Hi Friends-
I'm contemplating the idea of "peace in action" today.
For much of my past, I think the actions that I took were motivated by anxiety or fear or restlessness — a sense of not wanting to be here, of wanting to escape myself in some way. At the same time, my notions of peace were almost exclusively associated with the idea of calm and quiet and rest.
Now I'm considering what it would mean to take action with — and from — peace, rather than fear or anxiety. To rest in the "peace" of my convictions & my values and to take action, steadily, from that place. To experience peace through taking action on the things that matter to me.
One way I have been taking action this week is by bringing some new, more in-depth, 1:1 offerings online, including alchemy coaching — my version of creative mentorship sessions — and radiant energy journeys. See more details in the new offerings section below.
Scroll on for an essay about readiness, a call for slower urgency, and counter-intuitive thoughts on how to find love.
Warmly,
Jocelyn
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Want to work with me?
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I'm rolling out new 1-1 offerings for folks who are interested in doing deep, transformative work:
Alchemy Coaching Sessions (on Zoom)
1-1 mentorship sessions that bring all of my deep experience as a productivity expert, a seasoned creative, a solo entrepreneur, and an energy healer to bear in order to help you confront — and conquer — your biggest creative challenges. Learn more →
Radiant Energy Journeys (on Zoom)
1-1 energy sessions designed to help you connect to a deep sense of rootedness, self-trust, and clarity. Each session is an energetic collaboration that blends deep intention-setting, guided visualizations, and "radiant attention" to rejuvenate your energy system and unlock fresh new perspectives. Learn more →
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If you're curious about booking but still have questions, you can reply to this email to schedule a 10-min consult to see if this work is right for you. 🙌
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On Readiness vs Aliveness
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Wherein I talk about finding the delicate balance between over-preparing and under-preparing to take new creative risks…
Many years ago, I published a book series for creative folks. One of the books, Make Your Mark, focused on entrepreneurship. I asked Seth Godin to write the closing essay, and one of his lines has always stuck with me: If you wait until you're ready, it is almost certainly too late.
This is very true — up to a point.
It's true that we are never fully ready to do anything before we do it for the first time. Because: How could you be fully ready to do something you've never done before? You can't. It's impossible.
On the other hand: It's also true that there are no shortcuts, and I don't think that you can force yourself to be "ready" for something when you're not. There is a time and a place for practice, research, gestation, preparation, and imagination.
So then how do you know when you're in that slightly uncomfortable sweetspot of "almost ready," where you've planned, practiced, or gestated for an appropriate amount of time but you're also not dilly-dallying and telling yourself that you're not prepared enough when it's impossible to ever be fully prepared?
How do you know when to make the leap, to show yourself more fully, to share your gifts in a new way?
I don't think that anyone, least of all me, can tell you the answer to that question. But it is a question that feels especially relevant right now.
When I tune into the collective, my sense is that many of us are feeling the call to share ourselves and our gifts in new ways:
To use your voice in new ways.
To step into your power in new ways.
To come out of the closet in new ways.
And I don't just mean in a queer way.
I mean "come out of the closet" more broadly, as in: To take parts of yourself that have previously been hidden and bring them into the light. Parts of yourself that may not be in full alignment with your "brand" or how other people conceive of you, or even how you have historically conceived of you.
How do you know you're ready — or "almost ready" — to reveal just a little bit more of you?
I think part of how we get to "almost ready" is to accept and embrace what I call generative discomfort.
All change, all transformation, all creativity requires us to open up to the embrace of the unknown.
It requires us to step into that uncomfortable, liminal space where we don't know what is going to happen.
We have to be willing to not know what is going to happen in order for something new to happen.
And not knowing can be uncomfortable.
But it can also be invigorating.
It can also be enlivening.
When I think about this idea of generative discomfort, I think about a Venn diagram overlap of two circles: self-trust and risk-taking.
When you are able to trust yourself to take risks and move through the unknown in the belief that you will be able to manage whatever challenges arise, then you are able to navigate the space of generative discomfort.
But I don't think that generative discomfort is the only thing that happens in that overlap between self-trust and risk-taking. I think that Aliveness also happens there.
Think about the times when you have felt most alive. Has there not been an element of both self-trust and risk-taking in those moments? A way in which you gave yourself permission to believe that you could do the kinda scary thing, and then you did it, and it felt so enlivening?
Sometimes we get so caught up in the fear of doing something new, that we forget how alive it can make us feel.
So maybe the question that we ask shouldn't be: Am I ready?
But rather: Am I ready to feel more alive?
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When I think about the energy of self-trust and risk-taking coming together, I think about that moment when summer becomes fall. When you go outside, after so many months of feeling warm, and there's that first little nip in the air. You're the tiniest bit chilled, but it feels invigorating because it's new. You're in that magical space in-between, where one season is falling away and a new season is coming in and it's so enlivening — to stand on the cusp.
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What cusp are you standing on?
What wants to emerge?
What feels alive?
LINK ABOUT IT
"Slowing down is about lingering in the places we are not used to. Seeking out new questions. Becoming accountable to more than what rests on the surface. Seeking roots. Slowing down is taking care of ghosts, hugging monsters, sharing silence, embracing the weird."
—Bayo Akomolafe, A Slower Urgency
"People are hungry for an approach that doesn't treat our fellow citizens as enemies but rather treats our fellow citizens as neighbors, even if we disagree with them — an approach that's filled with grace."
—Sarah McBride, Ezra Klein Show
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How can I find love? "You don't find love. You give it."
David Hockney, collage, and the return to awkwardness
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Shout-Outs:
The artwork is: Yaroslav Shkriblyek, who is based in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine.
Link ideas from: Shira Erlichman and Sebene Selassie.
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