48 Hours in Denver with Team Vivi

I got a snowy welcome to Denver! And in true Denver fashion we arrived on 4/20… which was pretty interesting. It’s a day of celebration for a certain herbal industry and while I couldn’t really see anything out of the ordinary you can definitely smell something stirring.  My trip to the west coast was stirred up …

Two Questions to Change Your Mind on 2021

Erin Brewer In my 2020 reflections – I shared that before anything else changes with Covid or our lives as we know it – we should grab a journal and answer these two questions:  What was core to my happiness in 2020? Yes, even during a pandemic. Where have there been opportunities and blessings that weren’t …

A Funeral and a Wedding – What I Learned from 2020

Erin Brewer On the last day of the year, I may have scrolled through the 32,000 *yes, that number is ridiculous* photos on my iPhone to post a memorable one from each month of the year. Instagram sucked me in once again. Between my posts and my friends – I found that 2020 was especially …

New Year’s Options as Nudges for 2021

Well, it’s here. 2021. It doesn’t feel much different. I’m currently sitting in a hotel room, masks are required in the lobbies, and the amenities are limited. Yet, something about this new year is especially hopeful – a longing for drastic change, for normalcy, for spark and innovation. I hope these will help inspire you …

Small Gift Saturday: Freedom in the New Identity

My hands move so fast I don’t even realize what they are doing- building ice castles that melt into puddles, scavenging for materials to hide the shame, enslaving themselves to endless work. The idealistic outcomes and lies drive me forward, a little girl chasing the wind like a fool. I escape under the covers, hoping …

Small Gift Saturday: 75 Things I Was (and Still Am) Thankful For

Flipping through my old journal, I found an extensive list of people, experiences, organizations, and aspects of my life that I was grateful for in 2013. 75 small gifts. As I re-read these glimpses into my life from 7 years ago, I was once again reminded of how thankful I am that these 75 things …

Cool Cats : Paige Heard

It’s hard to believe that there was once no space for the very thing that makes me full. It didn’t exist between Greek Goddesses, they only had vices. The 11th century exemplars were David and Jonathan, and Shakespeare had the audacity to show females as friends- but only as a social critique on Elizabethan England, …

5 Ways to Grow Your Faith

“True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God’s fidelity to His promises.” -Francis Chan I am a firm believer that everyone should always be growing in something; for me, it’s my faith. While I also try to be intentional about growing in other areas, my faith is by far the …

Cool Cats : Spencer Hunt

A 5 year old dreams. At 5 I aspired to be the oversized-sweater, big-smile-at-the-lake, 1999 version of Britney Spears. You dreamt of being an artisan apple dumpling maker and a firefighting paleontologist. 5 year olds are blind socialites, figuring out people and testing boundaries. They have wild visions of jungles and pirate ships. They have …