This has been an INCREDIBLE 28 days. SO much has happened and I feel it's important we talk about it. I'd also like to share my own experience doing this challenge alongside you including my challenges, my insights, and what I'm doing moving forward. I have done a version of this challenge in February before the Academy was relaunched. But this iteration, with the tracker, the blueprint, the daily structure, the behind the scenes work we did together was something ELSE entirely. And I want to share what shifted for me personally because I think it will resonate with a lot of you. What I did not expect: I expected to facilitate this challenge. I did not expect it to crack me open the way it did. The military conditioning I have been carrying for years; the urgency, the hyper-vigilance, the inability to rest without guilt, the feeling that stillness is a threat had started to loosen in a way I have not experienced before. This process created enough safety and enough structure for it to finally start moving on its own. And alongside that, grief I had been suppressing around my parents, financial stress, old patterns in my parenting also came up. All of it wanted attention. And for the first time, I was able to meet it differently. Most people turn away from this but this challenge made it possible for many others and myself to address these things with compassion and grace as part of this process. Though this challenge was SOOO fun, it is very, VERY deep internal work that reorients your whole world. That alone can be a shock to the nervous system and throw people off violently off track. Here's what helped me the most: The declaration was monumental in my journey. SO simple but SO effective. Reading it out loud and feeling the my nervous system settle. That became the MOST reliable reset I had. On the hardest days, that alone brought me back. I talked a lot about the importance of the pause, Every time I wanted to react, overwork, spiral, or go into fix-it mode, the pause was the intervention. It gave me just enough space to choose differently. Not always. But more often than before. And more quickly each time.

This is your daily check-in thread for the entire 28-day challenge. Every day, drop your update in the comments below. This is how you mark the day as done — not just in the tracker, but in community. Accountability is not a performance. It is a signal to your nervous system that the new identity is real and witnessed. Copy the template below, fill it in, and post it as a comment. 📋 DAILY CHECK-IN TEMPLATE Day ___ of 28 | House of ___ ✅ Tasks completed: ___ / ___ 🔥 Current streak: ___ days ⭐ Alignment today: ★★★★★ How I showed up today: One thing I noticed: Tomorrow I am choosing: --------- Once you have posted your comment: → Right-click your comment → Copy link → Paste it into the tracker to verify and unlock your green day The green day does not unlock without the post. That is intentional. The identity is built in the doing and the declaring — not just one of them. See you in the comments. 🌿 — Holly

⚜️Welcome to Day 27 of the ✨Identity Alchemy Challenge!🔥 We are SO closet the end. WELL DONE! Before we finish, there is something that needs to happen first. An INTENTIONAL and SACRED release... Let's begin. 📖 Core Teaching Day 27: Every identity transition involves a quiet grief. Because something is ending. Not just a pattern or a habit but someone who was part of you. Someone who was real. Someone who showed up, day after day, and did what they had to do to survive. That person deserves more than to be discarded. They deserve to be seen. The version of you that is being left behind was not a failure. It was a strategy. Built in conditions that required it, refined over years of repetition, designed to keep you safe when safety was not guaranteed. The people pleasing that kept belonging within reach. The overworking that kept anxiety at bay. The staying small that made being visible feel less dangerous. The shutting down that protected you when feeling everything was too much. None of those things were weakness. They were intelligence. They were your nervous system doing exactly what it was built to do. Protecting you. But you do not need them the same way anymore... You have built something different over these four weeks. You have evidence now. Real, lived evidence that there is another way to operate. One that honors your needs instead of overriding them. One that feels aligned instead of exhausting. One that builds self-trust instead of slowly eroding it. So this is the release. Not an erasure but an integration. That old version of you does not disappear. It alchemizes. The resilience stays. The resourcefulness stays. The strength that got you through every hard season stays. What you are leaving behind is the part that no longer serves; the reactive patterns, the survival mechanisms, the automatic responses that kept you safe then but keep you stuck now. And you do this with compassion. Because those parts of you are not your enemy. They are asking to be seen, acknowledged, and gently released.

I wanted to do a mid month energy update for the month of June! Let me know your thoughts. For a lot of you, the first half of 2026 was internal. Heavy. Quiet in the ways that matter most. You were doing the work and showing up, shifting beliefs, rewiring patterns, building new habits, but the outside of your life hadn't caught up yet. You kept going anyway. That's the part nobody talks about. The season where you're doing everything right and it still looks the same. Where you're becoming someone different but your circumstances haven't gotten the memo. That season is now ending. Mid-June is where the internal work starts to express itself externally. The momentum you built, slowly, quietly, sometimes painfully, has reached a tipping point. It's heavy enough now that it moves on its own. You don't have to push it anymore. You just have to stay in alignment with it. Here's what that actually looks like: relief in places that felt pressured. Opportunities that feel like they found you. A version of yourself showing up more consistently, even on hard days, than the old version ever did. But there's a catch. This is also the exact moment most people self-sabotage. Not because they're broken or there's something wrong with them. Because their nervous system doesn't recognize the new level yet. Things start to move fast, life gets activated, and the old identity gets loud. And without the right container, people retreat back to what's familiar and wonder what happened to all that momentum. If you're inside the Identity Alchemy Challenge, you know what I'm talking about. This is why we do the work we do. Not just to feel the shift, but to hold it. Check out the full reading in the video and let me know what resonates. Where are you noticing the shift showing up this month? Drop it in the comments. 👇

I just want to talk about what I'm experiencing at this point in the Identity Alchemy Challenge. Day 23/28: We are getting close to the end now and everything is going according to schedule and my body is literally feeling the gradual shifts that haven taken place. The work is compounding and now the body is catching up to the work we've done up until now. I want to start by saying, It feels VERY uncomfortable to have more time and energy. It's like my mania wants to kick in a spend it all like a kid with too much money in a candy shop. I want to GOOO even when I'm meant to be still. My body spent its whole life being overactivated and in overdrive. This is part of living with bipolar. It's been my mission to manage my bipolar by giving myself structure and managing my energy intentionally and my body simply wants to get up go go go go. So much is coming up that hasn't been processed over the years and it has triggered my PTSD symptoms, to be honest. My time in the military suppressed parts of my identity that didn't have the space or acknowledgement to be processed so it got shoved down. Im at a point in my life, many years later, that I'm able to now process it. My nervous system is already always activated from a biological stand point so things compound quickly when living with bipolar. It's like always being turned on and the military trauma added to this and made it MUCH worse. Part of finding myself outside of the military, is managing the need to operate from hyper vigilance and urgency. I'm VERY aware of when I'm activated and even now as I type, I'm speeding up while typing and feeling the tension and speed rise as autopilot starts to take over simply by talking about this. What has been helpful for me is to intentionally SLOW DOWN as often as I can but ESPECIALLY when I notice things start to become rapid like my talking or my thoughts, or when I feel like I can't sit still. This creates the sensation of wanting to jump out of my skin. I'm developing the discipline to overcome this and so the work is working but it has been HARD.