The Gentle Exhale

The Gentle Exhale

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Carry the Softness Forward

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Carrie Scharf
May 25, 2026
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Hello Beautiful Souls,

As we come to the close of this month’s theme of Tend, I keep thinking about how easy it is to abandon softness once life becomes busy again.

We tell ourselves we’ll return to the quiet rituals later.
To rest later.
To creativity later.
To ourselves later.

But tending was never meant to be something we visit only when everything else is…

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