by Stephanie Benedetto | Dec 18, 2025 | Personal Development
I’ve made a few radical shifts in the trajectory of my life. Leaving my loving marriage, successful business and life in New York was one. Moving to Portugal with no family or community connections was another. I didn’t have a “good reason” for making either of these...
by Stephanie Benedetto | Dec 17, 2025 | Personal Development
I’m fairly obsessed with pole dancing. My YouTube playlists are crammed with dance inspiration, calisthentics and stretching tutorials. I spend anywhere from 30 minutes to 3 hours a day moving my body in service to becoming a better dancer. Until recently, I was...
by Stephanie Benedetto | Dec 13, 2025 | Personal Development
The package arrived at sunrise. It touched down on my doorstep and leapt into my outstretched arms. Inside, I was sure, lived everything I’d ever longed for. Every hope, every answer, the golden calling that would give my life meaning. I peeled back the wrapping,...
by Stephanie Benedetto | Dec 11, 2025 | Personal Development
Take any group of savvy, transformation-loving folks who’ve… ✔️ read the books ✔️ taken the seminars ✔️ journalled till their fingers went numb ✔️ put in the hours on “personal development” and “spiritual growth”… Ask them, “What’s stopping you?” And you can bet...
by Stephanie Benedetto | Dec 6, 2025 | Personal Development
The magician casts a magnificent illusion: a world of light and shadow good and bad right and wrong self and other called reality. She completes the enchantment with a spell of forgetting. She dreams the world of her own making never knowing herself as the author of...
by Stephanie Benedetto | Dec 3, 2025 | Personal Development
“Denver dad fights off home invader attempting to get to his children’s bedroom: ‘Somebody’s in our house’” It’s a terrifying headline. The husband and wife were in bed. The kids sleeping down the hall. They heard footsteps on the stairs. A stranger was in the house....