Anna | Project Whole Humans 🏴‍☠️❤️🧠

What If Life Isn't Happening TO You, But FOR You? Another way to look at things.

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Shedding Shoulds What Remains.

April felt like Shedding a lot of Shoulds.
May feels lighter.
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The Hall of Mirrors Why Real Connection is the Antidote to a Flattened World

My recent reflection on what happens when everything starts sounding the same: our work, our voices, even our (mimetic) desires.
It’s about the quiet loss of depth in a world that keeps flattening us.

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What Got You Here Won’t Get You There I think. But it's just my POV.

Why so many of us feel disoriented, restless, or quietly overwhelmed, even when we’re doing “the work"?

Let’s take a slow walk through the fog. You can hold my hand if you want—but bring your own snacks.

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✨ Help Me Shape Something New! This survey is short (5 min), anonymous (unless you choose to share), and helps shape something real—not just another thing to check off a list. -------------------------------------------------------...

Are you in a "no longer/not yet" moments in life?

Thinking about change, are in the messy middle of it, or just want a better way to navigate life /this world- in flux?

If so, I need your help!

Can you spend 5 minutes and answer some questions (anonymously!)👇

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How We All Got a Little Lost When Good Advice Stops Working

Everywhere you look, someone's selling answers. What to learn. How to change. Where things are headed.
I think what you really need is hope. Not motivation or another strategy, but hope.

Without that, even the best why doesn't move you.
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Curate Your Info Diet: follow thinkers, not just headlines.

Not all information is created equal.

Doom-scrolling doesn’t make you more prepared, just more anxious.

Now is a great time to be ruthless about your inputs.

Identity Spring Cleaning Navigating the Liminal Space

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The Death, Unfolding & Becoming Who do you need to become to get what you want?

What if the greatest obstacle to your success isn't your knowledge, skills, or even your circumstances—but the very person you believe yourself to be?

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The Trouble with Maps (They are not the territory)

The Trouble with Maps: They are not the Territory.

Any ambitious task worth doing will stretch you.

It will demand patience when you crave immediate results, test your resilience and require courage to make decisions without guarantees.

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Are you trying to reinvent yourself?

Then accept that identity reinvention is not an intellectual exercise.

You can’t think your way into your next self.

You have to live your way into it—by trying, exploring, discarding, and iterating.

It will stretch & humble you.

At its core, overthinking is not a thinking problem. It's a fear problem dressed in intellectual clothing.
When we find ourselves stuck in endless loops of analysis, planning, and "what-ifs," we're not actually seeking the best solution. We're seeking certainty that life simply doesn't offer.

I Went For A Walk. A Call to Adventure.

"Playing it safe" often carries the greatest risk of all - a life unlived.

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The Inhale Before the Wave And a Warning for Those Standing on the Shore

I hope you feel calm, grounded, and filled with quiet, confident agency.

Because...

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How Do You Know What Has Value? The Science of Mirrors (I just made that up)

Some people just seem to know what’s valuable. They trust their instincts, move with confidence, and recognize worth in things almost intuitively. Others—perhaps like you—aren’t so sure. You hesitate, analyze, second-guess.
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Hello, Resistance. Come, sit. Let's talk. Resistance Mapping: Navigating Inner Barriers

Do you map your Inner Landscape often?

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Playing the Long Game. Trust, Risk, Hope, and the Art of Seeing Clearly

A little over a year ago, I asked myself a question that shifted everything:

“Is this a time to make money, or is it a time to learn?”

Of course, it’s never truly an either/or. But when I sat with it, I knew my answer.

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Playing the Long Game. Trust, Risk, Hope, and the Art of Seeing Clearly

A little over a year ago, I asked myself a question that shifted everything:

“Is this a time to make money, or is it a time to learn?”

Of course, it’s never truly an either/or. But when I sat with it, I knew my answer.

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"Hello, Stranger." Get curious about who you're becoming.

Who we are and who we might become.

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People are lonely and scared & the media robs them of hope.

It’s your job to give them hope.

The Mundane and The Magnificent The Dance of/Rediscovering Authentic Awe in an Instagram World

Oh life, with all the magnificent and the mundane!

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Have you ever met anyone who said their favorite color was beige? I haven’t. It’s often green, or black, or purple or something. But I am yet to hear some excitedly shout: Beige!!!
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Lost in Translation & Finding Your Tribe The Exchange Rate of Values

The Exchange Rate of Values
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The Art of Surrender Finding Power in Letting Go

It's not easy to give up the illusion of control in life. But it's often worth it. Especially if you want to live life, not merely try to survive.
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True confidence isn't the absence of uncertainty – it's the ability to act in its presence.

Most people don’t quit because they lack ideas—they quit because they lack resilience.

If you keep switching lanes, you’ll never cross the finish line.

Execution isn’t about finding the perfect path. It’s about staying on a path long enough to make it excellent.

We live in uncertain times, borderline of scary. But, god, if only we are able to zoom out of our own heads enough -it’s an incredible time to be alive. Please, don’t let your “little shit” get in the way of seeing that.

We live in uncertain times, borderline of scary. But, god, if only we are able to zoom out of our own heads enough -it’s an incredible time to be alive. Please, don’t let your “little shit” get in the way of seeing that.

Are You Focusing on the Wrong Cost? And are you willing to pay the price.

Still waiting to feel ready to do what you need to do?

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You're Ready to Leave, and Then They Play Your Song Think about the last time you had really good sushi.

What's your mental "ginger"?https://backtosenses.substack.com/p/youre-ready-to-leave-and-then-they