“…we need to be able to imagine positive, feasible, delightful versions of the future before we can create them. Not utopias, but futures where things turned out OK.”

If McGyver was the one stuck in Rapunzel’s tower, it would have been a very different story. That’s the story I want to live. That’s who I am when I’m fully connected to my core.

What if you sat with one question every day for a week. What if you let it nestle in your heart for the week? What if you listened to what it had to reveal? What if you followed it and stayed curious?

Aliveness is not neutral. Aliveness has boundaries, ethics, and clarity. Aliveness has passion. Aliveness is resistance to easy answers, rigid systems, perfectionism, grind culture, and disembodiment.

The work of thriving is real work. It takes choices, effort, intention. It also takes allowing, accepting, and receiving. I am so grateful for the people who have journeyed with me as friends, family, partner, therapist, coach, and other healers. No one gets to thriving alone.

Deciding to listen to your body is dangerous. Spells that set and hold your boundaries are dangerous. Letting yourself feel what you really feel is dangerous. Refusing white-supremacy-culture perfectionism is dangerous.

Who do you love? Pause and make a short list right now. Picture your top 3 to 5 people. Got ‘em?

OK. Now, tell me … are those 3 to 5 people perfect? Ha Ha, this is such a silly question. Of course they aren’t perfect!