Anna | Project Whole Humans 🏴☠️❤️🧠
@backtosenses.bsky.social
You don’t need more motivation- you need less fear.
How to thrive in Chaos.
Navigating world in flux without going nuts in the process.
From sense-making to sharing insights on how to bridge our intention-action gaps.
https://backtosenses.substack.com/
How to thrive in Chaos.
Navigating world in flux without going nuts in the process.
From sense-making to sharing insights on how to bridge our intention-action gaps.
https://backtosenses.substack.com/
April felt like Shedding a lot of Shoulds.
May feels lighter.
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May feels lighter.
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Shedding Shoulds
What Remains.
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May 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
April felt like Shedding a lot of Shoulds.
May feels lighter.
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May feels lighter.
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My recent reflection on what happens when everything starts sounding the same: our work, our voices, even our (mimetic) desires.
It’s about the quiet loss of depth in a world that keeps flattening us.
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It’s about the quiet loss of depth in a world that keeps flattening us.
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The Hall of Mirrors
Why Real Connection is the Antidote to a Flattened World
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April 6, 2025 at 9:56 AM
My recent reflection on what happens when everything starts sounding the same: our work, our voices, even our (mimetic) desires.
It’s about the quiet loss of depth in a world that keeps flattening us.
backtosenses.substack.com/p/the-hall-o...
It’s about the quiet loss of depth in a world that keeps flattening us.
backtosenses.substack.com/p/the-hall-o...
Why so many of us feel disoriented, restless, or quietly overwhelmed, even when we’re doing “the work"?
Let’s take a slow walk through the fog. You can hold my hand if you want—but bring your own snacks.
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Let’s take a slow walk through the fog. You can hold my hand if you want—but bring your own snacks.
backtosenses.substack.com/p/what-got-y...
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
I think. But it's just my POV.
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March 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Why so many of us feel disoriented, restless, or quietly overwhelmed, even when we’re doing “the work"?
Let’s take a slow walk through the fog. You can hold my hand if you want—but bring your own snacks.
backtosenses.substack.com/p/what-got-y...
Let’s take a slow walk through the fog. You can hold my hand if you want—but bring your own snacks.
backtosenses.substack.com/p/what-got-y...
Are you in a "no longer/not yet" moments in life?
Thinking about change, are in the messy middle of it, or just want a better way to navigate life /this world- in flux?
If so, I need your help!
Can you spend 5 minutes and answer some questions (anonymously!)👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Thinking about change, are in the messy middle of it, or just want a better way to navigate life /this world- in flux?
If so, I need your help!
Can you spend 5 minutes and answer some questions (anonymously!)👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
✨ Help Me Shape Something New!
This survey is short (5 min), anonymous (unless you choose to share), and helps shape something real—not just another thing to check off a list.
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March 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Are you in a "no longer/not yet" moments in life?
Thinking about change, are in the messy middle of it, or just want a better way to navigate life /this world- in flux?
If so, I need your help!
Can you spend 5 minutes and answer some questions (anonymously!)👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Thinking about change, are in the messy middle of it, or just want a better way to navigate life /this world- in flux?
If so, I need your help!
Can you spend 5 minutes and answer some questions (anonymously!)👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Everywhere you look, someone's selling answers. What to learn. How to change. Where things are headed.
I think what you really need is hope. Not motivation or another strategy, but hope.
Without that, even the best why doesn't move you.
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I think what you really need is hope. Not motivation or another strategy, but hope.
Without that, even the best why doesn't move you.
backtosenses.substack.com/p/how-we-all...
How We All Got a Little Lost
When Good Advice Stops Working
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March 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Everywhere you look, someone's selling answers. What to learn. How to change. Where things are headed.
I think what you really need is hope. Not motivation or another strategy, but hope.
Without that, even the best why doesn't move you.
backtosenses.substack.com/p/how-we-all...
I think what you really need is hope. Not motivation or another strategy, but hope.
Without that, even the best why doesn't move you.
backtosenses.substack.com/p/how-we-all...
Curate Your Info Diet: follow thinkers, not just headlines.
Not all information is created equal.
