How to Know If You Should Stay or Go: A Nervous-System-Aligned Guide to Work Clarity

You need the paycheck, the health insurance, the stability—what to do when dealing with the unknown...

Nov 2 • Miriam Raquel Sands

October 2026

What Día de Muertos is—and what it isn’t

October has a way of asking us to look at the things we usually keep moving past.

Oct 26 • Miriam Raquel Sands

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My Cacao Online Shop Is Officially Open (Virginia Shipping + Where to Find Me This Winter)

I’m popping into your inbox with some news I think is exciting. Depending on where you live and what you like to see from me, it may or may not be…

Oct 19 • Miriam Raquel Sands

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📈 Why Coffee Exploded, and Cacao Didn’t — let’s dive into the not so distant past

Why I Blend Cacao: Heritage, Grounding, and a Small Business Built on Sincerity

Oct 12 • Miriam Raquel Sands

Ever wondered what the day of the week you were born might say about how you work, create, or move through the world?

This guide blends different frameworks for each day of the week—so you can better understand your natural rhythms and how to build a work + creative…

Oct 5 • Miriam Raquel Sands

September 2026

Season 3: Ep 7🌾 Cacao, Reciprocity, and Legacy: What It Means to Thrive, Exchange, and Become

Understanding Not Chocolate and Not Jobs and the Process of Becoming

Sep 28 • Miriam Raquel Sands

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Nothing Is a Choice (And That Might Be the Point)

There is a mobile home community about forty-five minutes from where I live.

Sep 21 • Miriam Raquel Sands

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We Don't Need to Deserve More. We Need More.

On strength training, growing up in a body that was never quite right by someone else's measure, and why "more" isn't the same thing as "greed"

Sep 14 • Miriam Raquel Sands

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Ashburn Eatloco Northern Virginia Today 🌿

I'm at the Ashbrook (formerly One Loudoun) farmer's market today! September 12th

Sep 12 • Miriam Raquel Sands

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Kairos vs. Chronos: The Greeks Had Two Words for Time, and I Think We Only Kept One

I think this concept of time is really an effort to control — to control our output, our input, to determine fate, to determine the order of things...

Sep 7 • Miriam Raquel Sands

August 2026

Understanding, Not Agreement

We may not agree, that's okay.

Aug 24 • Miriam Raquel Sands

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The Last: What a Year of Building Resilience Actually Looked Like

ep 13 of Capacity Conversations: endings and beginnings

Aug 17 • Miriam Raquel Sands and Sarah Liljegren

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