The Interior Threshold
on knowing what stays close
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Dear Reader,
I have had my pulse on privacy, weathering the small storms of what is for the people and what is for list making. What is for the closest circle and what is for the outer circle.
There is no manual. No oracle. I cannot learn these lessons by guesswork, but by doing. By getting my hands in the garden beds, dirt under my fingernails, replanting the cosmos that already promised they’d come back next year.
Some days anxiety is too bright, I shape shift into something I cannot stand behind. I get porous in the wrong direction. I lose the thread of who I am and slip into who I think I’m supposed to be.
So I find myself daring to give myself permission to be whole, not a version of what other people hope I could be.
This is a tender edge. I forget that privacy isn’t just about withholding. It’s about returning. It’s about finding the part of myself that doesn’t need to be witnessed to be real.
I am becoming especially resistant to a version of myself I need to show the world to prove my goodness, to prove my worthiness of space, another breath, a seat at the table of creative expansion and enoughness.
I want a version of me that is whole and doesn't require performance or investigation. That doesn’t require defense, over explaining, or claiming my rightness. I open the door to change, I am naturally on the offense.
The less I contort myself to be understood, the more I am in connection — with self, Earth, Spirit, and others.
The interior threshold remains my connection to my higher power, which somedays feels like nothingness and other days feels like everything. Rarely an in between, but I continue to search with great faith.
I begin to trust my inner weather above the forecast. Storm as compass, not as failure.
A small note as I close: beginning this week Thursday, my longer, more interior writing will arrive for $5/mo, a new cadence for the deeper layers—longer essays, private process notes, early ideas, studio pages,
and the creative maps that shape my work behind the scenes.
If you were a paid subscriber in the past, you’ll need to sign up again, as the system doesn’t transfer previous subscriptions. I’ll share more on Thursday, but for now, consider this a gentle heads-up and an invitation to keep walking with me into this next season of the work.
As a thank you for riding the wave and returning to being a paid subscriber : everyone who signs up this week gets access to one of my most popular on-demand classes The Cartography of Time : Planning your creative and professional week while building systems that support your art and work
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P.S. A final note on no annual pricing for Monday Monday. After talking to a few peers I decided I wanted to keep the pricing the same for everyone, not reward people with more cash in hand to get a deal. I also like that it lets me pause or stop when I need to without promising too much ahead of time.