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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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Why We Love a Good Conspiracy Theory
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Why We Love a Good Conspiracy Theory
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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?”

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In the Gap
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In the Gap
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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.

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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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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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Scorpio Full Moon 5/1/26
Scorpio Full Moon 5/1/26

This Scorpio Full Moon invites a deeper kind of seeing. Not surface clarity, but the kind that reveals what has been hidden, avoided, or quietly shifting beneath the surface. It’s a moment of reckoning with what is real, within ourselves and in our relationships. where something can no longer continue as it has before.

This is not about rushing to fix or resolve. It is about staying with what has been revealed long enough for something more honest to take shape. Because what is surfacing now is not random. It is ready to be seen, felt, and ultimately integrated.

Transformation here is not about becoming someone new. It is about reclaiming what was once too much to hold and allowing that truth to guide what comes next

Aries New Moon 4/17/26
Aries New Moon 4/17/26

New Moons in Aries are often times of concentrated intensity. This New Moon in Aries is unusually concentrated with so many planets joining the Sun and Moon. Like a spear point, Aries energy comes both precise and with purpose. It wounds to assert, not to protect. It strikes to be seen, not to be effective. Explore what teachings Aries brings this New Moon and how it relates to the Sabian Symbol, A Large, Disappointed Audience.

Libra Full Moon 04/01/26
Libra Full Moon 04/01/26

Change, accountability, and uncertainty: These are just some of qualities that this Libra Full Moon is guiding us to explore. Uncertainty can sometimes lead us to support or find comfort in harmful systems of control. Libra shows us the path out of that cycle, moreover, the path through. Libra is not only about finding peace but finding peace within tumultuous times. A soap bubble, this full moons Sabian symbol, is reflective of this sentiment. Because like a bubble, to exist in tension without bursting, to balance chaos and control, that is the Libra way.