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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(June 9, 2025) Ever notice how you start future-mapping to calm your nerves… and end up more anxious than when you began? You’re not alone! Join us for a playful, real-talk exploration of why our brilliant minds try to control everything — and how empathy, Buddhist wisdom, and EFT tapping can help us step out of the anxious loop and land back in the delicious now: Future Mapping for the Overthinker’s Soul.
Yes My Circus... But NOT My Monkey is super useful for empaths seeking to be more differentiated from others and far less pulled away from our thriving by the moods, attitudes, and demands of less regulated people in our world
Do One Small Act... and watch your world become much more thriving now and onwards.
Also available: Weird is the New Wonderful and Scapegoat No More workshops — a potent experiences in freedom!
Grace in Mistakes helps you explore and thrive with more confidence, TRY smaller... for breaking through resistance and Unwinding Shock for clearing out "surprises" you can't seem to get past. All are Savvy for Thriving Now... and Onwards.
Watch now: Co-Creating with AI and read below the replay how different AI's extracted key points from the (AI-generated) transcript. Useful Real Skills for Building Your Thriving Life.
Of course, don't forget Kindness in Action: Inner Strength, Thriving Connections ...and Thriving Anyway.
Also supportive for your unrushed actions is Slow Down to Go Fast. This will help you do work that matters without excess urgency or pressure, especially going into the mad-rush-intentions of the new year.
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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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…
...Do you compare yourself to others? Who doesn’t! We’re conditioned by glossy magazines, advertising, fashion models, sports, and high pressure workplaces to compare ourselves to others… and to figure out where we stand on the Ladder of Status. The trap comes when our tribal brain sees someone who is better at something we value than we are.
...Just for a moment… could you let yourself Be?People are focused on Doing. And with all the pressure to do the right thing, feel the right thing, think the right thing… it’s easy to lose ourselves. People become “shoulds” and “musts,” trying to meet the unvoiced expectations of those around them. We become actors in a play that …
Ever notice how changing small things can feel like a bother? Too much work for the reward? Silly example… Whenever I zoom, I put on a bit of makeup. I think the definition makes understanding emotions on video easier. For years I’ve had a scratchy brush to put on blush. Every time I notice the brush is …
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- Great way to offer helpI attended the group coaching call today and @RickThrivingNow helped me so much. I wanted to text him thanks, but imagined he would prefer that I share it here instead. When prepping to call a friend who just had a cancer diagnosis, Rick suggested asking the question, “What is something I could do that you […]
- Abundance - The Heartistry of Feeling BlessedSo Much… and Still, Not Feeling It So much abundance. It’s everywhere—overflowing around me. My six-year-old car would be a magical carriage to kings and queens of old. And yet, I get in, turn the key, and don’t often Feel The Magic. Do I let myself feel how abundant life is? Eh. That does not […]
- Thorns & JoysComing Sun Jun 22 2025 at 5pm EDT / 2pm PDT 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic
- Future Mapping for the Overthinker’s SoulReal Skills Workshop - Community Event Future Mapping for the Overthinker’s Soul Real Skills Workshop: Be Calm and Confident Hosts: Rick Wilkes (@Rick) and Cathy Vartuli (@Cathy) Recorded Sun Jun 8 2025 Replay is below Get your Circle Membership Here Or… Donate $$ to support this community initiative – We so appreciate your generosity! Thanks! […]
- Summer of Self-KindnessI’m planning to do a practice called “Summer of Self-Kindness” - if anyone else wants to join in, I would welcome some company & co-creation. My sacred decision is to go to my imaginary “self-kindness temple” daily and ask for help. Plus I will be reading some books on healing trauma, radical self-compassion & joy. […]
- Cloudy with a Chance of ListeningIt’s rainy and gray. My emotions feel a little wet, too. It’s early — 7 a.m. — and I’ve already had my first cup of coffee. And even though I know it’s not wise to compare, not really, I find myself doing it anyway. Comparing myself to the “sunny people.” The ones waking up to […]
