Journal

Learn more about the MRA: who we are, what we stand for, and the journey that brought us here.

Read real experiences and deeply-held values that shape everything we do. When you understand where something comes from, you see it differently, and can better sense if it resonates with you.

Michelle Theriault Michelle Theriault

The Responsibility of Delight

It’s not all serious. Finding the joy and delight are sometimes the most important searches. Of course, it isn’t wise to avoid or neglect what is heavy or hard. But it isn’t responsible to neglect that which brings you child-like wonder.

What a disservice it is to only see what needs to be fixed or healed and never spend time in play. The dark and the light are both important. The meaningful and the frivolous can both be healing.

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Michelle Theriault Michelle Theriault

🌙 The Real Origins of Freedom & Power

Nothing feels better than living in the shape of your true self.
To know yourself completely — every desire inside, seen and allowed to exist.
Nothing hidden. Nothing shamed.
What else are freedom and power if not that —
to stand in the light of your own essence
and call it all worthy?

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Rodrigo Vargas Rodrigo Vargas

🌿 The Art of Humaning Together

It is no simple thing, living in this world with others.
It is a constant paradox — a lifelong practice in tension and tenderness.

From one angle, we are all part of one living, breathing, connected web — threads woven so tightly we can’t help but belong to each other. From another angle, we are shockingly our own. No one else can carry the exact frequency we carry. No one else can stand at the doorway of our truth but us.

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Rodrigo Vargas Rodrigo Vargas

The Work of Returning

In every moment we are inside of something. A theme, a truth, a grief, a beauty — pressing on the soft walls of the heart, the quiet corners of the mind, the hidden chambers of the body. Usually all three, if we’re willing to listen that closely.

The real work is never somewhere far away. It’s not stashed behind tomorrow’s plans or the someday when you’ve finally earned your rest. It lives here, in the pulse of right now. In the question that never leaves: What is really here? What do I really feel?

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Taryn Watts Taryn Watts

Become an Architect of the Impossible

Maybe no one ever showed you it was possible. Maybe the path you’re walking now doesn’t have a blueprint.
Maybe you’ve spent a lifetime being told to lower your voice, shrink your dreams, stay within the lines.

And yet— something inside you refused to disappear.

A spark. A knowing. A vision that doesn’t make sense to anyone else, but won’t let you go.

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Taryn Watts Taryn Watts

The Quiet Power of Integrity

There is a strength most people overlook—not because it hides, but because it hums beneath the surface. It isn’t loud. It doesn’t announce itself. But if you’re still enough, you can feel it.

It’s the grounded presence of someone who is deeply anchored within. Who doesn’t need to prove or perform. Who radiates a calm knowing—a quiet steadiness—that says: I know who I am.

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Taryn Watts Taryn Watts

Visioning: Become the Bridge, Not the Gap

There’s a paradox in holding a vision.

On one hand, you feel the pull toward something more. A future shaped by your deepest truths, your boldest longings. You see it. You sense it. You know it’s possible.

And yet—

You are here, now.

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Rodrigo Vargas Rodrigo Vargas

What Is My Unique Genius?

What is my unique genius?

What a tender question that is.
It asks you to risk something—to go out on the limb of believing there is, in fact, something exceptional about you.

That there is something so exquisitely yours that others could only try and fail to imitate it.

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Rodrigo Vargas Rodrigo Vargas

The New Blueprints

A brand new world is being created.
Right here. Right now.

So many of the old blueprints are disintegrating right before our eyes.
The brick walls that held up entire generations are crumbling.
The well-worn paths that once seemed so clear now lead to dead ends, or bristle with hurdles that no longer make sense.

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Rodrigo Vargas Rodrigo Vargas

The Art of Coaching

Coaching is not advice-giving. It’s not fixing. It’s not leading someone to your answer.

Coaching is presence.

It’s the sacred craft of holding space while another person meets themselves more honestly. It’s asking a question that lands like a tuning fork in the soul. It’s witnessing—not rescuing. Guiding—not directing.

At its highest expression, coaching is artistry.

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Taryn Watts Taryn Watts

​​All That Must be Accounted For

They say business can be a portal for spiritual growth—
probably because it lives at the intersection between your wildest dreams
and all that must be accounted for.
But vocation in all forms holds this same paradox.
Whether you have birthed your own company or work within one,
this path asks you to reconcile your soul’s call
with the reality of being a human in this world.

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Rodrigo Vargas Rodrigo Vargas

Life Force Energy

What is the most precious and finite resource on the face of the earth?
Your life-force energy.

Where you choose to spend it
shapes your happiness,
your peace,
your deep and quiet satisfaction in this life.

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Rodrigo Vargas Rodrigo Vargas

The Work that Deserves You

The questions of: What is my purpose?
What is my work in this world?
How am I meant to serve?
These are such important questions.
But they can also be painfully tender ones.

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Rodrigo Vargas Rodrigo Vargas

The Most Vital Skill of Our Time

Cultivating the capacity to be with yourself is quite possibly the most powerful skill of the modern day.

The most glorious triumphs no longer come from climbing the mountains of the world.
They come from learning how to wade—honestly, gently, courageously—into the deep waters of the self.

That is where the real discoveries lie.
Not in the trophies, not in the metrics.
But in the subtle stirrings.
The sharp truths.
The quiet knowings that rise when all the noise fades.

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Rodrigo Vargas Rodrigo Vargas

The Trap of Becoming

There’s a trap that often awaits those walking the path of the deeply examined life.
It’s sneaky—
even when you know it’s there,
you can still slip into it.

Without wild self-acceptance,
it’s easy to fall into the loop
of endlessly trying to be better—
and in doing so, deny the parts of yourself
that most need to be reclaimed.

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