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Thresholds: An Invitation to 2026
As 2025 comes to a close, many people begin talking about New Year’s resolutions. Yet before you rush to name goals or commitments, I invite you to consider something deeper. As we look toward 2026, we are collectively approaching a threshold—one of the most significant metaphors for transformation in our lives. What Is a Threshold? Thresholds are seasons of crossing from one reality into another. They often usher us into liminal spaces—those in-between places where what has been is already...
Leveraging Your Lens for Integrated Health
How you see yourself, how you want to be seen, and how you choose to see others shapes whole-person well-being. Have you ever walked away from a conversation frustrated—not by the words exchanged, but by how you were perceived? Maybe you felt unseen, misunderstood, or interpreted through a lens that didn’t match who you truly are. Or perhaps you’ve had the opposite experience: realizing later that you viewed someone else through a lens colored by stress, fatigue, or past hurt. These moments...
8 Steps to Navigating the Holidays through an Integrated Health Lens
Leaning into the Four Pillars At She. Fully Alive , we understand that the holidays can stir up a complex blend of joy, pain, celebration, anxiety, and nostalgia. By tending to the four pillars of integrated health—mental, physical, social, and spiritual well-being—you invite balance into a season that can so easily tip into overwhelm. The eight steps below support an integrated approach to navigating everyday life, but they are especially powerful when engaging in emotionally charged...
Laughing Toward Wholeness: The Science-Backed Benefits of Laughter Yoga Across the Lifespan
Why intentional laughter may be one of the most surprising whole-person health practices of 2025 What if one of the most powerful wellness practices available to us today required no equipment, no special clothing, and no prior experience—just the willingness to laugh? It sounds almost too simple, yet laughter yoga, a playful and intentional mind-body practice, has been gaining significant scientific attention. In 2025 alone, multiple peer-reviewed research studies highlighted its benefits...
Labor is Love Made Visible
There are moments in life when transformation feels less like a gentle unfolding and more like labor — raw, intense, and holy. Valerie Kaur, in her powerful memoir See No Stranger , likens the work of revolutionary love to childbirth: a labor that requires us to push, push, breathe . She writes that every great transition — personal, social, spiritual — is a kind of birth. Something new is trying to be born through us, but first, something old must stretch, ache, and sometimes even break. At...
Self Awareness as a Bridge to Restorative Practice
Ever been overwhelmed, overbooked, and under-resourced? (Asking for a friend.) There are seasons in life when that reality feels especially loud—etched in memory like both a scar and a lesson. One of those seasons for me was when my two oldest—now in their 30s—were just five and two. I was a former Air Force enlisted on a journey toward my next vocation, working nights, finishing my undergraduate degree (back when everything was in person), and serving in our Wednesday night children’s...
Pilgrimage as a Metaphor for Life
In 2023, I set out on a solo endeavor; a 500-mile pilgrimage from St. Jean Pied de Port, France, to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Thirty-two days. One backpack. Countless lessons. People often ask what the Camino de Santiago taught me. The truth is, it didn’t teach me something new—it revealed what was already there. Pilgrimage has a way of stripping life down to its essence. Each day asks: What will you carry? What can you release? Who are you becoming on the journey? Over time, I...
Why Spiritual Health Matters: Nourishing the Soul to Live Fully Alive
In our fast-moving, hyper-connected world, spiritual health is often overlooked. But if we want to live not just productively—but meaningfully —we must turn inward. Because true well-being doesn’t come from doing more. It comes from being more present, more grounded, and more aligned with what truly matters. What is Spiritual Health? Spiritual health is not limited to religion. It’s the inner landscape of your life—your sense of connection, purpose, and meaning to something greater than...
