Shoved by the Universe
With total attitude the universe delivered!
The week the universe stopped tapping and started shoving.
This week felt like the universe was doing that thing where it taps you on the shoulder — and then, when you turn around, it shoves you forward.
Not meanly. The way a good friend does when you’re standing at the edge of something you secretly want.
It started on Mardi Gras.
Tuesday had that particular Mardi Gras energy — the kind that starts with good intentions and ends with King Cake icing in your hair. (A car swerved. The cake flew. Greg was involved. But underneath the chaos, something else was happening.
On Thursday, I met with the readers who are working through my guide book BREAKTHROUGH. It was such a delight to hear them express their moments of clairty and momentum as they each are building the life the really want, including reclaiming dreams of their youth.
Friday. Six weeks. Two boxes. One quasi-grandson with a screwdriver.
That’s how long my new easel and exercise equipment had been sitting there, waiting for me to stop pretending I was going to figure out the instructions myself. Was I stoked when he showed up? Embarrassingly, yes.
Nobody puts this on Instagram. It’s not curated. It’s not a soft-life reel.
It’s just real.
The equipment is currently sitting in the middle of my living room like a small, harmless spaceship.
I don’t care.
Because this is what rebuilding looks like. You don’t change your life by thinking harder. You change it by changing your environment. You create proof. Your brain needs proof you’re serious.
And while all that was happening in my actual house, two things happened on Substack that made me stop and go — wait, what?
First, another writer cross-posted one of my pieces. Not a link. The whole thing. To her people. Because she thought it was that strong.
I don’t care how long you’ve been writing. That does something to you. It’s one thing to hope your work is landing. It’s another when someone else says, publicly: this matters.
Then — and I haven’t told you this yet — a man who develops writers and helps them reach larger audiences asked me to sign with him.
I said yes.
More when it’s time. But I want you to hear this part right now:
When you keep showing up. When you keep making. When you keep telling the truth — the world responds.
Not always fast. Not always loud. But it responds.
This week wasn’t flashy. It was several small decisions stacking.
A nap instead of pushing through. A laugh instead of shame. A few physical changes that said: I’m serious about this life.
Momentum doesn’t roar. It accumulates.
Now. I want you to meet Susan.
Susan shows up to every Breakthrough workshop. She’s working on the Coherence prompts. She is not interested in change. She is actively doing it
.
This week she sent me a photo of her hair.
Purple highlights.
Not to look younger. Not for attention.
As an anchor.
A visible reminder that she is building momentum and she is not going back.
That photo hit me in the chest. Because that is what this work looks like in real life. Not a quote graphic. Not a pretty caption.
A woman making a decision and letting her body live inside that decision.
So I built something new.
A section on my website called:
The Women Who Did It.
You can find it here: https://www.monirosesoul.com/s/the-women-who-did-it
Not women who thought about it. Not women who talked about it.
Women. Who. Did it.
Susan is first.
She’s a retired nurse practitioner — kind, steady, and sharp. She’s writing children’s books and illustrating them herself, with her sights set on public libraries. And she’s writing poetry that does not flinch.
Go read her beautiful poems on The Women Who Did it page
Honey, let me tell you about my Tuesday nights.
A group of women — paid subscribers, my BREAKTHROUGH LADIES — gather every week and we get into it. We’re talking about reclaiming dreams you thought you’d outgrown. Waking up a body and a spirit that got real quiet somewhere along the way. Busting through whatever wall has been standing between you and the life you actually want.
It’s called the Breakthrough Workshop. It’s warm. It’s honest. It’ll probably make you laugh and cry in the same hour.
Paid subscribers, I’ll see you Tuesday. Everyone else — the door is one decision away.
I loved this, it made me think and it encouraged me to keep going, to keep taking that next step, to keep building the world I am looking for. I restacked two quotes from this I loved it so much. And it is the little changes.