M-M-M | The Gift Inside Every Stumble

One Reflection, One Refraction, One Ripple. Clarity To-Go.

October 13, 2025

Welcome to the Monday Morning Mirror - your weekly pause for clarity.

Every week deserves a moment of clarity. The Monday Morning Mirror is a pause at the start of your week to see yourself more clearly, shift your angle of vision, and send forward a ripple of purposeful action.

Each issue includes three parts:

• One Reflection — an original insight or story
• One Refraction — a quote or perspective from another lens
• One Ripple — a question or action to carry into your week

Simple, memorable, and consistent — delivered every Monday to help you reflect, reframe, and ripple forward with purpose.

REFLECTION

This weekend, I was helping my sister run her booth at an art festival. I started out with a simple intention: to be fully present and to foster a sense of connection. Then someone at the neighboring booth unleashed a wave of complaints and vulgar language—just raw negativity not aimed at us personally, but spilling into our space.

I’d love to say I handled it gracefully. But instead of staying anchored in my intention, I found myself reacting. I met distraction with distraction and separation with separation.

And that’s the lesson: our deepest insights don’t always come from our most aligned moments. Sometimes they emerge from these little crucibles of friction. They refine our awareness and help us come out the other side more aligned and intentional the next time life tests us.

REFRACTION

In the spirit of The Alchemist, the heart of the journey is that we always rise at least one more time than we stumble or fall. Each challenge is simply part of that unfolding adventure.

RIPPLE

As you move through your week, let each moment of friction be an invitation to realign. Each challenge is another chance to rise a little more intentional and a little more aware.