Brianna Wiest
Brianna is the author of 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think, The Mountain Is You, Ceremony, and When You’re Ready, This Is How You Heal.
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3 Concrete Steps To Turn Any Vision Into Reality
Brianna Wiest, international best-selling author of The Pivot Year, walks us through three concrete ways to turn any dreamy vision into a true reality. When it comes to building the life you want to live, most people try to design it backwards. Most people begin with what habits and routines they want to have each day,…
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Signs You’re Walking Down The Wrong Life Path (& It’s Time To Turn Back)
Sometimes, it isn’t always clear that we are on the wrong path in life until we are too far down it to easily turn around. International best-selling author of The Pivot Year, Brianna Wiest, walks through concrete signs you’re walking down the wrong life path and how to turn it into the right one. Let’s dive…
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The Greatest Healing Often Happens In The Most Ordinary Ways
When you begin your healing journey, you will be searching for epiphanies—life-changing, soul-opening, mind-bending truths. Drastic changes, rapid uprooting, the fierce releasing of what you can no longer stand, and the obsessive need to find something that makes you feel a little better, even just for a moment. One of the most subtle challenges will…
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Concrete Ways To Leave Behind The Love That Broke You (& Learn To Let The Right One In)
Heartbreak is a hard thing, but it’s not a forever thing, and you will experience a disproportionate amount of it when you’re young—though of course, it can hit us just as hard at any phase of life. To try and grapple with the heaviness of heartbreak, international best-selling author of The Pivot Year, Brianna Wiest, shares…
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7 Psychological Phases/Biases That Are Sabotaging Your Life
Growth is hard. Sometimes, it’s downright terrifying. It requires us to take an honest look at ourselves, to abandon what we’ve known, and to suspend ourselves in uncertainty without knowing when we’ll ever find the next step. What this means is that we will remain what we have always been unless we consciously choose to…
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Trust Your Intuition Knows The Truth, Even If You Cannot Make Sense Of It
If there is nothing else in this world that you can trust, please know that your heart knows what is true. Your heart can sense what’s right for you, what’s on the path you were meant for. Your heart will know what’s going to help you evolve and expand into the person you are longing…
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10 Divine Signs You’re Living Life Right (Even If It All Feels Wrong)
Brianna Wiest, international best-selling author of The Pivot Year, walks us through ten surefire signals that you’re taking steps forward… even if it feels like you’re behind. Even here, even now—you are growing. I know it seems like the only way to measure your progress is by timing, milestones, and goals reached, but in reality,…
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Why Hitting Rock Bottom Can Be The Start Of Everything Good
Brianna is the bestselling author of the books 101 Essays The Will Change The Way You Think, The Mountain Is You, The Pivot Year, and more. If you know that change needs to be made in your life, it is okay if you are far away from your goal or if you cannot yet conceive how you will…
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When You’re Ready To Change Your Life, Read This
Brianna Wiest, author of The Pivot Year, on the most critical actions you can take to change your life before 2026 begins. What if, in the moments you feel most alone, you begin to realize that you are also free? What if you could see that in these very moments you fear most, you are…
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13 Things You Need To Stop Doing If You Truly Want To Move Your Life Forward
Often, feeling stuck isn’t about not having enough momentum or willpower, but about being in misalignment with your needs, wants and strategies. It’s not that you’re not trying hard enough, but that you’re too attached to things that aren’t right for you. If you want to be in a completely different place by this time…
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8 Things That Happen Right Before You Step Into A New Life
It is a common misconception I have come to realize throughout my life. Positive change is often planted through seeds that can sometimes make us feel more uncertain, fearful, and anxious than anything else. This is because we often don’t think to change our lives until change is the only option we have. We are…
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10 Signs You’re Actually Making Progress In Life, Even If It Doesn’t Feel Like You Are
Best-selling author Brianna Wiest shows how the smallest parts of our daily lives can be signs of meaningful progress, even when we feel like we’re not moving forward. Brianna is the author of The Mountain Is You and The Pivot Year. Even here, even now — you are growing.
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How To Forgive Yourself
When my great-grandmother died, my grandmother spent the time before the viewing hours with her wheelchair propped up next to her mother’s casket, hand inside, forehead down on the rim, crying and talking. My grandfather met me by the doorway before I was going to walk in and explained that I should give her space — that…
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8 Reasons The Smartest People You Know Are The Ones Who Don’t Seem Confident All The Time
“Being confident” has almost become unrealistically lauded at this point – directly in proportion with how insecure we feel. It’s easier to portray someone who is infallibly sure of themselves rather than a whole, honest human who is sometimes uncertain and oftentimes questioning who is building their self-esteem as they go.
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13 Ways Artistic People Show Their Love Differently
1. They share everything they’re feeling. (Everything.) There’s nothing more loving and engaging to an inherently creative person than letting you into their emotional lives, and their emotional lives include how they felt about their morning coffee. 2. They ask seemingly random – but very personal – questions. They want to connect with you in a way…
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Read This When You Don’t Yet Have The Life You Want
A beautiful life is not stumbled upon, it is built. It is chosen. It is nurtured over the years. A beautiful life is made from the heart, not the head. It is not one we can rationalize our way into, it’s one that must be felt. A beautiful life is not one that is immediately…
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Read This When You Don’t Understand Why People Are So Unkind
People take on the characteristics of those who have most deeply hurt them. Within their unkindness, they are actually revealing to you the shape of their wound. What they have done to you says far more about them than it does about you. Your choice becomes whether or not you will allow the shape of…
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The Psychological Reason Many Women Love Wearing All Black
In color psychology, being drawn to the color black – especially in clothing – often signals a desire to reclaim one’s power. Whether that’s by trying to “shield” from certain emotions, create distance from people, or communicate a need to be respected, preferring to wear all black is usually a subconscious message to the self…