Dear ones,

Everything feels like it’s accelerating right now.

Between collective heartbreak and personal upheavals, the world is asking more of us—and maybe that’s not a bad thing. Maybe the intensity is a signal… that something is cracking open.

In just the past few days, my 12-year-old daughter has supported a friend who was feeling suicidal, I watched our government hand more power to those who historically abuse it, and I sat with the grief of mamas and children starving in Gaza – and the deep pain on ‘both sides’ that ripples back (and has people lash out, judge, lookout for only ‘their own’) for thousands of years, not just in the Middle East but globally.

It’s a lot. It is scary.

And—

I believe it is signaling the collapse that was always going to come: the crumbling of systems that were never designed to work for ALL of us.

But here’s the key: when it feels like the outside world is falling apart, we must turn inward, and turn toward each other.

The world—and especially our children—are mirrors, reflecting back what still needs healing, clearing, and remembering within ourselves.

Let’s not just survive this moment. Let’s take the ‘medicine’ it has for us and transmute it into something life-giving and beautiful.

Here’s how I’m holding space to support that these next few weeks.

We are not alone in this collapse. We are birthing something new.

With love and fierce tenderness,
Clarissa

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