The Cacao Lab Journal

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I’ve always been drawn to the power of sound. Music was a constant in my childhood home—instruments were everywhere. Jazz would waft into every room at any moment through my dad’s enormous speakers, as would my mom’s voice singing her way through our home. That was my normal. Sound, melody, became my safe space: soothing, uplifting—a haven. In retrospect, that I would wind up working in clinical sound seems fated. I discovered early on that music could change me from one moment to the next, and I knew there was something profound in that. I knew that music had the...

Sarah Seads is an ultra-athlete and coach residing on British Columbia, Canada. She has had some momentous shifts in the way she looks at the mental and physical aspects of training and life in the past year, allowing her to unlock some dynamic new mental tools and obtain a new level of performance. As a member of the Cacao Lab community, we are naturally interested in how cacao has played a role in her transformation, but as we sit down for a conversation, we find that it is but one part of a truly inspiring way of looking at intuition-based living...

Have you ever experienced going into nature, whether a forest in the mountains or the rainforest, and felt a sense of peace and clarity that is difficult to put into words? It is as if all the different energies that co-create these important places activate an aspect of ourselves that reflects our true essence. This tranquility and clarity is much more difficult to access when we are so distracted by the noise pollution and overstimulation of a busy city life. The jungle has become a very important part of my life to better understand my purpose and role, to get...