by Stephanie Benedetto | Nov 17, 2025 | Personal Development
Welcome aboard this Steph DragonHeart Air flight. For your entertainment and awakening, please give your full attention to this email, even if you’re a frequent reader, as the frequency of this transmission may have changed since your last journey. The exit from this...
by Stephanie Benedetto | Nov 14, 2025 | Personal Development
The morning is tender with me. I am sensitive, shivering at the kiss of the cool autumn breeze, trembling with longing. For what? It slips in on music, as it often does, softening my soul, beckoning me to listen. Dramatic, strange, beautiful words spill over lyrical...
by Stephanie Benedetto | Nov 12, 2025 | Personal Development
When I moved to Portugal, it felt like I was starting over from scratch. It was a new country, a new language and a new timezone. I was moving in with someone after only a short time in a long-distance relationship. I had no family in Portugal and my comfortable...
by Stephanie Benedetto | Nov 10, 2025 | Personal Development
I’m in the back of an Uber on my way to my first time back in the pole dance studio in six weeks. Six agonizing weeks! My driver is a boisterous man with beautifully articulated Portuguese that would be easy for me to understand…if my Portuguese was better. We...
by Stephanie Benedetto | Nov 9, 2025 | Personal Development
A lot of things scare me. (Sometimes.) Walking along cliffs and rooftops with a long drop below. Speaking Portuguese to a local and freezing up when I can’t understand the reply. Swimming in the wild, open ocean where my feet can’t touch the bottom. And then there are...
by Stephanie Benedetto | Nov 7, 2025 | Personal Development
Someone on Reddit asked: “How do you figure out what to do with your life?” Oh, sweetheart. If I could, I’d reach through the screen and deliver a loving bitch slap — the kind the universe gives me when I’m lost in my own head. Because the truth is: you already know....
