*Yesterday, I accidentally hit “Publish” too early. I panicked, tried to undo it, spiraled for a few minutes…and then accepted it. It’s done. Can’t take it back. See? Even I needed the reminder that you can’t control everything. Including email buttons.

So here we are—sending it again at the usual time, with all the art in place and a bunch of new things throughout the newsletter. Each section has been refreshed, giving you a genuinely new experience—familiar, yes, but with plenty of surprises and little twists to explore.

Thanks for laughing (or sighing) along with me.

Ever notice how much energy goes into trying to keep the world from falling apart? We rehearse conversations in our heads, obsess over outcomes we can’t touch, hover over inboxes like they’ll behave better if we stare hard enough. It’s exhausting.

But no matter how tightly you grip, life doesn’t stop being messy. People cancel. Deadlines move. The cat launches a glass off the counter just because gravity exists. It’s not all yours to control—and maybe that’s the point.

The only thing you actually get to hold is yourself. Your focus. Your response. That tiny beat where you decide whether to spiral or to take a breath and step forward anyway. That’s the part no one can take from you.

And while it doesn’t erase the frustration, it does shift the weight. The world keeps spinning, loud and unpredictable. But you get to choose how you meet it.

Today in 15 seconds:

🧘‍♀️ Soul Nourishment: See proof you’ve survived every life phase.
📚 Resource Roundup: Holy-grail recs to make life 2% more manageable.
✨ Daily Cosmic Weather Report: Moon’s out here doing her sliver-thin soft launch. Stars still flexing.
💎 Crystal of the Day: Pocket-sized vacation disguised as a rock.

Notice one small thing that’s actually going right. The cat didn’t knock over your coffee. You remembered your password. The email sent early, yes, but hey, it still worked. Sometimes it’s worth being grateful for the tiny non-disasters.

And once you start noticing them, you realize how many of those little mercies there are: the bus actually showed up on time, your favorite mug was clean, the text you were dreading turned out fine. These aren’t fireworks, but they’re proof that not everything is slipping through your fingers.

Because even on the days when you can’t control the big stuff, you can still notice the small, ordinary wins—and let them remind you you’re not as powerless as it feels.

Read it, skim it, come back when you’re ready.

Take a Walk Through Memory Lane

Pull out an old photo album—or scroll deep into the camera roll. Doesn’t matter if it’s pixelated party shots, family vacations, or the questionable haircut you swore looked amazing.

Some of it will make you laugh. Some of it will make you cringe. Some of it might sting a little. But the point isn’t to fix it or rewrite it—it’s to remember you lived it. You survived that awkward phase, that hard season, that outfit you thought was a good idea.

Notice what stirs in your body as you look: the soft smile, the heavy sigh, the flash of embarrassment. All valid. The past itself is out of your control, but the way you respond to it now? That’s fully yours.

So linger a few minutes. Let yourself feel the nostalgia, the tenderness, the ridiculousness. Every messy, cringy, beautiful phase is proof: you’ve been through it, and you’re still here.

Yesterday, I recommended some of these, and I still stand by them—but today I’ll tell you why I personally use them. Because otherwise, it just feels like a list.

A podcast that makes you feel the weight of history in minutes

Memory Palace

I’m very picky about podcasts. If I’m going to have something playing while I fold laundry, cook dinner, or finally sit down to exhale, it has to be worth the space in my brain. Metanoia Madness from yesterday’s edition makes the cut—and so does Memory Palace, every single time.

Each episode is a short, beautifully written historical vignette—little stories from the past, told with tenderness and restraint. They’re not long, but they land deep. Sometimes they hit you with unexpected grief, other times with wonder or nostalgia. And even when the subject isn’t immediately “my thing,” I somehow end up caring.

Not every episode hits the same way, but the ones that do? Unforgettable. A few of my favorite podcast moments ever live inside Memory Palace.

An app that spots connections you might miss

Bearable

For the longest time, I’d notice dips in my mood but couldn’t connect the dots. Was it hormones? Stress? Just random? Then I tried out Bearable, and suddenly the patterns started showing up in plain sight—those low-energy, foggy days almost always lined up with nights of bad sleep, too much processed food, or skipping movement altogether. (Which in hindsight…seems glaringly obvious, but let’s face it, when you’re in the middle of a slump, it all just feels like “something’s wrong with me.”)

Bearable helped me step back and actually see the rhythms of my body and mind instead of blaming myself for every dip. Now, instead of spiraling, I can say: Oh, right, I slept four hours. Of course I feel like a zombie. It’s a small thing, but it changes the whole way I approach those off days.

And yeah—I still love color-tagging my moods. Watching them build into a rainbow graph feels like I’m tracking me, not some abstract data point. It makes my inner chaos look kind of…beautiful, which is not a thing I expected from an app.

A book to remind you where your power really lies

Enchiridion by Epictetus

When I first heard the idea that we can’t actually control what happens—only how we respond—it honestly stopped me in my tracks. I’ve always been a bit of an overthinker (okay, borderline control freak). If something didn’t go the way I envisioned, I’d panic, spiral, or get way more upset than the situation probably called for.

Finding out that this wasn’t just “a me problem” but a whole philosophy? That was life-changing. I went searching for more and ended up with Enchiridion. It’s short, surprisingly readable, and packed with reminders that still hit hard 2,000 years later.

It’s now one of those ideas I repeat to friends and family all the time. Stop gripping so hard, stop trying to manage the unmanageable, and come back to what’s actually yours—your choices, your attitude, your response.

