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Recent articles from Thriving Now.
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Real Skills for Real Life – What Matters More Now

As ideas become easier to bring alive—with help from new tools, AI, and one another—our real skills matter more than ever. Feeling what is real for us. Discerning what matters.
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Settling & Strengthening

What if settling didn’t mean shrinking or suppressing yourself? Explore how settling and strengthening together can restore support, choice, capacity, and aliveness when life shakes you.
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The Wanted and The Unwanted – Together Forever

Wanted and unwanted are woven through every real life. Practice meeting both without abandoning yourself—and keep savoring, protecting, adapting, and choosing what matters.
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Redefining Your Identity in the Age of AI

When AI changes what once proved our value, who are we now? Explore identity beyond speed, expertise, and output—without abandoning ethics, discernment, or what makes us human.
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Receiving What’s Good – Even When Life Is Complicated

You don’t have to wait for life to become simple before receiving what’s good. Practice letting support, beauty, and nourishment coexist honestly with grief, anger, and uncertainty.
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Improvising and Uncertainty

Uncertainty doesn’t have to leave you powerless. Build the capacity to prepare, stay present, pivot, and participate in what is actually happening—without pretending you control the choreography.
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Gary Craig – EFT Manual – Emofree.com

Gary Craig was the creator of EFT, Emotional Freedom Techniques. He died in Jan 2026. He released EFT to the public domain, and now experts around the world continue to move it forward.
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Gratitude Science Experiments

Skip performed positivity and make gratitude an honest experiment. Notice real goodness without denying pain, then discover what helps appreciation feel safe, embodied, and freely yours.
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Courage is Relational

Courage isn’t a polished solo performance. Discover how it arises through relationship—with your body, purpose, support, history, environment, and what matters enough right now.
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Warmth When It’s Dark & Cold Emotionally

Dark emotional weather is not proof that you failed. Explore practical ways to invite, make, receive, and share warmth—even before loneliness, shame, or soul shivers are solved.
