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Right around Christmas - Work pauses. Replies slow down. People scatter into homes, holidays, habits, versions of themselves they don’t usually sit with for this long. And in that pause, you start noticing who feels easy to be around when there’s nothing to plan or prove, which conversations feel lighter, which feel heavier than you remembered. Where your body relaxes. Where it braces.

Emotional truths surface not because you went looking for them, but because there’s finally enough space to see them. Edition 13 isn’t asking you to act on those realizations. It’s simply inviting you to notice them without judgment, urgency, or pressure to resolve anything before the year ends.

Inside this edition:
🧭 Knowing Who Can Meet You — and Who Can’t
🤍 Health, weight, and long-term care
📚 What she’s watching, trying, cooking this week
🗞 5 headlines shaping women’s world
✨ Her Spotlight

Take what resonates. Let the rest pass. Some weeks are for doing. Some are for seeing.

Once you notice emotional patterns, it becomes harder to unsee them. You start recognizing where effort flows back to you, and where it disappears. Where conversations soften you. Where they leave you slightly braced, even when nothing “went wrong.” This is not about judgment. It’s about accuracy: 

The mistake isn’t having different kinds of relationships — it’s expecting every one of them to meet you at the same emotional depth.

The time around Christmas has a way of making that clear. Not because you’re overthinking — but because the usual distractions fall away. And clarity doesn’t ask you to act. It asks you to recognize.

Some things don’t need fixing. They need honest placement. Some people aren’t meant to meet you here — and noticing that isn't loss. It’s relief.

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💬 Ideas to tune into when the world’s too loud.

📺 Watch: Power of Delusional Self Belief
Believing in yourself before the evidence arrives isn’t naïve, it’s often necessary → Watch when the year feels unfinished, but your intuition already knows where you’re headed.

🛍 Try: Good Molecules Yerba Mate Wake Up Eye Gel
A $6 under-eye reset with a cult following. Caffeine, peptides, hydration, no drama → For mornings when sleep was optional but showing up isn’t.

🍽 Cook: Potato and Leek Gratin
Creamy, slow, deeply grounding. Kind of dish that rewards patience and feeds everyone twice → Make this when the house is full, the days blur together, and comfort matters more than efficiency.

✨ Let this be for gentle confidence, small indulgences, and food that feels like care.

5 stories shaping the week for women everywhere.

🕊 Care That Endures: An essay on abortion’s long, global history shows how women have always stepped in for one another, regardless of the law.
🏀 Persistence Pays Off: Texas Tech women finally beat Baylor after 14 years, ending a 31-game drought in dramatic fashion.
🌍 Corporate Feminism, Questioned: The UN clarifies it’s not linked to the IWD website many brands use, raising questions about who shapes women’s movements.
🗣 Voice vs. Power: Marjorie Taylor Greene says GOP women are marginalized inside their own party, revealing fractures behind closed doors.
🎄 Queen of Christmas: Mariah Carey breaks another record, proving some cultural moments only grow stronger with time. 

Found her. Loved her. Needed you to see her.

Victoria Drummond was failed 37 times. Not because she was wrong, but because the examiners couldn’t accept a woman passing. While Britain told her no for decades, she studied, worked, sailed, and stayed with the machines. During WWII, when bombs fell on her ship mid-Atlantic, she stood alone in the engine room and pushed the engines past their limits, fast enough to save every life onboard.

She didn’t argue her worth. She proved it by staying. Victoria died on Christmas Day, after 40 years at sea, having done the work she loved. Not loudly, not bitterly, not for permission.

✨ If this week has you noticing what endures — let her be a reminder. 

If this edition helped you notice without pressure, upcoming Tuesday and Friday will take you further — with stories that make space for honest placement.

✨ P.S. Merry Christmas — in whatever way feels true to you this year.

++ Know a woman who needs permission to stop explaining herself this week? Send her weekly download. Because the best kind of wisdom is the one we pass woman to woman → Send it her way

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