Sometimes I’ll even open it on random pages when my brain’s in full freak-out mode (it still happens, of course), and almost always the words are exactly what I needed.

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✔ Reframe negative thinking – Challenge catastrophizing and “what if” fears so you can think clearly and act with confidence.

✔ Face fears without panic – Step-by-step exposure strategies help you gradually overcome triggers and take back your freedom.

✔ Build lifelong resilience – Develop daily habits, sleep trackers, and wellness checklists that keep anxiety from taking over your life.

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The night unfolds above; your own becoming unfolds below.

Tonight, the Moon hangs as a thin Waxing Crescent—just 17% lit, a silver whisper climbing higher with each evening. At apogee this morning, it stood nearly 252,000 miles away, small but magnetic.

Beyond it, the constellation Triangulum quietly rose in the east, carrying the faint glow of the M33 galaxy. And if you followed the pointer stars of Cassiopeia, you may have caught Andromeda’s hazy presence—our nearest galactic neighbor, smudged across the night like a secret. Tonight is a lesson in paying attention: even the faintest light carries a story.

Tomorrow? The Waxing Crescent brightens to 24% and cozies up to Antares, the fiery red heart of Scorpius (one of the 12 zodiac constellations). At dusk, you’ll find the Moon just left of this red giant—a star so massive that if it were dropped into our solar system, it would engulf Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. Don’t be surprised if you mistake it for Mars itself (you wouldn’t be the first).

The Red Planet is nearby in Virgo, faint and low on the horizon, setting soon after the Sun. With binoculars, you may still catch its glow before it disappears.

Look west after sunset: Moon, Antares, Mars. Three shades of red light—one reflected, one burning out, one still alive and restless.

Larimar is a rare sky-blue crystal you’ll only find in one place on Earth: a tiny region of the Dominican Republic. Its dreamy waves of blue come from copper inside the mineral pectolite, forged in volcanic fire millions of years ago. Fun backstory: locals had seen pieces washing up on beaches for decades, but it wasn’t officially “discovered” until 1974—named after the miner’s daughter, Larissa, and mar (Spanish for “sea”). Today, it’s still pulled from just one mine, making it one of the rarest stones in the world.

Energetically, Larimar is like a calm tide rolling in—soothing, clarifying, and gently insistent that you speak what’s in your heart. It’s a Throat Chakra crystal, perfect for when emotions are tangled, conversations feel impossible, or you can’t quite put words to what you’re feeling. Think cooling balm meets truth serum.

Reach for Larimar when:

Larimar glows differently in sunlight—sometimes pale sky blue, sometimes intense turquoise. It’s relatively soft (Mohs 4.5–5), so treat it gently. Don’t leave it in harsh sunlight or salt water if you want its color to last.

3-8 minutes to check in with your inner rhythm

Off the top of your head (3 min): Name one thing you kept trying to control this week.

Spill it (5-8 min): What might have shifted if you’d loosened your grip and trusted it to unfold on its own?

Yesterday, we talked about noticing the ways you could respond. Today, let’s notice the times you already did.

Think back on this week:

When did you pause instead of snapping?
When did you take a breath instead of letting panic drive?
When did you choose to accept instead of pushing against what you couldn’t change?

That’s beautiful, too. Those little moments—so easy to overlook—are proof that you’re already practicing. You’re already showing up differently. And that deserves a quiet kind of gratitude.

If you recall, yesterday, we focused on finishing the task you didn’t want to. Today, it’s about forgiving yourself when you didn’t.

Be grateful for the grace you gave yourself when you let something slide. Not everything needs to be checked off, handled, or perfectly managed. You can’t control every to-do, but you can choose to give yourself rest instead of shame.

That moment of softening, of letting yourself be human, is worth appreciating just as much as the days you power through.

What’s one thing you can control right now?

It doesn’t have to be big gestures—we’re not talking “quit your job, fix your family, heal the planet”. (Unless…that’s what you have in mind.) Think of the smaller ones. The kind that don’t solve everything but remind you that you’re not powerless.

Maybe it’s finally closing the 12 open tabs you know you’ll never read. Maybe it’s deciding to eat something that makes you feel good, not guilty. Maybe it’s letting yourself leave one box unchecked on today’s to-do list.

Here’s the truth: the world is going to stay unpredictable. The people around you are going to keep being themselves. The future is still a mystery. You don’t have to untangle it all today.

But inside the swirl, there’s always one choice that belongs to you. One action, one moment, one shift in how you show up. It doesn’t need to be dramatic. It just needs to be yours.

So what’s yours to do right now? Take it.

There’s something strangely liberating about that. Because if you’ve ever tried to wrestle life into submission, you already know—it doesn’t listen.

The noise, the delays, the what-ifs—they don’t need you as project manager. It’ll unfold how it unfolds. But your actions, your attention, your responses—those are entirely yours. That’s where your power lives. You can approach them with patience, clarity, or even a little stubborn grace.

Yesterday could’ve been better. Today feels steadier. Tomorrow will surprise us again. And maybe that’s the point: life keeps shifting, but your choices are the anchor.

And hey—thank you for sitting through another version of this. For taking the time to read, reflect, and show up, even when life keeps spinning faster than we can manage. It means more than you know.

P.S. We made this because most spiritual content made us feel like there was something wrong with us for being tired, messy, or not “high-vibe” enough. If this made you feel a little more human today, that's all we wanted.

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