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10.25.25 |🕯️How I'm softening into surrender

Community care when we meet our edge, weighted blankets, wintering well, a jazzy playlist, and an orange chia hot chocolate recipe sure to delight

The Good Trade and AmyAnn Cadwell

Oct 25

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Welcome to The Weekend Edit, a Saturday ritual from The Good Trade featuring our top 10 reads of the week and handpicked gems from our editors.

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Happy Saturday,

This week I was pressed to revisit seasons in my life when fear or physical distress felt like a pervasive theme.

Surrender has never come easily for me. My instinct is to resist, to summon all of my agency and try to reform the moment into something else. I tend to linger in the denial stage, or in the bargaining of grief, trying to make sense of what refuses to be solved.

But I’ve learned in the greatest seasons of growth or transformation, there comes a time when you realize you can’t outsmart it or outrun it (and perhaps you shouldn’t).

The only question becomes: who will sit with you while you move through it? A sister, a mother, a beloved, a friend, a doula?

Think back, who was there for you in the illness, the heartbreak, the waiting, the birth, the becoming—whatever it was? Who bore witness, who stayed present, who helped you carry what you could not bear the weight of on your own?

This is God personified. This is what love looks like in action. This is community care. It’s the steadfast willingness to be in it, even when “it” is not your own.

So I wonder—do you know who you would call on? And just as importantly, do you know who you would offer yourself to in this way?

This weekend’s curations are a mix of small joys that are keeping my spirit buoyant.

💛 Today’s Weekend Edit Includes:
→ The 10 links our 280,000+ readers loved most this week, from thoughtful essays to cozy fall recipes
→ One editor’s adventure seeing five psychics in five days, plus an essay on uncovering your core values
→ A roundup of the best weighted blankets, an orange chia hot cocoa recipe, a jazzy playlist for cooler evenings, and tips for wintering well
→ An invitation to our November virtual gathering on gratitude...

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