MEDIA & ARTICLES
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.
Humans are wired to find patterns even when none exist. Our brains crave meaning, reward us with dopamine when we “connect the dots,” and prefer tidy stories over uncertainty. That’s why conspiracy theories feel so satisfying. Conspiracies simplify chaos, assign villains, and affirm belonging. But when we seek certainty over evidence, our detective minds turn into storytellers. Real wisdom lies not in rejecting patterns, but in questioning them by asking, “What else could be true?”
We humans spend much of life keeping uncertainty at bay through habits, biases, and identities that steady us. Yet, uncertainty is not just a threat, it’s also an opening. The brain’s prediction errors make us vigilant, but they also prime us for learning. By cultivating identity complexity, humility, and curiosity, we transform uncertainty from something to fear into an invitation to grow, connect, and imagine new possibilities.
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.
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.
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.
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?” 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.
This Full Moon in Leo is not subtle. With multiple planets gathered in Aquarius opposing the Moon, reality presses forward, demanding clarity, responsibility, and truth. Aquarius reveals what is real; Leo asks how that truth is meant to be lived. This is a moment of heart-centered reckoning, where anger becomes information, sovereignty becomes leadership, and creative fire must be guided by integrity rather than ego. What we illuminate now depends on how consciously we choose to carry the light.
Real change rarely arrives all at once. It announces itself as pressure, as potential, as a quiet sense that something wants to move even before we can name it. Astrology doesn’t predict outcomes; it offers a language for navigating terrain like this. As Neptune enters Aries, we move from dissolution into initiation, from feeling into action. Belief seeks expression. Meaning seeks form. The question is not what we believe, but what we do because of it—and whether our convictions are grounded in discernment, humility, and care.
It’s been a long year, and we are only fifteen days in. Justice, truth, freedom, power, and responsibility are no longer abstract ideas—they are pressing directly into our lives. But just because these themes are activated does not mean we will get them right. Fear and outrage narrow our thinking, making us vulnerable to false certainty and reactive solutions. Capricorn reminds us that wisdom is not urgency. It is steadiness. Discernment. The ability to feel deeply without being ruled by our feelings, and to carry responsibility without losing our humanity.