I was combing through things in storage and was under a deadline.
Do you have a mountain of things in storage?
What about in your mind?
What about on your todo list?
Notebooks and documents spilling everywhere?
When you face a mountain of things you need to deal with, what do you do?
I tend to get overwhelmed easily and go into fight or flight.
It’s times like those where I need to breathe, maybe take a break or a walk.
It’s good to get grounded but it’s only the first step.
The next step is to COME BACK.
Always come back later to chip away some more…
Well except for if you decide to quit–
And that can be okay, too.
Maybe instead of sorting the documents you decide they are ten years old and useless and you should shred or recycle them.
Maybe instead of finishing that cross-stitch project, you decide to throw it in the trash.
Quitting and Giving up are things that have a bad rap.
But they can be incredibly useful tools in the right circumstances!
When I’m overwhelmed, I find it helpful to ask myself
if it’s time to quit something, or at least postpone.
Because the weight of expectations I put on myself
to do ALL THE THINGS
can be heavier than 10 boxes loaded with junk in my storage.
And that brings me to an article I published recently on this topic!
Ungoaling:
Not Hanging on Too Hard to Your Goals
Once upon a time, there was a little girl. As young as eleven, she was speeding through life at top speed, intent to check every box, achieve every goal, and reach the finish line of success.
Until the day came, when she looked up, and thought, “Maybe there is no finish line, maybe that’s made up.”
She saw all the time that had passed, all the effort she’d expended. And for what? She could have just spent more time daydreaming and staring at the ceiling and maybe she would have felt happier that way.
From then on, she didn’t feel particularly motivated to try and set so many goals anymore…And the beautiful thing is, she let that be ok.
That little girl was me and, ‘ungoaling’ is a name I made up for the process of detaching and releasing the need to cling to all of my goals.
In the 36 years of my life, I’ve set many goals and pursued them wholeheartedly. I’ve worked to check each off of my list with single-minded focus and intensity. But achieving those goals never felt as satisfying as I thought it was going to be.
In the last few years there’s something I’ve begun to think deeply about:
If you’re searching for treasure, it’s not just about digging a deep hole, really fast. First, make sure that you’re digging in the right spot.
I’m riding high because my second business, which I acquired in January, has celebrated a big milestone.
Background: My grandfather started a business 50 years ago, a magazine about banjos, it passed to my dad and now it’s mine.
After a LOT of work behind the scenes, I finally was able to announce that the business is open (and not closing, which almost happened). A lot of people are celebrating and supporting.
So HERE’S to celebrating when you hit a big milestone.
Feel free to reply and tell me something you are celebrating!
And as much as I love that, I also really want to talk about:
Notes, journals, the genius that they contain and the PARADOX
Paradox
“…a paradox that a lot of people experience as they take notes: the more notes they gather, the more the volume of information grows, the more time and effort it takes to review it all, and the less time they have to do so. Paradoxically, the more notes they collect, the less discoverable they become!”
– Tiago Forte, Building a Second Brain
AHH I don’t know how you feel about this but it drives me crazy.
I love knowledge. I love information. I love paper.
Back to school shopping. Those memories of filling a cart up with notebooks with my dad at the office supply store will always be a treasure.
Over time I filled countless notebooks, but did I reread them? Not sure…
Did I get the most out of what I learned? Out of my journals, my todo lists?
Nope. Can’t say I did…
Because the more I wrote, the less I found.
And the less I found, the more I knew things were falling between my fingers,
the more I wanted to write down every thought in the hopes it would help me remember it more…
Thus a circling problem.
LOL the hilarity of it and the tragedy…
So how do I find things when I want them?
It’s a big problem.
I’ve come at this problem a number of ways over the last few years.
I’ve tried different planners…
But I really got serious about getting organized when I decided to change my entire life and move to Japan.
There was so much to do in applying for jobs in Japan and preparing to go, that I got a coach who taught me a productivity and organization system.
It definitely helped…enough.
It worked just enough to help me do everything I needed to do
before getting on a plane to Japan with suitcases in hand.
What was that system I used in 2018?
Basically I used a giant excel sheet organized by project area, that broke it all down by timeline.
It was okay. I got things done!
That WAS a milestone to celebrate…
But a friend of mine saw it and was like aghast at how much I was shoving in this excel sheet lol.
It made her cross eyed.
Honestly, me, too.
And the essentials to prep for Japan were complete but I still had a lot unfinished.
