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View this post on the web at https://jocelynkglei.substack.com/p/your-metaphors-are-shaping-your-reality Radiate is a twice-monthly newsletter that shares reflections on creativity & consciousness. If you can afford to become a paid subscriber, I would deeply appreciate your contribution to sustaining this work. Hi Friends- In recent newsletters, I’ve been writing about the power of words, and I want to continue exploring that theme today. This time through metaphor. In my late 20s, I worked with some friends at a design firm, and I can still remember how we used to speak about the power of metaphor. When we were pitching a client, if we could find just the right metaphor to communicate a concept, it made all the difference. Something would shift and the idea would just click — in a way that no amount logical persuasion could ever achieve. Two decades later, I am still reflecting on the power of metaphor. Metaphors, like stories, carry an energetic imprint. They act as a frame for what we can imagine. To be given a new metaphor is to be given a new way of seeing, a new possibility. Metaphor comes from the Greek word metaphora, which derives from two roots: Meta (μετά): Across, beyond, or over. Phora (φορά): A bearer or carrier, from pherein (to bear or carry) In other words, a metaphor carries over, or transfers, meaning from one thing to another. I would go even further and say that metaphor has the power to transmute: to change the way we experience an idea, a concept, or a situation — for better or for worse. Let me give you an example… Recently, I saw the Spanish film Sirât [ https://substack.com/redirect/e810acdb-3b80-429d-a10b-bfeff720d926?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ], which won the Jury prize at the Cannes film festival in 2025. The film was stunning, mesmerizing, visceral, and extremely disturbing. At times, it featured violent and shocking imagery that now feels impossible for me to un-see. Soon after that screening, I was chatting on the phone with a friend about the difficulty of a situation that I was navigating. And, in the process of speaking about it, I crafted a metaphor — inspired by the imagery of Sirât — to capture the essence of how uncomfortable I felt. The only problem was: The metaphor that I created was very upsetting. It took my situation and recast it within a violent landscape. Rather than being a source of comfort, it only amplified my anxiety. It took about 18 hours but I eventually realized what I had done with my words and how harmful it was — to have tied my experience to this dark touchstone. So I spent some time unstitching that toxic metaphor from my mind and re-imagining a new one that felt more nourishing. Now, you might think this sounds like a very abstract and intellectual exercise. (And, in a way, it is. You’re right. 🤓) But it’s also an exercise in understanding the energetics of words and images and ideas. Let me share another example… A few weeks ago, I wrote in this newsletter about a strange blankness [ https://substack.com/redirect/b5b6d46e-1815-4bd1-9d65-1eda78b8e205?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] that had come over my mind, using the metaphor of a Zamboni machine [ https://substack.com/redirect/c51b0416-6159-443f-b167-ff4d18a55f45?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] that was smoothing away the grooves of old thought patterns and habits to create a clean slate for a new way of thinking. But it’s worth noting that that wasn’t the first metaphor that came to mind for me. So unaccustomed was I to my mind being still, my first impulse was to go into my dark stories: that the brain fog that has dogged me for the past two years was back, that I would never be able to think again with the sharpness and acuity I once possessed, and so on. In truth: I had to consciously look at those dark imaginings and then rehabilitate them into a better metaphor — a soothing Zamboni reset for my brain rather than a sad, woe-is-me story of intellectual atrophy. From a cynical perspective, one could argue that this type of mental wordsmithing has a Pollyanna-ish quality. But I’m interested energy and possibility more than positivity. Words and metaphors carry vibration, and vibration radiates out and affects everything around us. As the writer Brian Klaas says: We control nothing, but we influence everything. We are co-creating our future in every moment, and that includes the words we use and the metaphors we choose. It is also true that we are living through a time that is (imho) particularly activating — collectively, politically, astrologically. And this past month of April was a real doozy. As I strive to navigate these wild energies with some modicum of grace and sanity, I am finding that I must be particularly attentive to the words, the imagery, and the metaphors that I am crafting in the innermost sanctum of my mind. Because those metaphors frame the limits of what I can imagine is possible. And if my metaphors are dark and disturbing, then a dark and disturbing future is all that I can imagine. As I wrote a few weeks ago, we are micro-dosing on our words every single day [ https://substack.com/redirect/b5b6d46e-1815-4bd1-9d65-1eda78b8e205?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]. We are constantly influencing ourselves (and others) with our language so there’s a certain responsibility there. This resonated again for me recently as I was listening to the astrologer Pam Gregory talk about the myth of Sedna [ https://substack.com/redirect/440c1987-ad73-4dd7-838c-b57d7bd965af?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ], the Inuit goddess of the sea, and some particularly potent transits that are about to unfold. She said: Every thought, every feeling, every emotion is putting paint on [a] blank canvas for creating new earth and moving forward into a higher octave of consciousness… so know your spiritual responsibility. I would add: Every thought, every feeling, every word, every metaphor. We choose how to frame the future. Let’s frame it with possibility and responsibility. Are you ready for a heart-centered approach to productivity? Save $100 on my RESET course. 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LINK ABOUT IT — If you haven’t tuned in lately, Cosmic Clowns [ https://substack.com/redirect/9a342a00-5de7-43f6-8481-14e040d715fe?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] — my podcast with my dear friend Sebene Selassie — recently dropped episodes on radiant sovereignty [ https://substack.com/redirect/9c428752-f915-488d-9f8d-8df90a3927e6?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ], letting go of scientific materialism [ https://substack.com/redirect/ce845445-f403-46d9-a47e-8fb309276807?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ], and what it means to embrace experimentation over expertise [ https://substack.com/redirect/626483b9-3c7f-45a2-b6ee-6fa0a2ed11ee?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]. A beautiful conversation about acting and life with Renate Reinsve [ https://substack.com/redirect/0ae531c8-0085-4a2e-8b65-979b1475bf28?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] from Sentimental Value and The Worst Person in the World. Two very good films, imho. I enjoyed this interview with the iconic Steward Brand on the importance of maintenance [ https://substack.com/redirect/6a27d34a-3fb0-496d-8ea9-85aa8a39bcef?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]. Hanif Abdurraqib on our longing for inconvenience [ https://substack.com/redirect/2ccfb76b-e0be-4a71-a359-81fbd5a8cb04?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ], which is making me think of this line from the cultural critic Lauren Berlant: “We cannot be in any relation without being inconvenient to each other [ https://substack.com/redirect/6927316d-5511-401b-aed7-a0075ea4b2a8?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ].” This piece on AI chatbots from John Oliver is fascinating and disturbing. [ https://substack.com/redirect/4e52cab7-db6c-40ce-8eea-8ba47b6528e0?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] Five great novelists on what it takes to write something true. [ https://substack.com/redirect/1c96919b-a02d-43d0-b53a-7f201644583a?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] Thanks for reading. 💓 If you’re ready to go deeper, there are a few ways to work with me: I teach folks how to take a heart-centered approach to productivity with my RESET course [ https://substack.com/redirect/410fc06a-f8ba-4017-87b2-4faa9e012065?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ], which is now featuring a special discount for readers (see above). I also offer transformative 1-1 sessions in the form of energy journeys [ https://substack.com/redirect/70e927a3-628a-4b53-9469-86837b229ab3?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] and alchemy coaching [ https://substack.com/redirect/0d1f30bd-3890-45f3-bffb-05b8d6fab772?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]. Learn more at jkg.co [ https://substack.com/redirect/eb305813-70b0-4b64-bf5e-ae1eeeaebf0f?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]. Unsubscribe https://substack.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.Hb-G84j43VF-Mw_fOvyoPiM19MIDzMVGuK0Z8VgGMSo?

