I’m writing to you from our new apartment. There’s something magical about beginnings. It’s all new, fresh, and exciting. There’s nothing but potential. M and I are constantly rearranging and reimagining each nook and cranny of the space to make it feel more like our own. After spending the better half of the past year on the road, living out of suitcases, moving from one location to the next, never settling anywhere for long, it feels like heaven coming home to our place. Our place is my favorite place to be. Homebodies get it.
So that’s been by far the best part of February. I’ll be spending the coming weeks and months settling and dreaming up what I want this space to look and feel like, and spending way too much time, and probably money, on Facebook Marketplace.
The timing of this has felt perfectly aligned with the promise of spring. Bouncing forward, into our potential, initiating new projects, ideas, unfurling, becoming, and beginning again.
I’m noticing a lot of the seeds I’ve planted are starting to grow and bear fruit. The good things in life take longer than you expect, but it’s always worth the wait.
I had this thought the other day that clarity is maybe the most important part of creating the life you want. When you are super specific about what you want, it has a way of finding you. Clarity helps you to discern what is meant for you and what isn’t. Clarity tunes out the noise, narrows your focus, and brings you closer to your vision. It feels like everything currently manifesting in my life is a result of clarity, persistence, and faith.
Journal Prompt: What’s becoming clear to you?
I created this dispatch to highlight all of the good, because there is an abundance of it, but I’d be remiss to not mention the murkier, heavier parts of the month and of life. The past month has been clouded by a lot of grief, endings, and loss. It feels like in every conversation I’ve had over the past month there has been this common thread. I remind myself that it comes in waves. That grief, just like any other feeling is a portal, a quiet urge, a whisper, to return to love. If you too are grieving, know that you are not alone. Stay with it. It may not feel easier today, tomorrow or the day after that, but one day you will look up and notice that you feel lighter. Hold out for that.
“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.” – jamie anderson
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Now onto the good stuff:
Our new place 🏡
Entirely too much reality television. The Bachelor, Married at First Sight, Love is Blind S6 – my prediction is that the only couple that stays together are the ones who act like they’ve never heard of condoms.
A big teaching month! My weekly class at The Tree (Tuesdays at 7:30a) and teaching three corporate wellness classes, something I’ve discovered I really love.
Moving to a super walkable area!!! Trader Joes AND Target within walking distance? I feel like I’ve died and gone to heaven (suburbia)
Spending time with M’s family.
The rain in LA has been cozy and has done wonders for our air quality.
Being in community, collaborating with friends, and being intentional about spending quality time with the people that matter most.
Going out of my way to tell and show the people I love that I love them.
A big family weekend celebrating love.
Onwards! Happy March, y’all. Sending you lots of love xx
Thanks for sharing ❤️❤️