Hi Reader,

I'm writing to you on the eve of my birthday, feeling reflective — thinking back over the past year, the woman that I have become, the way that I've changed.

One year ago I was in Bali celebrating my 40th birthday, about to embark on a beautiful psychic retreat with my husband and friends. And today I sit in London in the middle of a heat wave. And there's a different kind of contemplation going on in my mind.

This year feels different. I normally know exactly what I want to do, how I want to celebrate, and I plan. But this year something in me was calling for a deeper reflection — more space, more time to sit and see and think.

What has come over the past year? What have the past seven years brought me? And what am I working towards now?

There's so much that's falling away. There's so much that is yet to be born. I can feel the shift — I've been feeling it for a while. I know so many of you have too.

I've been in a lot of resistance with this process. Trying to figure it out, trying to control, trying to manage. But I've recognized that that way of being no longer feels aligned with who I want to be, with the level of peace and alignment that I want to feel. There's more alignment to be had, and it doesn't come from pushing or striving. It comes from allowing.

On this precipice, I've decided to reclaim what I want. To tune in to that inner knowing — that deep place within me that always knows exactly what I want, exactly what I need — and I'm determined to stop drowning it out.

I've written more about what this threshold moment has meant for me, what I'm letting go of, and what I'm calling in. If any of this is resonating with you — if you're in your own moment of transition, of things falling away and not yet knowing what's coming next — I think you'll find something in it for yourself too.

​Read the full piece, The Threshold, here →​

And as a little birthday gift to my community, I have something special coming your way tomorrow — stay tuned.

Sending you all my love,
Amanda