View this post on the web at https://jocelynkglei.substack.com/p/why-do-we-keep-the-good-stuff-to Radiate is a twice-monthly newsletter that shares reflections on creativity & consciousness. If you can afford to become a paid subscriber, I would deeply appreciate your contribution to sustaining this work. Hi Friends- In my last newsletter [ https://substack.com/redirect/894a8f87-725e-47e1-8d99-278673ba2003?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ], I wrote about the power of our inner dialogues, and how we cast spells with our words. This week, I’m sharing the second part of my talk on “Casting Spells of Worthiness,” which discusses how we cast those spells outwards to others with the speech that we use, the words that we choose, and the energy that we infuse into those words. I hope it sparks something useful for you. Much love, Jocelyn Why Do We Keep the Good Stuff to Ourselves? — We are all such tender, impressionable beings, so much more than we acknowledge or even know. The children’s chant of “sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me” is hardly true. Words are incredibly powerful — they have the power to heal and they also have the power to harm. For better or worse, I bet almost everyone reading this essay has a story — frequently from your childhood or teenage years — where someone said something to you and it stuck, and you’ve carried those words with you all these years. I think one of the most common ways this shows up is with a teacher, a coach, or other authority figure saying something to you that reinforces the idea that you are — or are not — artistic, athletic, smart, graceful, etc. Especially when we’re young, we really receive the energy of those words in at a deep level. If that authority figure doesn’t see you, or your talents, the way that you see them, it can introduce some doubt. On the other hand, if they see a potential or a talent in you that maybe even you didn’t see, that reflection and encouragement can make all the difference. And sometimes that authority figure intentionally meant to influence you, but a lot of times they didn’t. They were just speaking, without really thinking about the power of their words, and yet here you are still carrying that memory around. So our words have this remarkable power. And it’s important that we acknowledge that power. Because if we acknowledge it, if we decide to place some consciousness there, we can do so much good with our words. One of the things I’ve noticed in myself as I’ve developed more consciousness around “my thoughts as words” is how often I will be thinking fondly of a friend, or some quality they have, or how much I appreciate them. And I’ve been observing how, most of the time, that just happens inside of my mind. It never gets communicated to them — they don’t hear the words. They don’t know or feel that good energy. We are so quick to share advice and constructive feedback, but what about appreciation and love and tenderness? Are we sharing those “good words” as much as we could? How can we offer those positive sentiments to those around us — in speech — as they arise? How can we take them out of our brains and make sure that they get shared? That we use the power of our words as much to infuse the world around us with love, as we use them for critique? * If you’ve travelled on the subway in NYC, you’ll know that there are these announcements that say, if you see something, say something. The MTA doesn’t make it explicit, but it’s pretty clear they mean those words in a negative sense. Like, if you see someone doing something bad or committing a crime, you’re supposed to say something. But I would like to propose this as a concept that we can invert for good. That is: if you see something positive, if you see the good in someone, if you see the care in someone, if you see the potential in someone, if you see the sensitivity in someone… if you see something that is good, that is positive, that is beautiful, say something. Or if you have that fond thought in your mind, pick up the phone and call someone and tell them what it is, or pick up your phone and send them a text and tell them what it is, or even just tune into them energetically with your mind and send them what I call a “telegram” about how much you love them, or how much you appreciate them. I guarantee that they will feel it. We keep so many of the good thoughts and the good speech and the good words inside of ourselves, forgetting to externalize them, forgetting to share those words with the people we love, the people we work with, the people we care for. And so, part of acknowledging the power of our words, part of acknowledging the power of our language, is to recognize how powerful it can be to speak those things — to speak that compliment, to speak that admiration, to speak that encouragement, to speak that love. If you see something in someone, say something. Not if you see something you think someone can’t do. But if you see something that you think someone can do. If you see something about their goodness, if you see something about their presence, if you see something about their energy, say it. Speak those words because they really, really matter. I remember I went to see this astrologer in Portland in my 20s, and he was looking at my birth chart and, almost in passing, he said: “You have the power to change the world.” And I believed him. I was like: Wow, I have the power to change the world. Let me go think about how I can make an impact… That is the power of our words. That is the power of expressing the abundance of what we see in people. * I want to close with this quotation from the depth psychologist and astrologist Jennifer Freed, from her book Use Your Planets Wisely [ https://substack.com/redirect/8be97ecd-420c-4fcb-9bf1-8cd67e646234?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]. This is what she describes as the goal of higher consciousness for people who have their sun in Gemini. Gemini, of course, being the sign of communication and words and language. Also my sun sign. Your words themselves are deeds. You speak only from a sacred understanding that every word is a living being. Your sentences are sacraments for others to know their worth and their beloved nature on this earth. That is my hope for how we can all use the magical, transformative power of words to relate to ourselves and to those around us. To understand our words as deeds, as sacraments, as living beings in and of themselves. p.s. Read part one [ https://substack.com/redirect/894a8f87-725e-47e1-8d99-278673ba2003?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] in this series on “Casting Spells of Worthiness.” LINK ABOUT IT — When I told a friend I was wrestling with some demons last week, she sent me this excellent Allison Russell video. Here’s how Russell describes it: “‘Demons’ is about looking our traumas, our fears, our pain and not letting them drive the bus [ https://substack.com/redirect/5a9c3d2c-cec5-41cd-8301-4fdef9485dd7?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ].” Amen. I recently watched The Velvet Queen, a breathtaking nature documentary about a photographer in search of a snow leopard in the mountains of Tibet. From the narrator: “I learned that patience was a supreme virtue. The most elegant and the most neglected. It helped you love the world. [ https://substack.com/redirect/62e0f1bf-ed98-4afe-948c-13d7fcb9ce17?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]” A beautiful interview between adrienne maree, Autumn Brown, and the artist Morgan Bassichis: “That’s the job of the artist — to be with the uncomfortable truth. [ https://substack.com/redirect/02f504fa-1cbd-4e9b-8149-96800ce70519?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]” The secret force behind America’s toxic solitude: “Americans spend more time alone—and less time socializing in-person—than any period in recorded history. [ https://substack.com/redirect/ee09beb2-2cbd-4faf-bb50-05b770f9fcb5?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]” On letting go of your smartphone: A fascinating look at what the people using dumbphones are carrying around in their bags. [ https://substack.com/redirect/89fa66fc-c006-430c-82b0-d144245b06f1?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] Thanks for reading. 💓 If you’re ready to go deeper, there are a few ways to work with me: I teach folks how to take a heart-centered approach to productivity with my RESET course [ https://substack.com/redirect/e1be161e-fdc8-4e4b-9944-ac296b6b2cbb?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]. I also offer transformative 1-1 sessions in the form of energy journeys [ https://substack.com/redirect/5320358a-49c1-4784-a0aa-d883537eff4c?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] and alchemy coaching [ https://substack.com/redirect/a1d214a9-afa0-4f0b-9b0e-822f75c6f4f8?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]. Learn more at jkg.co [ https://substack.com/redirect/05185122-764e-49e0-a00c-13a58f68b7e2?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]. 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View this post on the web at https://jocelynkglei.substack.com/p/youre-micro-dosing-on-your-own-words Radiate is a twice-monthly newsletter that shares reflections on creativity & consciousness. If you can afford to become a paid subscriber, I would deeply appreciate your contribution to sustaining this work. Hi Friends- My mind continues to be curiously still of late, which has been a bit unsettling. I am unaccustomed to this feeling of — blankness. It seems as if my brain has shifted into self-cleaning mode, and now there’s a Zamboni machine [ https://substack.com/redirect/cee52dce-f5f5-44f3-841f-2ad0fb08d344?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] slowly making its way across the glass of my mind, smoothing out the old grooves. So that’s why I’ve missed a few cycles of this newsletter. Apparently, an intermission was necessary to reset the stage for the next act. What’s the next act, you ask? Honestly, I’d like to know myself. What I can say is that I’m currently at work on a series of essays that move into new territory — stuff I previously haven’t felt super-comfortable talking about. I’m excited to share them with you soon. While that’s still percolating, I thought I’d share one of my favorite talks from the archives — in two parts. This is an excerpt from an event I hosted a few years ago called, “Casting Spells of Worthiness,” where I talk about the transformative power of words and how you can bring more compassion to your inner dialogue. As I was editing this piece to share on Substack, it felt like past me was sending a message to future me — one that she still very much needs to hear. I hope it resonates with you, too. Much love, Jocelyn You’re Micro-Dosing on Your Own Words Every Single Day — Some of you may be familiar with the book, The Four Agreements [ https://substack.com/redirect/dd1f20d1-cf5e-45c1-ab40-228d23b7b8ca?