Your weekly guide to thriving in every aspect of life—Physical, Mental, Spiritual, and Financial Wellness.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.” — Francis Bacon

We spend most of our days surrounded by noise. Conversation, alerts, the constant stream of background noise. But silence is where a lot of good things can be found.

I fill most of my days with music. Songs I love. Albums that mark certain seasons of my life. I’m always trying to craft a soundtrack that fits the moment. It’s something that brings me joy, but it’s also constant. Somewhere between the playlists, I realized how easy it is to lose the quiet that helps me think, feel, and reset.

Silence doesn’t come naturally anymore. You have to create it on purpose. We live in a world that’s built to fill every inch of space with notifications, reminders, and distractions. Why, there’s no profit in stillness, no revenue in the silence.

But maybe that’s exactly why we need more of it. Because in the quiet, we can actually hear ourselves again. We can see the big picture. We can see things a bit more clearly.

That’s what I’ve been trying to do this week…turn down the music.

Physical Wellness

There was a stretch of time in my life when running became more than exercise.
It became space I needed from a lot of things in life.

In the days and months after 9/11, and during other hard seasons that followed, running was the one place I that provided me a true place to think. I didn’t start with a plan. I wasn’t training for anything. I just needed somewhere to go. Somewhere I could take continuous steps forward. That hurt a bit, made me breathe a little heavier. Made me sweat.

Some mornings I’d run to just be outside. Other days, to remember and other days to process. But over time, I realized it wasn’t about running from something… it was about running with something. The ache, the loss, the questions, the gratitude. All of it came with me, mile after mile.

Running gave me back something I didn’t know I’d lost. Perspective. It was the one place that didn’t ask for anything except to move forward. No expectations. No explanations. No real place to be. Just the sound of my breath and the steady beat of my feet hitting the pavement.

That’s what physical wellness can be, a space to process life as it comes. A place to remember you’re alive. And we are fortunate for that.

We all need that space. It might not be running for you. Maybe it’s a walk in the sunshine.
Maybe it’s a swim, a stretch, or a few quiet minutes outside before the day starts.

Movement is medicine, but more than that, it’s permission. Permission to let your body move the way your mind wishes it could…with a complete freedom.

Mental Wellness

This one doesn’t exactly fit the theme…but it’s too good not to share.

According to musician Graham Nash, Jimi Hendrix loved playing the board game Risk, often while on LSD and was unbeatable. Nash said no one could out-strategize him, crediting Hendrix’s tactical mind to his time as a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne, the “Screaming Eagles.”

Now, I’m not suggesting that particular mix of activities, but it’s fascinating. Even in the chaos, Hendrix could see the board. He found focus and creativity in something that looked like disorder to everyone else.

That’s the part that fits. We all need an outlet:  a place to release, to create, to get lost in flow.
For some, it’s running. For others, painting, writing, building, or playing music loud enough to feel it in your chest.

Mental wellness isn’t about holding it all together. It’s about having a place, or a space, that helps you process the noise.

Music was Jimi’s life, and he was one of the best to ever do it. But even when our passion is our life; our work, our purpose, our career  we still need somewhere to let go.

So maybe that’s the reminder:
Find your outlet.
Find your release.
And maybe this weekend, turn on some Jimi and let yourself feel the music.

Financial Wellness

Money gives us choices, but only if we leave room for them.

In wealth management, we talk about allocation, diversification, and returns. But what we often overlook is margin, and not in the business sense, but the space between what we can afford and what we actually commit to.

Too often, that space disappears. We fill every financial inch with upgrades, obligations, and expectations, bigger homes, better schools, newer cars, fuller calendars. We get hit by lifestyle creep and before long the flexibility is gone.

We know it because we see it in life, but the data tells us the same thing. According to the APA’s 2024 Stress in America report, more than 60% of adults say money is a significant source of stress and that number barely changes with income. The reason…overcommitment.

You see it all the time: A family earning $80,000 and one earning $800,000 often feel the same anxiety. Not because their incomes are equal, but because both are fully allocated. Every dollar is spoken for. Every hour is packed. The space has disappeared.

And that’s the real source of financial stress: not the amount of money you have, but the absence of flexibility.

True financial wellness isn’t about maximizing return; it’s about protecting optionality. Room in your budget. Margin in your lifestyle. Capacity to say yes when it aligns, and no when it doesn’t.

That space is what turns wealth into freedom. It’s what allows your money to serve your life, not dictate it.

Because the wealthiest people aren’t the ones who have the most. They are the ones who have space to choose.

Spiritual Wellness

Silence makes most of us uncomfortable. But that’s usually where truth starts speaking.

We fill our days with noise, information, opinions, productivity, yet it’s the stillness between it all where we actually meet ourselves. That’s what spiritual wellness can be about: creating space for awareness, reflection, and gratitude.

It doesn’t have to look like meditation or prayer. It could be five quiet minutes in your car before walking inside. It could be standing outside at night, breathing in the cold air, remembering how small we really are and how incredible that is. It is why the time in the sauna or cold tub gives us more than just physical benefits.

We all need that kind of space. The kind that grounds us in something bigger than the next task. But to put this in bold big letters…IT IS HARD. If you’ve ever tried to sit quietly for even a few minutes, you know what I mean. The noise doesn’t disappear. It just jumps around. Your mind races. Your body fidgets. You want to fill the space.

Try it sometime. Sit with someone in silence. Take a walk together without talking. When they ask you something, wait 30 seconds before you respond. It’s weird. Awkward. Uncomfortable. And that’s exactly why it’s powerful.

Because what feels empty at first is actually full of awareness and insight. Silence is the doorway back to yourself. And the more we make space for it, the more meaning has room to grow.

And In The End

From all of us, thanks for reading. Keep showing up. Stay curious. And never forget that the clock is running, so make it count.

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Until next week — keep building your moments.

Here’s to Living Richly,
The Journey Team