Last week, I had to take a beat because my blood pressure was higher than usual. I don’t think my body has ever felt so viscerally anxious before, it was like my entire system was preparing for war.

We are living in the strangest, bleakest, and scariest timeline. I am constantly filled with a mixture of rage and sadness and dread.

Today I needed to be reminded that there are good things happening too. Not in a naive “choose joy” type of way, more in a “there are actually reasons to keep going” kind of way.

It does help that I have clients who are doing cool shit, which means I get to work on meaningful stuff even when it feels like the world is crumbling.

I wanted to share what some of them are up to, and also a glimmer list of things that have brought me some joy, relief, or pleasure over the last month.

Would love to hear some of your recent glimmers if you wanna share something good that’s happened lately ✨

Sand Chang and Nic Wildes just launched applications for their 10th cohort of QTIFS: An IFS Foundations Course for Trans, Nonbinary, and Queer Clinicians. Applications close June 10th. Cohort starts September 25th.

I was Zoom tech for cohort 9, which wrapped over the weekend, and got to see first-hand what an incredibly supportive and needed affinity space this is. (Shoutout to all the therapists who are holding it down right now, I hope you’re taking good care of yourselves.)

Lindsay Mack’s book Tarot for the Wild Soul and their Soul Tarot deck are officially out!

I received my book and deck yesterday and both are so, so beautiful. I may be adding a daily card pull to my bingo cards moving forward.

Lindsay Bronstein, integrative dietitian and health coach, just launched The Sweet Spot, a 3-week experiment to explore sugar, pleasure, and what your body is actually asking for.

Lindsay has such a grounded approach to body stuff — rooted in compassion and curiosity. (She also has an incredible Substack!)

MY GLIMMERS

1. I finally mailed in my passport renewal form (after 2 years of saying I was going to do it). I’m going to Costa Rica in September!!!

2. This week, I’ll have hit my 10th reformer pilates class 🤸🏽‍♀️

3. Kitty has been extra cute lately (see pic below)

4. I’ve restarted a personal writing practice, mostly because of Landscapes (I’m writing this newsletter in Landscapes rn)

5. Thanks to habit bingo, I’ve managed to take all of my vitamins and pills every day for the last 21 days

6. I’ve been reading more books lately — this is the one I just started (it’s the third in a series I’ve enjoyed over the last couple years)

7. I’ve been playing Mario Party Jamboree remotely with friends

8. I started seeing a new therapist

9. I found a local Aces meetup group for when I’m in NYC next month. I’m also finally going to see Titanique on Broadway

10. I get to spend 2 weeks in New York in June to cat sit for a friend

11. A new season of Perfect Match just started

12. I started using this spray and it’s kept my skin clear — I think it’s witchcraft (or maybe just science)

13. I’m starting to get a little faster with my tap moves

14. The Summer House reunion starts next week

15. I took Propranolol and then did yoga with my sister’s cat

    

16. Zara Larsson released Midnight Sun: Girls Trip

17. The last four minutes of this week’s Real Housewives of Rhode Island

18. These erasable pens that actually work well and provide some relief for my perfectionist OCD brain

19. This scene from Southern Hospitality (yes, that is me cackling in the background)

Here’s a glimmer for ya: Kitty sitting on her couch 😻 what a doll!!

Peace, love and workflows,

Andrea