I got everything I needed to do done, but not everything I wanted to do.
But in 2019, I had some free time.
I had finally made it to Japan and prepared to dig in for some creative activity.
Ready to do more of what I want to do…
Now I got some things done using my old system,
but during my Japan Year in 2019-2020, I noticed a few things…
First, in Japan, I no longer had my library of old journals, or notebooks to refer back to:
No access to any of that insight.
AND there had to be good stuff in there.
But I didn’t even see that as a big problem
because I had a bigger problem:
Despite the lack of distractions….
I didn’t even feel like I was making the most out of the insights from the 1-2 journals I could carry with me or the documents on my computer.
So forget the 20 journals back in my dad’s attic (cries).
I had organized myself more than ever, and it was just not enough.
However, I did reach one pinnacle:
I was more aware than ever of how much I still needed to improve my system
for finding and organizing my writing and ideas so I could do something with them.
How many ideas I had done nothing with, how many things had fallen in the cracks for years!
At that point, I didn’t have much confidence I could fix this.
I was more organized than ever, but still…
I was copying and pasting some of the same ideas in my excel sheet productivity system….
week after week
At the end of each week I still had done nothing with many ideas, so I copied it to the next week
and a lot never really went anywhere.
Some did.
But the excel sheet didn’t do everything for me, and my ideas were trapped into documents or journals.
Some things just didn’t fit into the system of an excel sheet at all…
It was very much in my space, the things that didn’t work with the system:
-my multi-passionate nature and all the slow burn projects,
-insights from my journals, Tarot Readings or meditations
-business musings from old trainings or things that are 5 steps ahead of where I am now,
-fuzzy and unformed ideas, still brewing.
I could handle my todo list for big, urgent problems and a finite number of projects with clear tasks.
But I am such an octopus with 8 things at once.
That system just could not handle my brain and the zillions of ideas I come up with.
It didn’t fit me. Not ALL of me.
It wasn’t enough, I needed more.
Well, I eventually tried a few other systems.
I upgraded the excel sheet to Notion, which made it easy to tuck things out of sight if they were not a priority.
No more going cross eyed looking at the big list
AND I had more space to expound on projects or tasks if needed,
without it distracting me when I don’t need to see it.
I made a bunch of templates and trainings on this Notion system that I share with my students now.
But that’s still for organizing projects and tasks.
What about all the other stuff?
The thing I really love for organizing all the other stuff – is a free app called Obsidian.
I have a whole system of how I use it,
And I feel like I make sense to me now.
For the last two years I have experimented with it to develop a whole new system to fill the gap
so I can work on more things that I want to do versus need to do.
I’ve used it as a hub to archive all my writing from journals, tarot readings, business classes, articles, and so much more.
And it’s changed my life.
It connects ideas in a new way instead of being scattered everywhere in a place I never see.
So if you feel like there is no hope for you, please keep an open mind!
Maybe there is something out there.
Now to address the Paradox
As a final thought, I want to pull forward:
another quote of Tiago Forte that truly represents what I’ve learned from this whole journey to get organized:
“Instead of consuming ever-greater amounts of content, we could take on a more patient, thoughtful approach that
favors rereading, reformulating, and working through the implications of ideas over time.
Not only could this lead to more civil discussions about the important topics of the day; it could also preserve our mental health and heal our splintered attention.”
I’ve shifted my life into spending more time looking back:
looking back at my notes and the insights and lessons I have already learned.
Because there’s a difference between having a great idea or a goal, and
actually bringing it into knowledge.
That takes repetition and reviewing and implementation and tweaking
so it becomes a part of my bones.
So deep that I no longer NEED a reminder.
That takes time. That takes patience.
That takes removing the foot from the gas on purely generating new words so fast I never look back.
I’ve generated a lot of words.
A LOT.
Now I’m slowing down, reviewing things, making new connections between my ideas, and I have never felt smarter and more at ease.
My mental health is improved by:
– The satisfaction of synthesizing: building on my ideas into something better makes me feel like a genius.
– Never starting from scratch: any time I write an article I already have it half written from all my great ideas from the past.
– Better quality work: feeling proud, sharing it with more people and reusing or referencing my work over time
– More energy: I use less energy to remember or find things so I have more to work with
– More confidence: since I feel more genius now and because I really know when something is important to me and has come up in my notes 20+ times
– Sense of peace: everything is ok, it’s written down somewhere and I know I’ll find it
My mind is more decluttered and it’s safe to have it stay empty and open.
