It’s the mosttttt wonderful timeee of the yearrrrr
Everything pumpkin!
Everything fall!
Everything lock in!
Everything fresh!
While it’s still lowkey 90 degrees i don’t know. will we survive global warming? might be a problem for my kids idk guys my capacity for caring is low
not that i don’t care
but like also I can’t take up every issue I only have a few
iNCLUDING YOU having the BEST MONTH OF YOUR LIFE EVERRRRRRRRRR!!!
there’s so much to go over so without further adieu chicken, let us get into the dex of rolo shall we?
oh before I forget, in case anybody feels like forgotten or abandoned or like wt heck happened this summer I want you to know that Jesus is your number one friend, confidante, advisor, love, everything. I know that a lot of times it can look like life happens so that you happen, but it almost always is more like you happening so that life happens. Chin up, and keep being the cute and hot and fun and cool and the amazing wonderful brilliant intelligent diva that you are.
☆LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
☆ MOTIVVV
☆ EVERYTHING I’M GRAVITATING TOWARDS THIS AUTUMN
☆ FROM LOVE ITSELF READS U THINK TOO MUCH
☆ FROM LOVE ITSELF TV HEART HEALED SUMMER
☆ THE ART OF DOING (AND FINISHING) STUFF
☆ SEPTEMBER SWEETHEART IS THAT U?
☆ PRAYER FOR SEPTEMBER
EVERYTHING I’M GRAVITATING TOWARDS THIS AUTUMN
The autumn mood is getting very specific: something soft for a slow morning, denim with a little attitude, and a dress that needs an actual plan. These are the pieces I’m building the picture around. Updated as the wind blows and a vibe is caught, obviously.
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1. Free People Fran Cashmere Hoodie / 2. KEEN Jasper Suede Sneakers / 3. HALF WORK Top-Handle Bag
4. True Religion Becca Bootcut Jeans The red denim! The contrast stitching! These are for the evening when the jeans get to be the point of the outfit. I’d add a fitted top, boots under the hem, and very little else.
6. Résumé NiaRS Dress. For the dinner plan that finally makes it out of the group chat. The gathering and sheer layers give this black dress a lil movement and mystery.
7. KOTN Elina Convertible Sweater / 8. Movinglow Lambskin Jacket, via Atorie / 9. Mango Small Split-Leather Bag / 10. Rare Beauty Soft Pinch Matte Bouncy Blush. / 11. free-est Isobel Maxi Dress / 12. Kimchi Blue Hyacinth Ruffle Midi Dress. / 13. Adidas Handball Spezial Sneakers. / 14. Avec Les Filles Plaid and Lace Maxi.
15. Notte Vera Alta Patent Boots / 16. Zara ZW Collection Bomber Jacket / 17. Sisters and Seekers Seekola Top. / 18. Sisters and Seekers Seekola Pants / 19. Summer Fridays Vanilla Body Butter Balm / 20. Nom Originals Gelato Stripes Hairband.
FROM LOVE ITSELF READS
you think too much and that is your prison
I was planning content the other day and I realized I was stressing myself out for literally no reason. I kind of do a lot, and I’ve been trying to think of myself less as somebody who’s constantly trying to create content and more as a distribution center for everything that’s already inside of me. Because whatever you are is what you’ll be. I don’t ha…
FROM LOVE ITSELF TV YOU GET TO BE EXCITED ABOUT YOUR LIFE AGAIN
You don’t have to be completely healed to start feeling hopeful about your future. If you’ve been in survival mode, let’s talk about looking forward to your life again and recognizing what God has been growing in you.
In this episode of Heart Healed Summer, we’re talking about moving from scarcity to abundance, discovering what you have to offer, and why the life you prayed for can still require work. Having something to do doesn’t mean you’re back where you started.
We finish with a guided visualization to reflect on what you’re building with God and how what He’s placed in you can serve others. Come back to that part whenever you need the reminder. 🤍
What’s something you’re beginning to feel excited about again?
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Welcome back, Upper East Siders
0:31 - Your life can get better
1:57 - After the planting comes the harvest
2:38 - A new me came out of my worst season
3:36 - Your life has seasons
4:33 - A good season still asks something of you
5:28 - Why answered prayer can make you tired
6:58 - What God put in you has somewhere to go
7:52 - From scarcity to abundance
9:15 - Guided visualization: what are you building with God?
About Heart Healed Summer is for any chica or chico I guess (if you’re here you’re so welc!!) who’s currentlyyyy recovering from a heartbreak (includes but is not isolated tooooo romantic heartbreak, family heartbreak, career heartbreak, confusion heartbreak, what am i doing with my life heartbreak, y can’t i say no to a sweet treat heartbreak - and the like!) of any kind.
I’d watch because at the end of every episode (this series will run until the summer ends on calendar so september lol) is a meditation to help you integrate the healing words which surprise! Heals. <3
Please please pleaseeee share it with anyone you know going through anything big or small because that’s the point.