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ], by Toltec writer and teacher Don Miguel Ruiz. In that book, the first and most important agreement is, Be impeccable with your word. I remember being quite struck by that statement the first time I heard it, 20+ years ago. For a long time, I thought that statement, be impeccable with your word, applied only to the external world. To the world of speech. That is, to the words that I spoke to other people. And I interpreted it as: Say what you mean and mean what you say. And to a certain degree, it does mean that. But it also goes a lot deeper — essentially to the core of the creative, generative, magical power of language and of words. More recently, over the past six or seven years, I have begun to realize how much this agreement, be impeccable with your word, extends not just to the words that we speak to others, but to the words that we speak to ourselves, to the unuttered words that we speak only inside our minds. And as I became more and more aware of that, I realized how harsh and unforgiving and critical some of my own internal dialogue was. So I have been in a process for many years now of increasing my awareness around my inner dialogue — noticing the words I am using to talk to myself and the energy behind those words. And I have been working on remediating that dialogue, and transmuting that dialogue, into something much more loving, more tender, more encouraging, and more forgiving. I’ve made a good deal of progress, but I’m far from done. I don’t think one ever gets “done” with this sort of work, alas. That said, I reached a real inflection point about a month ago, where I realized that certain beliefs that this inner dialogue was constantly reinforcing now felt completely insupportable. I just couldn’t tolerate it anymore. At the time, I was reading the novel Circe [ https://substack.com/redirect/32cc99d5-d57c-4d1b-aad7-7deabe9f7898?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] by Madeline Miller. For those who don’t know, Circe is the goddess of sorcery and witchcraft, but in this story she starts out as a kind of loser goddess who gets picked on by the other gods and goddesses. Eventually, she discovers plants, herbs, and the practice of pharmakeia — the use of potions and spells — and she starts to uncover her power and practice magic. It’s a gorgeously written book, and there was a passage that really struck me when I was having a particularly intolerable day with my inner dialogue. So I decided to write it down on this large piece of paper in gold marker and I hung it on the wall across from my bed so that I would see it when I woke up every the morning. (I find that, particularly in the mornings, my inner dialogue can be rather harsh.) To give you some context for this passage, Circe has just swum to the bottom of the sea to find Trygon, an immortal creature with god-like status, and after she passes a test, he allows her to cut off part of his tail, which is incredibly poisonous. (She’s going to use the poison to carry out a witchy plan but I won’t go into that now.) Here’s the passage: His wings were lifting. The darkness around us shimmered with clouds of his gilded blood. Beneath my feet were the bones of a thousand years. I thought, I cannot bear this world a moment longer. And then Trygon says: “Then, child, make another.” And when you hear that quote, it might sound rather ominous to you, but I actually find it rather encouraging. It speaks to how much power we have to create the world we live in. I’m not talking about the external world here (though we are always co-creating the future), I’m talking about the internal world. And a massive way that we create that internal world is through our inner dialogue, and that dialogue then colors our perception of, and the way that we interact with, everything in the external world. We all have these thoughts and phrases and words that are regularly looping through our minds. Like, for example, the idea that you’re lazy and you should be working harder. Or the idea that you’re too sensitive and should have a thicker skin. And we usually have patterns of words and language that accompany these beliefs. Like, maybe you tell yourself to stop being a baby if you think you’re being sensitive, or maybe you tell yourself to get your ass in gear when you think you’re being lazy. We all have these small loops and repeated expressions that we use to talk to ourselves day in and day out. But there are also these larger mental loops and cycles: For instance, maybe when think you’ve said the wrong thing and hurt someone’s feelings, there could be a whole mental cycle that unfolds over many hours or days. Where you worry about being rejected by that person, and then you criticize yourself, and then you feel anxious about apologizing. (This is not something I have any familiarity with by the way, this is a purely theoretical example! 🙃) So there are also these larger thought loops and mental programs — and the self-talk that accompanies them — that we see unfolding in ourselves again and again. And all of that — all of those various levels of looping thoughts and words and phrases, large and small — they create so much of how we experience the world. Of how we move through the world, of how we understand the world. And to recognize how much power our words have, even just inside our minds, is a kind of magic. To come back to that quote from Circe: I thought, I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another. When we start to become conscious of the words and beliefs that are running on loop in our brains, we then have the opportunity to question them and to potentially shift them. If we don’t like the world they are creating, we can make another. That is the power of language. * I recently dug up a 1994 interview with the playwright, Suzan-Lori Parks [ https://substack.com/redirect/f3296b97-c5ea-481e-aebf-97aa06121535?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ], and in it she says, “Words are charms. Spelling is magic.” When we talk about spelling words, we forget about the root of what that word means, of where it comes from. It comes from magic, and the power of words to summon. Words are not just spelled. Words are spells. Language is the first magic. I had a wonderful conversation with the astrologist Caroline Casey many years ago, and one of the things she said to me was: “We are micro-dosing on our words.” Every. Single. Day. We are micro-dosing on the words that we are repeating again and again in our internal dialogue, and we are micro-dosing on whatever the energy is behind those words — be that the energy of tenderness, the energy of criticism, the energy of encouragement, or the energy of reproach. We can choose to micro-dose on medicine — words of soothing and comfort and encouragement and joy — or we can choose to micro-dose on poison — words of self-critique and blame and harsh judgment. So as we think about this core, primal, root connection between the spelling of words and the spells of magic, you might start to ask: What kind of spells am I casting as I talk to myself, as I repeat these ritualistic phrases again and again? What words and ideas and beliefs are you constantly reinforcing, and putting yourself in thrall to, with this inner dialogue, with your self-talk? The meditation teacher Tara Brach often speaks about the “trance of unworthiness.” I would go a step further and ask us to consider the idea of “spells of unworthiness” — to consider how the words we speak to ourselves can pull us into the thrall of that unworthiness, how they can keep us enchanted by our own unworthiness. I can’t say what’s true for you, but I certainly know that for myself, a not insignificant portion of my inner dialogue seems designed to keep me small, to keep me tame, to keep me in a state of undeserving. Now, let me share a metaphor with you, to help us picture in a real, 3D way how we cast these spells with our words and our thoughts. Imagine a spider web, and how it gets created. First the spider creates supporting struts, or core anchor points, attaching threads that radiate out from the middle to a tree branch, or a wall, or an attic corner. We can think of these struts, these anchoring threads, as our core beliefs about the world. They might be positive beliefs or they might be limiting beliefs. I’ll share a few of the limiting beliefs that I have used to anchor my web in the past, perhaps you may identify with some of them: The idea that things are hard (or even that they should be hard), the idea that I need to always anticipate the worst-case scenario, the idea that I don’t belong or don’t fit in, the idea that I am too much. These core beliefs become the anchor points around which we will build our web and cast our spell. That’s what the spider sketches out first, right? And then she spirals around and around and around, connecting her web to each of these anchor points. And those are the mental thought loops, the grooves of internal dialogue that we create and recreate again and again, spinning our spells and spinning our spells. As that internal dialogue loops around and around, we are weaving a story, we are weaving a lens through which to see the world. And, depending on how we choose our words, what we create can be a trap — a web we get caught in, a series of beliefs we fall prey to — or what we create can be a beautiful, intricate network of support that catches us, lovingly, like a safety net. So it’s worth considering: What are you weaving? What are the spells that you are casting with your words? p.s. Stay tuned for part two of this series on “Words As Spells” in the next newsletter. LINK ABOUT IT — The “ozempicization” of the economy [ https://substack.com/redirect/4ced2ea4-5b28-4e69-aa79-4bbad4e5d52c?