by Stephanie Benedetto | Jun 7, 2021 | Awakened Thoughts, Personal Development
A dear friend of mine has the gift of Big Vision. Her vision is so compelling, inspiring and vast that she cannot see a clear path from here to there. The mundane tasks of today seem small and disconnected from her vision of the future, and sometimes she gets stuck....
by Stephanie Benedetto | Apr 10, 2021 | Personal Development
I recently had an inspiring conversation with Nico Olivieri and his Creatives and Changemakers Club in which we pondered: What is FREEDOM? Is it possible to create purely by doing what you want? As we contemplated what freedom might be, when we have it and when we...
by Stephanie Benedetto | Apr 5, 2021 | Personal Development
Whenever I find myself falling into the trap of thinking: Who am I to do this? I’m not an expert. I have no certifications. Surely there is someone better qualified and more highly skilled than me. I remember: Your experience can’t be wrong. In fact, your...
by Stephanie Benedetto | Mar 20, 2021 | Personal Development, Spirituality
I am a joyful being of light (dragon), but for much of my life was afraid to show it. Last week, I did the Come Home to Your Body Challenge in The Lasting Love Movement Facebook group hosted by Orit Krug in which we shared a video of ourselves dancing each day. It was...
by Stephanie Benedetto | Jan 22, 2021 | Personal Development
I destroyed my laptop almost one year ago today. It was before the official start of the pandemic or the social unrest of 2020, and my own personal disaster occurred in the form of a horchata drink spilled all over my keyboard. (This turned out to be a unexpectedly...
by Stephanie Benedetto | Jan 9, 2021 | Personal Development, Spiritual Business
I wrote 50,000 words of a novel in November. 50,000 WORDS! It was something I’d never done before, something I didn’t know I could do, and it was surprisingly simple. It took writing 1,700 words in about two hours of daily writing, give or take, using NaNoWriMo for...