Realizing that you’ve silently crossed another threshold of adulthood can be jarring. It might also be another opportunity to level up. If you find yourself reevaluating your life from a distinctly "middle" point of view, we should talk. This isn't your parents' mid-life crisis -- they were afraid of decaying in a prison of stability, you're still waiting on stability at all. What does this middle passage uniquely look like for you? Let's explore what's changed about you since you made some of the most foundational decisions of your life, and how your next phase can include the version of you that actually arrived to it.

Few things can truly propel us toward a reckoning with god, ourselves, and the illusions that fuel us like grief can. You might be aching with the deep and lonely loss of a loved one, wondering how it could be possible to move forward without this person here. You might be mourning a job, a home, a relationship, an identity. A culture. A future you imagined. A past you can't get back. And those may just the losses of your personal world. Collectively, we live in times of endless loss and trauma. Your survival, much less activism, gets more resilient if you take care to explore, express, ritualize, and transmute your grief. ​

Does a chronic dread about society follow you into every endeavor? Violence, pandemics, climate crises, AI -- hope for the future might be dwindling at a rapid pace, clouding your days with despair. While these feelings are valid, they don't have to become your new normal. You're still here - what's worth your effort? Curiosity might be one of the few reliable antidotes to dread. Not because it solves it, but because it keeps you relating to the world rather than retreating from it. When you ask yourself what this dread might be trying to show you, your thinking moves from attacking an enemy to heeding a messenger.