As always, thank you so much for your powerful words 🙏🏼 I always feel so honored and so grateful to be able to share this space and read your words. So many of the things listed resonated with me. I am learning a lot of the things you listed right now, and while I wish my younger self knew some of these things, it wouldn't have been "absorbed" at the time. I have been so disconnected from myself for so long I am just learning some of the most basic parts of me (labeling my feelings, feeling feelings, etc.).
I'm sorry today is such a hard day for you. I can't even imagine the complexity of what today brings for you. Thank you for sharing your pain and modeling what it looks like to also show yourself compassion through it.
All of these resonated so much with me, but the one that stuck out the most for me was #22 “Grief is a lifelong companion to become acquainted with — not something to try and hide from. When we invite it in, it can shape us in profound ways.” Maybe because I’ve recently experienced such profound loss, and because today is Mother’s Day and being a “motherless” mother is making me feel all kinds of ways. I really loved ALL of these so much. There was another one I felt so deeply about too, the one about letting ourselves be seen and sharing ourselves when we want to because it’s healing for us. Uffff that hit me. Thank you for your words. Thank you for sharing yourself. Thank you for opening. 🙏
Holidays are so hard. ❤️ I love your list. I'm such a list fan! I try to write them for myself but can never distill the experiences down to the right words. I'm very visual – which is why I leave the writing to talents like you! I recently read and very much enjoyed your caring and compassionate book and had to find you on IG and subscribe. Thank you Lisa! 💐
Every thing in your list resonates--truly. Like Allie said, these are themes I’ve been pondering and integrating. I’m noticing their appearance in many places. Reading them in your words offers a new depth of understanding and validation. It also gives me hope that, collectively, we humans are healing old wounds and finding new (or returning to forgotten) ways through life.
If I were to choose one that feels most resonant, it would be the first: “Being lost often feels like complete annihilation — and sometimes, it is. The things that need to come apart at the seams tend to during seasons of being untethered...” Just before reading your letter, I was journaling about the tether between me and my young child. I feel its loosening acutely in this stage of life. I’m experiencing it as both heart-wrenching and invigorating, and your words illuminated the truth and beauty of this transition for both of us: “Yet the destruction of what no longer fits makes more space for who we really are, what we really want, and what truly matters to us. In this way, we can trust that being lost will only lead us closer to ourselves.”
I would like to thank you for this newsletter and especially for the list above. I will print it and keep it on my desk as a reminder. I really appreciate the fact that among all these important truths about life, you've also enclosed no. 21 about buying the clothes that fit our bodies. I think this is both an everyday advice and a metaphore for a lifetime :)
Thank you for your IG post last week. Reading it I felt the fierceness and call to care at once, it was stunning.
That list resonates deeply. I'm about to turn 33 and just learned a great number of those in the last couple years. Like another commenter wrote, I'm not sure many of them would have been absorbed by my teenage self, but I'd like to think some of them would. I have hope my teenage self would be able to find her way to many of these if I was only given "keep your hands open as best you can, remember to laugh and release." Very much like your #11.
And god do I wish I understood #35 sooner than a year ago. What a powerful and liberating thing. I mostly find myself practicing it on a smaller scale, daily. It's changing everything. I think I'm going to swim with this lesson for a long time. Such a welcome companion.
As always, thank you so much for your powerful words 🙏🏼 I always feel so honored and so grateful to be able to share this space and read your words. So many of the things listed resonated with me. I am learning a lot of the things you listed right now, and while I wish my younger self knew some of these things, it wouldn't have been "absorbed" at the time. I have been so disconnected from myself for so long I am just learning some of the most basic parts of me (labeling my feelings, feeling feelings, etc.).
I'm sorry today is such a hard day for you. I can't even imagine the complexity of what today brings for you. Thank you for sharing your pain and modeling what it looks like to also show yourself compassion through it.
Thank you for your work Lisa. You are such an inspiration.
All of these resonated so much with me, but the one that stuck out the most for me was #22 “Grief is a lifelong companion to become acquainted with — not something to try and hide from. When we invite it in, it can shape us in profound ways.” Maybe because I’ve recently experienced such profound loss, and because today is Mother’s Day and being a “motherless” mother is making me feel all kinds of ways. I really loved ALL of these so much. There was another one I felt so deeply about too, the one about letting ourselves be seen and sharing ourselves when we want to because it’s healing for us. Uffff that hit me. Thank you for your words. Thank you for sharing yourself. Thank you for opening. 🙏
This was so beautiful to read-thank you.
Holidays are so hard. ❤️ I love your list. I'm such a list fan! I try to write them for myself but can never distill the experiences down to the right words. I'm very visual – which is why I leave the writing to talents like you! I recently read and very much enjoyed your caring and compassionate book and had to find you on IG and subscribe. Thank you Lisa! 💐
Every thing in your list resonates--truly. Like Allie said, these are themes I’ve been pondering and integrating. I’m noticing their appearance in many places. Reading them in your words offers a new depth of understanding and validation. It also gives me hope that, collectively, we humans are healing old wounds and finding new (or returning to forgotten) ways through life.
If I were to choose one that feels most resonant, it would be the first: “Being lost often feels like complete annihilation — and sometimes, it is. The things that need to come apart at the seams tend to during seasons of being untethered...” Just before reading your letter, I was journaling about the tether between me and my young child. I feel its loosening acutely in this stage of life. I’m experiencing it as both heart-wrenching and invigorating, and your words illuminated the truth and beauty of this transition for both of us: “Yet the destruction of what no longer fits makes more space for who we really are, what we really want, and what truly matters to us. In this way, we can trust that being lost will only lead us closer to ourselves.”
I love this format! Happy birthday 🎉
I would like to thank you for this newsletter and especially for the list above. I will print it and keep it on my desk as a reminder. I really appreciate the fact that among all these important truths about life, you've also enclosed no. 21 about buying the clothes that fit our bodies. I think this is both an everyday advice and a metaphore for a lifetime :)
Thank you for your IG post last week. Reading it I felt the fierceness and call to care at once, it was stunning.
That list resonates deeply. I'm about to turn 33 and just learned a great number of those in the last couple years. Like another commenter wrote, I'm not sure many of them would have been absorbed by my teenage self, but I'd like to think some of them would. I have hope my teenage self would be able to find her way to many of these if I was only given "keep your hands open as best you can, remember to laugh and release." Very much like your #11.
And god do I wish I understood #35 sooner than a year ago. What a powerful and liberating thing. I mostly find myself practicing it on a smaller scale, daily. It's changing everything. I think I'm going to swim with this lesson for a long time. Such a welcome companion.