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]: “Americans love optimization. So when things come along that promise to help us optimize even more, fast fixes with near immediate results, it’s hard to say no. We’ve built entire identities around being efficient.” Advanced techniques for avoiding writing. [ https://substack.com/redirect/c709b4c1-d78c-4f11-a552-36c3e7a78aa0?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] “Creative work requires solitude. ‘It needs concentration, without interruptions,’ as [Mary] Oliver advises. ‘It needs the whole sky to fly in, and no eye watching until it comes to that certainty which it aspires to, but does not necessarily have at once.’” AI critic Karen Hao on how we are being gaslit by the AI companies. [ https://substack.com/redirect/9caf8d74-9509-44de-9cd9-e999ab5cc0d3?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] This podcast is two hours long but absolutely worth the time if you’re curious. Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking. [ https://substack.com/redirect/9caf8d74-9509-44de-9cd9-e999ab5cc0d3?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] A fascinating and disturbing look at what “highly agentic” tech bros are up to. The shape of Paris. [ https://substack.com/redirect/8a91dedb-8be3-49e8-a02e-8be98db512f9?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] An elegant 9-minute film of a skateboarder cruising through the City of Light. A soothing break from the terror of the news. Thanks for reading. 💓 If you’re ready to go deeper, there are a few ways to work with me: I teach folks how to take a heart-centered approach to productivity with my RESET course [ https://substack.com/redirect/c1cf716b-a6fa-49bb-a34c-2c415dca0fa6?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]. 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View this post on the web at https://jocelynkglei.substack.com/p/on-getting-thrown-out-of-the-nest Radiate is a twice-monthly newsletter that shares reflections on creativity & consciousness. If you can afford to become a paid subscriber, I would deeply appreciate your contribution to sustaining this work. Hi Friends- As I approach this newsletter, I am finding that a need to be quiet has fallen over me like a fresh snow. So today’s missive will be short and sweet — a light reflection and a few questions. * About a month ago, as I was drifting around the house on a weekend morning, I decided to consult Pema Chödrön’s classic text When Things Fall Apart [ https://substack.com/redirect/f3dbfe98-e204-49b1-b340-ecfeeae08725?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] like an oracle. I closed my eyes and opened it to a “random” selection and this is what I found: The essence of life is that it’s challenging. Sometimes it is sweet, and sometimes it is bitter. Sometimes your body tenses, and sometimes it relaxes or opens. Sometimes you have a headache, and sometimes you feel 100 percent healthy. From an awakened perspective, trying to tie up all the loose ends and finally get it together is death, because it involves rejecting a lot of your basic experience. There is something aggressive about that approach to life, trying to flatten out all the rough spots and imperfections for a nice smooth ride. To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man’s-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. At this curious moment in history, I think that many of us are starting to feel into this tossed-out-of-the-nest energy as we navigate a strange, liminal no-man’s-land, without our usual collection of trusty twigs to shield us from the unknown. The question is: Can we see this strangeness, this disorientation, this confusion as an opportunity to feel even more alive, to become even more intimate with ourselves and each other? Can we let go of the expectation of a smooth ride, and let the full-body jangle of these spiritual potholes [ https://substack.com/redirect/493e9266-8ec9-42ec-9f63-7bc64c8ffa35?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] shake us awake? Can we turn the thing that we are scared of into the thing that is the most sacred? [ https://substack.com/redirect/eb56bf50-1849-42e6-afbf-e71df449bd3a?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] I don’t know the answers but these are the questions I am asking. And asking the questions creates the space for the answers to flow in. Much love, Jocelyn LINK ABOUT IT — Charlie XCX, Esther Perel, Jerry Saltz & more interview Robyn [ https://substack.com/redirect/d1c6767b-80d7-4f07-b847-4e618635d18b?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]. “I just assume that fear is a part of the process. If you’re not allowing yourself to be afraid, then there’s a big chance you’ll miss things.” A meditation on lost-ness from Bayo Akomolafe [ https://substack.com/redirect/ba0efd55-cc0c-4ead-b802-866fc12ed4a2?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]. “More than just a lack of precision, lostness calls into question the moral geometries that make precision, clarity, independence, authenticity, and power the exclusive organizing forces for transformation and difference. ” I’m excited for Priya Parker’s new book [ https://substack.com/redirect/e40ef1b9-fbbb-4901-94c9-8ad6374b8d6f?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]The Art of Fighting [ https://substack.com/redirect/e40ef1b9-fbbb-4901-94c9-8ad6374b8d6f?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]. [ https://substack.com/redirect/e40ef1b9-fbbb-4901-94c9-8ad6374b8d6f?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] Here’s what she says about it: “Though I am from a bi-cultural, bi-racial, bi-ideological family, I am a third-generation ostrich on both sides. When things get tense, I and the people I come from are very good at sticking our heads in the sand. So I come to this book as a conflict-averse conflict resolution facilitator. Which is why I know that conflict and the holding of healthy heat in our relationships is a skill we can learn.” Four strategies for financial contentment. [ https://substack.com/redirect/0803f9c1-08b7-4b72-b14a-70d78f9be67b?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] I’m a fan of Morgan Housel’s bestseller The Psychology of Money. My biggest takeaway: “Wealth is what you don’t spend.” Click through for some tips from his recent appearance on the 10% Happier podcast. The discourse is a distributed denial of service attack. [ https://substack.com/redirect/98a7e61f-c1e6-4c11-8827-d56bb6a906b4?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] Oliver Burkeman on why “nobody is ever ready.” [ https://substack.com/redirect/938c57d3-af81-44a9-9993-c2e1a34b5258?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] Thanks for reading. 💓 If you’re ready to go deeper, there are a few ways to work with me: I teach folks how to take a heart-centered approach to productivity with my RESET course [ https://substack.com/redirect/f8fb7a73-624d-4dc4-89a0-2b1808f2a0e7?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] and help sensitive souls move into new relationship with their creativity in my KILN community [ https://substack.com/redirect/999c685f-3b20-4a63-9b4a-f506be9306c1?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]. I also offer transformative 1-1 sessions in the form of energy journeys [ https://substack.com/redirect/ff60f651-a843-4cb4-b105-393136067d44?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] and alchemy coaching [ https://substack.com/redirect/47081d8c-a92c-4038-b48f-fe8ea259f37f?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]. Learn more at jkg.co [ https://substack.com/redirect/bbbdecae-641d-49a5-8d32-0cda1f58c14c?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]. ​✨ ✨ ✨ Shout-Outs:​ ​ ​The artwork is from: Elizabeth Builes [ https://substack.com/redirect/845d5a6f-8418-4b86-8793-a7fea4a394c4?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ], who is based in Medellin, Columbia. 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View this post on the web at https://jocelynkglei.substack.com/p/dont-trust-night-brain Radiate is a twice-monthly newsletter that shares reflections on creativity & consciousness. If you can afford to become a paid subscriber, I would deeply appreciate your contribution to sustaining this work. Hi Friends- It’s almost Valentine’s Day, the one day of the year when the bizarro culture that I am a part of chooses celebrate the most powerful emotion we can feel [ https://substack.com/redirect/a804001a-d126-47fb-90d6-69f2169c808d?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] — love. As I was writing this, I looked up Rihanna’s “We Found Love (in a hopeless place) [ https://substack.com/redirect/25a393c3-068c-4673-8e30-2f828c145719?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]” and was laughing at the YouTube comment that said: “Who’s here in January 2026?” Indeed, we are living through a moment that can feel extremely grim and we desperately need love — and joy! — as a counterbalance. (Could this be why Heated Rivalry has become such a global phenomenon??) This week, my friend Sebene and I are back with a new episode of our podcast, Cosmic Clowns [ https://substack.com/redirect/e1e2eea8-d586-47b1-90c7-db8577155476?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ], that explores the erotic — specifically through the lens of Audre Lorde’s conception of the erotic as “a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane.” How can our connection to the sensual, to joy, to beauty, to love help us anchor even more deeply into the present moment and feel more resourced in the process? Tune into our latest episode on “erotic presence” to find out. [ https://substack.com/redirect/e1e2eea8-d586-47b1-90c7-db8577155476?