Embracing our gifts can be HARD. Often times we have been picked on about them, ridiculed, or told not to be so “full of ourselves.” Yet our gifts are core to who we are! Some we were born into. Others we’ve had to work to cultivate. In this workshop…
...Welcome to Thriving Now!
What's Alive for You ?
Explore what feels tender, tangled, or stuck. Rick’s emotionally attuned AI offers insightful questions, EFT Tapping, and practical possibilities — freely offered, so you can take what feels useful for your Thriving Now... and Onwards.
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(January 5, 2026) Onwards into 2026! Workshops this month: Improvising and Uncertainty on the 11th (register here) and Redefining Your Identity in the Age of AI on the 25th. We hope you'll join us!
Right now you can watch Gratitude Science Experiments, Tolerating Joy and then Being Present... Now. Also Yearning's Edge and Intentional Co-Thriving.
Freedom Kin! If you'd like to explore freedom and Thriving Now... and Onwards... visit Rick's new AI digital mind here. Click the three dots, choose sign up, and enter your email address, confirm, and you're set for engaging in hopefully useful dialogue to support your thriving.
We build real skill when we can say, “Yes, there’s a thorn… and there’s also a bloom.” Each time a prickly moment shows up, invite yourself to notice one spark of goodness that is also true right now. The simple act of including both instantly widens our life-force and helps us to be Thriving Now. It's why we did this workshop: Thorns & Joys
Do One Small Act... and watch your world become much more thriving now and onwards.
Learn with Co-Creating with AI and read below the session how different AI's extracted key points from the (AI-generated) transcript. Useful Real Skills for Building Your Thriving Life.
How do you see yourself? And the world you want to live in? It's empowering when we Reframe to Thrive - Building Emotional Agility for Life-Changing Work and the workshop is available now for replay.
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All previous Real Skills Workshops can be found in the community center — a fantastic resource and space for those who want to be Thriving.
Check out the freshened Learn EFT Tapping Course. You're welcome to use it as our gift... and donations are greatly appreciated.
We have self-paced coaching and tapping courses for many aspects of healing and thriving for you to explore.
Questions or requests? Please email me at support@thrivingnow.com.
Rick ~ Thriving Now
Your Emotional Freedom Coach
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Getting our connection needs met is more challenging than ever! Many of us are trying to meet our connection needs virtually… Which is great for flattening the curve of the Coronavirus… AND…How do you get the most nutrition out of your virtual connections? (Free Workshop Session)
...In times of high stress and changing concerns do you need to recalibrate your threat sensors?And how do you do that?It can be so challenging to deal with the sense of threat… and the stress that comes with it. And when the situation is changing day-to-day, with new information, what do you do? (Free coaching and tapping session)
...Do you find yourself eating when you didn’t mean to? Eating things you didn’t intend to? What if you learned to cover-up and bury emotions with food? In this free video workshop, we use Tapping to release the compulsive need for food to comfort, stuff down, and bury when we feel powerful emotions… and more.
...Have you ever caught yourself in that moment of comparison, feeling that twinge of “I’ll never be able to do that”? I want to share how this very human experience can transform how you view these moments.The Primitive vs. Thriving MindOur brain’s primitive comparison system served us well for survival. It quickly assesses: “Am I …
Guilt and Shame are so present around money that some people say they don’t have any blocks there… they’s be delighted to be a millionaire! It’s only after digging a bit deeper that they find hidden layers…
...Is PAIN getting in your way? Whether it's emotional distress, physical pain, fear & anxiety, worry, past trauma, active disease, stress, overwhelm... or a painful combination! Get Relief Now
Thriving Now – Community Center – Latest topics
- Redefining Your Identity in the Age of AIComing Sun Jan 25 2026 at 5pm EST / 2pm PST 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic
- Improvising and UncertaintyReal Skills Workshop - Community Event Improvising and Uncertainty Real Skills Workshop: Energy Savvy Hosts: Rick Wilkes (@Rick) and Cathy Vartuli (@Cathy) Sun Jan 11 2026 at 5pm EST / 2pm PST (90 mins with a 7 min break) We hope you’ll join us, and bring a guest! Click Here to Register You are welcome […]
- Gratitude Science ExperimentsReal Skills Workshop - Community Event Gratitude Science Experiments Real Skills Workshop: Energy Savvy Hosts: Rick Wilkes (@Rick) and Cathy Vartuli (@Cathy) Recorded: Sun Dec 14 2025 Replay is below Get your Circle Membership Here Or… Donate $$ to support this community initiative – We so appreciate your generosity! Thanks! 6 posts - 1 participant […]
- Courage is RelationalReal Skills Workshop - Community Event Courage is Relational Real Skills Workshop: Savvy Relating & Engaging Hosts: Rick Wilkes (@Rick) and Cathy Vartuli (@Cathy) Recorded Tue Nov 11 2025 Replay is below Get your Circle Membership Here Or… Donate $$ to support this community initiative – We so appreciate your generosity! Thanks! 5 posts - […]
