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Rachel Dickson

I’m Rachel Dickson: TEDx speaker, storyteller, and truth-teller exploring what it means to return to your truest self. This is a space for healing, authenticity, and the bold inner work of choosing yourself, unapologetically.

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A Different Kind of Luxury — Field Notes with Rachel Dickson

3/11/26 Greetings, Wild-Hearts, Truth-Tellers, Light-Followers, and Builders of a Different Kind of Life. I too crave a different kind of buzz. From the very first time I heard the song Royals by Lorde, something about those lyrics captivated me. The words felt gritty and messy but also deeply real. I could sense there was truth hiding in them… but I struggled to understand the metaphors for a long time. If you want to get a better sense of what I’m talking about, take three minutes and...

02/26/26 Greetings, Wildhearted, Cycle-Keepers, Light-Followers, and Brave Becoming Ones. If you were to ask me what my favorite season is you’d hear me say, Spring. Spring is that time where things come back to life...and awaken from the long slumber of Winter. The smells, the return of the color green, longer daylight, warmer temps, the return of the songbirds. I think much of my appreciation for Spring is because I love to be outside...and Winter restricts outdoor adventuring a bit. And...

02/19/26 Hello Courageous Souls, Threshold-Walkers, Inner-World Gardeners, and Love-Bringers! Patterns within myself and the subtle spiritual hygiene of attention. image from litfuck.com I’ve been noticing some things lately. If you happen to be a facebook user...you likely have a facebook routine. (Instagram and Tiktok apply here too.) Where you open the app and begin scrolling...or...maybe you begin to review new posts on groups you’re a part of...or any other plethora of ways to utilize...

02/12/26 Greetings Creators, Edge-Walkers, Hope-Dealers, Bridge-Builders and Light-Bringers! Slipping into the comparison mind-trap. In our current world, where attention is currency, the competition for my and your attention is a fierce battle! There’s a whole plethora of courses being taught on how to quickly gain and how to longer hold our attention via social media, via news headlines, via random tiktok videos and on and on. Pretty, not pretty? I am an observer...and many things can be...

02/05/26 Greetings Creators, Collaborators, Hope-Dealers, Bridge-Builders and Bringers of Light! An expression arrived in my orbit this week. Many of you know, felt and experienced the back-to-back weeks of elemental water events that touched down (first ice and then snow and then frigid temps...making it all stick around and lock us in place for a number of days). The preparedness, the vigilance and the patience that all this required started to impact my attitude. And then this expression...

01/28/26 Greetings Wildhearted Friends….let’s take a breath together. Our nervous systems took a big hit over the weekend. I felt all sorts of emotions while preparing for and experiencing the fluctuations of winter storm Fern. Yet as a dear friend of mine once said...two things can be true at the same time. I felt... Edgy but also PresentFrazzled but also DeterminedIsolated but also Capable It’s funny how comfortable we become in our comforts. Maybe we are out of practice regarding how we...

01/22/26 Greetings Wildhearted Friends! Here we go...it’s threatening winter weather season. And as a major winter weather event heads across the land, here comes the next big reminder of how much we rely upon power and water sources for heat and survival. Letting go of the known. from Seth at highonleconte dot com It’s pivot time. It’s shift into preparedness and planning time. And then it’s don’t let your mind spiral into worse case scenario time. Be gentle with your feelings and your...

01/14/26 Greetings Wildhearted Wanderers, Hope-Dealers, Bridge-Builders and Bringers of Light! Listen...if you haven’t heard...I’m about to share something that is creating positive change in the world! The Walk for Peace! Walk for Peace through South Carolina Words cannot truly express what was felt on Monday. My friend Lana Lander suggested we go see the venerable monks and the Walk for Peace with our own eyes and hearts. They were only 2 hours away and the opportunity to see them walking...

01/07/26 Hello, wildhearted, truth-tellers, hope-dealers and beautiful souls! The Uncomfortable Middle So here we are...staring into the face of 2026. And I feel a bit...discombobulated. Sometimes the space after the old is cleared (thank you 2025...definitely a “deep clean” of a year) feels a lot like a train that’s loaded but hasn’t left the station yet. Some passengers are still saying their goodbyes, while others are just arriving, and the platform hums with unfinished business,...

12/31/25 Greetings Wildhearted Souls! I had just finished doing some work clearing brush from an embankment on some very wild and rustic mountain property and paused for a few moments to bathe in the surrounding silence. While working I noticed that I could hear traffic noises from I-26 (very deep and low truck sounds), which was a little surprising because I was quite a few miles from the highway. (Sound travels and bounces around in odd ways in the mountains.) But from this...I began to...