Doom-scrolling doesn’t make you more prepared, just more anxious.
Now is a great time to be ruthless about your inputs.
Not all information is created equal.
Doom-scrolling doesn’t make you more prepared, just more anxious.
Now is a great time to be ruthless about your inputs.
March 19, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Curate Your Info Diet: follow thinkers, not just headlines.
Not all information is created equal.
Doom-scrolling doesn’t make you more prepared, just more anxious.
Now is a great time to be ruthless about your inputs.
Not all information is created equal.
Doom-scrolling doesn’t make you more prepared, just more anxious.
Now is a great time to be ruthless about your inputs.
What if the greatest obstacle to your success isn't your knowledge, skills, or even your circumstances—but the very person you believe yourself to be?
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backtosenses.substack.com/p/the-death-...
The Death, Unfolding & Becoming
Who do you need to become to get what you want?
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March 14, 2025 at 11:33 AM
What if the greatest obstacle to your success isn't your knowledge, skills, or even your circumstances—but the very person you believe yourself to be?
backtosenses.substack.com/p/the-death-...
backtosenses.substack.com/p/the-death-...
The Trouble with Maps: They are not the Territory.
Any ambitious task worth doing will stretch you.
It will demand patience when you crave immediate results, test your resilience and require courage to make decisions without guarantees.
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Any ambitious task worth doing will stretch you.
It will demand patience when you crave immediate results, test your resilience and require courage to make decisions without guarantees.
backtosenses.substack.com/p/the-troubl...
The Trouble with Maps
(They are not the territory)
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March 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The Trouble with Maps: They are not the Territory.
Any ambitious task worth doing will stretch you.
It will demand patience when you crave immediate results, test your resilience and require courage to make decisions without guarantees.
backtosenses.substack.com/p/the-troubl...
Any ambitious task worth doing will stretch you.
It will demand patience when you crave immediate results, test your resilience and require courage to make decisions without guarantees.
backtosenses.substack.com/p/the-troubl...
Are you trying to reinvent yourself?
Then accept that identity reinvention is not an intellectual exercise.
You can’t think your way into your next self.
You have to live your way into it—by trying, exploring, discarding, and iterating.
It will stretch & humble you.
Then accept that identity reinvention is not an intellectual exercise.
You can’t think your way into your next self.
You have to live your way into it—by trying, exploring, discarding, and iterating.
It will stretch & humble you.
March 7, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Are you trying to reinvent yourself?
Then accept that identity reinvention is not an intellectual exercise.
You can’t think your way into your next self.
You have to live your way into it—by trying, exploring, discarding, and iterating.
It will stretch & humble you.
Then accept that identity reinvention is not an intellectual exercise.
You can’t think your way into your next self.
You have to live your way into it—by trying, exploring, discarding, and iterating.
It will stretch & humble you.
At its core, overthinking is not a thinking problem. It's a fear problem dressed in intellectual clothing.
When we find ourselves stuck in endless loops of analysis, planning, and "what-ifs," we're not actually seeking the best solution. We're seeking certainty that life simply doesn't offer.
When we find ourselves stuck in endless loops of analysis, planning, and "what-ifs," we're not actually seeking the best solution. We're seeking certainty that life simply doesn't offer.
March 5, 2025 at 9:36 AM
At its core, overthinking is not a thinking problem. It's a fear problem dressed in intellectual clothing.
When we find ourselves stuck in endless loops of analysis, planning, and "what-ifs," we're not actually seeking the best solution. We're seeking certainty that life simply doesn't offer.
When we find ourselves stuck in endless loops of analysis, planning, and "what-ifs," we're not actually seeking the best solution. We're seeking certainty that life simply doesn't offer.
"Playing it safe" often carries the greatest risk of all - a life unlived.
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I Went For A Walk.
A Call to Adventure.
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March 5, 2025 at 9:04 AM
"Playing it safe" often carries the greatest risk of all - a life unlived.
backtosenses.substack.com/p/i-went-for...
backtosenses.substack.com/p/i-went-for...
I hope you feel calm, grounded, and filled with quiet, confident agency.
Because...
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Because...
