Happy Sunday!
As this year comes to a close, I want to thank each and every one of you for being here, truly. This community exists because of your openness, your honesty, and your willingness to explore the many versions of yourself alongside others doing the same. Our little corner of the internet has meant more to me than I can put into words.
Before we move forward into the year ahead, I wanted to pause and look back together (Spotify Wrapped style).
Below are some of my favorite prompts from this year. The ones I kept returning to. The questions that lingered. The reflections that sparked conversations, quiet realizations, or helped us all feel a little less alone.
Let’s rewind for a moment 🤍
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Personal History
The concept of aging is something I’ve thought about often the last couple weeks. Culturally, it's unfortunate that aging is often seen as a loss of relevance—a slow deterioration. We obsess over preventing its appearance, as if evolving through the many versions of ourselves is something to hide or be ashamed of.
It’s not.
There are two moments that, together, shifted my perspective.
A couple of weeks ago, we hosted a dinner at our house with some family friends. We were telling stories and laughing around the table when, mid-laugh, one of our friends turned to my husband, Carter, and said, “You smile with your eyes, my friend.”
Since then, I've started noticing the way the skin around the corners of his eyes creased when he beamed with joy, the same way mine does.
The following week, my stepmom’s mother was visiting for my brother’s basketball tournament. She’s in her seventies, and I’ve always thought she was incredibly beautiful, the epitome of aging gracefully. Not in the new-age sense of chasing immortality or trying to erase the life she’s lived, but in the most honest and elegant way. You can tell she has taken good care of her mind, body, and spirit. She wears the many versions of herself with pride.
That dinner party comment stuck with me, and when I looked at her this time, I saw the lines around her eyes and face in a whole new light. They told stories. I couldn’t help but admire how her features revealed the life she’s lived, the emotions she’s felt. The laughter, the joy, even the sorrow. Her face held her history.
And to me, that might be one of the most beautiful things a face can hold.
Take a moment to notice a line, wrinkle, or mark on your own face. What story does it tell about the life you’ve lived?
Multi-Dimensional: Creation and wearing our history proudly
(04/27/2025)
Environment
"When you're green, you're growing. When you're ripe, you rot." — Ray Kroc
How can you stay green?
Multi-Dimensional: Silent soldiers, staying green, and the who behind beliefs (05/11/25)
Beliefs
"Your daily behavior is always a function of your deepest beliefs." —Robin Sharma
What do your daily actions show you about your beliefs?
Multi-Dimensional: Breathing life through stories and acting with courage (02/09/2025)
Emotions
"When it's hurt you hold, go find the feeling you need the most"
That line from Rise by EMBRZ (ft. Abroad) caught me off guard this week.
Most of the time, my emotions feel like reactions to whatever's happening around me. I rarely think to go find the feeling I need.
What feeling do you need the most?
Where can you go find it?
Multi-Dimensional: Go find the feeling you need the most (06/29/25)
Relationships
I wasn't able to pass the hope this time, and I am so glad someone was there to pass it to me.
Lately, I’ve come to see hope not as something we always have to carry ourselves, but as something we pass between us. It moves through people like a current. Not always present in our hands, but always circulating.
It’s a shared rhythm.
When we have it, we offer it.
When we don’t, we must lean on those who do.
Who has passed hope to you when you needed it most?
Who might need you to pass it to them today?
Multi-Dimensional: Make a decision and pass the hope (07/13/2025)
Identity
From my journal entry on July 1st:
I keep waiting to look in the mirror and say, "this is you".... and I never do. It's funny, every time I think I have arrived in an identity, I end up feeling trapped, and it makes me want to start running.
How do you cope when the person you thought you were no longer fits?
Multi-Dimensional: Layers of history, lives in progress (07/06/2025)
Until next week,
Sadie Sanchez
Author of DIMENSIONS