A talk on how to find your way when everything feels stuck.

1. Your Happiness is in Another
Castle
5 Ways to Find your Way when Everything Seems Blocked

3. How you talk about yourself and what
you do is incredibly important.

4. In the past three years:
• Switched careers
• Had a baby
• Moved across the country
• Left my job for another
• Separated from my husband
• Became sober

5. I spent hours berating myself.

6. I felt stuck.

8. -Derek Siver
“When deciding whether to do something, if you feel anything less
than “Wow! That would be amazing! Absolutely! Hell yeah!” — then
say “no.”
When you say no to most things, you leave room in your life to really
throw yourself completely into that rare thing that makes you say
“HELL YEAH!”

9. Orient yourself towards the things that
make you say fuck yes.

11. –Johnny Appleseed
“Type a quote here.”

12. -Jerks
“But just three months ago the only
exercise you got was eating tacos and
watching Doctor Who.”

13. 1. Sobbing is Cardio
2. Have you ever had Cholula? I was surely sweating.

15. I figured the more I knew about something the
less scared I would be, and the better equipped
I would be to make the right choice when it
came to it.

16. You can’t control anyone’s
actions but your own.

22. I had a month to prepare and
say goodbye.

23. A few reasons why Austin was sad:
• No friends
• No family
• No roots or favorite places to eat or go out
• New parent to a 9 month old
• Yoga people weren’t my yoga people

24. A few reasons why Austin was rad:
• No winter
• Breakfast tacos and brisket
• Birkenstocks YEAR ‘ROUND
• New outdoor places to explore
• Yoga people became my yoga people

25. You are allowed to say no.

27. I was scared of being a single,
30-year-old mom.

28. Your friends are there for a reason.
Even if that reason is to eat shitty
food and watch TV.

29. “I appreciate you trying to help, but I
just need to vent right now. When I
need help, I will tell you.”

31. I felt like I was gaslighting
myself.

32. I’m not trying to stop drinking forever, I’m
just trying to stop drinking today.

34. Maybe you feel like you don’t know what to do
with all of your energy now, because you were
so used to using it all on that one thing that you
no longer have to do any more.

36. Revel in your humanity everyday, and
serve up gratitude for your mind, your
space and your beautiful self every
chance you get.
You’re amazing.