📖Turn the Page📖

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Hey [FIRST NAME GOES HERE],

Last week I shared about my nightly 2-glasses-of-wine habit—and how it kept me stuck in a life I knew wasn’t right for me anymore.

Please understand, I am NOT trying to say that everyone can (or necessarily needs to) quit drinking this easily.

I’m not even saying I never indulge in a glass of wine anymore.

But that pattern? That often?

What it was doing was taking away JUST ENOUGH discomfort so that I could continue show up day after day and do it all again.

Exhausting, right?

Maybe even sounds just a little familiar?

Here’s the truth: breaking that pattern didn’t magically set me free. (But you knew that already, right?)

What really moved the needle was deciding to replace it with something that actually fueled me.

For me, at first, it was literally just SILENCE.

Spending time with my eyes closed, listening for that little voice.

(Spoiler: it was MY VOICE.)

And really caring about what that voice had to say.

What it was I ACTUALLY WANTED when I wasn’t chasing away the discomfort of WHAT WAS.

Then, it was writing.

Journaling at first.

Then my story.

Where I started. Where I was in that moment.

Then —one day—I heart that little voice begin to whisper: what if this could be my work?

Here is the part to tune in to:

Because I wasn’t numbing that voice, because I was both wide awake to what wasn’t working AND to those little nudges of but just what if…?

Where I used to dismiss those nudges, that voice, as delusions of grandeur… as maybe for someone else’s life who hasn’t pigeoned herself into a life sentence of teaching…

All of a sudden, my eyes and ears were open, and I could begin to see it as a real possibility.

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That shift—from numbing out → to creating — was the beginning of being able to see everything I’m doing now.

And here’s the reminder I wish someone had given me back then:

👉 It’s not about being stuck or even what you’re quitting. It’s about what you’re starting.

So if you feel stuck in a cycle that doesn’t serve you anymore — ask yourself: what tiny creative spark could I swap in instead?

Because one small swap can reroute your whole story.

—Meredith ✨

P.S. Hit reply and tell me: what’s one cycle you’d like to release yourself from? Even better: what’s one little spark you’d choose instead?