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] You know what’s not erotic? Anxiety! A seriously not-hot emotion that I spend way too much time wrestling with. Read on for a piece about my battles with “night brain” and the catastrophizing thoughts that come creeping in the night… Thank you for being here. Love is cool. [ https://substack.com/redirect/6f0b84d2-4d9e-4118-8c3d-f4648ac8bcd3?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] xo Jocelyn Don’t trust “night brain” — Isn’t it funny that the most powerful insights are also often the most obvious? They feel less like a lightning bolt of new information, and more like something you knew all along settling in a little deeper. My most recent such realization is that I cannot trust what I call my “night brain.” This is not a complex concept — I am talking about anything that happens in my brain when I am laying down in bed at night. Which is a lot of things and, frequently, they are not good. Night brain has two primary manifestations for me. The first is the “4ams”. This when I wake up in the middle of the night — usually around 4am — to go to the bathroom, and then my brain whirrs into action, like the evil inverse of an air purifier. Left unchecked, it rapidly begins spewing out toxic debris in the form of self-flagellating conversation reviews, worst-case scenario planning, and catastrophizing about the future. So far, I have found that the best way to stop these middle-of-the-night machinations is to never let them start. Lately, I have been laying my hand on my heart when these toxic thoughts arise, and simply saying: “Trust, my love.” As in: Trust that you are loved and that the universe — unlike your night brain — is not out to get you. In general, I am finding that — day or night — simply laying a hand on my heart and addressing myself as “my love” is a surprisingly soothing antidote to the sometimes abrasive tone of my inner dialogue. Fun sidebar: I also recently had a guardian angel appear during one of my middle-of-the-night anxiety attacks. A metaphorical big sister showed up to act as a “bouncer” for my negative thoughts. She stood — quietly implacable, arms crossed over her chest — blocking the doorway to my brain, repelling the rowdy, unkind thoughts that were trying to get in. That said, if the evil thoughts of the night brain do manage to get a foothold, I always have a fun read close at hand as a kind of Calgon-take-me-away [ https://substack.com/redirect/a2b55c73-dc63-48b7-bf51-bc44ddb680b1?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] option if I need to be lulled back to sleep. (I highly recommend the novel Greta & Valdin [ https://substack.com/redirect/1c0cc5d8-55ae-4c15-ad0e-4b80f5b9c448?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] in this category — funny, real, and relatable.) The second hurdle in the realm of the night brain comes as I awaken to my old friend “morning dread.” Old habits die hard, and one of mine is to lie in bed taking inventory of every little thing I could and “should” (??) worry about, carefully stacking each item on my chest until a great weight prevents me from getting out of bed. Sigh. But what I have to remember is: None of these thoughts are real. That until I climb out of bed and do my morning routines, I literally cannot trust a single thing that my brain is thinking. I was listening to a podcast recently where a man was talking about his teenage son, whose therapist called this phenomenon “bummer brain.” And, for the son, just realizing that he could give those nighttime thoughts a name, and that he didn’t have to trust them, was a great comfort. Sure, I would prefer that my brain were different — that it wouldn’t feel the need to transform into my worst enemy when I lay down at night. But wishing things were different is not a very effective strategy for change. Trusting my practices and putting my night brain in its place is. A few key practices I’m using lately: Light morning breathwork. Right after I wake up, I sit on the couch next to my dog and clear the channel with some breathing. I take ten deep breaths in and out, followed by forty kapalbhati [ https://substack.com/redirect/bc57b0c0-51f7-4e49-8bd4-6120e0ceece6?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] breaths. Then I repeat for three rounds. Five-minute dance party. I dance to one song in my kitchen to awaken my body to joy. Without fail, this always makes me feel better. Recent picks: Purple Hat [ https://substack.com/redirect/e27461f1-cecf-463a-a780-4e9bd4acc898?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] by Sofi Tukker, Facilita [ https://substack.com/redirect/fef2ac74-e77c-4343-9488-f2ffd6c82672?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] by Fred Again…, and Help Me Lose My Mind [ https://substack.com/redirect/0dadd5ee-3759-4ae7-8a14-d89ebe33b91b?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] by Disclosure. Woods walk. When I can, I take a good, long morning walk through the forest with my dog. Lately, the weather has been frigid but it still helps. As the writer Austin Kleon says: “Demons hate fresh air.” ✨ LINK ABOUT IT — What would love have me do today? [ https://substack.com/redirect/cce08e29-0e9e-4bd1-a0a6-37025b664e51?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] Thank you adrienne maree brown for this timely question. Why not getting closure makes you kinder. [ https://substack.com/redirect/c75142c6-7ee0-430f-812b-fb3b155f1fcf?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] A moving essay from Erotics of Liberation: “Research shows that people with a lower need for closure — those who tolerate uncertainty — process complexity more effectively.” A beautiful piece from Remind Me to Love [ https://substack.com/redirect/13b00289-029f-48e2-9add-9026111df27e?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ], quoting Franz Kafka: “Every day I watch the terror grow and every day I have to work, run errands, do chores — how to describe that contradiction, and how to survive it.” The only question we need to ask ourselves about our work. [ https://substack.com/redirect/ce6d2d2a-6585-4cba-be38-4500dbd40693?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] Love this: Affirmations vs Iffirmations [ https://substack.com/@dawnmauricio/note/c-208827074 ]. Thanks for reading. 💓 If you’re ready to go deeper, there are a few ways to work with me: I teach folks how to take a heart-centered approach to productivity with my RESET course [ https://substack.com/redirect/d97a1930-db5b-4d55-b091-c5b0e8cefcaa?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] and help sensitive souls move into new relationship with their creativity in my KILN community [ https://substack.com/redirect/ef2a56df-4664-4bb5-a00b-a764873eb3c2?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]. I also offer transformative 1-1 sessions in the form of energy journeys [ https://substack.com/redirect/461ca398-0dbf-4797-a846-06c37c92bf49?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] and alchemy coaching [ https://substack.com/redirect/6e39a2b8-97f1-4a1d-9828-52db10762181?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]. Learn more at jkg.co [ https://substack.com/redirect/24b72095-4006-4124-82a0-418f47a2572c?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]. ​✨ ✨ ✨ Shout-Outs:​ ​ ​The artwork is from: Brynjar Agustsson [ https://substack.com/redirect/4795b785-c4f5-4e0e-b7e9-7b1b46ef9aad?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ], who is based in Kopavogur, Iceland. Link ideas from: Ann Friedman [ https://substack.com/redirect/9a252192-5dca-4d56-a2e9-8a4872fda6b9?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]. 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View this post on the web at https://jocelynkglei.substack.com/p/what-if-creativity-is-the-antidote Radiate is a twice-monthly newsletter that shares reflections on creativity & consciousness. If you can afford to become a paid subscriber, I would deeply appreciate your contribution to sustaining this work. Hi Friends- About a year ago, a friend sent me Doechii’s 2019 bedroom recording of the song “Anxiety.” [ https://substack.com/redirect/5c23bed7-a615-43e0-a7d2-0b0c4631dcc0?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] I immediately became addicted to it and proclaimed it my 2025 anthem. Both the song’s sentiment and the video’s vibe felt prescient, like the pandemic had already started and Doechii was in her bedroom making music that was channeling the anxiety we were all feeling in 2020 — the tightness in the chest, the dread, the uncertainty. (Sound familiar?) After the 2019 recording resurfaced last year and floated around the interwebs gaining popularity, Doechii created an official version of the track which she released alongside an excellent and very anxiety-inducing video [ https://substack.com/redirect/a297fb58-984d-4b02-82b1-448def6b2d39?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ], in which among other things, a fireman sits lackadaisically watching as a huge fire breaks out in her kitchen and masked agents in all-black tactical gear smash through the windows, breaking into her house. In the 2025 video, she (again) channels the anxiety of the moment — the breakdown of governmental and aid systems, the violent invasion of our homes and our cities. (She also called out ICE in her acceptance speech [ https://substack.com/redirect/4aba3936-2ad3-4672-ac00-3832f074e3a8?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] at the BET awards this past June in LA.) “Anxiety” is now Doechii’s most popular song on Spotify with over 500 million plays; the video has over 60 million views on YouTube. Unfortunately, this 2025 anthem still feels highly relevant in 2026. And I’ve been wondering what I can do — what we can do — with all this anxiety. As I wrote in a recent newsletter [ https://substack.com/redirect/5d691f48-8bee-445b-8a63-fb0481a50ecf?