Courtney Carver was an Ad Sales Director for a group of luxury magazines. She was in debt, she worked all the time and she was stressed out. Then, in 2006, she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and was forced to look at her life habits. She started by changing her diet and ended by quitting […]
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From Crystal Meth to Devoted Yogini: One Woman’s Story
Erin was a young and beautiful student at a university in Saskatchewan. She had a job, a boyfriend, best friends and a daily crystal meth habit. A blessing in disguise started to wean her off her chemical addictions and yoga teacher trainings put a final stop to all of it. Here is a bit of […]
Divorced Peacefully & Holidays with His Ex-Wife: The Man Who Said No to Divorce Status Quo
After 5 years of marriage, 32-year-old Scott* was not in love with his wife and wanted a divorce. To complicate matters he and his wife had a young son. In hopes of doing what was best for their son and themselves, they decided the divorce process and their lives thereafter would be free of the […]
Interview with Ryan Nicodemus of The Minimalists
At the age of 28 Ryan Nicodemus & Joshua Fields Millburn had what they always wanted — six figure jobs, oversized houses, high priced cars, closets of clothes. The only thing missing? Happiness. If ‘stuff’, they decided, was not helping them find happiness, perhaps not having ‘stuff’ was how they would find it. They decided […]
Urban Farming in Detroit? Yes, says Jeff Klein of Detroit Farm and Garden.
Jeff Klein moved to Detroit 15 years ago. He moved there for music. He quickly found himself immersed in Detroit’s agriculture and landscape scene. A decade and a half later he is a voice and leader within this community. In April, he will be opening Detroit’s first and only farm, garden and landscape supply facility […]
A Gay Woman on Giving Birth to Her Daughter, Her Parents Voting Against Her & ‘Staggering’ Discrimination
Lane knew her whole life she would be a mom. At 22 years old Lane divorced her husband. Six months later she came out. Nine years later she and her wife Melissa are raising their one and a half year old daughter. Here is a bit of her story. What were your general concerns of […]
