Sometimes grief doesn’t arrive right away. Sometimes it waits. Until the paperwork is done.Until the casseroles stop coming.Until the world quietly expects you to be “okay again.” And sometimes…we outrun it for a while. Not because we’re avoiding it.Because we had to survive. 🌫️ This Week’s Anchor You don’t have to outrun grief anymore. You also don’t have to fall into it. There is a third option: 👉 You can learn to walk beside it. 🚶‍♀️ The Practice: Walk Beside, Not Inside When grief taps your shoulder this week: 1. Acknowledge it—softly 2. Shift it one inch to the side. Not gone. Not buried. 3. Zoom out—gently. Ask:👉 “What else is true right now?” 4. Find your balance point. Not happiness. Not forced gratitude. 5. Take one small step from there. Sip water. Send the text. Sit in the light. 🪶 For the Ones Who’ve Been Running If you’ve been outrunning grief for a while…This is important: You didn’t do it wrong. You got through. And now your system might be saying: “Hey… we can feel a little of this now.” Not all at once.Just enough to begin. 🕊️ A Gentle Tool: The 90-Second Visit You don’t have to open the floodgates. Try this instead: 1. Set a container. “I’m going to feel this… just for a moment.” 2. Let one memory or feeling in. Just a thread. Not the whole story. 3. Notice where it lives in your body. Chest. Throat. Belly. 4. Close the door on purpose. 5. Ground yourself.Touch something. Drink something. Step outside. 👉 You can visit grief… without moving in. 🔥 Why This Matters When we try to outrun grief, it chases.When we collapse into it, it overwhelms. But when we walk beside it…we become the one holding the lantern. 🧭 Reflection (keep it simple) If you feel like sharing: - One word for what grief felt like this week - One place you found even a hint of balance No deep dives. Just breadcrumbs. 🕯️ Closing Thought Grief doesn’t mean you’re going backward. It often means: “You’re finally safe enough to feel what mattered.” And you don’t have to do that all at once. Just one step.With it beside you.

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Most of us don’t have a time problem. We DO, however, have a truth problem about how much time we actually have. This week we figured out how to turn down the low level, background anxiety that can just be, well, annoying. It's not a full blown panic attack. It's not even hyperventilating. But it sure does SUCK when there's never a true moment of peace. Get this: one of our members realized she doesn’t have endless hours in a day…she has about four hours of true, focused, meaningful energy—five days a week. Not 12. Not “whenever somebody needs me...not one more hour of I-can-squeeze-it-in.” Not “if I just try harder.” Sure there's another four hour chunk of prep time to support prime time, but truly energized gitterdun mojo? Four. I get it. I used to beat my chest exclaiming, "I can fit 25lbs in a 10lb bag!" Like it was a flex. Sigh. So, to move from that place, where four hours feels limiting, to embracing a better flow feels liberating. Because once we see the truth, everything else falls into place: - The anxiety softens - The noise gets quieter - Other people’s urgency stops feeling like our responsibility (hint: it's their lesson to learn) Mor al of the story? She wasn’t behind. She was just overestimating what was ever hers to carry. 🧠 The Time Chunk Method™ We’re keeping this simple, because simple works. 1. Prep Time This is your life maintenance layer Think: - Emails - Errands - Food - Admin - Setup tasks Important? Yes. But not where your biggest impact lives. 2. Prime Time This is your needle-moving, meaningful work. And here’s the truth most people avoid: You likely have about 3–5 hours of this per day. That’s it. This is where: - Priorities live - Boundaries matter - Self-trust is built If everything is “important,” this space gets hijacked. Four hours, not forty. 3. Down Time This is not a reward. This is required. Think: - Rest - Joy - Integration - Nervous system reset Without this, Prime Time shrinks. Fast. And seriously, would you expect your phone to live forever without a charged battery? Your car to run without fuel? Bodies and minds have needs, too.

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Hello! Every year, I take this free scientific survey to determine my strengths, because when we know what tools we have and how to use them, life's surprises flow more easily. Please take the free survey at the link provided here: https://viacharacter.org and bring your top five strengths to our weekly practice so we can make your next adventure more enjoyable. Here are my top five strengths in 2026. I'll use them as a teaching tool as we grow together. Looking forward to exploring how you can use your unique collection of strengths in your life! 1 Love (humanity) Valuing close relations, particularly those who reciprocate; being close to people. 2 Humor (transcendence) Liking to laugh; bringing smiles to other people; seeing the light side; jokes. 3 Appreciation of Beauty & Excellence (transcendence) Noticing and appreciating beauty, excellence, and/or skilled performance in various domains of life, from nature to art to mathematics to science to everyday experience. 4 Creativity (wisdom) Thinking of novel, productive ways to conceptualize and do things; includes artistic achievement but is not limited to it. 5 Hope (transcendence) Expecting the best in the future and working to achieve it; believing that a good future is something that can be brought about.