Hello everyone, I owe you a sincere and honest update... Over the last week, my family experienced an unexpected emergency that hit all of us very hard. I have been on an intense emotional rollercoaster and, truthfully, I have not been able to show up in any meaningful way. I have not had the emotional capacity to post, comment, teach, communicate properly, or be as present inside the Academy as I intended to be. I am deeply sorry for disappearing without explaining what was happening. I know that my absence affects more than just me. You joined this space expecting guidance, structure, classes, communication, and consistency, and I take that responsibility seriously. Alongside everything happening within my family, I have also been navigating a much deeper personal transition. The Identity Alchemy Challenge did not end when the scheduled challenge ended. The work has continued unfolding inside my real life, and I am experiencing the uncomfortable reorientation that happens when an old identity no longer fits, but the new identity has not fully stabilized yet. Some areas of my life have changed dramatically because of the identity work we completed together. I can see clear evidence that I no longer think, respond, create, or make decisions in quite the same way. At the same time, I have also fallen back into old habits and coping patterns in other areas, particularly when I became emotionally overwhelmed. It has been humbling to experience both realities at once: genuine transformation and old survival patterns resurfacing. My life, my work, my relationship with creativity, and the way I want to lead this community are all shifting. I have been gaining much more clarity about what I want the Academy and the larger ecosystem around it to become. I want to build something meaningful, sustainable, manageable, and genuinely supportive, rather than repeatedly overextending myself, burning out, disappearing, and trying to return by pushing myself even harder. But even positive change can be a tremendous amount for the nervous system to process.

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

I wanted to share this symbol, particularly because it figured so prominently in @Holly Doxey 's YouTube transmission today. The picture is what I developed as the logo for my leadership development training program with 5 books at its centre, and known as PRINCIPIO (meaning "the principle" in English). I'm hoping for the rollout of a pilot program later this year. The graphic has its origins in the well-known medieval symbol of the ROTA FORTUNAE (wheel of fortune). This is the first public showing of it🥳. I think it also might resonate with many others here 👑 Here is some background to the symbol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_of_Fortune_(medieval)

Everything you want is already yours in a future timeline. If you can imagine a future where you are successful and prosperous, I hope by now you understand it's your intuition trying to lead you there. If you weren't capable of big things, you wouldn't be able to conceive it. Dont give up. Here is a helpful message to encourage you! Let me know your thoughts!

When I was very young, I guess beginning at around age 10, I started receiving a regular occurrence of one specific image flashing into my mind... as clear as day and always the same: it was a very clear picture of a group of what looked like ancient Greek-style temples on a raised area near the sea. It was a very impressive image, and there was a message arriving with it that this is where I should live in the future (no date stated). It occurred so often that it was clearly not just a random thought. And this continued for several years, reducing in frequency. Time passed and, in my twenties, I began to spend all my holidays in Greece or Turkey, in reality looking for this place, but with no success. Eventually, I forgot about it. At the end of last year, my partner told me that we had been given the option to buy a property very cheaply (a sort of legacy from her deceased father), but needing extensive renovation, on the island of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea. So we planned to go and live there with our family after completing the renovations. What hadn't occurred to me at the time was that this island, at one time, became the center of the Ancient Greek empire (Magna Graecia). It turns out that just 30 miles from our new home is what is now known as the Valley of the Temples set on a ridge (yes, I know it's called a valley, but it isn't) overlooking the sea – a group of about 10 Ancient Greek temples in various states. Here is a short video and a picture of part of the area. This is exactly what I had seen in the image that came to me as a child about 55 years earlier, when I had little to no knowledge about such things. And the place is so distinctive, it couldn't be anywhere else. I did go on years later to become a classicist with a deep interest in ancient history. However, it was only about two weeks ago that I suddenly realized that my life is about to fulfil this vision that I had as a child and then forgot – although it must have remained buried in my subconscious over the decades.