This summer for me, after reflecting upon it as we’re reaching the tail end of it, was all about shedding and rebuilding for this move. Not only moving apartments, but moving into true adulthood (as I turned 27 a couple months ago). It feels more “adult” because I’ll be living alone for the first time.

With that, I curated this month’s prompt around this feeling. Reflection on this summer, and looking forward to this next season as the leaves will start to change colors. Happy writing x

August Reflections

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I don’t think July gave me a chance to catch my breath — a lot went on this month for me: apartment hunting, navigating new opportunities, getting back into my routine after traveling, and most importantly, learning to take both myself and my business more seriously.

With that, for this month’s July Reflections, I wanted to give myself the space to explore my state of being and how I’ve grown throughout the month. Rather than reflection on individual areas of my life, I wanted to take a step back and look at the bigger picture.

As we move into August, I want to carry that perspective with me: what kind of person do I want to be and what kind of state of being do I want to cultivate (building on everything I learned in July)?

Announcement

Also, before going into the prompts, I wanted to share a quick update for my Substack community. As a reminder for my subscribers, my paid subscribers receive:

• Early access to my monthly journal prompts (like this) before the first of the month arrives

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And now, I am thinking of starting a private community chat where we can connect throughout the month. My hope is that chat will be a more intentional space where we can keep each other accountable (especially if you’re trying to be more consistent with journaling) and share our reflections from the prompts. Please let me know what you think in the comments or DM on Instagram! Would love this to be helpful and intentional.

Anyway, happy journaling x

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My heart is that you’ll use this journaling session as an opportunity to reflect and thank yourself for carrying yourself through everything this year has brought so far (because a lot can happen in just 6 months, heck even in just one month).

It’s quite easy for our minds to first go to all the ways you didn’t “achieve” your goals that you’ve written down on January 1st. In this practice, try to focus more on what you have accomplished and the moments you’re proud of. Even the ones you didn’t expect from the beginning of the year.

Remember that your January 1st self didn’t know about the unexpected changes, challenges, or beautiful surprises that would come your way throughout the year.

And then, take some time to think about how you want to move through the second half of 2026. It’s okay to change your goals, reassess your priorities, and allow the rest of the year to look different from what you originally imagined.

Happy journaling x

June Reflections

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My life got shaken up, things didn’t go my way, and I was forced out of my usual routines — with work and content, with wellness and working out, with all the things that keep my life feeling “stable.” I didn’t even get to take my usual photo booth picture for this monthly journal spread, a ritual of mine for almost a year. So you know I really have been “out of it.”

But this instability also forced me to get out of my everyday cycle that I’ve been in and pushed me to question every aspect of my life: Do I really want this? Are these the people I want to surround myself with? How am I really spending my time? What do I want to change? Am I truly becoming who I want to become?

With this in mind, here are my journal prompts for May Reflections and June Intentions.

May Reflections

Before I get into the prompts, as a quick side note: as you can tell from the photo of this month’s journal spread, I replaced what would be my usual photo booth strip with rose petals. They came from the bouquet my parents sent me for my birthday. May was difficult, and so these flowers became a symbol of strength for me — a reminder of the love and support of the people around me. Anyway, these rose petals ended up inspiring this month’s reflection prompts!

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JOURNAL BY MOON

trust that you'll know what to do when you get there

writing about “trusting in your future self” at this very moment in time feels like a test…

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While holding myself through this past month, I funnily enough hosted 2 workshops around the theme of Trusting in Your Future Self — one at Haricot Vert and the most recent one at Othership Williamsburg. Although I was the one leading people through these prompts, I perhaps needed them more than the ones who signed up for the workshop.

These prompts helped revive the inner strength I needed during this season and reminded myself of what I am truly capable of. Although they are not exactly the same from my in-person workshops (where I guide people through meditative and imaginative exercises that deepen the prompts), they are intended to help build a trusting relationship with yourself: your past, present, and future self.

Journal Prompts:

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Inspired by these shifts, here are my April Reflections & May Intentions journal prompts. Enjoy!

April Reflections

1. What changes have emerged this April? As a bonus, I added a “New Self Portrait” on top of the journal.

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because frankly, i feel quite weak right now — i’ve been thrown into a sea of seemingly high-stakes, important life decisions, and i don’t know which way to go. i don’t know what’s “right” or what’s “wrong” or what’s “best for me” or what’s “best for everyone,” so i stand here, paralyzed in the midst of it all.

ah, the quarter-life crisis. but don’t you see? (i am talking to myself) this is exactly the kind of season that will help me further grow my self-trust. we’ve been here before.

first, before we begin, i need to make a correction to what i’ve just said: there are no “right” or “wrong” answers or decisions. over the last few years, i’ve come to understand that it just is — the decision or answer you choose is simply one path out of many. and self-trust means knowing that whichever path you take, you’ll be holding yourself through it all.

it’s about putting less emphasis on the circumstances but instead focusing more on who i am (and who i’ve grown into and will grow into) as a person: from thinking, “is this the right decision?” to “i will choose this, and even if it doesn’t work out, i trust myself enough that i’ll figure it out.”

take a moment to picture who you were just a year ago. maybe your hair looked a little different, maybe you were living in another apartment, another country perhaps, or maybe you were with a partner or friend who is no longer in your life. think of all the questions and uncertainties you had about life then. 365 days later, you’ve come out of it — somehow getting through it all one day at a time. even if you would choose a different path today if you had the chance to go back, isn’t that a part of growth? epiphany as the aftermath of a hero’s journey — a kind of wisdom that was earned only through experience.

