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Grit & The Grace

The REAL Change Grit and Grace celebrates transformative change, designed to support individuals navigating life’s complex challenges with clarity, resilience, and purpose.

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The Shadow Side of Light
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The Shadow Side of Light
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Spirituality can be a source of deep healing—but when misused, it can also cause harm. This blog explores the subtle yet powerful dynamic of spiritual narcissism—where ego hides behind enlightenment. It’s a call for awareness, integrity, and accountability in modern spiritual spaces. Let’s move beyond performance into a practice rooted in humility, compassion, and real inner work.

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Ethical Persuasion vs. Propaganda
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Ethical Persuasion vs. Propaganda
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In coaching and wellness, persuasion is powerful—but can easily slip into propaganda. Ethical persuasion informs and empowers; propaganda manipulates. As belief systems go viral, especially at the intersection of wellness and politics, it's vital to lead with integrity, nuance, and critical thinking. Let’s keep it REAL—in practice and in truth.

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Instagram’s Worst Con Artist
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Instagram’s Worst Con Artist
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Belle Gibson faked brain cancer and built a wellness empire on lies, promoting alternative healing while people abandoned real treatment. The Search for Instagram’s Worst Con Artist exposes how wellness culture and new age conspiracies exploit fear, mistrust, and hope—selling false cures and blaming the sick. It's a cautionary tale of deception, harm, and the cost of false hope.

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Interviews

Aleka’s interviews highlight her expertise in integrating authenticity and strategic insight into her work, demonstrating how she empowers individuals and businesses to achieve their true potential and stand out in their fields.

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Just Being Seen On The Inside
Just Being Seen On The Inside

Want to know more about parts work? I am honored to be featured on Shauna VanBogart’s amazing podcast, ‘Just being’. Together we dive into the transformative and often intimidating world of our inner parts and how to navigate the terrain.

How To Really Love Yourself
How To Really Love Yourself

Self – Love is such a buzz word in the self help world, but how do we actually DO it? In this video we go deep into the REAL nuts and bolts to loving yourself.

What’s my purpose?
What’s my purpose?

“What’s my purpose?” It’s a question I get asked ALL the time. It is an important question to contemplate on a path of living an inspired life. In this video we define just what purpose is and how to connect with yours.

Astrology

New Moons and Full Moons and everything in between.

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Taurus New Moon 4/27/25
Taurus New Moon 4/27/25

As we close out a fiery, chaotic season, this Taurus New Moon invites us to pause, breathe, and return to what is real. With Mars and Pluto squaring this lunation, we’re called to confront deep tensions — but Taurus offers a steadying balm. Not as escape, but as remembrance. A return to stillness, to truth, to the small, grounding moments that hold us steady in the storm. This is a soul-level audit — of values, actions, and alignment. When the old landscape no longer fits, we don't wait for the snow to return — we change the sled.

Libra Full Moon 4/12/25
Libra Full Moon 4/12/25

A Full Moon transmission for truth-seekers, fire-starters, and beauty-lovers. This Libra lunation brings clarity, disruption, and transformation. It's about sacred anger, graceful fire, and the new wings you didn’t know you were growing. A call to pause, breathe, and rise with intention. To make good trouble, speak the truth, and honor the power of the in-between. Let this moonlight show you what’s real.

Aries New Moon Solar Eclipse 3/29/25
Aries New Moon Solar Eclipse 3/29/25

On March 29, a powerful New Moon partial solar eclipse in Aries marks a turning point of radical endings and bold beginnings. With the North Node in Pisces and Neptune entering Aries, this cosmic moment urges truth, surrender, and transformation. Illusions dissolve, revelations rise, and clarity becomes a revolutionary act. We are being called to release the past, face reality, and awaken to a new era rooted in discernment, action, and truth.