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on rage & grief...
Reader, I saw this quote by Cormac McCarthy & felt like someone else needed to hear it: "Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief. Love u,Jess
Jess Leone
You're "the good one." "The strong one." "The reliable one." You've been called these things so many times that you started believing they were compliments. Maybe they were, until somewhere along the way they became a job description, and you don't remember signing the contract.‼️ Especially if you're the one everyone leans on. Reader, you're the one who remembers everyone's birthday and shows up early and stays late. The one people call when their life is falling apart, but somehow never the...
(Found on Pinterest, Artist Unknown) Good morning Reader, There's a part of you that's been trying to get your attention for years. 👀 You haven't been ignoring her on purpose...I know. 🫶 You've just been busy. You've had things to do, people to take care of, jobs to keep, fires to put out. So when she showed up — through the headache that wouldn't quit, the tension you couldn't explain, the fatigue that no amount of sleep seemed to fix — you took note. Maybe you took a pill or something for...
Niet Invullen Voor Een Ander (NIVEA) It means: don't fill in the blanks for someone else. You know what they say about "assuming": it makes an ASS out of U and ME. 😉 We assume we know other peoples intentions... what they say, do, or don't do. It's a guessing game, not rooted in facts. We have a tendency to personalize a lot of what happens to us, & that's normal.. but I'm here to remind you that not everything is about you. We are all operating for our own level of perceptions,...
Good morning, Reader! It's my birthday today & I wanted to do something different: I decided to write a love letter to the women in my life. Because that is what I'm celebrating today. To the woman who drives across the state on a Friday night to Sacred Circle because something in her knows it matters. Who walks in tired, sometimes a little resistant, and leaves lighter than she came in. Who keeps coming back even when life is full of things asking for the same hours... To the women who found...
If you’ve watched Disneys “Soul”, you know the part of the movie where Joe realizes he doesn't feel any different after having his "big moment" he's been waiting for. It goes a little something like this: I heard this story about a fish. He swims up to an older fish and says, "I’m trying to find this thing they call the ocean." "The ocean?" says the older fish. "That’s what you’re in right now." "This?" says the younger fish. "This is water. What I want is the ocean." We often miss the very...
Reader, SEASON 2 IS OFFICIALLY HERE, and this week's episode is about the 'pedestal moment'. The version of you waiting on the other side of the thing you've been chasing for years... and what's actually waiting when you get there. 🎧 Listen to the episode & let me know what you think. X,Jess
Hey Reader, Let's just jump right in, shall we? 😂 There's one "thing" that's quietly on a pedestal for most of us. The promotion. The wedding. The baby. The proof. We tell ourselves the version of us on the other side of it will finally be the one we've been waiting to become. The kind of woman who doesn't have to keep proving anything because she's arrived. So...what's yours? 👀 What's the achievement you've been waiting on to become someone different? I bet you can name it...the thing you've...
Hey Reader 🖤 Real talk: if you've been opening these emails for the last few weeks, you've gotten a lot of 'Victim to Villain energy' from me. That's been intentional because I know that some of you *needed* to hear it. But I want to ask you something honestly: When was the last time you read one of these and felt seen...not sold to? When was the last time something I wrote made you put your phone down and just breathe for a second? Because that's what this newsletter was built for. And...
You can spot the pattern, name the trigger, & explain exactly what needs to change. And still… you find yourself riiiight back in it. Am I right? 👀 Happy Saturday, I am here to wake you up & call you out (lovingly, of course)!! 🫶 Because I know you don’t struggle with knowing what to do. They struggle is actually living it, especially when you’ve been taught to prioritize being liked, needed, or “good” over being real. So we start there. We start with the gap between awareness and action....