Riza Rasco shares how she left a successful DuPont career to find deeper meaning through travel, spirituality, and community service.

Discover Serenbe, the walkable, nature-connected neighborhood outside Atlanta prioritizing health, sustainability, and meaningful relationships created by Steven Nygren.

Explore Srikumar Rao's journey from skeptic to spiritual guide, teaching timeless wisdom to help driven professionals transform their lives and businesses.

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Salome Raheim shares her journey of merging spirituality with social work, empowering change, and helping others awaken to their power and divine connection.

While playing in the backyard of her Ohio home, sunlight streaming through a crabapple tree, then 3-year-old Rachel Taber-Hamilton realized she was part of creation. “I recognized that just as creation is generous and Creator is generous, we are of…

In his early 20s, Machiel Klerk was renting a house in Amsterdam with several friends when he found one of his roommates’ unread copies of a Carl Jung book. The discovery couldn’t have come at a better time. “I was in the pit of meaninglessness,”…

If you ask Mario E. Martinez, Psy.D., his age, he won’t give it to you—but not because he’s embarrassed by it or offended that you asked. “One of the premises I work with is to never tell your age,” says Martinez, a clinical neuropsychologist and…

Growing up in Modesto, California, in the 1970s and 1980s, Ellis Jones, Ph.D., seemed to be on a path to becoming either a mathematician or a computer programmer. While other kids were winning sports trophies, Jones was winning math awards. But…

Catzian Maris spent their early years struggling with self-esteem and gender identity. As a teenager, they say writing helped make their thoughts and feelings “more tangible and understandable.” At 26, Maris—who is transgender and nonbinary (not…

In the aftermath of last week’s horrible derecho, which the national media virtually ignored, Iowa didn’t deserve this: “Iowa helped foist Trump on us... I guess God’s Wrath is really a thing.” “Heard but don’t care.” “You get what you sow.” And as…

By writing her story of abuse, actor Reema Zaman transforms rage into compassion Reema Zaman’s path to compassion wasn’t through faith or religion. It was through trauma. Born in Bangladesh and raised in Thailand, Zaman was just 11 when a cousin who…

I’ve always been a person who makes New Year’s resolutions. I’ve also always been a person who rarely keeps them. For 2019, I’ve decided not to make New Year’s resolutions. Well, not exactly. Instead, I plan to just do life differently. On Oct. 1, my…

To a 16-year-old junior in high school, living in the suburbs of Sacramento, California, surfing represented ultimate freedom. With this passion in mind along with a desire to leave his troubles behind, Jaimal Yogis purchased a cheap, one-way ticket…

When "Space Jam," starring Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny, came out in 1996, my then M.J.-obsessed son had just turned 7 and my daughter was nearly 5. We loved that movie — so much so that I bought the soundtrack. I used to crank up the music,…

In 2012, Grim opened Atomic Salon in North Liberty, Iowa. She moved the business to the New Bo district of Cedar Rapids in 2016, in the Salon Lofts on 12th, 420 12th Ave. SE, No. 3-01. Everything she buys, uses and sells — from hair products to the…

More than five years ago, Nikki Grim went vegan for health reasons. After a lot of research, her commitment to veganism expanded to include all aspects of her life, including her Eastern Iowa hair salon. “My passion for veganism and animals has…

For years, Tobin and Mollie Krell dreamed of building an organization centered around food, restoration and giving back to the community. Their vision became a reality in 2016 when they incorporated Homestead 1839 in West Burlington, Iowa, on land…

I adore author Abigail Thomas—as a writer, teacher and as a human being. So when she put out the word via Facebook that her nephew was reading from his new book in my neck of the North Carolina woods, I told her I would be there. I went to the…