carrying that same sentiment, i imagine myself exactly a year from this moment: april 8th, 2027 at 10:30 am. she’s sitting by her wooden desk in her sunlit bedroom — the essence of the room feels similar to the one i’m in now, but it’s in a different space. a whole new environment that she’s completely settled into, that i, my current self, just don’t know about yet. she’s probably writing her next substack article, perhaps a response back to this very one. she smiles as she thinks back to the dilemmas she was having then, because her past-self (the current me) has no idea all the new people she’ll meet, all the new skills she’ll learn, all the breaking and undoing and rebuilding and growing she’ll experience in the next year. she smiles, because at the end of the day, she’s come out of all of them just fine — as she always somehow does.

something beautiful about this intimate, celestial connection of the three-selves (the past, present, future-you) is that you are the only person in this world who has gone through every single fragment of your life’s experiences thus far. it makes you your ultimate companion.

and for me, in my personal life and experience, there’s a crucial element of trusting God that deepens this beauty of self-trust — the piece that makes it whole. it’s an intimate dance between the two, self-trust and trusting God: knowing that i will try my best through it all, and God will take care of the rest. having complete faith that things will truly unfold in the best way for me, even when things don’t go according to my plan. i think this is why i am able to get out of bed and vulnerably write about this despite feeling confused — because i know this is just a snippet of a bigger journey i am on, one that’s bigger than myself. so i am hopeful.

with that, i end with this quote that someone on tiktok actually commented on my post:

“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

so if you’re also going through some kind of an existential crisis — you are not alone. you are never alone. take it one day at a time and hold onto hope, i am right there with you.

sending you lots of love, thank you for being here as always x

announcement: i’m hosting a journal workshop!

this sunday (4/12) in NYC, i’m hosting another workshop with the theme, TRUSTING IN YOUR FUTURE SELF. if you resonated with this piece, i’d love to see you there :’)

you can find more information + tickets here.

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As April is the start of a new quarter, I incorporated some prompts to reflect on the quarter as a whole (rather than just the specific month). Happy journaling x

March Reflections:

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The month of February was action-filled, just as I intended it to be. It was a whirlwind of events, commitments, self-imposed due dates, and late nights.

My body was stretched thin, but that was the goal. I wanted to see how hard I could push myself out of devotion. I didn’t let myself sleep until I finished the tasks I said I was going to accomplish. Once finished, usually well past midnight, I would lay my head down on my pillow with pride. “I did that.”

Things were running high — until they weren’t. By the end of the month, I ran out of gas.

One of the main to-dos I set for myself for the month was to finish my next YouTube vlog, What if I showed up as someone I believed in?: a documentation of a week dedicated to my commitments without excuses. The embodiment of my February North Star.

Funnily enough, I couldn’t meet that deadline. I tried editing that vlog so many different times, watching the clips over and over and over again to figure out how to make it “good,” but nothing stuck. Time passed, and suddenly it was already February 28th. Of course it’s the shortest month of the year when time was all I needed.

Then came March. I completely missed the deadline. I wanted to scratch it all.

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As promised for my paid subscribers, I am sharing my journal prompts for the new month before it begins — so here’s an empty spread of my journal with prompts for February Reflections and March Intentions.

The March prompts quite fun this time, inspired by St. Patrick’s Day and the theme of luck ⋆˙⟡

February Reflections:

1. My headspace coming out of February:

2. What was my February North Star? And…

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I don’t normally create prompts for Lunar New Year, but I resonated so deeply with what both the Year of the Snake and the Year of the Horse represent that it was hard not to. I wanted to give myself a dedicated, sacred space to reflect on these themes — and as I sat down with these prompts, I didn’t expect them to take me as deep as they did.

So here’s a vulnerable (yes, very vulnerable) reflection on what broke me open this past year, what I’ve learned, and the mindset I’m carrying into the Year of the Horse.

But first, here are the prompts:

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So here’s a glimpse into my vision for this month. As you can probably tell from the title, February is all about Action. Complete Action. Unwavering Action.

January Reflections

During the first full week of January, I did a “No Social Media” challenge and it completely opened my eyes to how often I lean on scrolling to avoid uncomfortable tasks. Tasks even as small and simple as sending an email or folding my laundry. I noticed that whenever I felt a slight resistance (“this is annoying,” “I don’t want to do this”), I’d have a tendency of unconsciously reaching out to my phone to scroll, trying to falsely ease myself from the discomfort. I say falsely, because in reality, the task is still there, waiting and looming over me.

Going through a week of this challenge forced me to face those tasks head on instead of escaping them. Pushing through and sitting with the discomfort: “this is annoying…but I am going to do it anyway.”

February Intentions

All that being said, I want to apply that same sentiment into February. Resisting procrastination and choosing action despite the discomfort, resistance, and fear.

Writing this very Substack post is one of those actions. It’s quite intimidating — the act of trying a new medium and sharing my writing when it doesn’t feel eloquent and “good enough.” But regardless, we do it anyway.

Another goal that I have set for myself aligned to this intention of Action is working out everyday. This past year I’ve learned that I truly feel my best after a workout: I feel more confident, focused, trustworthy, and disciplined — all the qualities I aspire to embody especially after quitting my 9-5 and being self-employed. Being my own boss means I am constantly in communication with myself, and “winning” this daily mental battle (aka working out) helps me to develop a more positive relationship with myself.

To make this challenge more fun, I bought a 2-week unlimited Solidcore class package on 2/1. Just after a week, I can already visibly feel (and see) how much stronger and more confident I’ve become. I’m also vlogging this second week of February to document how I am carrying out this intention, so stay tuned.

Closing Thoughts

Anyway, this concludes my first Substack post. I hope this inspired to you take one action that you’ve been meaning to take. One that will actually move the needle to your purpose and your goals. I am here with you.

Thank you so much for taking the time to read and be with me, I’m very excited (and also a little nervous) to connect with you all in a different platform.

I love you all x

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