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ], I’ve been reflecting on how we can transmute — or alchemize — our anxiety into something useful, into something nourishing, into something creative. At the beginning of the pandemic, I recorded an episode of my podcast Hurry Slowly, where I talked about the relationship between anxiety and intuition [ https://substack.com/redirect/e5c8562b-f687-4d0e-a574-3604993fb8ed?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ], and about how I see them as existing at opposite ends of the same spectrum. When we are deep in the throes of our anxiety, I believe that it cuts us off from our intuition. And that when we are deeply connected to our intuition — to source, to the sacred, to our highest selves — we feel significantly less anxiety. In essence, anxiety obscures, or blocks, our access to our intuition, to our creativity, and to our own deepest knowing. Since I released that episode back in 2020, I’ve been continuing to think about the relationship between anxiety and intuition, between anxiety and creativity — trying to understand the intricacies of that relationship, how it works, and how to unlock it. I once heard someone say that anxiety arises when we are acting from our conditioning — all of the ways in which we are trained to be good, docile, productive members of society. And that intuition and creativity arise when we are connected to what is sacred, when we are connected to what is divine. As my friend Sebene and I talked about on our [ https://substack.com/redirect/7e3af8ed-24d1-4b8f-8fdb-d03651b43f4b?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]Cosmic Clowns [ https://substack.com/redirect/7e3af8ed-24d1-4b8f-8fdb-d03651b43f4b?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] podcast [ https://substack.com/redirect/7e3af8ed-24d1-4b8f-8fdb-d03651b43f4b?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ], there is this twinning, this reflection of SCARED and SACRED, where just one letter of the word moves and you have a whole new meaning. Anxiety arises from our fearful conditioning, creativity arises from being in sacred connection. Recently, I was listening to an episode of the Telepathy Tapes podcast called “The Consciousness of Creativity [ https://substack.com/redirect/492e5fab-c341-44ea-91c0-e22a1b1876b3?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]” and another piece of this puzzle fell into place. The sociologist and writer Martha Beck was talking about her own exploration of the relationship between anxiety and creativity, which she recently wrote about in Beyond Anxiety [ https://substack.com/redirect/03855014-047c-497e-8e0e-6ea020503b65?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]. Here’s what she says about it on the podcast: I realized that the same mechanism that gets activated in anxiety, the same physiological structures on the left hemisphere are mirrored on the right hemisphere, but when you activate them in the right hemisphere, they exhibit themselves as creativity. So the counterpart to anxiety is creativity, and I realized there’s a lot of research that shows anxiety shuts down creativity. There’s virtually no research to see if the opposite happens, if creativity shuts down anxiety. And so I started doing my own research, doing experiments. This was during the pandemic, so I had a lot of audiences on Zoom where I could do my own sort of little numeric exercises to see if people turned on the creative parts of their brains, would their anxiety drop? And without exception it did. It drops to zero in most people, if I would give them just little brain challenges that I knew would activate the right hemisphere of the brain. Which, by the way, takes in the whole brain. It’s not the right or the left. The left hemisphere cuts out the information that’s coming from the right or it can, the right hemisphere is inclusive and connective, and it embraces everything we know and puts it together in creative ways. … And there’s just a rapid transformation from a tiny, scared creature into a vast field of energy that is working with this little human mechanism to create things that have never existed before. We’ve known for a long time, anxiety shuts down creativity, but I believe it’s also true that creativity shuts down anxiety. Beck essentially reiterates this idea that creativity and anxiety are mirror twins, emphasizing this magical transformation that we can effect in moving from a scared state into a sacred or mystical state. I also loved that she turns the notion that “anxiety shuts down creativity” inside out, transforming a negative conception into a positive one — that engaging with our creativity has the power to shut down our anxiety. As the anxiety of our world feels more and more overwhelming, as the regime takes increasingly brutal and violent actions to keep us in a state of fear, we must remember that in trying to keep us scared, they seek to cut us off from the sacred. They seek to cut us off from our creativity, from the vast reach of our imaginations, from the incredible power of being in sacred connection with ourselves, with our neighbors, and with the world. Dark futures are not the only thing on offer. We are worried about the uncertainty, and we are worried about the unpredictability. But, as Rebecca Solnit notes in a recent essay [ https://substack.com/redirect/c9485a98-10e5-4dd9-8fb3-05ea647ff4ed?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] referencing Howard Zinn: History is utterly unpredictable. Anything can happen. * In that original 2019 video, there’s a sign tacked up on the door of Doechii’s bedroom. It says: THE FUTURE IS NOW. If the future is now then we are co-creating it in every moment — with every word, every thought, every action, every interaction. And the more that we can soften our anxiety, the more that we can activate our creativity. So that we can create new stories, new visions, and new futures. Are you ready to reignite your creative fire? 🔥 — There are only 10 days left to register for KILN [ https://substack.com/redirect/5c2c05a5-9d32-4fe6-9e01-e6842bfba1a2?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ], my 9-week incubator for creative transformation that kicks off on February 10th. One of the core practices that we will explore in the program is how to release anxiety so that you can tap into sacred connection with your creativity, using a technique that I call “clearing and comforting.” You’ll also learn how to cultivate a consistent creative practice, engage with your creativity with more ease and flow, and navigate the uncertainty of letting new ideas, projects, and personas find their voice. Past participants have called it “soulful, inspiring, and deeply compassionate” and “a magic portal to slip into flow, connection, and nurture a more supportive and loving relationship with your creativity.” Learn more and register here [ https://substack.com/redirect/5c2c05a5-9d32-4fe6-9e01-e6842bfba1a2?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]. LINK ABOUT IT — An interview with Hamnet and Nomadland director Chloe Zhao about learning how to love [ https://substack.com/redirect/2f666edd-a104-459b-bd73-96a394babe07?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]. “Past performance is not indicative of future results.” Rebecca Solnit on immigration and assumptions. [ https://substack.com/redirect/c9485a98-10e5-4dd9-8fb3-05ea647ff4ed?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] A fascinating conversation with ethicist/philosopher Amanda Askell [ https://substack.com/redirect/201ab92c-c7ca-47eb-a12f-f7088707fdec?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] about the “AI constitution” they created for Claude. Tara McMullin on grieving our future selves [ https://substack.com/redirect/8da7fadb-9a3f-40aa-837f-49bae5858354?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]. The new trend for 2026: Friction-maxxing [ https://substack.com/redirect/a3a08bfb-423b-443e-8e85-8adc4a844786?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]. Thanks for reading. 💓 If you’re ready to commit to a deeper exploration of creativity & consciousness, KILN — my sacred space for creative transformation — is open for registration through February 9th [ https://substack.com/redirect/5c2c05a5-9d32-4fe6-9e01-e6842bfba1a2?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]. I also teach folks how to take a heart-centered approach to productivity with my online course RESET [ https://substack.com/redirect/59470ec9-5523-44ae-98cc-5fe8e50c01f6?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] and offer transformative 1-1 sessions in the form of energyjourneys [ https://substack.com/redirect/2aa4dae5-1838-474e-8456-9d65ae18a802?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] and alchemy coaching [ https://substack.com/redirect/36247c47-7e8e-4cdd-a0d8-5a2d8eed6da9?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]. Learn more at jkg.co [ https://substack.com/redirect/b47612af-7801-4085-a362-114004e733e7?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]. ​✨ ✨ ✨ Unsubscribe https://substack.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.vDWFSoaS8khpP2OEqq29Zoid6Nj9rVwOz1doVWetYuk?

