A Quick Check-In

An extra post, and chance for you to weigh in as I shape Sated Soul’s next chapter.

In only a few short weeks, Sated Soul turns a whole year old!

This time last year, the idea was forming, a little bud of creativity that I protected wholeheartedly from the cold of winter. One evening, I finally sat down, wrote a little, and said, as I often do “Michael, can I read you something and you tell me if it makes any sense?”

The secret here, good partners-listen up, is that even when it doesn’t make any sense, he finds a way for it to. So I read him my first post, and he replied in symphony with my intuition, that I was supposed to be here, doing this thing. And so I have.

I have the gift of hearing Michael’s thoughts regularly. Over meals, just before bed while we do the crossword, or even as I pass his home office on Wednesday mornings to head to work and he repeats back to me some line that stuck to him from that morning’s Sated Soul essay.¹

I don’t live with all of you though- and gosh are you lucky for that.² So, I think it’s fitting to gather a bit from you, my readers, about our relationship here. I’ve curated just a handful of questions and made them into polls. I hope you’ll feel excited to share with me.

As we reach the birthday of Sated Soul later this month, I’ll be able to compile your responses as ingredients for setting the intention of our second year together.

Rick Ruben talks about the idea of de-centering the audience when letting creativity flow. Interestingly, when I write what’s trying to burst through me, instead of a beautifully curated commentary, it seems to mean more to you all.

I believe we’re pretty intuitive creatures, and we spend time with something or someone when it meets some sort of need. I hope this space meets a soul-level need in my readers.

I have a few Loves here who’ve let me know I am part of their Wednesday morning ritual, or that they look forward to the mid-week posts. That means the world to me, and I re-read posts Wednesday mornings when they release too, so we’re kind of spending our morning together.

Words are my love language, so when someone shares something with me: “I thought of you when I read this…” “This poem broke me open, so I had to share it with you…” that is what makes me feel most seen.

Thank you for taking the time to share with me. I’ll see you again next week!

1. When he does this it makes me feel so famous and so important and like a weird little celebrity and I love it!

2. Michael asked me once why some things are very important to me-like how my plants are arranged, and some aren’t- like how the dishes in the dishwasher are arranged. I honestly don’t know, and I know it’s bothersome and I have no plan to change it.