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Sample stories from Spiritual Candy — bite-sized moments about motherhood, meaning, and the quiet magic hiding in ordinary life.

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The Introduction
Meet Danielle, find out what Spiritual Candy really means, and discover why your sparkle was never actually gone.
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Rainbows, Sprinkles, & Everything Nice
Manifest Rainbows
How leaning into the tiny things you love — rainbow suncatchers, colorful phone cases, ridiculous cat purses — creates a quiet kind of manifestation that actually works.
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Rainbows, Sprinkles, & Everything Nice
Find Your Milkshake
A grandfather who drank milkshakes daily and lived to 92 — and why giving yourself permission to enjoy one guilt-free thing changes everything.
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Deep Plant Wisdom, Frogs, and Butterflies — Hold the Hallucinations
90210
When Brandon Walsh from a '90s teen drama showed up mid-ceremony with exactly the advice she needed — and the surprising resilience lesson that followed her home.
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Deep Plant Wisdom, Frogs, and Butterflies — Hold the Hallucinations
Frog Medicine
What an ancient Amazonian frog ceremony taught about the pressure cooker of modern life — and the everyday ways we can release what we carry.
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Finding the Fun in Everyday Life
Preschool Bride
A four-year-old discovers mom's wedding dress in the back of a closet — and the split-second decision to stop saving it for "someday" creates a core memory.
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Finding the Fun in Everyday Life
Goggles in the Fountain
Fountain-diving with goggles, rescuing a deflated Darth Vader balloon, and a six-year-old's bottle-cap empire — proof that the best memories come from saying yes to the weird stuff.
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60 stories. Manuscript ready.

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