Spirituality Snapshot — More Connected, Less Alone

Honestly, I don't fully know what spirituality means for me right now. 🌫️

What I do know is that I feel a lot more stable and calm than I did a few months ago — though not fully stabilized yet. There are still a lot of things I need to heal within myself. But compared to where I was, I can tell that something in me has shifted.

Last year was deeply eye-opening and life-changing for me. Around this time a year ago, I went through a very painful breakup, and I can see now how much my childhood wounds and broader life anxieties were clouding the relationship and causing me to idealize it for more than it was. But through that pain, and through all the self-reflection that followed, I've slowly cleaned up my act. I've become more healed overall, more transparent, more real, more abundance-minded, and more focused on self-care. 🌱

So for that, I should say: thank you, Bryce. Thank you for being there when our paths crossed. Now that I'm stabilizing and feeling more like myself again, it's become easier to talk about all of this with more honesty and peace.

Something else that has helped me is listening to Boring History for Sleep. Learning how humans lived, how our brains evolved, and how modern life may not fully match the kind of life we were built for has made me feel more connected and less alone. 🏕️ In some ways, my IceAgeLife game is an attempt to capture that older band-living ideal — that sense of human closeness and social design that our minds may have originally evolved for.

At the same time, with all the complexity of that game, and with Jordan encouraging me to just get an app out sooner rather than later, I think I may table that idea for a bit and focus first on building something simpler that I can actually launch and enjoy before returning to IceAgeLife. That idea is still incubating. 🌀

So yeah — I still don't exactly know what it means for me to live well in this area, or even what spirituality fully means to me right now. But maybe that's okay. Maybe spirituality, at least for now, is less about having a perfect definition and more about feeling a little more connected, a little more honest, and a little less alone than before.

And I think that counts for something. ✨