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You can handle a crisis. Solve somebody else’s problem. Give your friend the exact advice she needs. Then it’s your turn to choose, and suddenly you’re awake at 2 a.m. wondering if you’ve thought of every possible thing that could go wrong.
I know that woman. I am that woman.
Letters from Ness is my Tuesday letter about overthinking, self-trust, and the decisions we keep putting off while we wait to feel certain.
Whatever I’m working through, noticing, or finally saying out loud. It might be a story from my life, a question that gets under your skin, or a tool you can use the next time your brain starts making a case for every possible option.
I’ll tell you what I’ve learned from raising kids, building businesses, starting over, getting things wrong, and figuring out what to do next.
Sometimes you’ll laugh. Sometimes you’ll think, well, shit, I do that too. And sometimes you might close the email and finally make the decision you’ve been circling for weeks.
Because it’s hard to hear your own answer when your head is full of everyone else’s opinions.
These letters give you a place to pause, name what’s really going on, and ask yourself what you think. I’ll give you my intel. Then you decide what to do with it.
No one can promise every choice will work out. I can tell you this: you don’t have to know exactly how it’ll turn out before you trust yourself to choose.
Because Mondays have enough going on. By Tuesday, you’ve found your footing, had another coffee, and might have a minute to read something that’s actually about you.
That’s when I’ll show up in your inbox.
The next Letter from Ness goes out Tuesday. If you’re tired of thinking yourself in circles, get in on the conversation.
Of course you are! That's why we are here silly.
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I was the woman everyone trusted to figure things out. I built businesses, solved problems, and made hard calls for other people. This is the story of how I started learning to trust myself.
You’ve handled hard things your whole life. So why does one decision about your life send you looking for seventeen opinions and a guarantee? Let’s talk about what’s really going on.
My stories won’t give you the answer to your life. But one might help you spot the question you’ve been avoiding and trust yourself enough to answer it.
The truth we're almost afraid to admit
Maybe you already know what you want. You’re just scared to say it out loud because then you might have to do something about it.
I get that. I’ve said yes when I meant no, asked for opinions I didn’t need, and thought a decision to death because I was afraid of getting it wrong.
That’s the kind of truth we can talk about here. You don’t have to have it all figured out before you join us