I was feeling pretty pitiful and overwhelmed at the end of October. So, when I took up the task to select a book for the first Rockstar Comeback virtual book club, gratitude bubbled up to the surface ...
Gratitude Makes You Happy, Successful & Attractive
And you thought gratitude was one of the mushy, hippy qualities that you could forego. Turns out, it might be the critical missing ingredient in your life…like cookies without chocolate chips. F...
The Ugly Truth About Resiliency
It’s all well and good to talk about climbing mountains and learning to play the guitar in creating resilient lifestyles, but the ugly truth is that resiliency is born out of pain. The hero is ...
Finding Purpose in the Pain
In the midst of the very worst moments, I knew that I could never look the other way again. There comes a time in your life when you confront a reality that is so unacceptable, it leaves a scar on you...
Flat Tires (and Becoming Fearless)
I looked in the rearview mirror and realized my 7-year-old’s hair was still sticking up in every direction and ran him back into the house to tame it before we took off on the 15-minute drive to...
Tour Stop: Two Week Adventure in Europe
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page” St. Augustine One of the more extravagant, but immediately obvious stops on my Rockstar Comeback list was a foreign ove...
The One Year Post Rock Bottom Post
On August 29th, I woke up at the crack of dawn on the beautiful island of Sardinia, Italy… and everything proceeded to go wrong. Perhaps anniversaries are more powerful than I expected. It’...
I got this. (The Power of the Radical Reframe)
Ever have one of those days where everything seems to go wrong and you really wish you hadn’t gotten out of bed? Good, we’re all still alive and on this roller coaster called life together...
Benefiting from Subliminal Rockstar Messages (Em’s Spotify Playlist)
I’m the type of person that always has music on in the background and I have a wide variety on my playlist, from pop to reggae to alternative to rap and more. Throughout long, project days and c...
How Learning Something New Can Save You
I’m 8 months into my comeback and it seems like I tack something new I want to learn onto my list every month. This year has become a renaissance…in so many disparate directions. At the mo...