- Strength without the StrainPush it! Push it! Push it! That chant still echoes in my bones, not just from the gym, but from the inside out. I remember watching a bodybuilder once — the weight trembling above him, his muscles bulging and giving out, the spotters swooping in to catch the bar just in time. “Train to failure,” […]
- Yes My Circus, But NOT My MonkeyReal Skills Workshop - Community Event Yes My Circus, But NOT My Monkey Real Skills Workshop: Better Boundaries Hosts: Rick Wilkes (@Rick) and Cathy Vartuli (@Cathy) Recorded Sun May 25 2025 Replay is below Get your Circle Membership Here Or… Donate $$ to support this community initiative – We so appreciate your generosity! Thanks! Is […]
- Free to Be... Thriving Now1 post - 1 participant Read full topic
- Do I Even Know How to Tell a Story?I said this morning, out loud, “I don’t know how to tell a story.” And part of me really believes that… and it evokes a tinge of insecurity. Which is strange, because I have told so many — bedtime stories, spontaneous ones for my kids, little improv moments in conversation. Like the dinosaur that got […]
- I Don’t Have to Bleed to Prove I CareHow could they see that and not get outraged? How could they see that and not feel so sad? I used to think that if I didn’t react — if I didn’t get upset, didn’t worry myself sick — it would mean I didn’t care (enough)… that I was cold… indifferent… unmoved by the suffering […]
- No Way! Really?!?No Way! Really? I told him what life is like now. My Younger Me blinked. “No way. Really? You mean like… all of our dreams come true?” It caught me off guard—not because he was wrong, but because he was so right. He wasn’t naming the surface dreams. He was speaking of the ones that […]
- Kindred Over Crowd“This isn’t going to make a difference. Why bother?” That thought shows up sometimes. Maybe you’ve had it too. When we look at what we do—or even who we are—and it feels like we’re staring at a closed door… it can be suffocating. You can press your nose right up to it, but it’s not […]
- How Was Your Day?“How was your day?” “Good. Well, actually… not.” That’s my daughter. And that’s me. She told me about an ouch she had. I get it—because I do the same. I know how the brain works. It stores painful experiences first—makes sense, right? If you stumble down the stairs, your brain wants that pain to remind […]
- Thriving Anyway: Frames in the ForestLook at all the destruction. All the trees down. There are certain trails around Asheville I’ve walked so many times on my Morning Miles, I’ve come to know their energy. But after Helene — the devastation, and the survival energy that still pervades our region — the trails just aren’t the same. The landscape has […]
- It's Really Just Me... Isn't It?It's Really Just Me... Isn't It My company — Thriving Now — might as well be called Me, Myself & I, Incorporated. I file the taxes. I choose the direction. I decide whether to launch something… or scrap it. There’s no board. No boss. No partner. And for a moment, that might sound idyllic. Freeing, […]
- About the Stories for Thriving categoryStories — real or imagined — that move through the mess and magic of being human, revealing how the concepts for thriving come alive in felt, practical, and surprising ways. 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic
- Version 1.0 of Useful Concepts - Mar 2025Started Summer 2021, yesterday March 31, 2025 marked the “Version 1.0” milestone for Useful Concepts for Thriving (course link). You are welcome to download and use these files with your AI of choice to explore how Useful Concepts for Thriving can support your life and your work that matters. Useful Concepts for Thriving v1.0 (HTML) […]
- ResponsiveResponsive Responsive is the practice of creating intentional space between what happens and how we choose to meet it. It’s a powerful pause—a breath—that lets us shift out of knee-jerk reactions and into choices rooted in what really matters to us. Where reactivity narrows our view and limits our options, being responsive opens us up. […]
- UnrushedUnrushed Unrushed is a conscious, dynamic state of being where we move at our natural rhythm, actively freeing ourselves from external pressures or internal urgency. Unlike the frantic pace of “doing more faster,” it’s a felt sense of embodied presence where actions flow from awareness and inspiration rather than a driven need to accomplish tasks […]