On Creating Positive Habits (What’s Pain Got To Do With It?)
On Creating Positive Habits (What’s Pain Got To Do With It?) Here’s the thing about creating positive habits. As with pretty much everything else that counts, if you don’t get connected to why, very specifically, you want to change or create a certain habit, you’ll end up looking at lists of steps and recs that […]
Shadows Only Scare Us Because Someone Told Us That They Should
Rejection. It’s not a feeling with which I identify very often. I mean, make no mistake, I have BEEN rejected, plenty. And I used to get SO embarrassed by it. Ashamed of it. Like so much visible proof that I wasn’t IT enough. Pretty enough, entertaining enough, worthwhile enough, fun enough. And it […]
Deconstructing a Stumble Before it Becomes A Big Fall (In Praise of Knowing Yourself)
Deconstructing a Stumble Before it Becomes A Big Fall (In Praise of Knowing Yourself) I didn’t work out for 4 days last week. I didn’t dance, stretch, strength, bike or otherwise move my body in ways I know she likes to move. Why? Oh, the usual. Stress, time, consumed with other things. Great […]
Evolution of a Middle School Language Educator Turned Intuition-Driven Coach
Evolution of a Middle School Language Educator Turned Intuition-Driven Coach Hello, Sunshine. It’s Crecia Cipriano, of Thriveandbloom. Bringing you intuition-driven living for a positively thriving life. This is a special time in my personal and professional life, which makes it the perfect time to (re)-introduce myself and tell you a little bit more about what […]
Love, Heartbreak, Embarrassment and Shame (A Post I’d Rather Not Make)
That’s right. This is not the post I wanted to write for you today. I sat down with the intention of writing something about love, but thought I’d be focusing on self-love, on exploring ways into really feeling the self-love you seek to give, and offering some practices to make that easier. As I […]
How to Make Change by Thinking Like a Teacher (On Getting the Outcomes We Want)
I started this post about a month ago, just after the violence that erupted at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in August. At the time I was grappling with some personal struggles and I was able to find neither the words nor the will to finish it, unsure of how to tie all […]
A Supplication to the Divine through Evolving Self-Acceptance
A Supplication to the Divine through Evolving Self-Acceptance Getting a Little Free Flow Up in Here: Originally written in April 2017 for my newsletter members, lightly re-edited here going going going can be easier than staying still sometimes. it’s often when we stop + rest that all the tears + unmet fears catch up, […]
Sick of Questioning Your Own Self-Worth?
Sick of Questioning Your Own Self-Worth? What if we could take the question of worthiness off the table? No more not feeling worthy of x, y or z. No more inner battles around how worthy you feel, or don’t feel, or think you should feel, or thought you did feel. What if your own worthiness […]
Evolution of a willing vessel (Why you’re not lazy, or clueless, or careless, or selfish)
Evolution of a willing vessel (Why you’re not lazy, or clueless, or careless, or selfish) I – Noticing the dead places Have you ever pruned a plant before? You see the dead places and you clear them away, leaf by dead leaf, bloom by shriveled bloom. You pay attention. You go slowly. If you go […]
How Bulletproof Coffee® Helped me Uplevel (spoiler alert: I don’t drink it)
Bulletproof Coffee rocked my world today. It totally brought me to a new level of body-soul connection. Mind you, the last time I had it was many months ago, and then it was only not even a whole handful of times. Let me explain. I just watched this video from Authority Nutrition, a team of […]