This episode is a quiet reflection on how Thanksgiving has changed — not just in the world, but inside of us. I talk about the memories many of us still carry from childhood: the smells in the kitchen, the harmonizing voices, the sense of belonging that felt effortless back then.

And I speak honestly about what’s happened since.

COVID.

Estrangement.

Silence.

Families that no longer gather the same way.

Holidays that feel different, even when we try to hold onto what they used to be.

This isn’t a sad episode.

It’s an honest one.

A soft one.

A reminder that you’re not alone if this season feels complicated, quieter, or emptier than it used to.

Thanksgiving doesn’t have to match the past to be meaningful.

Sometimes the most sacred thing we can do is let it become something truer — smaller, softer, more honest… and more aligned with who we are now.

If this episode meets you in a tender place, you’re in good company.

We’re all finding our way into a new kind of home.

There are moments when creation stops feeling inspiring and starts feeling like collapse.

Moments when the weight, the pressure, the undoing inside your bones makes you question everything — purpose, timing, the point of all of it.

This piece speaks directly from that threshold.

The place where you’re cracked open, not because you failed, but because something larger is trying to move through you.

If you’re in a cycle that feels like breaking… if your inner world is loud, disorienting, or unbearably still… if you’re being forced into a depth you didn’t choose but can no longer run from — this is for you.

May this find you in the moment you need a reminder:

You’re not falling apart.

You’re shedding what cannot carry where you’re going.