🛏️ What waking up at 1:30pm taught me about control

On letting go of rigid systems, surgery recovery, and building life around what actually matters

🔧 Your word of the year needs infrastructure (here's how to build it)

Between choosing a word and living it lies the missing piece everyone skips...

🌱 Why I'm calling 2026 my year of adventure

On choosing your word when life has already chosen chaos, and why my real new year starts in March...

🎯 When goals feel too heavy, try this instead

One simple word might be exactly what you need to navigate this year with more ease...

💫 A different kind of year-end reflection (no guilt allowed)

Looking back at 2025 with gratitude for resilience and the people who held us through it all

🌱 Playing to your own timeline (even when everyone else seems ahead)

A gentle reminder that your path is yours alone—and that's exactly as it should be

💤 Knocked out on the operating table (+ my favorite things of 2025)

Sharing my 2025 favorites while I recover—and stealing all your best show & book recs...

🤖 I stopped rolling my eyes at AI (and you might want to hear why)

From skeptic to daily user—how I'm using AI as a growth tool without losing my humanity.

🥧 Apple em-pie-nadas > Black Friday deals (fight me)

A quick hello between the inbox chaos and turkey comas...

🕯️ Gratitude when life feels heavy (not the toxic positivity kind)

On finding pockets of peace without dismissing the chaos, and why "at least" isn't actually gratitude...

🏃🏽‍♀️The race I almost didn't tell anyone about

How 46 minutes of running taught me to trust my body again (even after everything it put me through this year)

🎃Tackling my fears (and the fear of being afraid)

Why my boyfriend's one comment made me realize I've been afraid of the wrong thing...

🎯 What product management taught me about life (no, really)

Turns out corporate training has life lessons hiding in the breakout rooms...

🩼 6 weeks on crutches & the list that's keeping me sane

How I'm turning fear into intention (and why you might need this exercise too)

💔 When grief finally catches up to you

On delayed sadness, complicated love, and the dreams our abuelas made possible...

I need to be honest with you about something ❤️

I’ve cried on my way to work more times than I can count this month...

😏 The un-secret weapon I use every Friday

Sometimes the most radical thing you can do is remember you still have choices...

🎮 Reminder: you're holding the controller

Sometimes the most radical thing you can do is remember you still have choices...

🌻 Plot twist: maybe your goals need a glow-up too

Sometimes the best goal adjustment is letting go of what you thought you needed to accomplish...

🦸🏽‍♀️ Your origin story is your superpower

What Superman taught me about choosing who you want to be

🌱 The art of not rushing your own healing

Spoiler: your therapist is right (again) about giving yourself time and grace...

🎂 Fresh starts and birthday cake (in that order)

New job, new routines, and a whole lot of gratitude as I turn another year older...

💫 Stop networking, start friend-working

Why the best professional relationships happen when you forget you're "networking" at all...

💀 RIP to my corporate email (and my sanity)

Spoiler alert: getting laid off while dealing with a brain tumor wasn't on my 2025 bingo card...

🌻 Perfect Progression: This Newsletter