View this post on the web at https://jocelynkglei.substack.com/p/true-power-is-the-free-flow-of-love-eff Radiate is a twice-monthly newsletter that shares reflections on creativity & consciousness. If you can afford to become a paid subscriber, I would deeply appreciate your contribution to sustaining this work. Hi Friends- In a newsletter I wrote early last year, I felt into the energy of 2025 and tuned into the word “fortitude [ https://substack.com/redirect/71050b0a-2965-47e0-8490-399f775c52fc?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]” as the medicine we needed. That word still rings true for me in 2026, though I might now add “adaptability” to the list. Because this is not a moment where things are fixed and predictable — from one month to the next, or even one day to the next. For myself, I am finding that I have set my expectations aside (again and again) in order to respond to what is really present. And I have to get my intel on what is happening “in the present” from sources that are grounding and nourishing so that I can act from a place of steadiness. In that spirit, two recommendations this week: This podcast [ https://substack.com/redirect/c6446f18-9c6a-49d5-bec6-b6494c3964c4?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] with adrienne maree brown and her sister Autumn Brown, who lives, works, and organizes in Minneapolis. Brown’s perspective on the killing of Renee Good, how folks are organizing in response it, and the local context within which this is all unfolding is both illuminating and inspiring. I also enjoyed this conversation [ https://substack.com/redirect/9f9effcf-9cd4-4334-91a5-5a00d7fe8d5a?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] with Texas representative and Senate hopeful James Talarico about reorienting our discourse towards a politics of love. While I certainly don’t agree with all of his perspectives, it’s refreshing to hear a politician who’s getting some buzz talk about centering love. Speaking of love, this was a week where I needed to remind myself — many times — to come back to my heart rather than living in a space of fear and anxiety. I’m also in full-on packing mode as I prepare to sell my house, so I’m reposting an essay from deep in the archives — a little reminder about love, authenticity, and finding your power. Sending warmth, Jocelyn p.s. There are only a few weeks left to register for my 9-week incubator for creative transformation, KILN [ https://substack.com/redirect/0646d41e-b750-40af-8b71-32d21f2f6617?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ], which kicks off on Feb 10th. Scroll down for more details! True power is the free flow of love — Over the past many years, I have noticed myself talking more about being “in” my power. Whether that’s wanting to step into my power, wanting to be with someone who is in their power, etc. But what exactly does that mean? To be “in” one’s power? Lately, I’ve been thinking about how we give our power away. While I was doing some healing work a few weeks ago, I had a strong, visceral experience of what it felt like to give away my power. Not surprisingly, it did not feel good. I felt small, weak, lost, bereft — helpless. So now I’ve been paying attention to how that happens for me — how I give my power away. It seems to be primarily in situations where I am trying to earn someone’s approval or acceptance, where I am trying to be “good.” There is a sense, in these moments, that I am trying to be somebody for somebody else. That is, rather than being myself, I am trying to contort myself into who I think someone else wants me to be. I am trying to fit into their definition of “good” — rather than my own. And that is where the power leaks out — in thinking that I should be looking anywhere else, to anyone else, to understand how to be me. In thinking that there’s a way to get it “right.” Which, by extension, means there’s a way to get it wrong. * A wise being recently told me that true power is the free flow of love. I am fully onboard with this beautiful definition, but I am still sitting with the implications. It’s a lot to absorb within the context of a culture that has very different notions about what constitutes power. But let’s run with it. If power is the free flow of love, then what is happening when we give away our power? One perspective might be: When we are trying to be “good” by someone else’s standards, we are restricting the free flow of love to ourselves until some external approval is obtained. We are not allowing ourselves to receive love until some outside criteria is met. Another perspective might be: When we get lost in imaginings of how we are wrong, or how we have been wronged, we are actively choosing to dwell in the smallness of separation. To cut ourselves off from the expansive possibilities of love (and thus power) all around us. I think of these looping thoughts of wrongness — which I personally find quite tempting to indulge in — as “paths of diminishment.” When we follow these paths, we willingly choose to pursue thought patterns that increase our anxiety, our anger, our resentment, and our separation from others and from ourselves. They make us feel diminished and unworthy of love. And the further we walk down these paths of diminishment, the further we stray from ourselves, the further we stray from our power. It’s like unraveling a ball of yarn. (In this metaphor the ball of yarn is your power intact and inviolate.) Each time you wander away from yourself down one of these paths of diminishment, you carry a strand of your power. And little by little, the ball of yarn unravels as we wander away from ourselves again and again and again. How can we wind it back up? How can we re-collect — and recollect, as in “remember” — our power? My friend and teacher Lorraine says, “Everything comes to you because you’re really being yourself.” To be yourself, fully, is to open to the free flow of love — and thus to power. To not block that flow by trying to be somebody for somebody else. To not block that flow by trying to be “good” by someone else’s standards. To not block that flow by trying to contort yourself into an unnatural shape in order to fit in. You must give yourself the approval you need. You must choose yourself. No one else can do it for you. Are you ready to commit to your creativity in 2026? If you’re ready to commit to a deeper exploration of creativity & consciousness, KILN [ https://substack.com/redirect/0646d41e-b750-40af-8b71-32d21f2f6617?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] — my sacred space for creative transformation — is now open for registration through February 9th. Past participants have called it “soulful, inspiring, and deeply compassionate” and “a magic portal to slip into flow, connection, and nurture a more supportive and loving relationship with your creativity.” Learn more and register here [ https://substack.com/redirect/0646d41e-b750-40af-8b71-32d21f2f6617?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]. LINK ABOUT IT — "You don’t need to know who you are to become an artist. Art moulds us into the shape it wants us to be and the thing that serves it best. As a songwriter, I have come to understand that the more I try to make art that somehow reflects what I perceive myself to be, or the identity I wish to project upon the world, the more my art resists. Art doesn’t like being told what to do. It doesn’t like me getting in the way. When I attempt to impose my will upon it, the work becomes diminished and art takes its better ideas elsewhere." —Nick Cave, The Red Hand Files [ https://substack.com/redirect/6ecc26aa-35df-4b65-a97a-e1ea6933fdfb?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] + Rip it up and start again — a bold strategy for second drafts. [ https://substack.com/redirect/7d7d703d-82b1-4927-90cb-03e55ba5e268?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] + When I want a thrill, I walk to the corner store without my phone. [ https://substack.com/redirect/92555398-8c11-49b2-81f7-846884d45374?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] + Exploring the phenomenon of “mind sight,” seeing without eyes. [ https://substack.com/redirect/c2227d8d-f70d-4ed4-b08f-b2077485cb54?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] + Fredrik Backman on creative anxiety and procrastination. [ https://substack.com/redirect/87e90ead-d7c9-493f-8a2b-63ee01cb9c11?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] + The two questions that kill our creativity. [ https://substack.com/redirect/37838865-c8a6-41c2-a59f-10cb9d2f4716?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] + How to get over the end of the world. [ https://substack.com/redirect/20a6fedb-22c9-4b6f-8e4c-875263b3e65c?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] Thanks for reading. 💓 If you’re interested in working together: I help folks enter into a new relationship with their creativity in KILN [ https://substack.com/redirect/0646d41e-b750-40af-8b71-32d21f2f6617?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ], teach recovering over-achievers how to take a heart-centered approach to productivity with my online course RESET [ https://substack.com/redirect/46e0218c-d1ab-4056-9b67-34ab4669b809?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ], and offer transformative 1-1 sessions in the form of energy journeys [ https://substack.com/redirect/5a4adc52-eb9e-4a32-9cfd-5f5b6e88c2db?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ] and alchemy coaching [ https://substack.com/redirect/141acfd2-a2b5-4a91-8897-da8363ff9c60?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]. Learn more at jkg.co [ https://substack.com/redirect/d6e79a17-9eb9-4aba-b832-daa4962f8e98?j=eyJ1IjoiNzRiZXZxIn0.26TDO4Ygo5l69NnkPzr2Ax0IIjv-K5IWcmNJKcK8PLY ]. Unsubscribe https://substack.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.X0SXSmSIV3Qnm2xhzrH8YnHA6UN0T7bVP6efrNxtAxA?

