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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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Let's Talk About Invisible Illness
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Let's Talk About Invisible Illness
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Invisible Illness Is Still Illness

Conditions like Long COVID, ME/CFS, and autoimmune diseases may not show on the outside—but they’re real, exhausting, and often isolating.

You don’t need to have all the answers. Just believe, listen, and lead with empathy.

It makes more difference than you know.

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The Space Between
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The Space Between
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Change is one of life’s only constants, and often one of its most disorienting. Whether we choose it or it chooses us, change throws us into a vulnerable space between identities, a raw and uncertain in-between. In this piece, we explore the human tendency to reach for spiritual bypassing—using spiritual language or practices to avoid discomfort and contrast it with the deeper, steadier work of real mindfulness. True healing doesn’t come from escaping the storm, but from walking through it with eyes open and heart intact. This is a call back to honest presence, embodied awareness, and the quiet power of staying with what’s real.

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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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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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Pisces Full Moon Lunar Eclipse 9/7/25
Pisces Full Moon Lunar Eclipse 9/7/25

Eclipses are cosmic resets, choice points that reveal what must shift. This Pisces lunar eclipse invites us into compassion, intuition, and empathy, yet warns us that Pisces can both heal and overwhelm. Pisces reminds us wisdom is only real when lived through service, humility, and compassion. Change is inevitable. Change has the potential to build us up or leave us stagnant and how we meet it determines whether it frees us or binds us.

Virgo New Moon 8/23/25
Virgo New Moon 8/23/25

Across cultures, belief shapes meaning, offering connection, hope, and awe. Yet, when ego overtakes the sacred, faith can harden into dogma and harm. The Virgo New Moon calls us to bring spirituality down to earth, aligning actions with values, separating truth from noise, and choosing service over self-interest. True Virgo service is humble, consistent, and practical, honoring the sacred through tangible care. Real spirituality isn’t performance, but living our highest ideals, one grounded choice at a time.

Aquarius Full Moon 8/9/25
Aquarius Full Moon 8/9/25

Aquarius doesn’t bring slow, steady shifts. It’s the lightning strike—sudden, electric, a flash of truth that divides life into “before” and “after.” With Pluto now in Aquarius, we’ve stepped into a twenty-year season of revelation. This isn’t personal or moral truth—it’s Technical Truth. Cause and effect. Action and consequence. Reality rising to crack denial and call us into evolution. Aquarian change asks us to meet uncertainty with courage and vision, to let new information transform us. Every choice sends a current into the future, shaping not just your story, but the story we’re writing together. What future will you choose to power?