Thank you for your presence here in this space, everyone, and for sharing your lovely selves! 🙏 I'm so grateful to be a part of this community! Have a great weekend! 🌸

I loved Connie’s Jan 16 grounding practice and really enjoyed reading everyone’s responses. The rhythm of so many of them reminded me of how I feel when I read haiku. After sitting with the calm that came from Connie’s pause—naming what we can see, hear, feel, and smell—I felt inspired to nudge that grounded moment into something creative. So I turned it into a haiku. If you feel like playing along later today, here’s the invitation: Take the grounding pause first. Let it settle. Then try shaping it into a haiku (three lines: 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables). Here’s mine: Snow falls past windows the steady hum of furnace bitter-sweet coffee I didn’t aim for perfection. Turning the moment into something creative sparked joy for me, and I’m curious whether it might do the same for you. If you try it, I’d love to read them.

I’ve been noticing an interesting trend in 2026 in the decluttering and simplicity space. A lot of creators have shifted from “let’s clear what no longer serves us” to a much stronger message that almost everything is “junk” and that we should stop buying nearly anything at all. It’s made me pause—not in a negative way, but a reflective one. It raises some good questions for me: What’s the difference between clutter and comfort? When does simplifying become freeing—and when does it start to feel limiting? And who decides what’s “junk” anyway? I’m finding myself less interested in extreme rules and more interested in discernment—keeping what supports my life as it is now, and being thoughtful about what I bring in next. Some things really are excess. Others add ease, creativity, or quiet pleasure. I’m curious how this trend is landing for you. Does it inspire you? Or does it make you want to define simplicity on your own terms?

Hello to our amazing women 💛 If you’re new here, each Friday we share one simple Tiny Step, something gentle, doable, and realistic, even on full days. These are small actions meant to create a little more peace and clarity right where you are. This week’s Tiny Step is a grounding practice designed to bring a sense of calm into your body in under a minute. It’s called 5-Sense Grounding. Whenever you remember today or this weekend, pause for a moment and gently name: 1 thing you can see 1 thing you can hear 1 thing you can feel 1 thing you can smell Then take 1 slow, intentional breath That’s it. Just coming back into the moment. I hope this brings you a small pocket of peace wherever you are today. 😊

Have any of you been successful at using your phone less? Any tips to do all the things off-line? Just started reading this book How To Break Up with Your Phone, by Catherine Price, very interesting! Having a hard time disentangling the million things I use my iPhone for, many I hadn't even noticed until starting to read this book. It's so convenient to have everything on your phone, isn't it? I would need to revert to multiple devices, notebooks, etc. to do all the tasks that now live on my phone. Which I'm not exactly opposed to, it just takes some thinking through and walking back the past 15 years or so lol.I'm curious if anyone here has been successful, in any way, big or small - even the small wins are super exciting and helpful! Hoping to learn from your experiences! Thank you! 🙏😊