I stand my ground more because I know what’s really important to me.
I value my ideas and I take myself seriously.
I feel empowered. I am learning and growing in all the right ways.
I know my system may not be the everything for everyone, but it’s just too good for me NOT to share.
So I’ll be sharing both my updated and improve productivity system for projects in Notion
AND
My system for all the other writing and ideas I have.
I have an amazing wikipedia-like system to organize all my zillions of ideas, journals, and thoughts into coherence and genius.
And you are welcome to learn both systems and practice customizing them to suit your own needs.
That will be the focus of the upcoming Digital Organization Membership, which will be starting in June.
If you want to get 50% off the price, make sure to keep an eye out next month when the doors open.
Early birds get 50% off the price:
===> $30 total for 3 months of membership
But the sale is only available for the first week it opens…
I am pondering doing a free 21 day heartfelt writing challenge sometime in the summer.
Not sure when though. But it won’t be April. I kept thinking I’d do it the last few months but it’s just been too crazy. So we will see when I have the mental space.
This fall I’m planning to run a 6 week writing intensive for business owners.
We will enter a deep conversation with the soul of your business so you know what to write next for your book or biz content. I’ll lead you through writing exercises to make your business writing more powerful and of service. Plus you can get feedback on your writing if you want, too.
What else is going on?
I’ve been slowing down on writing for different websites–
although I’ll always try to show up for this weekly FunLetter, I have been slowing down sites like Medium and Linkedin. Just catching my breath lately.
I am also starting to play music again and upload music clips to my patreon.
I set up a keyboard in my living room!
I see it every day so it makes me want to play and sing.
I also took on a part time gig supporting virtual events that occur throughout the year.
That helps me out financially as the other business I got in January is taking my time and attention but not paying money right now. My second biz is also stealing time and focus away from marketing my Sofia Wren writing business, so that’s a double hit.
This new gig will help balance things.
I can take my time with the new biz, run my most exciting Sofia Wren programs, and it’s all good!
No matter what bills are getting paid.
SIDEBAR
There’s so much shame that some people feel picking up part time work as a business owner,
people feel like it makes them less professional or good at their job somehow,
but as a seasoned 10 year business owner, I can tell you that is BS.
Working a business is liberating but also hard and don’t ever let anyone tell you differently.
There are pros to showing up and getting a check.
Sometimes doing a little bit of both freelancing and working for someone else is a great way to get the best of both worlds.
But that’s just my opinion.
Ok ya’ll I’ll feeling kindof fuzzy headed today
so I’m going to encourage you again to check out any recent emails you didn’t get a chance to read:
One of the things I keep coming back to is my morning routine,
it’s always a good place to start when I’m feeling off.
And lately it’s even begun to inspire me to write other times of the day as well.
As a result, I’m starting to feel like my old self again!
Plus I’ve had some big aha moments…
Morning Routines
Here’s the morning routine that has helped me bounce back from burnout and overwhelm.
Plus it’s inspired me to write more.
Note: I might not do this all in one day…
Try not to touch my phone. If I do, it’s only for listening to some music to get up and moving. But I avoid social media, communication, and anything that will create noise in my brain.
Spiritual Time. I listen to guided goddess meditations by my friend Kris Seraphine Oster. I also love to pull Tarot Cards.
Exercise. I like to dance or do physical therapy exercises for my right hip and wrist.
Tapping / EFT. Whether I have two minutes or 20, I tap to get calm, grounded, and focused on long term goals.
Writing in my notebook or in my digital journal. I’ll explain this one in depth below.
The Writing Practice
I want to go deeper into my writing practice specifically and what a day might look like,
since I combine writing by hand and a digital journal in a way I don’t see very often.
Playing with my digital journal lately has become my FAVORITE piece of my ritual.
Yesterday, I didn’t get that writing time, and I found myself craving it later in the day.
Like filling out a puzzle, something just felt missing.
Craving aha moments,
things fitting together into a bigger picture.
Knowing where things belong and thus where I belong.
I’ve gotten so many big aha moments over the last few weeks doing this practice,
plus repeating it has helped me review and remember those insights.
I cannot handle the thought of a juicy idea falling in the cracks!
I feel safer knowing that my big ideas aren’t just going to go poof, and are
deeply embedded in my system so they actually change how I live and the results I experience.
