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Cultivate a balanced life with guidance from Pursuit of Balance lifestyle coaches. Explore self-care, mindfulness, and goal-setting strategies.

Pivoting with Purpose

Pivoting to a new path can be scary, but it's often needed to keep the dream alive, ensuring the journey stays exciting and fulfilling.

Kendra Goheen

Sep 5, 2024

Ground Yourself - Forget The Shoes

At times, we all have experienced feeling ungrounded. Maybe you feel disconnected or out of touch with yourself and/or others. It may...

Rachael Walston

Mar 20, 2024

Nurturing Self-Love in Young Hearts

Self-Love is such an important practice, yet can be so challenging. I’m frequently reminded of the simple, but essential phrases such as...

Rachael Walston

Feb 1, 2024

Being Your Best Self = Your Child’s Best Self

Our children hold the energy of the household inside their tiny bodies. They may not be able to verbalize how they are feeling all the...

Kendra Goheen

Jan 5, 2024

How to Prepare Both Yourself and Your Garden for Winter

With the changing of the season comes the time to prepare your garden and yourself for the winter. In doing so, you are setting both your...

Heather Balent

Dec 6, 2023

Asheville's Tranquility: A Catalyst for Gratitude and Restoration

The never-ending cycle of busyness and stress often seems to push us in life's relentless current. It is crucial to actively seek moments...

Kendra Goheen

Nov 17, 2023

Fall Into Self-Care

Self-care can be fun to explore, figure out what it means to you, and to notice how this can change over the seasons. There are several...

Heather Balent

Nov 7, 2023

Living in the Moment: Lessons from a Sand Sculpture

Last October 2022, I was visiting a friend who lives in Kailua, Oahu. As I walked the beach, I came upon this amazing Sand Sculpture. As...

Jennifer Sanders

Oct 23, 2023

How to Say ‘No’ Without Saying ‘No’

Take a minute and follow my directions… “Don’t look at your computer. Don’t touch your face. No moving your body.” Ok now follow these...

Rachael Walston

Oct 1, 2023

Your Focus Matters

Being a grandparent gives me an opportunity to practice Present Moment Focused Awareness. Be here right now. Life happens in a flash. In...

Kendra Goheen

Sep 1, 2023

Gratitude & Living Life Symbolically

In the Pursuit of Balance Program, we learn about Symbology and living a symbolic life. To live a symbolic life, we have to slow down...

Jennifer Sanders

Aug 2, 2023

Align with Astrology

Do you follow the astrology seasons and moon phases? I love using astrology as a partner for my journaling each month. Every season and...

Heather Balent

Jul 18, 2023

What Is Enough

It's summertime and school is out! This means two things typically for children, freedom and the lack thereof! I am a parent to three...

Kendra Goheen

Jun 29, 2023

Limited Choices

Many parents wonder how we can get children to “listen” and do what we expect them to do. Children need boundaries and expectations, but...

Rachael Walston

Jun 15, 2023

The Sweet Relief of Laying Down my Boxing Gloves

There are moments, slivers in time, when I shake my fists at the God I believe in and rage against the injustice befalling me or this...

Dede Armstrong

Mar 23, 2023

Practicing Gratitude When Life is Hard

Practicing gratitude is one of my favorite ways to transcend negative emotions. We find it easy to practice gratitude when life is going...

Heather Balent

Jan 25, 2023

Word of The Year: Resilient

2023 is already off to a hot start, many successes but also many failures are on the road ahead. We can try as best we can to be prepared...

Jacob Anderson

Jan 5, 2023