The InTENtion Series

Author every season of your life.

Practical, reflective workbooks for the moments life asks you to slow down and choose on purpose — whether you're navigating loss, feeling stuck on autopilot, or simply ready for something to change.

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“Intentional living is the practice of waking up from autopilot.”

Upcoming Event · Co-Facilitated by Karen

Becoming Her: A Morning of InTENtion

A half-day retreat for women, co-led with Cherie D. Chase (NBC-HWC Health & Wellness Coach). Reconnect with yourself. Live with purpose. Leave with a plan.

WhenSaturday, October 3, 2026 · 9:00 AM–12:00 PM
WhereOrchard Park Community Activity Center, Orchard Park, NY
SpotsLimited to 20 women for an intimate experience
Investment$69 early bird (through Sept 5) · $89 regular

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Why We Make These

You can't always choose your circumstances. You can choose your response.

“A world where people are the authors of their own lives.”

Our Values

Lead with Authenticity. We share from lived experience, speak plainly, and never pretend to have all the answers.
Serve with Compassion. We meet you where you are, honoring every season of life with empathy and respect.
Inspire Action. Every resource is built to move you from reflection to something you actually do.
Create with Excellence. Every resource is thought through — meaningful, practical, worth your time.
Keep Growing. Our best work evolves as we do, one step at a time.

The InTENtion Framework

Five pillars. Ten practices.

Every workbook in the series is built around the same framework — ten ongoing practices, organized into five pillars you can return to in any order, in any season.

Root

This is where it starts.

Clear

Feel what's there.

Align

Reconnect on purpose.

Grow

Carry it forward.

Bloom

In your own time.

Steadying yourself when everything else feels unsteady. Caring for your body. Getting through the hours in front of you.

You can't move through what you won't feel. Letting emotion surface instead of pushing it down.

Reconnecting — with yourself, your people, and the parts of your life that quietly went quiet.

Carrying what you've learned forward, while rebuilding the parts of life that need it.

Letting life, meaning, and connection back in — slowly, in whatever way works for you.

The Workbooks

Two workbooks. One framework.

Each is a standalone, practical guide built on the same Root · Clear · Align · Grow · Bloom framework — choose the one that meets you where you are.

10 Key Areas for Intentional Living

Living with InTENtion

For the reader who's done coasting.

For the reader going through the motions

Busy, but not really choosing. This workbook offers an honest self-assessment across ten areas of daily life, then small, doable practices that build momentum — without turning into another to-do list.

The Ten InTENtions: Engage · Work · Eat · Spend · Move · Rest · Connect · Speak · Play · Learn

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10 Anchors for Living with Love and Loss

Grieving with InTENtion

For whoever needs permission to grieve without a deadline.

For whoever is grieving right now

Grief doesn't move in a straight line, so this workbook doesn't ask you to. Ten anchors, organized into the same five pillars, meant to be returned to in whatever order the day calls for — not rushed, not fixed, just met.

The Ten InTENtions: Rest · Breathe · Allow · Release · Move · Connect · Remember · Rebuild · Hope · Engage

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Partnerships & Bulk Orders

Bring The InTENtion Series to your community

Coaches, support groups, studios, and workplaces use these workbooks with the people they serve. Bulk pricing is available for both titles — reach out and we'll work out what fits.

Life Coaches

Give clients a structured tool between sessions, built around the same framework you're already using.

Grief Support Groups

A shared workbook for group meetings that meets people where they are, without a required pace.

Yoga & Wellness Studios

Pair a workbook with a class series or retreat, or offer it at the front desk for students to take home.

Corporate Wellness

Bring intentional living into your workplace wellness program, for a team or company-wide.

Facilitator's Kits

Each workbook has a companion Facilitator's Kit, built for anyone guiding a group or client through it — session outlines, discussion prompts, and guidance for using the material one-on-one or in a group.

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Karen Eichner

Author, The InTENtion Series

Recently on the podcast:
“The Truth About Grief That No One Taught Me” Recently featured: SUNY Empire’s Ask 5 interview, “Growing Your Career with Intention”

My Story

Why I wrote these workbooks

In February 2023, I lost my significant other unexpectedly, and my life shifted in ways I never could have anticipated. Grief didn't arrive with clear edges or instructions — it seeped into everything: the way I moved through my days, the questions I asked myself, the truths I could no longer avoid.

There wasn't one moment where everything suddenly became clear. Awareness came gradually, through small choices and practices that helped me feel a little more grounded, connected, and alive again. I went to yoga. I joined a grief support group. I found people who let me grieve out loud instead of hiding it. Little by little, those things helped me survive — and, over time, they helped me begin rebuilding.

Living and grieving with intention has allowed me to keep going with purpose while still carrying what I've lost. It hasn't fixed anything, and it isn't a checklist. It's a way of choosing, on the hard days and the ordinary ones, to stay in the life I'm actually living instead of the one on autopilot.

The InTENtion Series was born from that process — for whoever needs it next.