Vacations are wonderful opportunities to get away, see new places, experience new things, and relax. Sometimes though, when family is added to the mix, feeling rejuvenated and refreshed seems almost impossible, even on the most beautiful of beaches. Join us this week as we discuss our own experiences on family vacations. We'll share what has worked for us to keep the peace, and what hasn't worked at all. Tune in and take notes for your next trip. There is a balance and there is an Art of Zen for Family Vacations.

The dictionary defines courage as the ability to do something that you know is difficult or dangerous or mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty. While we agree with this definition, we also feel that there's so much more to courage. It can take courage to do the things that we're all uncertain about whether or not they may be difficult or dangerous. Yes, it takes mental and moral strength to venture into the unknown, but it also takes strength of heart, and trust in ourselves and the Universe. Courage can show up in many ways. And in any one of those ways, our choosing courage, no matter how big, or small, is worth celebrating. Join us this week as we discuss the value that courage brings forward for us. And we'll discuss ways in which we can all cultivate our own courage right now. We look forward to you joining us!

Acceptance can sometimes get a bad rap. It's easy to think that if we move into acceptance of a situation too quickly or too easily that we are essentially giving up, or not fighting for what we want. brbr But is that really true? brbr This week, we will challenge that idea and share our own experience of acceptance. We'll discuss the times that we were in acceptance as well as the times that we were not and what kind of feedback we received. brbr We'll discuss how it's possible to both be in acceptance and also work towards change. brbr Join us and discover how our true power doesn't lie in our ability to fight but in our ability to accept.

Finding our voice and fully expressing ourselves from an authentic and open place can often seem like a scary or difficult thing. Yet once we allow ourselves to open our hearts and share what is within, we find that it may not actually have been as scary as we led ourselves to believe. Join us this week as we discuss the power of self expression and the very important role of creativity in our lives. We are also welcoming a very special guest, Helen Bradley, a Certified Expressive Art Facilitator, Professional Creativity Coach, and our dear friend. She will share with us her experience of developing her own self-expressive muscle as well as tips for your own development. We look forward to having you with us!

The New Year is a magical time of rebirth and new beginnings. Join us this week as we discuss ways to empower your New Year's resolutions and expand them into New Year's Intentions. brbr Intentions are an incredible source of power that each and every one of us can harness and direct towards what it is that we want to create in our lives and how we wish to show up. brbr We'll discuss the power of positive intention, sharing times that we had clear intentions and times we may not have been as clear, and what came from them. brbr We'll talk about creative and supportive ways to claim your power and set your intentions through such things as Ideal Scenes, Affirmations, and Vision Boards to name a few. brbr Join us and begin cultivating the 2015 of your dreams!

Are you dreading your family holiday get-together? Are you prepping yourself for how to react to those spectacular back-handed compliments? Do you really wish your celebration could be more of a celebration this year? Just in time for the holidays! Join us this week as we share effective and powerful, non-defensive communication skills, and ways in which you can show up in a more loving place with your family, even if they choose not to. We will be joined by an incredible mother daughter team, Sharon Strand Ellison and Ami Atkinson Combs. Sharon is the author of “Taking the War Out of Our Words: The Art of Powerful Non-Defensive Communication.” Together, Sharon and Ami co-produced an audio book called, Taking Power Struggle Out of Parenting. Remember, you can have the holiday gathering that you want!

Join us on Tuesday, December 16, at 5 p.m. PDT, and hear our experience of the twelve gifts and how they show up every day. What 12 gifts, you ask? brbr Charlene Costanzo, author of The Twelve Gifts of Birth, joins us this week to share with us about her book and the additional books in the The Twelve Gifts Collection. brbr The Twelve Gifts is a beautiful simple story, written for Charlene's daughters, that expresses the twelve gifts that all children are given at birth and keep with them throughout their lives. That's right! You've got them, too! brbr Hear Charlene answer our questions about the inspiration for her books, her intention behind the series, and what she hopes that her readers can take away from her writings.

With both the deepest of relationships as well as the most difficult of relationships, there are often things we feel that we may not be able to share. brbr Join us this week as we talk about a topic very dear to our hearts. brbr We'll speak about many different variations of this subject. What did Elizabeth wish she shared with her mother before she passed? What do Danielle and Melissa wish to express today? What kindnesses have we found difficult to share with one another? What concerns do we often have trouble with raising? brbr What is it that may be stopping us from sharing fully? And how can we step out of our negative thoughts and into the trust of our loving relationships?

Join us this week as we discuss a topic that can often be challenging for mothers and daughters: Claiming your Own Power. We will be joined this week by two guests, Mother and Daughter, Aurora Juliana Ariel, PhD and Mariah Brown. Both are very successful accomplished women who were each finalists for Hawaii Business Woman of the Year. Mariah was the winner in the for-profit category. With our guests, we will discuss the intricacies of the mother daughter relationship and what can come forward when one or both is very successful. We'll ask a number of questions and provide our responses to questions such as: How do you as a daughter claim your own power when you have a very successful mother? What advice do you have for successful mothers raising daughters who are less successful in the working world? And vice versa? What did you find helpful in your experience of coming into your own and out of the shadow of your mother? We hope you join us for this very exciting topic!

This week we celebrate the magic of Gratitude. brbr We'll share experiences that brought forward our gratitude for each other and the relationship that we have. You'll hear our stories, our learnings, and the ways of communicating that we continue to appreciate in one another. brbr We'll also share a few simple tips which can support you in cultivating more gratitude in your life right now. brbr Join us and share in the beauty of giving thanks!

The path towards communicating clearly and from the heart is not always straight and narrow. Often times along the way, we can stumble and even fall. These miscommunications or non-communications can happen. It's perfectly natural for us to find ourselves falling back into old patterns or allowing our own judgments to rise to the surface. So what do we do when we are really trying to communicate from our heart, but it just doesn't seem to come out that way? We want to share some of our own experiences with miscommunication-what was said, what was not said, and how we moved through them and back into our hearts. We hope you join us.

We had so much fun last week with so much to say that we only made it through half of our top ten of How to Create a Positive Shift Starting Today. brbr In this week's episode, we'll recap numbers 10-5 and share our thoughts on the rest, including revealing our number one. And, as promised, we'll introduce our honorable mention. brbr Join us and continue your journey towards your ideal relationship today!

Do you feel like your relationship needs improvement? Does the idea of making a change seem impossible? Do you like lists? brbr We've put our heads together and compiled our top ten favorite and simple ways to create a positive shift that you can use starting right now! Join us and begin your journey towards your ideal relationship today!

One big lie that we tend to tell ourselves is that people can't change. And while it may be true that you can't change other people, the ultimate truth is that you can change yourself. And in changing yourself, growing into a greater acceptance and love for yourself, you automatically become more loving and accepting of those around you. You can have the relationship that you desire - with your mother, your daughter, you son, your dad, your friends. Join us and start your journey to your ideal relationship today!