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.
photo credit: Look Studio 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’ve told someone you can’t do what they’re asking. Your answer is clear, and you’ve given them the information they need. But then there’s a pause. Maybe…
Issue 187, October 2, 2026 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Let’s say someone asks where you’d like to go for dinner, and you immediately start thinking about what everyone else would enjoy. You know who likes which restaurant, who won’t want to drive very far, and who might complain about the menu. By…
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. When someone you love is upset, something inside you shifts. Perhaps your partner’s disappointed that you’ve made plans without them. Or maybe a family member’s overwhelmed and…
Issue 124, June 20, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Recovery Is About Learning That You Have Choices Recovery, at its core, is about reclaiming the ability to choose. If you think about it, addiction and compulsion are the opposite of choice. So when we begin the recovery journey, we’re moving toward choice,…
Issue 186, September 25, 2026 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ See if this sounds familiar: you finish a meeting knowing you were prepared. You answered the questions, contributed something useful, and followed through on what you’d promised. But your boss seemed a little distracted when you spoke, and now that’s the part you…
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…