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The Underrated Challenge of a Grand Water Trine

October 24, 2025 | Renée Fishman

A Grand Water Trine promises to bring ease and flow to your life. The biggest challenge might be laying down your impulse to embrace the struggle.

Filed Under: Astrology Tagged With: astrology, challenge, conditioning, ease, flow, productivity, resistance, struggle, support

The Underrated Challenge of Embracing Ease

August 13, 2025 | Renée Fishman

You know that you can do hard things, and you receive encouragement to embrace the struggle. But what about when it’s not hard? How well do you embrace the ease?

Filed Under: Productivity Tagged With: accomplishment, achievement, burnout, challenge, ease, holistic productivity, productivity, struggle, victory

3 Reasons Why You Secretly Love the Struggle

July 16, 2024 | Renée Fishman

Does it seem like you’re always taking the hard path to every result? Here are 3 reasons why you secretly love the struggle.

Filed Under: Productivity Tagged With: ADHD, challenge, dopamine, ego, fight, obstacles, personal development, productivity, struggle, work, work ethic

Sun Square Saturn: Your Hero’s Journey

June 9, 2024 | Renée Fishman

When the Sun forms a square with Saturn, it invites us to look at where we need to transcend our ego for our higher purpose.

Filed Under: Astrology Tagged With: aspects, astrology, desire, ego, friction, frustration, hero’s journey, limits, obstacles, productivity, rest, restrictions, road blocks, solutions, strength, struggle, Sun square Saturn, transits, vitality

What’s the Story You’re Not Seeing?

April 18, 2024 | Renée Fishman

Behind every inspirational highlight reel you see on social media is a pile of clips left on the cutting room floor that tells a completely different story. Although we often hide these clips from public view, there’s a huge value in sharing them with the world.

Filed Under: Coaching, Fitness, Life Tagged With: beliefs, clips, culture, expectations, highlights, lowlights, personal development, reels, social media, story, struggle, success

3 Steps to Navigate the Roadblocks of Sun Square Saturn

May 28, 2023 | Renée Fishman

How do you react when your ideal vision and plans get derailed by roadblocks and obstacles? Here are 3 steps to navigate this frustrating scenario with more grace.

Filed Under: Astrology Tagged With: astrology, frustration, limits, productivity, restrictions, road block, solutions, strength, struggle, Sun square Saturn

How To Open The Door To Your Potential

December 14, 2018 | Renée Fishman

What if stepping into the promise of your potential isn’t as much work as you think? Maybe it doesn’t have to be so hard.

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: personal development, personal growth, potential, struggle, uplevel

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