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 Goddess of Gratitude

Gratitude hasn’t come to me easily.
The feeling or the practice.

For me, real gratitude is an intense emotion.
It combines awe, wonder, love, humility, and a sense of magic.
It’s the positive emotion most likely to bring me to tears.
When it arrives, it is unmissable. Unmistakable. All-consuming.

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Taryn Watts Taryn Watts

Naked with Life

What would it feel like to live entirely unveiled?

To move through life with your heart wide open—unguarded, unedited, and utterly real?

To stop posturing. To stop performing. To let the truth of who you are rise, moment by moment, without apology.

To be naked with life is to surrender the need to impress. To peel back every mask until all that remains is soul.

It’s not about being exposed. It’s about being honest.

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Rodrigo Vargas Rodrigo Vargas

A Love the Body Remembers

There is a love that lives inside true listening.
A love the body remembers — a need older than words.

What could be more deeply human than the desire to be seen and heard? To be listened to with no agenda, no fixing, no judgment. To be met with presence so steady it feels like reverence. To be witnessed and not deemed in need of changing. To speak and have each word found valid and real.

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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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