What if the world around you — the people in your circle, the environments you spend time in, your subconscious mind, and the face in your bathroom mirror, - was constantly trying to show you something about yourself? In this episode, Marie explores five powerful ways that mirrors show up in our lives, and how we can use each one intentionally to elevate who we're becoming.

The Five Mirrors

1. New Environments as Mirrors Stepping into an unfamiliar room, city, or community shows you things about yourself that your regular environment can't — because your usual environment has you on autopilot. While our everyday life reflects the choices, ways of being and circumstances of the past, we can choose environments that mirror back possibility for the future instead.

2. Social Circles as a Mirror The people around you reflect back who you are — your beliefs, your habits, your ceiling. Choose to put yourself in circles that reflect back the possibility of the future you’re building, and reflect back your best qualities instead of your worst. Your circle is data.

3. Being a Mirror for Other Women There's a shadow that runs through how women relate to each other in our broader culture: comparison, competition, subtle diminishment. Marie talks about what that shadow looks like, why it persists, and how each of us can consciously become the antidote — the good medicine that calls out something better. When you show up authentically — fierce, honest and playful — you give other women permission to do the same. We have more power to reflect possibility back to each other than we often realize.

4. Your Subconscious Mind as a Mirror Your subconscious is constantly reflecting your deepest beliefs back to you through your results, your patterns, and what you keep creating in your life. Learn to prime your mind to mirror back the future, instead of the past.

5. The Literal Mirror Your actual reflection. How you relate to it, what you think when you see it, and how to use images of your younger self and the face you see when you look in the mirror to bring out the best in you.

You'll Love This Episode If...

• You've been thinking about the quality of your relationships and whether they're calling you up or keeping you comfortable
• You want to be a more powerful, positive presence in the lives of the women around you
• You're curious about what your own patterns and results might be trying to tell you
• You're ready to see yourself — all of yourself — more clearly

Ready to Experience This for Yourself?

The Moxie Mastermind is where women come together to do exactly what this episode is about — reflect the best in each other, tell the truth, and make their ideas real, one after another.

If you're ready to be in a room (or a retreat) with women who will mirror back your highest self and hold you to it, apply to the Moxie Mastermind and save your spot!

How to connect with Marie:

• On the Web | The Local Bloom
• Instagram: @the.bloom.coach
• All Things Marie on LinkTree

JOIN THE BLOOM ROOM!
We'll take all these ideas and apply them to our lives. Follow me on Instagram at @the.bloom.coach to learn more and snag a spot in my group coaching program!

In this episode, Marie shares a behind-the-scenes look at preparing for her very first Moxie Retreat in La Jolla — and a realization she had mid-workout that cracked open today's topic: we apply hedonistic adaptation to ourselves. We celebrate other people's wins, build gratitude practices for the world around us, and then completely skip ourselves. Marie explores what hedonistic adaptation is, how it shows up as constant gap-chasing, and why turning your gratitude practice inward is one of the most powerful (and most overlooked) things you can do for your health, your productivity, your presence, and your relationships.

What You'll Learn

• What hedonistic adaptation is and how it quietly shapes the way you see your own life
• Why your brain's negativity bias keeps you focused on the gap instead of the growth
• The health, creativity, and presence benefits of a gratitude practice aimed at yourself
• How recognizing your own work makes you more likely to keep doing it
• The ripple effect: how appreciating yourself trains your brain to appreciate the people around you
• A simple weekly practice for noticing where you've been taking your own awesomeness for granted

This Week's Assignment

Look at where you've been taking your own awesomeness for granted.

• Where have you been taking yourself for granted?
• Look back at yesterday, last week, and as many weeks before that as you can.
• What are you grateful for yourself about? What have you accomplished that you're proud of?
• Take a moment to recognize even the tiniest things.
• Notice the ripple it creates across your life and the lives of the people around you.

Memorable Quotes

"I take myself for granted. And I watch my clients do this day in and day out."

"That vision for what we are creating and who we are becoming is never a measuring stick."

"If I don't notice it for myself, it's gonna go unnoticed."

"As we train our brain to look for what we like… we're going to do that with other people too."

"When we see and acknowledge the unique, special people in the world around us… it creates reality for them."

Mentioned in This Episode

• The Moxie Mastermind — next round starts in September. A special perk is being announced Saturday for anyone who signs up by next week. DM Marie on Instagram or reach out directly
• Related episodes:
  • Look How Far You've Come — on measuring progress against where you started, not against the ideal
  • Retros Are Everything — on building reflection into your iteration process

How to connect with Marie:

• On the Web | The Local Bloom
• Instagram: @the.bloom.coach
• All Things Marie on LinkTree

JOIN THE BLOOM ROOM!
We'll take all these ideas and apply them to our lives. Follow me on Instagram at @the.bloom.coach to learn more and snag a spot in my group coaching program!

Many of my clients come to me with a clear vision of what they want—connection in their relationships, growth in their business, confidence in their body—but when we look closely, the energy they’re putting in doesn’t match what they’re trying to create.

And most of the time, they don’t realize it.

In this episode, we talk about how to code your energy on purpose—so that what you’re putting into your life is aligned with what you actually want to experience.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• Why misaligned energy is one of the biggest reasons we don’t create what we want
• How to define energy as the combination of your thoughts + your feelings
• A recap of the regenerative design cycle and how energy moves through it
• Why the energy you put into an idea determines what comes back to you
• How to intentionally “code” your energy to match your desired outcome
• Practical examples of how this shows up in relationships, business, health, and social life

Energy isn’t vague—it’s specific.
Your thought + the feeling it creates in your body = your energy.
And that energy is what you’re putting into everything you do.

In the regenerative design cycle:

• You have an idea you want to make real
• You put energy into that idea
• That energy moves out into the world
• And then the world reflects that energy back to you

So if you want something different back…
You have to code your energy differently going in.

You change your life by changing the energy you bring to it.

When your thoughts and feelings align with what you want to create, everything starts moving faster.

So this week, ask yourself:
What energy am I putting in—and does it match what I want back?

And then… code it differently.

How to connect with Marie:

• On the Web | The Local Bloom
• Instagram: @the.bloom.coach
• All Things Marie on LinkTree

JOIN THE BLOOM ROOM!
We'll take all these ideas and apply them to our lives. Follow me on Instagram at @the.bloom.coach to learn more and snag a spot in my group coaching program!