This means as a human being you need to be as curious as you can about your own experience, as honest as you can about your own understanding of what’s real for you. As it appears, our beautiful mind is not capable of not thinking.  Our mind is always occupied by thoughts, whether we want […]

A lot of us are at the age where we think we have a lot of life figured out, and we do but there is so much to learn, to do…to feel!  I have loved my many years of working with women as their trainer, life coach and friend. I have loved watching them transform […]

I have learned that pleasing everyone is a recipe for disaster and the farthest thing from being true to authentic you. I get that it’s not possible to please everyone, and yet it wasn’t (Let me be honest… isn’t)  an easy thing for me to actually learn how to apply in practice. I am a […]

I love a plan. I used to love mapping out my days, weeks and months in great detail. I loved being busy. To-do lists and project timelines were at the heart of every second of every minute of every hour of my life. To say I was a planner is an understatement…but is this what […]

Stay in my body: I will be the first to admit there were days years back I didn’t want to be a wife, a mom, to teach, run or move—these were the days that I was either uncomfortable in or disconnected from my body.  I was usually avoiding having a specific feeling.  Scratch that.  I […]

I’ve become more interested in how “truly living” offers such a tremendous opportunity to bump up against my deeper self in ways that aren’t always comfortable, but are often liberating. Teaching, living, breathing is not about being perfect…. It’s about being yourself.  Being true to yourself—and not doing it because everyone else thinks that you […]

Welcome to my first blog for Alchemiss design—I am so grateful you are here! I strongly believe that your home provides a canvas for us to create. The spaces in your home should be an extension of you! The end result being the best possible version of your taste and inspirations. It is in this […]