This is helping me do it all.
Example of a day playing in my digital journal.
I didn’t get a chance to write in the morning yesterday
but I craved it so much I sat down to do it in the evening.
I followed my same process…
Just FYI for the last two years I have been keeping a digital journal.
I don’t always start by writing directly into a computer document.
I like the way a pen feels in my hands as I write, so often I write on paper.
But if I leave it in a journal I won’t use my ideas so I have to get them into my digital journal.
To do that, I might summarize my main ideas and type them, or
I’ll transcribe them by reading them out loud into an app.
Lately, I have been tired so I’m taking it easy.
I just add to my notes a little whatever it’s relevant
and mostly just look at old notes I already have there.
old notes, diary entries, ideas…
Whether I wrote an entry yesterday, a month ago, or two years ago,
there are a lot of cool things to rediscover that I enjoy reading.
There has always been something fulfilling about reviewing my old notes and journals.
But now I use a special program to organize and find things more easily than
Microsoft Word, Google Docs or Scrivener.
My current process also creates additional connections between documents and ideas each time I review them.
This repetition helps me to remember, learn, and develop even more ideas.
To start, often a general theme calls to me.
Sometimes I get this from tapping, a tarot card reading or a dream.
That’s where I start exploring…
I go off from there,
reading,
making connections,
writing new notes, and
just generally having fun.
Yesterday I was thinking about the word “patience.”
Patience is a theme that has been important to me over the last several years especially.
Since 2022, I noted it as an important 28 times across the 3,000 digital notes I’ve created.
Note: this isn’t a general search for the word ‘patience’,
these are notes I intentionally marked with this theme over the years.
The best thing about the free program I use to digitally organize all these notes is that
I can easily find and click through to the relevant sentences about Patience in each entry.
It doesn’t take me very long to read through everything I have written about patience,
about 20-30 minutes of finding old gems and ideas on the topic.
I revisit notes from 2022 when I began to see having patience with myself as self-respect.
That really changed my life because it made me realize how important it is to stick to.
I came across many other interesting thoughts and quotes and copied anything that felt extra-relevant to ponder later.
Here’s a quote that doesn’t mention the word ‘patience,’ but feels connected anyway:
“Regard yourself as a cloud, in the flesh, because you see, clouds never make mistakes. Did you ever see a cloud that was misshapen? Did you ever see a badly designed wave? No, they always do the right thing. But, if you will, treat yourself for a while as a cloud or a wave and realize that you can’t make a mistake whatever you do. Because even if you do something that appears totally disastrous, it will all come out in the wash somehow or another. Then through this capacity you will develop a kind of confidence. And through confidence you will be able to trust your own intuition.”
Alan Watts
Eventually clicking through my notes, and poking around to whatever catches my attention,
I look at my goals for the year 2023.
Patience was a goal for that year, which is why I ended up there…
New Years of 2023, I made a huge mindmap of different documents, themes, intentions and ideas
(see pic below).
Here’s a zoomed out version of that mindmap —
if I want to reach the words in each square, I zoom in or click into it for a closer view.
I felt impressed that I did this in January 2023,
but also aware that I never did a mindmap like this in 2024.
My next thought was:
Did I set intentions for 2024 at all?
I went poking around to see if I had any notes on that…
I quickly found a review of 2023 I wrote in January 2024, and skimmed through it.
I went down the rabbit hole a bit looking at things like that…
After 20 minutes or 30 minutes reading seasonal reviews and big-picture notes,
thinking about my goals and intentions…
I wrote down what I noticed had changed from a year ago,
what I had done,
what I was still working on, and
what was still to do.
And this felt very good.
Necessary.
Right.
Organized.
The Pay Off
Ultimately something became very, very clear.
As I processed all of this,
my thoughts returned back to patience and
what it meant for me now.
I didn’t do it on purpose, it just naturally happened.
And my big aha moment of the day:
Patience relates to the things that have made me feel burned out.
Since January 2024, I’ve had a lot on my plate.
With my business, my nonprofit work, my life, and
now an additional business that I recently acquired…
Since the beginning of the year, deadlines created a lot of urgency and pressure on me.
In a situation that feels urgent, patience with myself can easily go out the window
but that’s no excuse for self disrespect.
I have to set boundaries to protect my mental health.
I decided to put more emphasis on TAKING MY TIME for the rest of 2024.
