The Flourishing Note™ Hi Reader, It is mid-July, and the year has quietly crossed its halfway mark again. Last summer, around this same week, I wrote a post called Your Permission to Realign. Two weeks after that, I wrote The Mid-Year Reset. I wrote them because I needed them, right then, as much for myself as for anyone reading. I went back and reread both of them this week. Not because anything has gone wrong. Just because it is July again, and I wanted to see if the words still held up....

The Flourishing Note™ Hi Reader, I got home from Branson, Missouri Sunday evening, and I have been sitting with a particular feeling ever since. My family reunites every two years. And every time, I come home the same way. Tired in my body, full in my spirit. Not recovered, not rested in the traditional sense. But fed in a way that only happens when you have spent days with people who have known you your whole life, who call you by your childhood name, who laugh at the same things you laugh...

The Flourishing Note™ Hi Reader, The first time this opportunity came around, I let fear go first. It was a summit I wanted to be part of. I had the experience. I had the message. What I did not have, or what I told myself I did not have, was permission. So I waited. I told myself I needed more time, more polish, more proof that I was ready. By the time I finally reached for the courage to apply, the window had already closed. I tuned in anyway, as a participant. The speakers were incredible...