I’m not a financial advisor, but here’s what I can say for sure: financial health responds to integrity. If you are massively out of integrity around money, you’re going to see more financial problems, either now or down the road. So how do you have integrity with money? Give your life an honest look and make sure your words match your actions.

I am super self-conscious about being photographed, so there was more than a moment of hesitation. But I had so. much. fun. on this day with In Her Image. It is only after having done the shoot that I see something else--a more outward expression of who I am.

I don't really believe that we overcome fear, in the traditional sense. I believe that we can only ever be with it (and paradoxically, sometimes this means that you'll end up feeling less of it). But I know this: overcoming fear by being with the fear, gets easier with practice.

Leaving relationships when the going got tough was my default, my modus operandi. It wasn’t courage, though--it was my armor; my protection. One of the things I practice as much as possible is to BE my journey. In the midst of my fear, I’d temporarily forgotten that which I hold dear: to be present to my choices, moment to moment.