For a while now, I’ve been trying to take a slow and steady mindset, because it’s more sustainable.
But I needed to recommit to it.
Why?
I forgot I cared so much about it.
Taking time is more enjoyable for me.
It also tends to be easier for my nervous system, while urgency is bad:
it triggers anxiety, depressed feelings and flashbacks to bad times in my life.
Not to mention burnout and overwhelm.
My mental health suffers under a lot of time crunch.
While I might not be able to control every deadline, there are things I can control, and
I am making a commitment to myself to slow down.
And I think it’s going to make the rest of my year a LOT better.
And if I get into these habits, it could make my whole life better, as well.
So there you go.
After a little more than an hour of playing with my notes on Tuesday night while my husband was playing a video game…
a process that was totally enjoyable and satisfying for me,
almost like a game for me, too…
One little word, ‘patience,’ led me to recommit to myself in a life changing way.
I wanted to share it in case it inspired you to revisit your routines, practices and even,
play with your own notes or writing!
Doing this has been super fulfilling and nourishing for my soul.
Any writing you have, journal entries, old transcripts of you talking, ideas:
There is gold in there.
Don’t forget the power of reviewing things.
it can be fun!
While not all of my deep dives take this long–
some times I just spend a few minutes on it…
Playing with my digital journal has been a really beautiful and nourishing self-care practice for me lately,
That’s why I’m excited to share more about my process in my upcoming digital organization membership.
I’ll be sharing how to organize your ideas
across different notebooks, time periods, or documents,
around different themes, topics, intentions or reviews.
And we will have time to practice together,
so you can put your own spin on it,
and get your questions answered.
Does that sound like fun to you?
Join the waitlist for the Digital Organization Membership
I’m still trying to start my mornings off my phone, off email, off social media, and
instead write, heal, be in my own zone.
Lately I also review old journal entries I’ve digitized in the morning!
And it’s amazing to see what I always forget, the things that remain the same across time.
Like this one…
“Desires 2022:
I long for peace and quiet, but I feel like the priorities I circle around are money and business.
I tend to get lost in a never-ending hustle without conscious exertion of my intention to do otherwise.
I crave peace, solitude, safety, isolation, a buffer, a warmth, a reconnection with myself, a spiritual attuning, a wonder, a curiosity in the beauty that is already here, not chasing after something outside of me.
Those days I can look outside of the window and feel the whole world is open to me, without having to lift a finger. The power of my dreams, my imagination and who I already am.
This resonates so much with me TO THIS DAY.
As I read it, I noticed how being too tired to work on my business and make money is HIGH on my stress list.
It causes me to be hard on myself and impatient for things I can’t control.
And that can keep me from feeling my desired state of restoration.
I can totally forget this pattern I have to fixate on this.
How interesting to catch myself in the same stress pattern, longing for the same things.
Me now: TIRED (this is a very non anal post, take it as permission to let some typos go so you can write better yes yes!!)
But I’m also content. I got to sit on my balcony and read for a minute yesterday without wearing a coat.
And….
THE BIG NEWS IS!
We completed our fundraiser to pay Aminata’s college fees in Sierra Leone.
And she sent me a note to share with you to say thank you!
Things slowed down at the end of the fundraiser.
I suddenly crashed around the weekend energy wise (2024 has been a lot and this fundraiser was worth it but also a lot of energy to spearhead!)
In that tired headspace, calculating all the 18 contributions and figuring out the exchange, was kindof hard.
So I leaned back a little bit to rest.
I just got the final donation in person yesterday and after adding it up, it turns out after figuring the current exchange rates…
We actually raised a little more than needed! Over $600.
We will be giving it all to Aminata because everything helps and now she has it for another education fee, travel cost, or a few dollars for next year.
So there you go:
18 beautiful souls helped a young woman who lost her final parent in Sierra Leone go to college to continue her pharmacy program.
She has her route out of poverty and heavy labor secured.
Her Note of Thanks
Blessed Day everyone My name is Aminata. My heart and mouth is full of gratitude for what you have done for me. You don’t know me but yet still you gave me a chance to continue chasing after my dream. You gave me an opportunity to achieve the one plan my mother had for me and for that I am grateful. May God Almighty continue to richly bless and establish you on the path that you are on, may His light never depart from you and your family in Jesus name🙏🙏🙌🙌. Thank you for giving hope when it’s needed 🙏 God bless you 🙌🙌
YAYYYYY Thank you everyone
MORALE IS:
Please remember that no matter how tough the world is, it is possible to make a difference.
