by Stephanie Benedetto | Mar 20, 2023 | Awakened Thoughts
My love is still sleeping when I slip out of bed to make him coffee. He prefers an Italian espresso made in the Bialetti moka pot that travels with him. The instructions are deceptively simple: Fill the bottom compartment up to the percolator with water, add grounds...
by Stephanie Benedetto | Aug 18, 2021 | Awakened Thoughts, Creativity, Personal Development
Last month’s Impromptu workshop experience with Rob Cook was brilliantly inspiring and amazing. It was also a disaster. Let me tell you about the disaster first. Because what’s more fun than a dramatic story with a silver lining? Rob came prepared (or so we thought)...
by Stephanie Benedetto | Jun 14, 2021 | Awakened Thoughts
I began my personal Surrender Experiment five years ago. I’d read Michael Singer’s book, The Surrender Experiment, in which he shares the journey of relinquishing all preferences and saying YES to everything life brings. He ends up creating a meditation retreat...
by Stephanie Benedetto | Jun 7, 2021 | Awakened Thoughts, Personal Development
A dear friend of mine has the gift of Big Vision. Her vision is so compelling, inspiring and vast that she cannot see a clear path from here to there. The mundane tasks of today seem small and disconnected from her vision of the future, and sometimes she gets stuck....
by Stephanie Benedetto | Dec 28, 2020 | Awakened Thoughts, Personal Development
“Don’t hold back the goods,” a voice whispers to me this morning. We wonder why our potential clients don’t see our value. We’ve been hiding it away. We’ve been told we are too much, too sensitive, tone it down. We learn to withhold the experience of ourselves in an...
by Stephanie Benedetto | Jul 4, 2020 | Awakened Thoughts, Marketing
Have you ever felt STUCK in your business? I get to play with hundreds of transformational coaches, therapists, experts and creative entrepreneurs in conversation and creation. Most of them come to me with some type of “stuckness.” Sometimes it’s the usual...
