read about full-time RVers traveling across America, so many stories are filled with advice to get the passes...
Shift Your Perspective
Is an Adventurous Attitude a result from one’s environment or a genetic trait? Is the reason I am the way I am because there’s such a thing as an Adventure gene, or because I was raised in a way that promoted my potential for adventurous thinking? My...
Chocolate
I’m a registered drug buyer – an adventure in cannabis chocolate Ever wonder what it’s like to buy marijuana, legally? Across the country, the discussion about legalizing pot for medical and recreational use is growing louder, with more states getting in on the...
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, Self Care, Shift Your Perspective
Ben (@Ben_bernal) the artist, was so gentle and kind. He made sure I was happy with the size, style and placement before doing any work. He treated me as if I were one of his biggest clients, even though I got probably the easiest and smallest ones he’s done in...
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone
A woman drove by me today and yelled out her car window “I love your hair!” Ever have one of those moments when you realize that how you see yourself isn’t how others see you? It’s so easy to look in the mirror and see the flaws instead of the overall beauty of...
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, Travel (and Burning Man)
Change is hard Imagine this, you have sold your home and moving somewhere new (even if you haven’t done it, imagine it…for now). The excitement of the road calls, and while you’re excited to travel…you also have to give up some things that have become a comfort. How...
Chocolate
Fun Fact: Boston is steeped deep in chocolate history! This was my surprising discovery when I decided to create a Boston Chocolate Adventure for me and my sons (as a belated Mother’s Day adventure together). I started the same way I did for my New York...
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, Shift Your Perspective, Travel (and Burning Man)
Rain poured through the tent, soaking everything at the edges, including the bottom of my sleeping bag. There was no air mattress for me that night, so I laid on the hard ground. And a nearby camp played their thumping music loud into the wee hours of the...
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, Tiny Living & Vintage Trailers
“What do you do for health insurance, now that you’re a nomad?” Health care is a hot topic question, no matter what your situation is these days. When I was in corporate, it was slightly easier, though the contribution costs kept going up. Launching my own...
Learn A Skill, Shift Your Perspective, Travel (and Burning Man)
Ever thought about what lights your fire? Mina Lebitz, a woman I met briefly last year at a weekend art/camping event called Figment Alpha, definitely has thought about what sparks her desires. When I met her last year, she was offering a workshop to create your own...
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, Learn A Skill, Tiny Living & Vintage Trailers
For many, including me, joining the Tiny Home movement is inspired by the desire to live the lifestyle of adventure combined with less financial commitments, less impact on the environment and more freedom to explore America. It’s been a long journey getting to...
Shift Your Perspective
Let’s just call this an adventure in the family you choose. How shifting your perception on how society says you’re supposed to behave, versus what feels right to you. When you marry, you choose a partner who becomes your family. Subsequently,...
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, Shift Your Perspective
“For all the times you reached out to help me, now that I’m better, I want to help you.” This is what my friend Karen told me about how she started volunteering with the NOCC (National Ovarian Cancer Coalition). Not all adventures are big, or dangerous, or even...
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, Learn A Skill, Shift Your Perspective
Why would you consider ‘follow your passion’ bad advice? After all, don’t all the gurus say that “if you do what you love, you never work a day in your life”? What if you don’t have a passion to follow? Or what if you have one, and by...
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, Learn A Skill
Recently I have been going through an adventure of selling my home. It’s been on the market for five long months, and when I received the original offer (that has now turned into a purchase intent), I…kind of freaked out. It was a low offer, and my ego...
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, Shift Your Perspective
Author Beth Liebling [Note from Stacey] [Note from Stacey: When I met Beth I was fascinated to learn she had once been a lawyer in Texas, and through her life’s adventures, is now running a successful “relationship/romance” boutique with a goal to...
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, Shift Your Perspective
What is a key element to make Adventure a fun part of your every day? Play! Kara and I first met at a Burning Man Global Leader conference in San Francisco. We were both hanging out in between seminars. I saw her name tag with her company name –...
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, Learn A Skill, Shift Your Perspective, Uncategorized
Without a doubt, I know that we can live much bigger and brighter than what we are accustomed to. Also, I know that our life experiences, when integrated and embraced within a bigger context, become the fertile soil for a garden of embodied delight. The garden that...
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, Shift Your Perspective
Get out of your (dis) comfort zone and into your erogenous zone...
Chocolate
Here’s a tasty adventure – pairing wine and chocolate. Did you know that tasting chocolates has been compared to the same art of tasting wines? You don’t have to be a wine or a chocolate sommelier to enjoy learning how to pair the two! The main...
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, Learn A Skill, Shift Your Perspective
Fluff me? Fluff yourself! (Warning, this is an adult topic!) Have you ever received the advice to “fluff” yourself? It’s along the lines of the maxim “If you want to love another person, you have to love yourself first.” The same can be said of truly good...
