Reader,

Have you been feeling extra sensitive lately? Maybe oscillating between feeling confident and enlivened to feeling anxious, dull, or distracted?

If so, me too…and sheesh. It has not been easy, but I’m making my way through with every inner and outer tool I have.

If you don’t relate to this right now, I’m happy for you. And I’d love to hear more about your experience, if you’d care to share in a reply!

To those who can relate to this challenge, this is for you-

Insights

Spiritual teachers and sources I trust point to now being the time our souls came here for. Here to contribute to humanity's shift into a more unified or integrated way of living. Some call this Oneness. And it is happening on a scale that we have never seen before.

With this shift comes significant transformation within each of us and collectively. Our transformation is our individual contribution. But, it is not just for us, it is for the whole, of which we are a part.

So much change is taking place spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically for this shift to occur. Hence the heightened experience of the old being stirred up for release and the new landing more deeply.

My main priority for navigating this summer: holding my heart’s desires

And here is how I’m doing so:

• Speaking aloud the reality I want to align with (who, what, why, and most importantly, how it’ll feel)
• Interrupting unhelpful or negative thoughts/beliefs and saying, “I surrender you to be recreated in Love. I prefer this [insert desired alternative] instead."
• Keeping myself engaged in self-care (eg. interesting activities, devotional time, connection & community with loved ones, being in nature, and body movement)
• Practicing surrender and self-compassion to soothe uncomfortable emotions of fear, doubt, worry, boredom, etc.

July Spotlight

Here are the uplifting resources I’ve been spending time with this month:

• ​July 2026 Energy Update | A Rebirth is Upon Us - Lee Harris – spiritually-minded monthly forecast offering guiding themes for support. Illustrated mind map version here.
• ​​Why Feeling Lost Could Mean Total Freedom - Kyle Cease – Inspirational speaker challenges one of the ego's favorite lies: that certainty equals safety and how this lie leads to unconsciously organizing our lives around unresolved fear.
• ​​We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America - Norah O’Donnell and Kate Andersen Brower – Brings to light the unacknowledged, yet highly influential women you won’t find in many history books. Tells of their invaluable courage, determination, and wisdom without shying away from naming the complexity of contradictions within the human condition.

Take what resonates. Leave the rest.

Closing Reflection

As usual, we’ve got powerful astrological placements co-creating with us, but I’ll name two in particular. We just entered a New Moon cycle (7/14) and we’re weeks away from an auspicious timeframe, the Lion’s Gate portal (8/8).

All of this adds to the extra meaningfulness of holding our heart’s desires to call in what feels most true to our soul, rather than getting caught in the old that’s been stirred up currently.

What practices can you hold more strongly, or put in place, to stay rooted at this time?