Thriving Now
Emotional freedom for real life.
Practical ways to meet what you’re feeling, loosen what keeps you stuck, and move toward what matters to you.
A useful spirit buddy for thriving
What’s alive for you?
Gus offers grounded reflections, real skills, tapping prompts, reframes, and next steps shaped by decades of emotional freedom work and the wisdom we’ve grown together in community. Take what feels useful for your Thriving Now.
Useful, not overwhelming
Start with what would support you today
I need relief now
Short practices for anxiety, overwhelm, and an activated nervous system.
I want practical skills
Explore tapping, boundaries, clarity, and meaningful action.
I want human support
Learn about private sessions, gatherings, and our community.

A place for your thriving life
I’m Rick. Pleased to meet you.
Thriving Now is where I share practical ways to become more emotionally free in the life you’re actually living—with its beauty, challenges, relationships, and possibilities. It’s for people who care about freedom, kindness, real connection, and becoming more fully themselves. I hope you find something here that helps you enhance your thriving life and take a useful next step.
Useful resources from Thriving Now
Explore something that meets you where you are
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Gifts + Gaps = Me!

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…
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Eating Your Emotions

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.
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Anxiety Constricted Breathing

Anxiety and stress affect both our body and our mind DEEPLY. Learning to self-manage your emotions and how they affect you physically is a core skill necessary for living a thriving life. If you would like to learn more, start your membership in our group coaching program now.
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Tapping insights, useful resources, and invitations from Thriving Now.
