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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! Terrified… check. Do I know exactly how this will unfold? Definitely not. But can I do it? Yes. Can I trust I’ll figure it out …

Rather than try to block or ignore life, what’s calling, or try to control our way through unpredictable circumstances, let the adventure unfold. Let yourself be unraveled, forged, and even softened by your experiences.

We’ve all signed up for scripts of what the perfect things should be in life. But life rarely turns out exactly as we planned. Sometimes we need to let go of what we signed up for so we can make space for something new.

Every person we meet, whether for a moment, a season or a lifetime, has the potential to impact us in some way. The key is recognizing the gifts we each offer the other. Whether we know it or not, it’s greater than we think.

For those in reinvention, rebirth or reset mode — working through transitioning out of an identity into something more whole, or reigniting once again — here are a few things to remember as we all move through our phases.

In moments of great turmoil, change, transition, loss, or even joy, where do you find your steady?

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive. Howard Thurman· Civil Rights Leader

Years ago I intentionally decided to become a hermit of sorts. I had this vision of climbing a steep mountainside, finding a cave at its edge and sitting in stillness until I was ready. And that’s essentially what I did.

I know this may seem like an obvious thing we do, but I don’t think we make space or make room for what we want, as deliberately or as often as we think. I think we often assume we already have the space — the capacity, the time, the energy, …

Something I learn more and more each day is to honor my maturing pacing, timing, and rhythm. For many years (over twenty), I lived in a constant state of motion. I had a demanding career in the military, one that placed me in highly challenging, sometimes traumatic circumstances. At times, …