Life is uncertain: Eat dessert. Plan a trip.

We COULD innumerate all the reasons why 2024 was rough and 2025 is scary, or we could ‘eat dessert first’ and plan a trip.

(Shrugs shoulders emoji)

This week’s post is all about INDULGENCE. Why? Because life is hard and couldn’t we all use something to look forward to?

I’ve got two massive feasts of joy to share with you.

The first is a recipe for an:
almond-butter-chocolate-chip-cookie skillet.

(I’m just… gonna leave that right there while you read that again.)

YES.
Today you will learn how to make a gluten-free, refined-sugar-free cookie in a skillet. It’s so good for you, it might as well be kale. The full video + recipe are available to paid subscribers and friends, lemme tell you, with the amount of JOY that this recipe will bring you and/or your loved ones this holiday season, I promise it is worth upgrading for five bucks.

And second is that, YOU GUYS…
I’m finally ready to share with you the 2025 plan for RETREATS!!!

Do you wanna go somewhere amazing and explore and adventure and get-off-screens and move and breathe and journal and hike and snorkel and play and laugh and fire pit sing and star gaze and remember that life is for living - with me? Can we PLEASE go have the best time together?

These trips are created in the same way that I personally want to travel.

I want to practice in the morning in order to get my body awake, alive, and electric. I want to place my attention in some delicious inquiry that is pulled from a combination of philosophy and poetry. And then I want to leave all memory of zoom-meetings behind and venture OUT into the land that I’m on - whether that be through hiking, equine therapy, snorkeling, cooking classes, or cute-ass-picturesque-town-wandering.

And this is what I am thrilled to share with you.

If you’re a paid subscriber, you’ll be able to register right now. Registration for all will open Monday night when I share this information more broadly.

AND SO… here are all goodly details:

The Spanish word MILAGRO doesn’t just translate to "miracle," it is to awaken the extraordinary. We’ve gone numb to the divine within and all around us. These 5-days on MEA’s sacred grounds in Santa Fe, New Mexico, will re-sensitize us to the profound magic of spirit. In the mornings: meditation, movement & dharma, YUM. In the afternoons: hiking the arroyo, equine therapy, ceremonial breathwork. YES!

We’ll leave behind screens to immerse ourselves in heart magnetism. Led by yours truly and my main man, Kevin Courtney, let’s re-connect to what matters most.

The Greek word MYTHOS translates to "our larger story." Good-NESS, don’t we all have some unhelpful myths about ourselves that are outdated and straight up FICTION.

We’ll use our time in stunning Antiparos to explore the narratives that have shaped our sense of self and take wise cues from the ancient ones. Let’s re-inspire, re-write, and become larger than the strategic mind thought possible. We’ll move, we’ll breathe, we’ll hike, we’ll snorkel, we’ll feast. Let’s venture.

OLIVA is an invitation to learn from the centuries-old olive groves of the Andalusian countryside. The olive tree and its oil are seen as mediators between the earthly and the divine.

Together we’ll remove all that distracts in order to listen from a different place, to hear a different source. How? We’ll get in and on the land. Hiking through sunlit orchards and walking through charming pueblos blancos… it’s time to replenish your spirit, harvest what’s taken shape, & plant seeds for what’s to come.

Let’s VENTURE, together.

Scroll down to book AND for the one, the only… COOKIE in a SKILLET RECIPE.