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Letting Go of Expectations
Letting go of expectations has not been dramatic for me. It has been a soft undoing — a releasing of who I thought I needed to be so that something truer could emerge.
Amber Howard
10 hours ago5 min read


The Debt We Were Never Meant to Repay
None of us arrive at our ideas alone. We step onto ground shaped by lives we may never know—wisdom carried forward without credit, labour offered without recognition. This is a reflection on the debt of gratitude we were never meant to repay, only to remember.
Amber Howard
3 days ago5 min read


Concept Therapy, Not Concept Theory
We don’t just misread words—we misread the world. We see what we expect to see, hear what fits our stories, and interpret ourselves through ideas we learned long before we questioned them. What we call reality is often just perception, quietly edited by the mind.
Amber Howard
5 days ago4 min read


The Mountain With No Summit
Growth isn’t a mountain with a summit to reach. Before we ever begin to climb, most of us are living underneath it—carrying expectations, shoulds, and inherited weight that was never ours. The first act of growth is not climbing. It’s stepping out from under the mountain and learning how to walk our own path.
Amber Howard
6 days ago6 min read


What Do I Mean When I Say “Sovereignty”?
Sovereignty is what remains when we stop betraying ourselves. It is not control or independence, but the natural integrity that arises when life is lived in right relationship.
Amber Howard
Jan 124 min read


The Quiet Weight of “Should”
I wasn’t just sick — I was arguing with reality. The moment I stopped telling healing how it should unfold, I found myself carried instead of exhausted.
Amber Howard
Jan 114 min read


My Journey into the Miraculous
Some miracles arrive as unexpected companions. Others arrive as the courage to release what was never ours to carry.
Amber Howard
Dec 31, 20253 min read


The Cost of Busyness
Busyness is the most acceptable excuse we have — in organizations and in life. But the cost is high: repeated mistakes, lost learning, and moments with the people we love that never return.
Amber Howard
Dec 19, 20254 min read


The Gospel of the Exhausted Hero (and Why We Keep Worshipping It)
Popular culture worships the exhausted hero. A created life remembers: worth is not earned by sacrifice, but by belonging to yourself.
Amber Howard
Dec 19, 20254 min read


The Trap of Progress
Progress promises forward motion, but rarely asks who benefits, who pays, or what is quietly lost along the way.
Amber Howard
Dec 15, 20254 min read


Human Beings as Bumper Cars
Most of us aren’t living intentionally — we’re ricocheting. Old momentum, bright lights, and collisions we don’t yet understand.
Amber Howard
Dec 12, 20253 min read


The Architecture of Empire
Empire shaped us before we had words, but beneath its architecture lives an older truth—one that is quietly remembering itself.
Amber Howard
Dec 11, 20255 min read


From Survival to Sovereignty: Stepping Into a Future I Cannot Yet See
Stepping beyond survival, I choose sovereignty—trusting a future I can’t yet see, where miracles rise outside the edges of my knowing.
Amber Howard
Dec 8, 20253 min read


When the Weight Begins to Slip Off Your Shoulders
After a lifetime of carrying the world, something in me finally loosened. Purpose is no longer duty—it’s the freedom to live my own life.
Amber Howard
Dec 4, 20254 min read


The Human Shift: Part II — The Myth of the Perfect Mother
When the divine feminine disappeared, her weight fell onto human women. The mother-wound is not personal — it’s the burden of a vanished god.
Amber Howard
Nov 26, 20254 min read


The Human Split: Part I — The Divine Split
Before humanity fractured, the sacred did. The Divine split first — and the echo of that loss is the ache we still carry in our lives today.
Amber Howard
Nov 25, 20253 min read


What We Resist, Persists: A Sacred Unfolding
What we resist becomes our cage. What we allow becomes our path. Freedom begins the moment we stop fighting what is.
Amber Howard
Nov 20, 20254 min read


The Identities We Create to Survive (And How We Come Home to Ourselves)
We are not our survival roles. Letting them go is not betrayal—it’s remembrance. You are who you were before you had to become.
Amber Howard
Nov 19, 20253 min read


Truth Isn’t What You Think
Truth isn’t what you think—it’s what you’re willing to meet. Belief comforts. Truth transforms. Love lives in the space between.
Amber Howard
Oct 30, 20254 min read


The Paradox of Being Human
To be human is to hold paradox — joy and grief, doubt and devotion — and to remember we were never meant to be only one thing.
Amber Howard
Oct 23, 20253 min read
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