Melanie Richard Maxwell

Underrated key to success is choosing who you talk to about your dreams wisely.

Not everyone in your life will be the right person to talk about it with and that’s okay.

Save the dreams and goals and crazy ideas for the people in your life who expand them— and tell you actually you’re capable of even more 💖

Dreaming and taking action alongside my sister in law is the greatest gift 💫 shoutout to my brother for picking the best Virgo partner in crime for me ✌🏻lol

Practicing what I preach ✌🏻

100 pieces of content in 30 days.

It’s the Garbage Post Challenge created by Simone Seol and this will be my second time doing it.

I coach my team members at my 9-5 to try this challenge because it:
- forces you to stop overthinking and just POST
- helps you find your voice through constantly using it
- creates connection with your followers because they get to know you
- is honestly really fun even though it’s awkward at first

The point is not perfect posts. It’s to practice expressing yourself over and over until it feels so easy.

I’ve been recommending it to others but not doing it myself again, until now.

I was in a cocoon phase and I’m feeling myself emerge. It’s time to speak my heart and soul.

If you WANT to create and connect, this challenge is so good.

If you’re in a cocoon phase but telling yourself you SHOULD be posting, your best work is prob gonna be in cocooning right now and that’s okay.

Seasons for everything.

Join me?

(All content counts. “This is my dog” in your IG stories with a pic of your dog counts. Just needs at least one word and is publicly published. That’s literally it.)

You make garbage decisions when your nervous system is on fire or shut down.
Ask me how I know 😏

Seasoned burn-it-all-downer over here 🙋‍♀️

When you’re in that kind of state, your frontal lobe goes offline — the part of your brain that’s adaptable, logical, creative.
No big deal, right? That’ll totally go well without it 😅

So if you feel like:
“IDK WHAT TO DO”

STOP trying to figure it out.
Because you literally can’t like this.

Take a breath.
Feel your feet on the ground.
And do whatever you need to do to access even a tiny bit of calm and safety inside.

31 today 🥳

30 was a wild ride and honestly really difficult. On my birthday last year I was newly pregnant and so excited to have another baby after years of being too scared of postpartum depression to do it again.

My year of being 30 showed me just how resilient I am. Moving through the grief and giving birth without bringing a baby home was the hardest thing I’ve done. But I made it. Women and mothers are so incredible, aren’t we?

I’ve learned how brave, resilient, and capable I am. I’m hoping I can take that with me into a more sweet than bittersweet next year of life 💖

Part of me thinks I shouldn’t share the challenging feelings and just post a cute birthday post so I don’t make anyone feel uncomfortable, but this is real life. I have mixed feelings today. So grateful, and also sad.

July 💖

It was a wild month, kinda chaotic but also a lot of fun. One of the happiest July’s of my life 🥰

How was your July in 3 words or less?
Mine: fun, chaotic, vibrant

Can’t wait to chat about how I can help 💖

If you try to do all of these at once, and leave out yourself, you’ll always feel like you’re never doing enough while also feeling deeply burnt out.

I see this with, I’d even say 100% of my clients. They’re doing SO MUCH and it never feels like enough and they’re so overwhelmed. They care so much and their hearts are so big, but they end up not really able to show up how they want to because they’re pouring from an empty cup.

Start slow, start small, and start with you. You’re better able to really be helpful and loving and nurturing and when you start with yourself.

Plus I think I deserve to enjoy my life on this earth for however long I’m lucky to be here.