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The Inhale Before the Wave
And a Warning for Those Standing on the Shore
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February 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I hope you feel calm, grounded, and filled with quiet, confident agency.
Because...
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Because...
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Some people just seem to know what’s valuable. They trust their instincts, move with confidence, and recognize worth in things almost intuitively. Others—perhaps like you—aren’t so sure. You hesitate, analyze, second-guess.
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How Do You Know What Has Value?
The Science of Mirrors (I just made that up)
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February 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Some people just seem to know what’s valuable. They trust their instincts, move with confidence, and recognize worth in things almost intuitively. Others—perhaps like you—aren’t so sure. You hesitate, analyze, second-guess.
backtosenses.substack.com/p/how-do-you...
backtosenses.substack.com/p/how-do-you...
Hello, Resistance. Come, sit. Let's talk.
Resistance Mapping: Navigating Inner Barriers
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February 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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A little over a year ago, I asked myself a question that shifted everything:
“Is this a time to make money, or is it a time to learn?”
Of course, it’s never truly an either/or. But when I sat with it, I knew my answer.
backtosenses.substack.com/p/playing-th...
“Is this a time to make money, or is it a time to learn?”
Of course, it’s never truly an either/or. But when I sat with it, I knew my answer.
backtosenses.substack.com/p/playing-th...
Playing the Long Game.
Trust, Risk, Hope, and the Art of Seeing Clearly
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February 10, 2025 at 9:30 AM
A little over a year ago, I asked myself a question that shifted everything:
“Is this a time to make money, or is it a time to learn?”
Of course, it’s never truly an either/or. But when I sat with it, I knew my answer.
backtosenses.substack.com/p/playing-th...
“Is this a time to make money, or is it a time to learn?”
Of course, it’s never truly an either/or. But when I sat with it, I knew my answer.
backtosenses.substack.com/p/playing-th...
A little over a year ago, I asked myself a question that shifted everything:
“Is this a time to make money, or is it a time to learn?”
Of course, it’s never truly an either/or. But when I sat with it, I knew my answer.
backtosenses.substack.com/p/playing-th...
“Is this a time to make money, or is it a time to learn?”
Of course, it’s never truly an either/or. But when I sat with it, I knew my answer.
backtosenses.substack.com/p/playing-th...
Playing the Long Game.
Trust, Risk, Hope, and the Art of Seeing Clearly
backtosenses.substack.com
February 10, 2025 at 9:30 AM
A little over a year ago, I asked myself a question that shifted everything:
“Is this a time to make money, or is it a time to learn?”
Of course, it’s never truly an either/or. But when I sat with it, I knew my answer.
backtosenses.substack.com/p/playing-th...
“Is this a time to make money, or is it a time to learn?”
Of course, it’s never truly an either/or. But when I sat with it, I knew my answer.
backtosenses.substack.com/p/playing-th...
"Hello, Stranger."
Get curious about who you're becoming.
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February 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
People are lonely and scared & the media robs them of hope.
It’s your job to give them hope.
It’s your job to give them hope.
February 4, 2025 at 12:09 PM
People are lonely and scared & the media robs them of hope.
It’s your job to give them hope.
It’s your job to give them hope.
Have you ever met anyone who said their favorite color was beige? I haven’t. It’s often green, or black, or purple or something. But I am yet to hear some excitedly shout: Beige!!!
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January 20, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Have you ever met anyone who said their favorite color was beige? I haven’t. It’s often green, or black, or purple or something. But I am yet to hear some excitedly shout: Beige!!!
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The Exchange Rate of Values
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Lost in Translation & Finding Your Tribe
The Exchange Rate of Values
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January 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The Exchange Rate of Values
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It's not easy to give up the illusion of control in life. But it's often worth it. Especially if you want to live life, not merely try to survive.
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The Art of Surrender
Finding Power in Letting Go
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January 14, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It's not easy to give up the illusion of control in life. But it's often worth it. Especially if you want to live life, not merely try to survive.
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True confidence isn't the absence of uncertainty – it's the ability to act in its presence.
January 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
True confidence isn't the absence of uncertainty – it's the ability to act in its presence.