Friday Fragments
Newsletter Archive
Explore "Friday Fragments" and special newsletter series featuring grounded insights, honest stories, and practical tools to help you stop abandoning yourself and create real internal safety.
image credit: Chat GPT This is part of The Hidden Mechanics of Boundaries, a limited series about what happens under the surface before, during, and after a boundary. Someone asks whether you can help with something. You’re already tired. Your calendar is full, you have priorities of your own, and you may even feel your…
Issue 185, September 18, 2026 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ For years, I described myself as conflict-averse. I didn’t like conflict, and I assumed avoiding difficult conversations was how I “kept the peace.” But I wasn’t actually avoiding conflict. I was allowing it to take place entirely inside me. I didn’t realize that…
photo credit: Curated Lifestyle This is part of The Hidden Mechanics of Boundaries, a limited series about what happens under the surface before, during, and after a boundary. You can walk into a conversation knowing exactly what you need. You’ve thought it through, written it down, and perhaps even practiced what you’re going to say.…
When being “the dependable one” turns into carrying an organization that was never yours to carry alone Issue 184, September 11, 2026 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ There’s often one person in a workplace who knows where everything is, remembers what everyone else has forgotten, notices what’s about to fall through the cracks,…
Issue 183, September 4, 2026 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ For years, I had some kind of serious drama or dysfunction at almost every place I worked. At one restaurant, a chef screamed obscenities at me in front of a kitchen full of people, and I stayed and finished my shift. And I…
Issue 181, August 28, 2026 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ When we started exploring transitions and resetting routines this month, we began with what happens when life doesn’t go according to plan. We’ve looked at how something that initially feels like adversity can lead somewhere you never would’ve chosen for yourself. Then we…
Issue 181, August 21, 2026 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ There’s something about transitions that makes us want to figure everything out: I want to know now how things are going to play out! What should my new routine look like? What should I be doing differently? How am I going to make…
Issue 180, August 14, 2026 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Last week, we explored how unexpected changes can become detours in our lives, even when we didn’t choose them and would never have asked for them. This week, we’re moving into the identity questions that transitions often bring to the surface. These questions…
You don’t have to call a painful experience a blessing to leave room for what may grow from it. Issue 179, August 7, 2026 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ My theme for August is transitions and resetting routines. Over the next four weeks, we’re going to explore what happens when life changes, especially…
Issue 178, July 31, 2026 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Self-trust isn’t built by always making the right decision. It’s built by staying on your own side after you make one. When people talk about self-sabotage, they often describe it as though some inexplicable part of them is determined to ruin their lives.…