Sounding Boards
....what am I listening to....
The threshold of bridging the curiosity within me to the world around me.
Curiosity doesn’t always need an answer.
It just needs space to expand, to be seen, to be witnessed.
However, when kept entirely inside, questions/thoughts can echo,
distort, and grow disproportionate to the world around me.
When spoken aloud (not for validation but for reflection)
curiosity becomes relational.
It reveals what I value,
I see where I am attached to outcome,
and how expectation quietly shadows my wonder.
What happens when I look at the sounding board not as a place for validation,
But as a reflection of my own values, my own desires, my own yes.
So letting go in this respect with the need to be agreed with,
the need to be met with my same energy, interest and understanding.
Stepping into being witnessed and witnessing.
I’m noticing how my enthusiasm changes when I share something precious,
and how expectation quietly sneaks in alongside wonder.
The expectation that I will be met in certain ways so I can feel safe,
so I can belong.
Not everyone will meet what I love with the same care as I have.
But if I can look past the expectation of how I was hoping you would react,
And look to where I may feel unmet, or unseen,
perhaps I get to see a little more clearly
the morsel within my vulnerability that holds the intrinsic value
outside of my need to have it validated.
Noticing how I respond when it isn’t held in the way I was expecting teaches me something about my devotion, my tenderness, and the threshold I stand before.
Instead of asking, Will this be received the way I hope?
I’m practicing asking, What does this reveal about what matters to me?
What turns seeking validation into sharing curiosity?
Being affirmed into Belonging myself?
Expectation into Authenticity?
And how in turn, can I offer this generosity to someone else?
This week’s inquiry:
Not everyone will love what you love the way you love it.
That does not diminish its worth.
Often, it reveals how deeply it matters to you.
Curiosity does not require consensus… only presence.
May your questions find air this week.
May your voice arrive without armor.
May curiosity be shared without demand.
And may what matters to you become clearer, not louder, as it is spoken.
Until soon….
See you at the next threshold,
Kirstin
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