Can I ask you something?
A conversation, a community, a thread
Since pushing off from the shores of Seattle and Instagram several years ago, I have ventured far, far away from the familiar, the comfortable, and the predictable.
I've had a sparkle in my eye for something beyond the bounds of the business I built through social media for some time now, but its shape and details have remained out of reach to me, while I focused on adjusting to a challenging new life at sea, and practiced the art of letting go. As a result, and as you likely already know, many or most pieces of my work have been on extended hiatus while I just focused on living. I worked on making a home for myself in the unknown, in the uncomfortable, in the nameless, in the space in between.
In the last couple years, I have grown, stumbled, and learned a lot.
I have felt utterly lost, I've been swept away by the rip currents of anxiety, I've questioned my choices and my path, I’ve felt like a fraud, I've worried about my future, I've feared for my life and physical safety, I've felt lonely and impatient and insecure, I’ve hated everything, I've weathered literal storms that have thrown me and my home around like a rag doll. I have contracted.
I’ve also felt fully grounded and overwhelmingly grateful, I’ve met wonderful new friends, I’ve been nurtured by the deserts and rainforests, I have attuned to the rhythm of the tides and the moon, I’ve learned how little one truly needs, I’ve been in love with everything, and with the help of the ocean and the medicines of the earth, I have journeyed deep within myself and received some powerful messages and lessons. I have expanded.
Perhaps the last few years have been wild and weird and transformational for you, too.
These days, that sparkle in my eye has finally been granted the space to breathe and grow, and I am bursting to begin a new chapter of my work. As it begins to slowly take shape, and I excitedly dust off my literal and figurative microphone, I am overcome by an urge to connect with you, to hear from you, to meet you.
Because truthfully, these last couple years have felt like I have, well… sailed off into another world — and I am not very certain of how I can be of service to you in this new season we both find ourselves in.
So if you’re reading this, I sincerely and earnestly want to hear about who and where you are, and how I can help nurture or guide you into wherever you are hoping to go (or grow) next.
It would be profoundly helpful if you (yes, you!) could reply to this email or leave a comment on this post, and tell me:
If we had a full day together to spend in deep, collaborative study…
…what would you most want my help with?
…what would you want to do together?
…what would you most want to learn?
…what would you most want to ask me?
If you could have my input on any area of your life right now, what would be most meaningful for us to explore together?
Your words here are of limitless value to me, as I hope to be able to use them to build something that has immediate and lasting value to you — you are a beacon, and helping to actively shape the newest iteration of my work. THANK YOU for taking the time to share openly and honestly with me here.
I truly cannot wait to hear from you, to get to know you, and to be in community with you again.
xo, Taylor
I would love a mini retreat reset crash course review of STA and check in with our higher selves. A refresh of how to check in on yourself and a review of the tools and activities to nurture and reconnect with your higher self. A session that feels like a bug hug to yourself and leaves you feeling full, confident, and connected.
There are so many layers of things I’d want your help with!
Lately, especially in regards to my work (and the emails I’ve been sending you), I’ve been like “man, I wish I could do what Taylor does, I wonder if she can teach me.” I literally told my boss if our CEO wanted to give me a scholarship to get certified, I’d make this my life’s work 😂
An area I’ve noticed I struggle in is creating...I’m so resistant to try something new that I know I’m gonna suck at but is also important to me (I can try a new job because it’s not about who I am, but trying a new art is so much harder).
And I also struggle with like, trying to explain this new way of being to other people who just don’t get it. When a conversation comes up where I’m asked why I think or feel or believe that way, and I try to explain it but it’s like I’m speaking a foreign language 😂 and with people who do get it and want to go deeper, I struggle to really convey/articulate it (hence the thing above about wanting to learn how you do what you do).
I’d love to hear you talk more about getting rid of all your stuff and moving into a tiny space and embarking on something so unknown, and all the thoughts and emotional stuff that goes along with that.
I’d love to hear you talk more about walking through live with dynamite on your heels, because I meant to comment on that and forgot...I haven’t read something in a long time that I so identified with. AND I’m just in the last couple years learning I’m like that, and I have this internal struggle to want to go back...but then being so unsatisfied because nothing is like I left it. And it’s hard to describe the grief there.
Something that just popped into my head as I’m writing is like...you know those business-y people that will help you map out your year with your goals and stuff? I would much rather do something like that with someone like you, who can help me get clarity on what I really want and where I wanna go (in work and in real life) and what’s important to actually help me get that. That would be SUCH a cool way to spend a day. Like help me with my vision and then how do I do it.
I’d love something ongoing. For continued work with you but also a community of people that get this work. Even like, I know in patreon you asked for suggestions on things to do a podcast episode about...my brain doesn’t come up with things out of thin air, but I ALWAYS have lots of thoughts/questions after an episode. So like a podcast book club where we could discuss more in depth after would be so cool. But really any sort of ongoing thing would be cool
And I’ve thought a lot about this 😂 so if you want specific suggestions, I’m happy to help out! Especially now that it’s my job to help people with things like this, I’m absolutely filled to the brim with ideas and there’s no one I’d rather give them to!