Relationships - Kayla MacArthur

October 3, 2023

A Gift in the Dark: Lessons on Self-Love & Personal Power

“What if you’re powerful, even when you’re not creating or expressing? What if your power is never ‘off’—there are simply times when it isn’t visible to the world?”* As I let these questions sink in, my entire body exhaled—a breath I didn’t know I was holding.These are the kind of questions that make your shoulders drop and your thoughts stop. The kind that shake up your world to the point where it will never be the same again. In the span of seconds, I was anchored in and buoyed by a new truth. The puzzle pieces of self-understanding rearranged and clicked into place. And I felt free. Throughout my journey...

April 13, 2021

Going On a Trip? Bring Conscious Relating to Travel with These 7 Questions

Relationships, Travel

✈️ Before embarking on each new adventure, my partner and I have a conscious conversation designed to deepen our experience of a trip. Conscious relating is something we’ve been practicing since we met. When we first came together as virtual strangers to live as roommates in Mexico, there were a lot of unknowns. What if our personalities and lifestyles were vastly different? What if our daily routines clashed? What if we got on each other’s nerves and there was conflict? The typical response for me—and, I would assert for many others—is to brush these questions under the rug, let the trip unfold, and then deal [or not deal] with whatever comes up. ...

December 18, 2020

Love in the Time of Corona: A COVID Love Story

Relationships, Manifestation, Travel

What happens when two virtual strangers move down to Mexico together during a worldwide pandemic? This is mine and Ryan’s COVID love story. ♡ “I’m sorry, but I don’t choose you as my person.” Ryan’s face fell from across the table. It was Saturday night—the night before we were separating while his family came to visit. After dating for a few weeks, Ryan was curious to know where my feelings were. From the start, he had been like a laser. He knew what he wanted. He knew I was who he wanted. I’ll never forget when he asked me out on our first date. He said, “you are everything I...

June 29, 2018

What I’ve Learned About Speaking Your Truth: The Light & The Dark

Relationships

One of the greatest acts of self-love is speaking your truth. When you’re driving yourself mad from bottling up how you feel, when you’re flat out avoiding how you feel, when you’d rather ignore someone important than share how you really feel, your truth goes unexpressed. While speaking your truth may be the scariest, most uncomfortable, most difficult thing you could ever do, speaking your truth will set you free. All of that energy you’re using to hide? It will release, redistribute, and realign to something better. I’ve learned this. Many times over the years, and especially over the past month. The thing about me is that I’m very intuitive....

June 24, 2017

What It Means to Love Your Darkness & Why Your Success Depends On It

Relationships

I’m inflexible and rigid.An emotional roller coaster.I talk way more than I listen to the ones closest to me.I forget things easily.I can be so focused on what’s going on in my head that I completely miss whole parts of a conversation with my partner.I don’t have sustainable energy.I’m typically late for anything that requires my physical presence. And you know what? I love all of it. I love all of me. But it hasn’t always been like this. There’s a monstrous epidemic in our culture where we have become obsessed with our personal shortcomings; with all of the things we don’t like about ourselves. There’s a lot of pressure,...

September 20, 2016

How to Use the Know Like Trust Factor to Succeed in Business

Business, Relationships

If you’re a business owner, I want you to think back to the first sale you ever made. I’m willing to bet that the sale was to a friend or family member, someone you built a solid relationship with, or someone who received a high recommendation for your services or product. What do all of these things have in common? Something called KLT or the Know Like Trust Factor. While I can’t claim this term as my own, I first discovered it when I dove into the world of marketing. It’s also something that comes so naturally to me, that I didn’t even realize how I masterful I was at...

August 2, 2016

Turn Your Biggest Flaw Into Your Greatest Gift

Relationships, Human Design

Do you remember that annoying girl in high school who would preach about the dangers of underage drinking and drugging? Or the partner who put you up on a pedestal and only chose to see the very best within you, even if you didn’t feel as awesome as s/he made you out to be? Yup. That was me. What was once my biggest flaw is now my greatest gift—the ability to see and cultivate the highest potential in those around me. While this is a beautiful gift to have, I didn’t understand how to best utilize it when I was younger. Having this gift made my life feel dark and...

May 17, 2016

Is the Universe Testing You? How to Become Unfuckwithable When a Curveball Comes Your Way

Business, Relationships

In life, there will always be curveballs.There will always be obstacles.There will always be people who doubt you and try to tear you down. The tricky part of living your truth and pursuing your purpose is that there will always be tests along the way. If the path were easy, everyone would be doing it. If there will always be tests, it’s not so much the tests you need to focus on, but rather, how you cope with them. So how do you cope with them? You need to become unfuckwithable. To be unfuckwithable is to be so rooted in your truth and purpose that nothing anyone says about how you...