Hello, I’m Mia.

I did what I was supposed to do - finished college, was in a long-term relationship, had a vibrant social circle, but I was grasping for threads.

I didn't know who I was, what I wanted, what was good for me, or why I was struggling to enjoy the life I had built.

Life felt heavy and misfitting, and I didn’t like who I was becoming, but I had it in my head that I just needed to make it work.

This notion that I had to “just make it work” became “unhappiness management.”

And “unhappiness management”, alcohol and drugs are a perfect match. I knew I was in too deep, deeper than I was willing to admit.

I knew I needed to change - I wanted to change.‍ ‍

I wanted to change who I was, how I felt, how I looked at life, but

I didn’t know how.‍ ‍

So what did I do?

I first took up meditation and became vegan.

(Insert kindly laugh here)

Shocker - it didn’t solve anything. I realized my life needed renovating, not feng shui.

The unhappy truth was that I was holding on to a life I couldn’t keep living.

I took a deep breath and decided to let it all go.

I was terrified. I thought I was crazy. But I did it - I began the journey of starting over.

Over the course of just a few short years, my social circle dissolved and regrew, I changed jobs, moved to a different state, studied Eastern, Western, and Latin American spiritual modalities, fell deeper into addiction (more than once) and pulled myself out, got married, started a family, and found my calling in creating art with the written word, collage, and, well - we’ll see what else comes in the future. :)

What did I learn?

Letting go is the most uncomplicated yet complicated thing to learn and practice…

Trust is a verb…

And true happiness meets you when you start following what lights you up.

S.D.G