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.
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 didn’t…
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.…
It’s that you don’t trust yourself enough to believe what you’re already seeing Issue 177, July 24, 2026 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Have you ever looked back at a relationship and thought, I should have seen it coming? Maybe it was a friend who repeatedly broke promises. A partner whose words and actions…
photo credit: Getty Images 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 if you can help with something, attend something, take something on, or change your plans for them. Before you’ve considered your schedule, your energy, what…
Issue 176, July 17, 2026 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ I have a quote taped to my bathroom mirror. It’s been there for years. The paper is faded. It’s covered with water spots. At this point, it’s held together as much by tape as by paper. I keep it because it reminds me…
Issue 175, July 10, 2026 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Your nervous system and your thinking haven’t been updated yet. Have you ever found yourself reacting to something and later wondered, Why did I get so upset about that? Maybe someone misunderstood your intentions, and you immediately felt defensive. Someone didn’t respond to…