Volume 3, Issue 25: Feelings Can Be Scary

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Hi friends! My team for my day job is fully remote and that means we forfeit our gorgeous office space. This week I went into the office to clean out my desk and apparently rats had chewed on some of my folders and papers and left a few poops for good measure. Rats made it into the building early in the pandemic when it was empty and though I didn’t have food in my desk they still decided that my printed spreadsheets were worth eating? Sigh.

Anyway, cleaning out my desk on Wednesday gave me an opportunity to lean in to my intention for the full moon cycle that started: “I release overthinking things.” If I haven’t needed those papers or printouts in the nearly 3 years that I’ve been working from home without them, then they can go. I put about 99% of the papers in my desk into the shredding bin and it felt amazing. Release indeed.