Storytime with Ruby

Have you ever experienced a week where the Universe seems to be sending you a constant, powerful message?  That's exactly how my week has been - a series of events and conversations with a singular, common theme.

If I were to distill the essence of this message from...

Storytime with Kate

yes, there's a point...to your dreams, your fantasies, and the things you long for

So in my email a few weeks ago I shared that I'm writing a weekly love letter to my last week's self and my next week's self.

I'm loving this practice.

And when I wrote my letter to last week...

Storytime with Ruby

It's helpful to look back and see how it's all worked out.

I've been exceptionally reflective lately, contemplating the choices I've made along the way and how they have led me to where I am now. How those choices shape the path to my future. This introspection has brought a...

Storytime with Kate

Well, I was on the internet the other day and I was actually hit with a post where I was like... Yes. Immediately yes.

I don't know if you know this about me, but I recently took some much needed time away from instagram. When it was happening I was like, "this is it!...

Storytime with Ruby

It could be better.

My heart's racing.

I step into the bathroom and close the door behind me. I put my hands on the counter to stabilize myself so I don't buckle to the floor.

Ok.

Resolve washes over me like a tidal wave.

Oh, shit. Shit shit shit shit shit.

I look up into my...

Storytime with Kate

Y'all, I had a little growth moment the other day!

One of my favorite things about My Self Study Practice is that, consistently, for a decade, I've witnessed myself show up differently. Of course it happens in big moments - when I make big choices to do something big....

Storytime with Ruby

As of yesterday Jake (my husband) and I have lived in Colorado for 500 days. My favorite parts about being here are our apartment mountain view and having my sister as my neighbor.

Being somewhere new takes time to acclimate, but I'm not sure I'll ever get used to people at...

Storytime with Kate

Ruby and I have just hired a coach for our business.

We've been stuck.

Stuck on marketing, stuck on sales, not getting what we want out of the business we've been pursuing since our early 20s. Building this business has been on the sidelines of our lives going on 10 years.

...

When I first entered the work of Self Study, my eyes were opened to the inequities of the world. I began learning the ways that I've perpetuated systems of oppression within my own life as a white woman, and I started seeing how the systems were rigged against my humanness, and others.

A lot of...

Every day you make choices for yourself - the choice to get out of bed or not. The choice to brush your teeth or not. The choice to perpetuate harm or to be a source of healing. The choice to do it the same way you've done it every day in the past or to do something differently.

A lot...

Every day you make choices for yourself - the choice to get out of bed or not. The choice to brush your teeth or not. The choice to do something about the burnout that you know is coming or to come home to yourself. The choice to do it the same way you've done it every day in the past or to do...

Every day you make choices for yourself - the choice to get out of bed or not. The choice to brush your teeth or not. The choice to perpetuate harm or to be a source of healing. The choice to do it the same way you've done it every day in the past or to do something differently.

A lot...