It doesn’t have to look like me and the way I do it, but we are all needed.
Just find where you are needed and sparkle light there, okay?
P.S. I include making trackers for writing or other goals in my upcoming Digital Organization Membership, see more on that below.
Musical Update:
I am adding new things to Patreon!! Like this: The Story behind the song “New Dawn” During my first day in the studio, my producer heard my song, which I originally named Tides, and offered another way for me to arrange my song. He said I should change the name to New Dawn. That version kindof has a slow beachy vibe, a friend said it sounds like Sheryl Crow.
Many people really liked this version and encouraged me to stick with it, even my dad. On listening, I personally felt strongly that it didn’t match up with my vision for the song and knew I could sing it better with some adjustments….
Me: less overwhelmed, having fun watching Survivor, enjoying warm days.
I have a LOT going on. So last week I knuckled down to work on feeling less overwhelmed:
I got organized by sorting my to-do items by project and then ranking my priorities. It really helps me feel less overwhelmed, more grounded, and more clear-minded so I know where to start.
Luckily, this was a day before my colleague asked me to start a fundraiser to help Aminata, a young woman in Sierra Leone, go to college. It’s imperative I did the prep before so I had the capacity to fit that in.
Everything I do is for future me. If I don’t try to do this fundraiser, I know she’ll regret it. So it’s important I clear the noise and know my real priorities.
Maybe this is something that will simplify things for you as well.
Wishing you a good week.
Maybe I’ll see you for the Tarot party charity event for Aminata on March 8 🙂
And you might also like the podcast I recorded for you this week! Deletion is HOT.
xo
In this post:
A podcast on deletion
A teaser
New Podcast: Conscious Deletion
Feel less weighed down and more potent and powerful as a writer or creator!
Listen to Andrea Hylen and I talk about the conscious deletion.
Instead of being bogged down by the past, you can reabsorb your power so you have energy for the next chapter.
Watch now:
Digital Organization Membership Coming Soon
Do you feel like you have potential that’s not being expressed?
Something is coming soon to help you:
-Focus on what is important and feel less overwhelmed by cleaning up your business, project or writing files
-Develop your projects and get clear on what to do next to finish
-Make notes so you don’t ever forget important details about your projects and next steps in one easy to find place.
In our monthly meetings, you’ll be guided to create a central project hub in the free Notion app that you will come back to monthly.
These projects can be writing projects, business projects or life projects
Each month you’ll learn skills to simplify and accelerate your projects
through digital organizing, planning, & accountability
You’ll also get bonus classes about the free software I use for writing and organizing content for dozens of articles, videos, emails, blogs, launches and more: Obsidian.
Join the waitlist to get news about the early bird special of $30 total for 3 months of membership:
Join me for an online Tarot party this Friday, March 8th,
7-9 PM EST (4-6 PM Pacific)
It’s in support of Amanita’s college education. She’s a young woman in Sierra Leone studying pharmacy but needs our help after losing her only parent.
We’re just $500 away from the goal – 20 donations of $25.
All readings are free, and donate what you like, any amount helps.
Come and share with your friends so we can reach our goal. Let’s make a big impact together.
More information:
How much is it?
This is part of a by donation charity event. There is no payment required for entry. We will give everyone a reading and you can offer whatever donation you can.
What is the cause?
To raise college fees for Amanita from Sierra Leone. We raised funds for another girl last month and I was asked to help Aminata also.
Aminata’s mother (only parent) died recently and she does not have the support to continue school without help. She is in her second year studying pharmacy at university.
Why it matters
Only 1 out of 5 women in the city where she is from can read a sentence, so it’s a shame for this tragedy to force her to drop out of the most prestigious medical university in the country.
She said without this degree her only job alternative is constantly hunting unreliable part-time jobs doing hard-labor, like hand washing laundry. But the degree will ensure her a steady career like her mother hoped for her.
What we need:
Thanks for coming. We only need about $500 more total for her. That’s 20 donations of $25.
All small donations add up!!!!
Pay what you can. Please spread the word.
It will change Aminata’s life. This is my last fundraising goal for the season!
Sofia, the “mermaid wrangler”, helps you tap into your power to write and create awe-striking things.
