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Dr. Nicole Mirkin's avatar

The spiral captures something many people experience but struggle to explain: revisiting familiar places in life while carrying new capacity each time. The connection between biology and lived experience makes growth feel less like self-improvement and more like participation in a natural process.

The Quantum Model's avatar

Exactly! How amazing that is πŸ™

Joshua Allred's avatar

Sounds like a song to be played. The harmonies of life, whatever tune you play it’s played in nature like music.

The Quantum Model's avatar

I love that imagery

Regina Duke's avatar

β€œReturn does not mean failure” β€” that line carries more weight than people realize.

The Quantum Model's avatar

Thank you! I agree!

Liesl Jobson's avatar

I love your newsletter so very much. Always feel hopeful and inspired to return, to reconnect with the parts of myself that have frayed and fizzled out. Grateful more than I can properly say - or pay. Would love to buy you a coffee once in a while if that's an option. Can't commit to a monthly obligation at this stage. https://buymeacoffee.com/

The Quantum Model's avatar

Hi! That is so incredibly kind! I feel honored and I am happy to have you here! I always love requests too so, if there is ever a topic you’d like to see on my page feel free to send me a DM! Here is my link πŸ€— buymeacoffee.com/thequantummodel (In the shop section there’s also a couple workbooks I’ve created as well as my poetry book)

This comment was so so lovely to wake up to! Wishing you the best β˜€οΈ

Mandy Leith's avatar

I feel that somehow we know this instinctively but you have articulated it so beautifully! Bravo. πŸ‘πŸΎ πŸŒ€ Round and round and round she goes, where she stops, nobody knows πŸŒ€

Celeste Z.'s avatar

I thought of the spiral of the umbilical chord, the baby’s very lifeline.

The Quantum Model's avatar

Oh!! that’s a great one