Habits & Rituals - Kayla MacArthur

July 11, 2025

How One City Changed the Way I Lead

If you’ve been around long enough, you know I struggled big time with adjusting to life in San Miguel de Allende last year. I had been in Sayulita for so long, I didn’t know who I was outside of it. This year, coming back has felt like coming home—not just to a place, but to the version of me I had left behind. While I’m a firm believer that our power is sourced from within, there’s something to be said about the power our environment calls us into ✨ When I first stepped foot inside Casa Kiri Midoki last summer, I felt uncomfortable. I felt unworthy of inhabiting a space...

July 3, 2025

The Soul of Your Business Lives Here 🕯️

Business

There’s a question that’s been echoing in my soul ever since my Spanish teacher asked it last week: “¿A que te dedicas?” Where Americans ask: “What do you do?”Mexicans ask: “What are you dedicated to?” This kind of question doesn’t call you outward, it calls you inward—toward the foundation that your life and work are built upon; toward the rituals that shape your frequency. As a business owner who refuses to build success by burning out or betraying what’s true for you, your foundation and frequency aren’t optional—they’re essential. If we explored a new context for leadership in Rooted Visibility, this month we’re identifying the rituals that allow you to actually embody it. One of...

June 19, 2025

Stillness is the New Strategy 🌿

Business

I caught myself slipping into old ways this week. After listening to a Saturn in Aries masterclass, I felt inspired to overhaul my freebie and its email sequence. Soon enough, inspiration turned to urgency. And before I knew it, I was lost in my head [and ChatGPT], obsessing over every detail. 💭 What should I rename it?💭 What kind of messaging will resonate most deeply with my ideal client?💭 What kind of funnel will align with Aries energy? I went from expanded and excited to overwhelmed and overstimulated. The more I tried to “get it right,” the more I disconnected from what felt true and alive. This is how the...

October 29, 2022

The Call Back Home: A Return to What We’ve Lost

Travel

Feet sinking into sand. Sticky air. Heat kissing my face and arms. The sound of waves galloping to shore. Foamy fingers; bubbles popping.The call back home. Birds whistling. Palms rustling. Driftwood everywhere. The sharp scent of smoke. Salt and ash on my tongue. And the foul bowels of low tide. I am here, in my body, tasting every sense, one at a time. My phone is untouched in my backpack. There is no podcast playing. There is no book in my hands. It is just me and the ocean, her heartbeat thumping rhythmically with mine. As a collective, we are losing the experience of presence. The devices in our hands...

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 17, 2019

Create A New Reality With This Witchy New Years Ritual

Manifestation

So I have this witchy new years ritual 🔮 Every year on new year’s eve and day, I have experiences that will help me expand into, embody, and amplify the feelings and vibes I want to experience in the year ahead. For example, when ringing in 2017, my previous partner and I rented a hotel room that overlooked the city of Boston and booked a reservation at one of the finest steakhouses in the area. When we got back to our hotel room that night, we caught the last bit of fireworks over the Boston harbor. *Swoon* Talk about finery, luxury, and sweet surprise. That was the year I was...

March 16, 2017

Intuition: The Best Tool to Manifest More Success

Manifestation, Business

I was speaking with a client last week about her discomfort with the need to prove herself. For much of her career, she’s felt the drive to continuously learn and gain more knowledge so that she can appear as a true expert. While this isn’t necessarily a bad thing—I was curious about the motivation behind her drive to learn. What was it? As we dove deeper into the conversation, she told me a story about a fellow colleague who had avoided a serious and dangerous incident with one of his clients before it went sideways. I asked her how her colleague had caught the incident. Her answer was where the...

January 24, 2017

How to Manifest With the Moon

Manifestation

This year, I made a spiritual commitment to manifest with the moon. At her core, the moon represents feminine energy and the process of creation. Not only does she influence the ebb and flow of the tides, she influences the ebb and flow of our feelings and energy. She invites us to reflect and explore our inner world more deeply. When the moon is new in the sky, she is death—dark and hollow. I like to think of her as an empty container, waiting to be filled with light. The new moon asks us to plant seeds in the void. She asks us to set intentions and goals so that...

September 13, 2016

The Art of Receptivity: How to Do Less to Manifest More Success

Manifestation, Business

“Life is a dance between making it happen & letting it happen.“-Arianna Huffington The sun is bright. The sky is pale blue and cloudless. I’m tapping away at my laptop outside of a local Starbucks, completely grounded and filled to the brim with awe. If I look at my life, everything I’ve been dreaming of is taking physical form. I’m practicing the art of receptivity. I’ve risen my dreams from the ground, like Queen Elsa and her magnificent castle of ice. I feel the power in my finger tips. And I’m leaning into this power more than I ever have before without driving myself into the ground; without working myself...

June 8, 2016

6 Ways to Create Strong Connections

Business, Manifestation, Travel

If you’re ready to leap into the next level of your soul-led life and business, you need to take stock of what and who you’re surrounding yourself with. Is your environment conducive to the direction you want to go?Are your relationships supportive?Do you have access to people who are where you want to be? If you want to rise, you have to surround yourself with people who also want to rise, or have already risen. You need to create strong connections. Why? “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”– Jim Rohn Like Jim Rohn suggests, you become more like the people you associate...