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Anna | Project Whole Humans 🏴‍☠️❤️🧠 @backtosenses.bsky.social · Jun 15

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What If Life Isn't Happening TO You, But FOR You?

Another way to look at things.

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Anna | Project Whole Humans 🏴‍☠️❤️🧠 @backtosenses.bsky.social · May 1

April felt like Shedding a lot of Shoulds.
May feels lighter.
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Shedding Shoulds

What Remains.

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Anna | Project Whole Humans 🏴‍☠️❤️🧠 @backtosenses.bsky.social · Apr 6

My recent reflection on what happens when everything starts sounding the same: our work, our voices, even our (mimetic) desires.
It’s about the quiet loss of depth in a world that keeps flattening us.

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The Hall of Mirrors

Why Real Connection is the Antidote to a Flattened World

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Anna | Project Whole Humans 🏴‍☠️❤️🧠 @backtosenses.bsky.social · Mar 29

Why so many of us feel disoriented, restless, or quietly overwhelmed, even when we’re doing “the work"?

Let’s take a slow walk through the fog. You can hold my hand if you want—but bring your own snacks.

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What Got You Here Won’t Get You There

I think. But it's just my POV.

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Anna | Project Whole Humans 🏴‍☠️❤️🧠 @backtosenses.bsky.social · Mar 23

Are you in a "no longer/not yet" moments in life?

Thinking about change, are in the messy middle of it, or just want a better way to navigate life /this world- in flux?

If so, I need your help!

Can you spend 5 minutes and answer some questions (anonymously!)👇

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✨ Help Me Shape Something New!

This survey is short (5 min), anonymous (unless you choose to share), and helps shape something real—not just another thing to check off a list. -------------------------------------------------------...

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Anna | Project Whole Humans 🏴‍☠️❤️🧠 @backtosenses.bsky.social · Mar 23

Everywhere you look, someone's selling answers. What to learn. How to change. Where things are headed.
I think what you really need is hope. Not motivation or another strategy, but hope.

Without that, even the best why doesn't move you.
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How We All Got a Little Lost

When Good Advice Stops Working

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Anna | Project Whole Humans 🏴‍☠️❤️🧠 @backtosenses.bsky.social · Mar 19

Curate Your Info Diet: follow thinkers, not just headlines.

Not all information is created equal.

Doom-scrolling doesn’t make you more prepared, just more anxious.

Now is a great time to be ruthless about your inputs.

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Anna | Project Whole Humans 🏴‍☠️❤️🧠 @backtosenses.bsky.social · Mar 16

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Identity Spring Cleaning

Navigating the Liminal Space

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Anna | Project Whole Humans 🏴‍☠️❤️🧠 @backtosenses.bsky.social · Mar 14

What if the greatest obstacle to your success isn't your knowledge, skills, or even your circumstances—but the very person you believe yourself to be?

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The Death, Unfolding & Becoming

Who do you need to become to get what you want?

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Anna | Project Whole Humans 🏴‍☠️❤️🧠 @backtosenses.bsky.social · Mar 9

The Trouble with Maps: They are not the Territory.

Any ambitious task worth doing will stretch you.

It will demand patience when you crave immediate results, test your resilience and require courage to make decisions without guarantees.

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The Trouble with Maps

(They are not the territory)

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Anna | Project Whole Humans 🏴‍☠️❤️🧠 @backtosenses.bsky.social · Mar 7

Are you trying to reinvent yourself?

Then accept that identity reinvention is not an intellectual exercise.

You can’t think your way into your next self.

You have to live your way into it—by trying, exploring, discarding, and iterating.

It will stretch & humble you.

Anna | Project Whole Humans 🏴‍☠️❤️🧠 @backtosenses.bsky.social · Mar 5

At its core, overthinking is not a thinking problem. It's a fear problem dressed in intellectual clothing.
When we find ourselves stuck in endless loops of analysis, planning, and "what-ifs," we're not actually seeking the best solution. We're seeking certainty that life simply doesn't offer.

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Anna | Project Whole Humans 🏴‍☠️❤️🧠 @backtosenses.bsky.social · Mar 5

"Playing it safe" often carries the greatest risk of all - a life unlived.

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I Went For A Walk.

A Call to Adventure.

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Anna | Project Whole Humans 🏴‍☠️❤️🧠 @backtosenses.bsky.social · Feb 28

I hope you feel calm, grounded, and filled with quiet, confident agency.

Because...

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The Inhale Before the Wave

And a Warning for Those Standing on the Shore

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Anna | Project Whole Humans 🏴‍☠️❤️🧠 @backtosenses.bsky.social · Feb 22

Some people just seem to know what’s valuable. They trust their instincts, move with confidence, and recognize worth in things almost intuitively. Others—perhaps like you—aren’t so sure. You hesitate, analyze, second-guess.
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How Do You Know What Has Value?

The Science of Mirrors (I just made that up)

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Anna | Project Whole Humans 🏴‍☠️❤️🧠 @backtosenses.bsky.social · Feb 17

Do you map your Inner Landscape often?

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Hello, Resistance. Come, sit. Let's talk.

Resistance Mapping: Navigating Inner Barriers

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Anna | Project Whole Humans 🏴‍☠️❤️🧠 @backtosenses.bsky.social · Feb 10

A little over a year ago, I asked myself a question that shifted everything:

“Is this a time to make money, or is it a time to learn?”

Of course, it’s never truly an either/or. But when I sat with it, I knew my answer.

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Playing the Long Game.

Trust, Risk, Hope, and the Art of Seeing Clearly

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Anna | Project Whole Humans 🏴‍☠️❤️🧠 @backtosenses.bsky.social · Feb 10

A little over a year ago, I asked myself a question that shifted everything:

“Is this a time to make money, or is it a time to learn?”

Of course, it’s never truly an either/or. But when I sat with it, I knew my answer.

backtosenses.substack.com/p/playing-th...

Playing the Long Game.

Trust, Risk, Hope, and the Art of Seeing Clearly

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Anna | Project Whole Humans 🏴‍☠️❤️🧠 @backtosenses.bsky.social · Feb 7

Who we are and who we might become.

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"Hello, Stranger."

Get curious about who you're becoming.

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Anna | Project Whole Humans 🏴‍☠️❤️🧠 @backtosenses.bsky.social · Feb 4

People are lonely and scared & the media robs them of hope.

It’s your job to give them hope.

Anna | Project Whole Humans 🏴‍☠️❤️🧠 @backtosenses.bsky.social · Jan 27

Oh life, with all the magnificent and the mundane!

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The Mundane and The Magnificent

The Dance of/Rediscovering Authentic Awe in an Instagram World

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Anna | Project Whole Humans 🏴‍☠️❤️🧠 @backtosenses.bsky.social · Jan 20

Have you ever met anyone who said their favorite color was beige? I haven’t. It’s often green, or black, or purple or something. But I am yet to hear some excitedly shout: Beige!!!
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Anna | Project Whole Humans 🏴‍☠️❤️🧠 @backtosenses.bsky.social · Jan 17

The Exchange Rate of Values
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Lost in Translation & Finding Your Tribe

The Exchange Rate of Values

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Anna | Project Whole Humans 🏴‍☠️❤️🧠 @backtosenses.bsky.social · Jan 14

It's not easy to give up the illusion of control in life. But it's often worth it. Especially if you want to live life, not merely try to survive.
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The Art of Surrender

Finding Power in Letting Go

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Anna | Project Whole Humans 🏴‍☠️❤️🧠 @backtosenses.bsky.social · Jan 14

True confidence isn't the absence of uncertainty – it's the ability to act in its presence.

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