Natasha Olaniyan, author of How to Meditate with Inky Pathways, is a therapeutic artist and life coach. With a lifelong interest in the mind, body, and spirit, she supports the well-being of others by combining a wide variety of natural healing methods and spiritual practices with art. Listen in as we chat about making creativity accessible, choosing creativity as a form of self-care, slowing down to hear your intuition, and more!

Seeking a little extra support on your self-love journey? Wanting to infuse your morning or evening routine with extra gratitude and inspiration? Each of these book recommendations have personally helped me to grow, feel creative, and inspired – and I hope they resonate with you, too!

Feel like you could use a little extra support on your self-love journey? Wanting to infuse your morning routine with a little extra gratitude? I hope these 15 writing prompts about self-love help you to dive deeper into yourself. Be sure to subscribe to The Good Space Daily to receive inspiring writing prompts straight to your inbox each week!

Good design goes beyond pretty aesthetics – it’s also about how your space makes you feel. Our guest this week, Taylor Bowling, is the Founder of and creative interior designer behind Home Taylored. Taylor shares the importance of a clean space for our mental health, how to meaningfully and intentionally refresh your home, and the power of manifesting.

Did you know your breath directly relates to your quality of life? Powerful thought. Our guest this week, Emily Spang, is the Founder of Haarbor, which creates a space for people to find connection within themselves and outside of themselves through group breathwork and meditation sessions. Emily shares her journey to find breathwork and its powerful ability to transform our relationship with our intention, body and community. She encourages us to focus on our breath, lead life with more feminine energy, and, most importantly, start from within.

When it comes to self-care, we often overcomplicate things, thinking we have to make huge changes. Our guest this week, Danika Brysha, Wellness Entrepreneur, Body Positive Fashion Model signed with IMG Models, and a Self-Care + Lifestyle Design Coach, is the perfect person to explain why self-care starts small. She shares how her own journey led to the creation of a self-care checklist and why we should take things one day at a time. Danika encourages us to look inside ourselves and start asking important questions because we already have the answers inside us.

In our culture, we develop negative beliefs around self-care and focusing on ourselves. Things like self-care is selfish, taking time for self-care is lazy. But our guest this week, Katie McDonald, creator of b.nourished, had to learn the hard way that taking care of yourself is the only way you can take care of anyone, or anything else. Through illness, burnout, and a deep desperation, Katie came to the hard truth of why recalibrating and healing your own relationship with yourself is really the key to your happiness, your success, etc. She reminds us that we do have permission. “Self Care is not indulgence. Self neglect is selfish.”

Hot girl summer. Waxed and vaxxed. The welcome back to society memes are in full force 😂 Yet for some, it can feel like a shock being social again. Or that there’s pressure to over socialize. If that's you then listen to read this post or listen to this episode on coping with social anxiety post-Covid. As much as we needed to transition to life in isolation there’s also a transition time needed for getting back into the fast-paced world. You do you!