the quiet work of true integration ✨

hey you,

for a knowing (something that we know to be true, intellectually) to become a belief (something that our body, physically and emotionally, recognizes as truth) we do ‘the work’.

but sometimes (**most times**), ‘the work’ is to simply be alive — to resist the urge to bypass living, by living

BONUS if we simultaneously pay attention to what’s happening in and out of ourselves

and SUPER BONUS if we release the urge to make sense of it all as it’s happening.

put simply: most of the time, ‘the work’ is to let life unfold as it unfolds.

which means that integration can be slow. we can know something for many years before we have the lived experience to really know it, to really believe it to be true.

&& if there is one thing that integrated for me this year it’s this:

“our capacity to experience peace and joy is directly related to how well we can hold the duality of life, of self, of being without identifying with one or both opposing pieces.

it’s about how well we can live with the contradiction or the polarity inside of us, without allowing it to become conflict in our hearts, and without allowing that conflict to rule our lived experience, and how we respond to the world.”

maybe this already makes sense to you. maybe, like me, this is something that you’ve known but have yet to discover the well or the capacity for which you can truly experience it.

regardless, if you’re curious how i came to integrate this knowing,

if you’ve ever navigated seasons of uncertainty, unknowing, grief, disenchantment with life, and you want to remember you weren’t and aren't and will never be alone,

if you need inspiration to reinvent, to reconnect with your creativity and enthusiasm for living,

or you’re simply curious about my lived experience in 2025 (for which i’ve been relatively quiet),

tune into this latest episode of The Inner Briefing Podcast: 94. Between Grief and Beauty: A Year of Becoming.

thank you for existing.
thank you for being here.
and i’m sending SO MUCH LOVE as you step into the new year, wherever and however you are stepping into it.

♥️♥️♥️
mg