Sofia Wren is a writer, musician, and spiritual support for writers, creators, and entrepreneurs around the world. She helps sensitive people who are grinding or circling around to know exactly what to do next to make progress on their books and businesses.
With spot-on intuition, positive vibes, and a gift for words that inspire, she has a passion for helping unconventional people to always know what to do next because they can hear their intuition and trust it.
Praise for Sofia:
“I had my reading with Sofia Wren today. It felt really sacred and perfect!
I had been feeling agitated and stressed off and on for the last week and was looking for relief.
The amazing thing was that out of the three cards Sofia pulled all of them spoke to different aspects of my life that had been bothering me. She opened the door ways to insights that I had not seen clearly before.
She facilitated a shift in energy and gave me practical tools to take away and integrate. Emotions that had been stuck bubbled up and were able to be cleared. After my session I felt calmer and more inspired, I felt like I had a focused path to follow.
Thank you Sofia.” – Kate Burkett
Kris Oster:
I’ve been reading Tarot since age 12 and have been channeling angels, goddesses, spirit guides and passed-over loved ones for as long as I can remember.
Professionally, I’m an author, tarot reader, reiki healer, astrologer, archetypal brand strategist and marketing copywriter who helps entrepreneurial Healers, Coaches & Priestesses create mythic & monetizable brands that become the stuff of legends.
Once upon a time, I was a corporate marketing director and lead website developer for some pretty big names, including Citrix Online, E! Entertainment Television, Disney, ABC, Paramount Pictures. I received my PH.D in Mythological Studies from Pacifica Graduate Institute where I studied mythology and depth psychology with such luminaries as Marion Woodman and James Hillman. I have helped hundreds of entrepreneurs create a business and livelihood that feels pleasurable, alluring and that reflects their authentic vision.
“I received a business tarot reading from Kris. I was delighted. I am an artist and the typical business coaching session leaves me uninspired and kinda dry. Kris’s approach in combining the the tarot with her business skills was very effective for me. It brought the magic and mystery, that I so love, into the dry parts of my work. I guess what pleased me the most is that she completely spun the concept of business around for me. Kris showed me that the business parts don’t have to be boring, that by mixing it up with the sacred and magical it can be fun and so much more effective. I feel a little like she infused my business with Spirit. I received great business advice in a way that I could hear it and in a way that I am actually excited to carry out. I highly recommend a tarot business reading from Kris.” – Terre, California
“Kris’s Tarot Card reading was insightful, enlightening, and spot-on. I have had many readings through the years and no one has provided as much accuracy and clarity as Kris. She truly forms a genuine connection and has an astounding comprehension of the messages within the cards. I highly recommend tapping into Kris’s talent and getting a reading, you will not be disappointed!” – Theresa, California
“Kris is an amazing teacher and writer full of light, wisdom and emanates joy in her teachings. Also the best Tarot card reader. Have recommended several friends to have readings and Kris is always generous, bringing light to the issues with insight and accuracy. Love her 💖 highly recommended her classes and readings.” – Colleen, California
“Kris has such a nurturing warmth and love that just oozes from her every word and act and then you couple it with a natural intuitiveness, skills with tarot cards, and her business savvy, and you have one very special and unique women who thrives in this realm! I loved our soul session together; it was affirming for the direction I’m going in creatively, personally, and professionally and encouraging as well to continue listen to my instincts and intuition in all aspects of my life. I highly recommend doing a business soul strategy session with Kris if you’re going in a new direction with your business or creating a new one from the ground up.” – Rachel, California
“When you have a reading with Kris, you know it’s going to be a magical experience. It’s not just that she’s got the whole sexy mermaid thing going on, being able to go into the depths of the subconscious and find the pearls and treasures lost to us, bringing them back to the surface. No, it’s more than that. She sings a siren song that lures us to our dreams, to the steps that we need to explore and to the beat we need to dance to in order for our dreams to become manifest. In that way, she seduces us with our own wild souls, and entices us to invoke our own inner powers. Her readings are accurate and exploratory, delving into areas of my business ideas that I had been keeping on the back-burner. As we immersed ourselves into the dark seas of these ideas, her readings helped me find my compass, my light and my magic. Without these, I would still be adrift on a sea of wishes and dreams that would amount to nothing. Now, armed and shimmering with magical ocean spray, I feel more than confident that I can achieve what I want and go after what I need, enchanted and empowered, and wickedly alive.” – Cynthia, United Kingdom