- The Ecosystem of ChangeUnderstanding that change and growth comes in an ecosystem of energy, resources, and skills helps explain emotional reactions and “sabotage” behavior. Vision for me is about aspirations that matter to me. Skills include technology skills and emotional skills. Incentives? WHY does it matter to you? How will it serve your thriving as well as the […]
- Shame as a Fire BlanketShame as a Fire Blanket They dropped the blanket, the fire hushed. Suppression is useful. Therefore, shame is useful. I saw a demo: an electric car catches fire; firefighters whip out a huge blanket, cover the car, and the flames go quiet. But don’t pull it off too soon! Leave it, and what would have […]
- Stillpoints of ContentmentStillpoints of Contentment I was taught in school that the opposite of discontent is contentment. But energetically they’re not “opposites.” If I’m discontented with my life, there’s an energy of resistance. I don’t accept what is, and I push away any feelings of contentment that are actually here right now. Discontentment keeps us in a […]
- Presence in MotionPresence in Motion I remember vividly the experience of dancing with a professional dancer. You’d think that someone who made a living performing would project a lot of energy outward, toward the audience and those in the space. That was not my experience of her at all. She was so present in the dance, in […]
- Recalling the Simple UpliftsRecalling the Simple Uplifts If we want to remember the simple uplifts, we can either let that happen by default, by accident, or we can take some positive steps to remember them. Listening to a lecture in college, I realized how little of it stuck with me. I needed to take notes. The act of […]
- A Night So DeepFrom Steve De’lano Garcia: “There is a hush that falls over the soul when it meets someone who has walked through a night so deep that the stars had to be remembered from within. I have learned that unless a person has endured the cracking of their own certainty, the undoing of their own masks, […]
- Asking, Sacred Decisions, and the Tender NoAsking, Sacred Decisions, and the Tender No What are you asking for?!? Nothing is more annoying than being pestered. Can I have this? Why can’t I have that? I want it now. But why? I want it. I want it. I want it! As a parent being pestered for something that isn’t a yes for […]
- AI and the Art of Co-Creating PossibilitiesAI and the Art of Co-Creating Possibilities I do not have the skills to paint a portrait or capture the beauty of the landscapes I walk. I don’t even dream of doing that. But I create art every day now—with words. I look at my daughter, who is almost five years old, painting with watercolors. […]
- Thriving Now… and OnwardsThriving Now… and Onwards Thriving Now came about through deep reflection on what I wanted to craft in my life. I can remember sitting down with colored pens and writing words. Sitting in the sun. Seeing the horses graze out in the field. Appreciating how much I enjoy solitude and also that thriving for me […]
- Survive > Save > ServeFor me, Work That Matters includes all three. Yes, survival. Even if it is 10% of our “need to work” (paid by others or tending to what we have), it’s there. Save - for the Freedom Kin having a Freedom Fund that has a beneficial trend expands options and choices. (I personally love that we […]
- Pleasing to My Heart, Freedom for My KinPleasing to My Heart, Freedom for My Kin We already have so much stuff that pleases the masses. Music, movies, sports. What we don’t have is your heartistry expressed in a way that reflects your essential nature — what matters to you, what is pleasing to you. I say that not knowing you and yet […]
- Money, Wisdom, and 4 Stancesinnerwilds.blog Money & Wisdom: 4 Stances Dana, Charity, Stewardship, & Generosity I loved so much of what he shares here, especially the section on Stewardship: Stewardship This feels like an important stance to me: when something or someone crosses our path, comes into our care, enters our hearts, steps into our lives — if we […]
- Living in the Not Yet ZoneLiving in the Not Yet Zone The Not Yet Zone is one of the hardest states of reality for me to cope with. When something is actually a “not yet,” even if I were given it as a gift, I wouldn’t be deeply and completely a YES! Even if it was a house or a […]
- I'll Do It Myself… Is Not How We Thrive TogetherI’ll Do It Myself… Is Not How We Thrive Together “I’ll do it myself!” Both my young daughter and my elderly mother tell me that. They tell the world that. They say it in a very similar way. A part of me smiles that that kind of drive for independence got us as humans to […]
- It's Not Personal. It's What's Happening…It’s Not Personal. It’s What’s Happening… You probably take it personally. I know I do. If energy is directed at something I’m doing, and that energy is one of repulsion or judgment, astonishment, or… “I really wish you weren’t doing that!” …I probably take it personally. But here’s the thing. If someone else who doesn’t […]
- Tone, Tension, and the Sweet SpotTone, Tension, and the Sweet Spot Let’s talk about tone and tension. Do something that you do almost every day. For me, that’s emptying the dishwasher. Usually by the time I’m emptying the dishwasher in the morning, I’m also making breakfast. I’m also getting lunches ready for the family. There’s a lot going on. As […]