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Hello, lovely!

A friend recently heard me talking about my podcast and said, "Oh, I just assumed you stopped recording them." You see, she only knows about my podcast when she gets these emails. I get it. She's busy and doesn't regularly listen to podcasts.

It was a humbling lesson, though, especially as I'll hit my 200th episode this year -- a reminder that there's Doing-the-Thing and the Telling-People-About-The-Thing and they are not the same.

If you are doing amazing things quietly on your own and you love it that way, keep going! Sometimes it feels good to create a beautiful garden, art, music, poetry, or dream and to keep it to ourselves, to protect it from the opinions of others.

And sometimes it's powerful to share with others, to realize that the thing of beauty and possibility you created also stirs feelings in other people. What a meaningful connection! Often, it's worth the risk.

So if you've been holding back from sharing yourself with others, maybe today is a day to consider sharing with your beloveds, gently expanding the circle as your nervous system allows.

My newest endeavor

In that spirit, I'm delighted to share that after two years of a "coming soon" page, I've written my first Substack post. As I wrote these emails, I realized that many of them were almost mini-essays, and that it would be good to put them somewhere more accessible than lovenotes.coachingwithrachel.com. I also know the power of building a home for your ideas. I have that in my podcast and am excited to have a new idea home at Substack.

Many creators just migrate their email list to Substack, but I want you to be able to choose. I'll have mini-essays over there and will still connect over here around my coaching. Take a look at the first post and please consider subscribing -- I'd be so happy to have you over there, as I'm hoping to build more of a community over time.

The prevailing wisdom is to not launch your Substack until you've got a few posts up, but I know what works best for me, almost always, is turning the dial just a notch. That's the topic of this week's podcast.

​Latest podcast: #170: Dial Thinking vs. Switch Thinking ​

We often think about change in black-and-white, all-or-nothing ways — especially at the start of a new year -- which sets us up to feel like failures. I call this "switch thinking" -- on or off. In this episode, I suggest "dial thinking" for meaningful, long-lasting change. I share how incremental change actually calms the brain, builds momentum, and makes it easier to keep going after inevitable setbacks -- whether we want to eat more protein or feel a greater sense of calm every day. This episode is a roadmap to inviting change that is more doable, kinder, and more likely to succeed in the long run.

​Listen here, or wherever you find your podcasts.

Whatever you want more or less of right now, look for ways to turn the dial just a bit. Those tiny steps have their own momentum -- for us as individuals and even more when we join together.

Love, Rachel

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P.S. If you feel like hitting reply to tell me how you're doing, please know that I'd love to receive it! Connecting with people is one of the best parts of the thaw.