[https://eotrx.substackcdn.com/open?token=eyJtIjoiPDIwMjYwMTA1MDcxMzE2LjMuY2YyZjM4MzYxM2M5MzIyOS4xbWpqZmNzakBtZy1kMC5zdWJzdGFjay5jb20-IiwidSI6NDMwNTE0MTk4LCJyIjoibUBlbWFpbC5nb21vZHVsci5jb20iLCJkIjoibWctZDAuc3Vic3RhY2suY29tIiwicCI6bnVsbCwidCI6bnVsbCwiYSI6bnVsbCwicyI6NDg3Nzk2MiwiYyI6InVuZmluaXNoZWQtc3Vic2NyaXB0aW9uIiwiZiI6dHJ1ZSwicG9zaXRpb24iOiJ0b3AiLCJpYXQiOjE3Njc1OTcxOTYsImV4cCI6MTc3MDE4OTE5NiwiaXNzIjoicHViLTAiLCJzdWIiOiJlbyJ9.J4LbDdoAWnBK1-ftvh-p7KLVZGZ-qP4OysgvKcznf44] I am so honored to have you here as part of this community dedicated to creativity & consciousness. ͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­ Radiate [https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xbzK!,w_80,h_80,c_fill,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F09f8b4ed-b930-421b-8fa3-f75e45330e48_1024x1024.png] I am so honored to have you here as part of this community dedicated to creativity & consciousness. If you’re not already familiar with my writing, you can peruse the full archive of my essays here [https://email.mg-d0.substack.com/c/eJx00EuK5SAUxvHV6KyCj1yNAwcNTbYRfBwTU1GDj4K7-6bSk-pBjw_n48ffmQ57qW89cog5tgP8Rxu2uRrvHkvGXgtuwstj0FQK-VKSKoEhmXhtO2SopoPfTP9xVUziQ8_SBcOtNc5TsUjgjgmvAneglKXG46gZYYJQ8iKSciomPrnAAl-4oNwpzpiaaDrP4NqJZpL2D0-mb1s37nNyJeHYtlDhseheB-BLH73fDfFfiK2IrWdxcL3z535B_OcVsdVUd8QvQHxtpXbEf_dy43vYzZWURo79vUE29gL_d_se9orOfEfZotfzIqUSDFed0Ewew7SXVPy46oNrw_qSTMz6pwL3_5YeDeqzzMmLzlQt-EuzPwEAAP__HFKMOA] and see what speaks to you. A few of my personal faves are: * How do we create context when the world is falling apart? [https://email.mg-d0.substack.com/c/eJx00Luy2yAQgOGnER0aLgJMQZHGr6HhspLwEaDhEsdvnzlO4xSn3tndb35vO-ylvszIW8yxHRBwG675Gq8eS0bBSG43ERAYqqQSWlEtESQbz3WHDNV2CKvtH1PNFDoMY2wRWtPAtyClEA5uDlRYhAjggpMoGkaYJJQIoiincuaz39jGb1xS7jVnTM80PR6bb49pIWnHgczftm791-xLQrGtW4W3xfQ6AJ3m6P1qE_81sfvE7o_i4Xzlr_2E-N_qxO7XxO5HeeJQ8BOwr2A7YF9yhz8dPw_IuB8x7w1dw62-pDRy7K8VsnUnhH__ruHO6O13qDUGs9yU0pKhatK0kLdr3ksqYZz1DW7DhZJszOZThvqP9UeD-r7MiaAL1Tf027C_AQAA__-RVpMb] * On self-acceptance and walking beside yourself [https://email.mg-d0.substack.com/c/eJx00Luu3CAQgOGnMd1aXAwsBUWafQ0Lw-DFy8XikshvHx2nOSlOPZqZT781HfZSLz2yDzm0N7hHG1uzNZw9lIycFsx47hBoIoXkShIlECQT4rpDhmo6uNX0b1NFJXprwZ3nGLiS0nNOCZOwcY7xAvB0jksUNMVUYII5loQRMbPZeurZkwnCrGKUqpmk4_C2HdOC0_5weP6ydWM_sy0Jhbb6CrdF9zoARf3u_WwT-zXR10RfR7EQr_zZI4T_Vif6Oif6-mPiJ-T9sUELDh5XGbVB9Ogc22pLSiOHfq2QzRbB_Xtxji0Ga77arMHp5SmlEhRVnaYF35R5L6m4EettbGNzJZmQ9XcM6j8GHw3qfZlhThainui3pn8DAAD__62njfg] * Why worry is my least favorite condiment [https://email.mg-d0.substack.com/c/eJx00TuO5CAQBuDTmMwWFDY2AcEmfQ0LQ-Gmh4fFY0a-_Wp6k9lg4lJVffp_oxueudyqJ-eTr0-0Y-1HNcVfzedErBJcu8USVGwV6yJXJgXBqH3YT0xYdEO76_ZjKmElT2WXbQEAp9msZ9gMLrOQ_NCLmzlQxohXQEFQRhe6Ms7ExCfjwPGNC8aN5AByYvH1cqa-hpnGc7R0-rY1bT4mkyPxdXcF3xbVSkcS1LO1qw78zwCPAR6vbDDc6eMM6P9bHeBxDfD4et7jVy7lHn0d4z0G1LWNTn_m4huOJifrI6ZGrn7sJsfYk2_3jkkfAe2_n1c_gjf6O6zdWzVv6yoFkKLiMNO3bTpzzLaH8kbXftgctU_qp460XxvoFcv7MqcLm5ncyKeCvwEAAP__GXWUIQ] * In praise of dog wisdom [https://email.mg-d0.substack.com/c/eJx00DuypSAQgOHVSKbFQ0ACgknchsWj9eAVsHjM1Nn91HWSM8GNu7r7q9-ZBkcub93THlKoL_Bj7ba6Eu4WckJeC2Z27hFoIoXkShIlEEQTru2ABMU08JtpH1NFJXppK5kAZbhV4JxRgnvKxcKto5hxIgAFTTEVmGCOJWFETGxyO93ZwgRhTjFK1UTiee6unsOM4zF6PH3bmnFfk8sRhbrtBR6LbqUDuvSrtbsO7NdA14GuZ3ZwvdPXcUH4b3Wg6z3QNaTxLiZUGPM--nyMf0L1OaK7283lGHsK7b1BMvYC_-_F3e0VnPluswWv50VKJSgqOg4zfijTkWP2_SqPsXbrczQh6U8Maj8G7xXKc5lhTmaiFvRb078BAAD__9SMjdQ] * Creativity vs Efficiency [https://email.mg-d0.substack.com/c/eJx00DuO4zAMgOHTWF0MPRwpKlRsk2sYelAOM5Zk6BHAt1-Mt5ktpiZIfvi97bCVepqRI2ZsLwi3NlzzFY-OJZNgpLDxHggYpqS6a8W0JJAs7usGGartEFbbf0w1V-RlVIjSaubAPQCE1yAW52KMcXHROwCChlMuKaN3qphgchazjzyKh5BMeC041zNL73f07T0tNG23QOdvW7f-a_YlEWxrrHBZTK8DyG5evR9tEn8m_pz481087Gf-2nbA_1Yn_jwm_vQVbMcP9vP2aTeIET1C9ic5hlt9SWlk7OcK2bodwr8fx3A7evsdZ8VglodSWnJSTZoWelnmraQSxl4vZBsulGQxm58a0n8tPhrU67Kgd7Yw_SAfw_8GAAD__wqdkKQ] If you would like to support me — and participate in the Radiate community in a deeper way — please consider becoming a paid subscriber. In addition to my twice-monthly essays and link roundups, paid subscribers have the ability to: * Attend my monthly 90-min, live “Radiant Attention” gathering, where I share reflections & lead a brief guided energy meditation to prepare us to drop into a nourishing free-form space for creation, contemplation, and play * Participate in the Substack Chat, where I share contemplative prompts and questions to invite you into deeper discussion around creativity & consciousness Upgrade to paid [https://email.mg-d0.substack.com/c/eJx0ks1ymzwYha9G7MwgCYRZsMgXx_PhFjLtuHGaDSP0gwUIufqJY199JzTNpItspVdH5zznZdSL3thLGWapZuWOgq9c6Byz6uSVmSNeEkxlxiNRwpzkWZHDgkRCUzW1vZiFpV7wlvoPtwXKo2NJZSfTnHQS0RxSxGWBucBCyi7DOccsUiVKEElgkiU5xJDEOGYSSbzGBGJWYISKGOphkMwNIE10v-JJ_OrNUzbGzOhIuVZasXgpvQ0imsqj9ycH8A1AW4C2g2FiusxjPwn1z1OAtm8pOwHwNnjdOhMsEwBvPiEBEHkdY1SfqOpngDfLxyt2FGw0wQNELMCbPO3E8y-AiDejWKYuO8jQw-URTWM1mKS-3sB6_-3lft-7Sk9HfluRes9Qc_2RNde7rFFn9fR4PFeDeWmu7Fzv-6zej-jr7e7EcK3u1e7MD5VvNj1uriOqVeWquYE_VUUq3ZinQ2M7_JBUcxI_p-3hXNnLqvmS8vub74_2f3Xr7oo02Y87d63Fy7qnh6H5T41v8bTgKui_4d4O39G8M1udFe-Fj06ha5nROszKX1ox024S_E8Xp9BNitFXdK3iZbrO84KgyJYapMmiHvdGGx4mu5TpQseNpmouP7YW-U83MzhhF2WcZDCFxTp6LtHvAAAA__9dqfaB] A QUICK TOUR OF MY OFFERINGS… Beyond my writing, I also work with folks in a variety other ways to help them move into deeper creativity & consciousness… I create a warm playful space for creative realization in my KILN community [https://email.mg-d0.substack.com/c/eJx0kDmu4zAQRE8jZha4SKQZMJjE1xC4NGVKXAQuA_j2A2uSn_y40fVeldUd9lI_amQfcmhvcI82TLM1XD2UjJziTPvVIVBEcLFKQSRHkHSI2w4Zqu7gNt1_XCUV6K2w11Y4slpDuASNV2CL5wsDt2C8aoOCophyTPCKBWGEz2y2nnr2ZJwwKxmlcibpOLxtx7TgtD8cnr9uXdtztiWh0DZf4XZRvQ5AUb17v9rE_kz0NdHXce6zLRN9nSFmdA2z2ZLSyKF_NsjaRHD_H69hYrD623gLTi1PISSnqKo0LfgGzHtJxY1Yb3IbxpWkQ1ZHsRA_-dwjBNR_nXE0qHcywytZiHyiv4r-CwAA__-1in5K], teach folks how to take a heart-centered approach to productivity with my RESET course [https://email.mg-d0.substack.com/c/eJx0kL2u4yAQhZ_GdLFgsMEUFNvkNSwMg4NjwOJnpbz9Kt7mNrcezfm-c6xpuOfy0T35kEJ9oXvUvlVbwtVCTsRpwY2fHUHNpJCzkkwJgtGEc90xYTEN3Wraj6sCSV7aA3hH7cYWJikoBWJRC_ppZlQyRmcSNFAQlNGZSsaZGPloPXi-cMG4VRxAjSweh7f1GCYa94ej49etGfsebY4k1NUXvF10Kx3JqV-tXXXgfwZ4DvA83vto8wBPm3upWMnVt9XmGHsK7bNiMtuJ7v_v1bczWPMtvQanp0VKJYAUHYeJ3oxxzzG7fpYbXvvmcjQh6SNbPD_pvZ8YSPt1yV6x3MmczmxiaiF_NfwLAAD__wQCfmM], and host the Hurry Slowly podcast [https://email.mg-d0.substack.com/c/eJx0kLuypCAQQL9GsrF4CRIQbDK_YSG0isPD4rFb_v3WuMkmN-7qPqePNQ32XG7d0-aTrwe4V-1rtcVfzeeEnBbMbJNDoIkUclKSKIEgGh-WHRIU08Atpv03VVSiQxs-YzeBpIY7ZZRThBMFEmbJYVqNQ15TTAUmeMKSMCJGNtqNbmxmgjCrGKVqJPE8N1vPgeO4vxwev27N2M9oc0S-LluBx0W30gEFfbR21YH9Guh7oO-jl3LXkP-Ee7QZXX1dbI6xJ9_uBZJZA7h_m1dfg7fm-_LineazlEpQVHQcOH4I455jdj2UB1376nI0PukzWwh3-uwBPGo_duwVynOZ4elbYka_Nf0bAAD__7oEf5k] — which is all about undoing our obsession with doing. A few of my favorite Hurry Slowly episodes include: My conversations with adrienne maree brown [https://email.mg-d0.substack.com/c/eJx0kDmunjAYRVeDux95ABsXLtKwDeThA8zzgDwkYvfRI02aV1_p3KNjdYMjl0f1tPvk6wnuU7uptvi7-ZyQU5zpfXYIFBFczFIQyRFE7cN2QIKiG7hNt_9WSQU6lZOL0cC4lI6RZRKzJYzjmRq5G3CSIq8ophwTPGNBGOEjG-1Od7YwTpiVjFI5knhdu63XMOF4fBwev92atl-jzRH5uu0FXhfVSgcU1NnaXQf2a6DrQNezl_LUkP-EZ7R5oCvD00e74iEl-ERdAAa6orubzeYYe_Lt2SBpE8D9I97dBG_1d4rNOzUtQkhOUVFxmPD7PB45ZtdDeZVqNy5H7ZO6soXwpK8jgEftx769QnnJDM9kInJBvxX9GwAA___q1oa2], Mia Birdsong [https://email.mg-d0.substack.com/c/eJx0kLuupiAYRZ9Gut_AhyIUFNP4Gga5KB4uhstMfPvJcZppTr2TtVeWVs0euTyyJ-eTr6c1n9r3qou_m88JGcmocrNBVpKFLbNYiGDIRuXDdthki2rWbKr9twpY0Ckn7MzEBebUaWCGw6wcJw6wBY6dMchLwMAwwTNeCCVspKN24CinjFAtKIAYSbwup-s1TDgeH4PHb7em9Neoc0S-bq7Y10W20i0K8mztrgP9NcA6wHr2Up4a8p_wjDoPsE6YfqJXn90XU3M6BljR3fdN5xh78u3ZbFJ7sOYf7-578Fp9h9i8kRNfFsEAFRmHCb-_45FjNj2UV6j23eSofJJX1jY86esI1qP2Y91ebXnJFM9kIoKj3xL-BgAA___8uoYZ], and Sherri Mitchell [https://email.mg-d0.substack.com/c/eJx0kLvOpSAYRZ9GOg0XBSkopvE1DMKn4uFiuMzEt58cp5nmr3ey9soyusKR8qNa3F105QTbl7YVk91dXYrIKs70PlkEigguJimI5AiCdn49IELWFeyq63-rpAKdiki8C2JAEyaktJzokQEeZ2uswFxq5BTFlGOCJywII3xgg9npzmbGCTOSUSoHEq5rN-XqRhyO3uLh61a1-QwmBeTKumd4XVTNDZBXZ6136divji4dXc6W81N8-uOfwaSOLiPBfTkhZ9cHV80J3nd0QXfbVpNCaNHVZ4WoNw_2H_Jum3dGf1uszqpxFkJyirIK3Yjf6-FIIdnm8-tU2mZT0C6qKxnwT_wcHhyqPwZuBfJLZngiI5Ez-q3o3wAAAP__e8mHNA] as well as the personal reflections: * Who Are You Without the Doing? [https://email.mg-d0.substack.com/c/eJx0kDkOnDAYRk-DO5AXxsaFizRzDeTlB8x4QV4ScftoSIo0qT_pe0_P6gZ7LrfqafPJ1wPcWLuptvir-ZyQU5zp7eUQKCK4eElBJEcQtQ_rDgmKbuBW3f5ZJRXoUJwYs1hJBHHYWMBGYiqFmfkMC1vcgryimHJM8AsLwgif2GQ3urGFccKsZJTKicTz3Gw9hxnHfXR4-ro1bT-TzRH5um4FHhfVSgcU1NHaVQf2Y6Dvgb6PXspdQ_4V7snmgb4pZuOZLYQ7jZ9xD-AH-kZXN6vNMfbk271C0iaA-_N4dRO81d8Uq3dqXoSQnKKi4jDjhzztOWbXQ3mUajcuR-2T-ov5fCGo_bdvr1CeZ4ZfZCZyQT8V_R0AAP__yRqGhQ] * You Are Already That Which You Long For [https://email.mg-d0.substack.com/c/eJx0kDmunjAYRVeDO5AHMLhwkebfBvLwGczzgDwkYvfRI02aV1_p3KNjVIMjl0f25Hzy9QQ71q6rKf5uPidkJWfKLRaBJCtfF7ESwRFE5cN-QIKiGthdtf9WQVd0Sgebho1q5RZmucXEcKfBcSrIxoyakZcUU44JXvBKGOETm4yjjm2ME2YEo1RMJF6XM_UaZhyP0eLp260p8zWZHJGvuyvwushWOqAgz9buOrBfA_0M9HP2Up4a8p_wTCYP9MPxPD65j6rAqEIBZZ-xnaoN9IPurneTY-zJt2eHpHQA-497dx28Ud9Bdm_lvK2r4BQVGYcZv__TkWO2PZRXrHZtc1Q-ySsbCE_6OgJ41H6s3CuUl8zwQmYiNvRb0r8BAAD__zXpic0] * The Tyranny of Urgency [https://email.mg-d0.substack.com/c/eJx00Duu3CAYxfHVmM4WL8NQUKSZbVgYPmzm8hjxSMTuoztp0tz6SEc__a3pcJU69cg-5NBucGsbZ7M1vHsoGTktmPG7Q6CJFHJXkiiBIJkQjwsyVNPBHab_tyoq0a3BU84k8Yr6U0hCQPAHUMmV4U7ugqCgKaYCE7xjSRgRG9usp549mCDMKkap2kh6vbxtr4XjdK0Ob9-2buzXZktCoR2-wseiex2Aor57f7eF_Vroc6HPe9Q6Wyx_4txsWehTYLn2G9Y-q8l5rsWvo16Q7VzoE73HediS0sihzwOyOSO4f8_vccZgzXeSIzjNH1IqQVHVaeH4I9iukoobsX5obZyuJBOyfhULceavK0JA_cfOo0H9PDO8E07UA_3W9G8AAAD___FviY0] For those who are interested in deeper 1-1 work, I also offer radiant energy journeys [https://email.mg-d0.substack.com/c/eJx0kDtuhDAURVeDu0H-YXDhIs1sAxn7mTHjD_InEruPhjRpUj-9e869RjfYc7lUT84nX19gH7Vv1RR_Np8Tskow7SaLQJFZzJOciRQIovZh3SFB0Q3sqtufq6Qzeins9DQxRiynjnDOFlikdcRIyTeBrUFeUUwFJnjCM2FEjGw0jjq2MEGYkYxSOZJ4HM7UY-A47g-Lx49b0-Y9mhyRr6srcLuoVjqgoF6tnXVgXwN9DvR5vPfR5IE-P6L7hc6-rSbH2JNv1wpJbwHs7-vZt-CN_nRevVV8mWcpKCoqDhzfiHHPMdseys2ufbM5ap_UkQ2EK733AB61f4fsFcqdzPBEOJEL-lb0JwAA__87Mn6s] as well as alchemy coaching sessions [https://email.mg-d0.substack.com/c/eJx0kLuShCAQRb9GsrF4KEhAsMn8hoVNqzgCFo-tmr_fGjfZZOOuvufcC7bilvLbtLj66MuO7lHaUiD7q_oUiTNS2HV0BA1TUo1aMS0JBuvPecOI2VZ0s61_rporsptx0QA4qtHa1Vo5oVRAqeCOczupRRJvOOWSMjpSxQSTvehh5auYhGQCtOBc9ywcxwrl6AYatoej_cetWnj1kALxZV4z3i6m5obkNHutV-nEV8efHX8er62H1PEnJAu7jxu52jJDCqFFX98zRruc6H6fr7acHuyn9eydGSaltOQkm9AN9Ib0WwrJtTPf9NIWl4L10RwJ8HzH13aiJ_XfKVvBfCcLOrKB6Yl8G_4TAAD__9VQf-c]. 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