The end of an era, but the start of an age
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Hello friend,
Never in my life have I experienced the feeling of transition so profoundly as I have lately, at least not a pleasant transition.
I've had transitions that rocked me to my core, broken relationships, losing my parents, high school to college, college to the real world, leaving jobs, moving across the country.
Now, you'd think moving across the country would have been a pleasant transition, and it one thousand million percent was, but I didn't feel at the time that it was shifting my entire identity. I was still taking all the pieces of me that I believed, loved, cherished, and lugging them 3000 miles away.
Those five years in Portland feel like a weird chapter, a wrinkle in time, I know I lived it, but I can't be sure. I came alive and I died in that place, losing everything I carried with me from across the states.
But this is different.
This feels like I've returned back home and after everything life has handed me these last few years, I'm standing here at the top of the summit, battered and broken but so alive.
I'm ready for a change, I'm ready to pivot and grow and expand. After years of playing small, shrinking and yielding, I'm finally finally finally ready to push back, to ask for more, to hope for more, to trust in more.
Or as Taylor sang at the last eras show, “It was the end of an era, but the start of an age” – which my brain then wants to fill in with “this is the golden age of something good and right and real”
I have never felt more me. I've felt my edges cracking open and I've grieved like never before in this past year. But now, now I can stand here and say, this time, this is for me.
It's time to chase those dreams and really live life out loud.
What does this look like? It means letting go of many things I've held as a crutch for these years. My art shop? Gone. Hiding behind the Sincerely Sheri brand? Gone. Doing things simply because I always have? Gone. Not speaking up for myself? Gone.
What's left and what I will build going forward is just me. Showing up on the internet with my name, fully and proudly. Creating content that makes me come alive, sharing my words here and on my blog because I process things so much better when I can sit down and write. I've always been authentic, always, always, always, that's one thing you can know for sure with me. But now even more vulnerable and opening the curtains a little more to let you in to those pieces of myself that I've learned how to hide for the sake of my sanity. I think I'm finally in a place where I can walk that tight rope between tmi on the internet and keeping things to myself.
But also I'm really ready to build a small little community of likeminded besties that want to do life together. I really dream of one day having the kind of success that means I can create a retreat or a group trip somewhere and invite you to join me, like HOW FUN WOULD THAT BE ARE YOU KIDDING ME???? If that day comes you have full permission to pinch me as hard as possible because I already know how wild that would be to see that dream come true.
I want to encourage you to do life your way. To chase your passions, to live boldly, to show up as YOURSELF, to take risks and to grow and learn and experience life in a way you never had before. I think the world needs more of us to do this.
Til next time friends 🤗
PS - I'm rebranding this email as Coveted Corner Spaces because it reminds me of the exact type of spot I can imagine us getting cozy in whether over coffee or drinks, snuggled in for those sweet intimate conversations that surpass hours in the blink of an eye. That's how I imagine us gathering together when I send these emails.
This email was sent to subscribers on January 22, 2025.
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