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Welcome to my Substack Notes — a collection of near daily shorter insights on topics that I’m interested in or inspired to reflect on deeper!
Wednesday digest so far:
♻️ I need to do a better job of keeping my routines while traveling. My fitness and writing routines are always the first to fall off. Today, back home, I’m getting myself back on track!
📝 Actually building routines overall is important for me these days. I’m starting over, preparing a new approach, doing things I’ve never done before, and I want to be more deliberate with my time this time around. So I’m experimenting with routines and projects I can actually sustain. I’m even trying out a new methodology adapted from my project management background. We’ll see how it goes!
💈 Finally got a haircut after needing one for a loooong time. Fresh start. My hairstylist was not pleased one bit (I’ve been cutting my own hair).😬 Curly heads can get away with it for a while, but not forever…. 😂
What’s your weekly digest? What’s been happening in your world this week?
– Carmen Iglesias
Weekly Digest
Case of the Wednesday
Gentle reminder that someone else’s sunshine does not in any way, shape or form diminish yours.
Everyone has their own unique, brilliant kind of light and their own path for illuminating it.
Some of us have our light obscured for years by trauma and wounding and part of our story requires us to dig deep and find it again.
Some of us find our light early, and must learn how to hold it steady, lovingly, even when others don’t understand it or try to make us feel less than.
Some of us wade through uncertainty for years, and our journey requires us to find clarity and alignment within so we can see the light we came with.
And so many other variations beyond these.
The key is to understand that you have a path all your own — to embrace and illuminate and it follows its own timing and pace.
So while we can celebrate and support the sunshine of others in beautiful ways, our sunshine needs our nurturing, attention, love and care. That’s the story we came here to tell and it’s much greater than we think.
So don’t forget your sunshine. Always there, brilliant and waiting for you. Right there with you. 🤍☀️
– Carmen Iglesias
Don’t Forget Your Sunshine
Your Light
….. so that you never have to doubt yourself.
You’re a wonder, a beautiful spark in this world. You’re meant to do your thing, whatever that may be. Meant to be your beautiful, authentic self, whatever that means to you. Meant to be and love as your heart and soul calls for, whatever that call is.
In your strengths, imperfections, messiness, creativity, beauty and brilliance, you are exactly right. Exactly right.
Thank you for being here. 💗
– Carmen Iglesias
Your Spark
Exactly Right
Try something different. Surrender. ~ Rumi
Sometimes we try so hard to control ourselves, outcomes, others so as to not get hurt.
But if we’re following what calls to us, perhaps all we need to do is release control and trust what we’re being guided toward.
For many, the scariest move of all, and also the truest. Right there with you.🤍
– Carmen Iglesias
Try Something Different
Surrender