FRIENDLY REMINDER
YOU HAVE FREE WILL
You can wake up on a perfectly ordinary day and decide you’re going to handle something differently. Take the class. Put the phone down. Say the honest thing. Begin the thing you keep saving videos about, you can kinda just decide.
Sometimes we repeat a habit for so long that we start introducing it as our personality. “I’m just always late.” “I can’t say no.” “I never finish anything.” You don’t technically have to be like that.
Start with something you’re ready to stop.
Before you add seventeen new routines to your life this Fall, ask what’s already taking up the space. The automatic yes when you mean no. The hour of scrolling that leaves you feeling worse. The way you speak to yourself when you make a mistake.
Also while we’re here please don’t make a milestone a verdict on your character
A certain age. A relationship. A job title. A number on a screen. You can care about those things without handing them the authority to tell you whether you’re good enough or worth breathing I don’t know - bring your desires to God. Make your plans. Do the work. Leave room for a timeline you don’t even know exists yet. You’re so loved while you’re learning, while you’re building, and while you’re still waiting for something to happen.
You are allowed to be a beginner.
“I’ve never done this before” is a perfectly reasonable place to begin.
Read a little. Pray honestly. Take the walk. Return to the things that gave you energy. If you miss a day, you can begin again the next day.
One missed morning doesn’t need to become a reason to abandon yourself and who you believed you could be at some point.
SEPTEMBER SWEETHEART IS THAT U?
your monthly love letter
So there I was the other night,
and I was just, you know, yapping to myself, as one does when you debrief the whole day. And I just, like, was talking, talking, talking.
And if you’ve ever spent, like, more than 60 minutes with me, you know that, whenever I get to yapping, sometimes the Holy Spirit takes over. And it happened, and I was like, “Who do I share this with?” And I was like, “Probably my girlies on Substack.”
So this is your, I don’t know, it’s low-key personal now. Anyway, this is your little message, and I hope it helps you. I hope it blesses you, and I hope that September is honestly the month that you’ve been waiting for.
Not because you expect something amazing, wonderful, miraculous to happen, but because you finally have, like, steadiness in who you are and how you feel and what you want, you know?
So love you. I hope you listen to this. If you don’t listen, it’s below to readddddddd <3
0:00 September message
2:39 Prayer for sensitivity
4:40 Father, glorify Yourself
5:36 Substack girlies + sign-off
The ninth month is when you birth the baby!!!!
This is the ninth month of the year. You’ve been pregnant all year. God started injecting things into you in October, November, December of last year. The seed has taken root. Every seed that God started giving you needs to come out now. There are some seeds that are now at maturity after all this time.
It’s timeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee now.
And I’m speaking by the Spirit, from the Spirit: it is time now to birth everything I’ve given you to do. It is time now to publish that book. It is time now to start the company. It is time now to register the organization. It is time now to build the buildings I put in your heart.
This is where I am. Be where I am.
Do not be distracted. This is where I am moving. Go where I am going. Be where I am.
That is what God’s heart is. That is the word of the Lord for this season: be where I am.
Don’t be out there in the hypothetical, “Oh my gosh, when I get married.” God is not there now. He is here now. That will come, but there is a heart posture that comes from being where He is.
In your life, in your future, you will need to know how to be where He is.
There will come a time when being where He is will be life or death for you. It will be life unto your relationships. Be where the Spirit is.
This is the lesson. This is the most important thing. This is all I can ever write to you: be where He is.
This day, you are taking your hands off completely.
Off the way things are supposed to be done. How you think they should be accomplished. You don’t know. Be where I am.
When you align with where I am, you will start aligning with how I am. You will start aligning with who I am. And when you’re aligning with who I am, then and only then, when we are one, will you begin to shine, because now the Father has a path to glorify Himself by His Son. His Son is the only one who is where He is.
This is the word of the Lord for the month of September: Be where I am.
This season spans. It’s going from September into October. This is the month that the baby comes. Be where I am.
For eyes have not seen, ears have not heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man that which the Lord has promised to do.
Be where I am. Be sensitive.
PRAYER FOR SEPTEMBER
My prayer for you is that your sensitivity be turned on. Your spiritual eyes be opened. Your heart be receptive to the leanings of the Spirit, because they will be many. Some will be loud, but they will be subtle.
You’ll wake up in the morning and your posture, your heart, your prayer is, “Good morning, Holy Spirit. What would You have me do?”
Father, glorify Yourself. Glorify Your Son. The people You’ve given me—glorify Yourself.
May the works of our hands glorify You, Father God.
I bless you, and I send you forth into the month of September, into the month of October, into this season.
Push out of you that which I have put in you.
That is the word of the Lord. Be where I am.
VIVAAAASAAAAAA SEPTIEMBREEEEE I LOVE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!! <3
