something happens in our forties

for me, it was as though a tectonic process had taken over my solid, internal landscape, moving the plates of my identity enough to expose peeks at my molten core... 🌋

Good morning, my friends. Today, as I started to write to you, I first let myself sit in gratitude for actually being inspired to write. Since turning in my book’s manuscript to my publisher about a year ago, I haven’t felt the genuine pull to begin writing again — until now. Until these posts for you here, tiptoeing into expressing through words again. I’d love to share with you a little behind-the-scenes about how I began to write my book and share some perspectives on my favorite topic — midlife!

I began loosely writing Midlife Emergence: Free Your Inner Fire in early 2020 as part of The 100 Day Project, an inspiring creative project that I’ve participated in for maybe 9 years now. (You can learn more about it by following

#The100DayProject Newsletter

here on Substack to join us next year.) Every day for 100 days of 2020, I posted a small painting of a rainbow, using the caption to tell a story from my own experience of entering quite a fiery midlife passage — which, for me, included reckoning with how I coul…