M-M-M | The Gift of Coherence

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

November 17, 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

I’ve been spending a few cycles this week on the idea of coherence — not as a concept, but as something I’ve been living my way into for years. And the truth is, my very first lesson in coherence came long before I had a word for it.

When I was 13, the night before my mother was unexpectedly swept off the face of the earth, she offered me one simple, yet difficult invitation:

“Just promise me you’ll always strive to be honest with yourself.”

At the time, I didn’t understand the depth of it.
But looking back now, I realize she wasn’t only talking about morality and behavior.
She was handing me the blueprint for staying whole.

Because coherence — true coherence — is forged in honesty.
It’s the moment when intention, attention, and awareness stop pulling in different directions and begin to converge into something steady, clear, and true.
It’s when the inner signal becomes strong enough to guide your life.

I didn’t learn coherence from a book.
I learned it from a mother who, with almost no time left, gave me the one thing she trusted would help me navigate the rest of my life.

REFRACTION

“When your heart and head are in the right place,                                    your feet will follow.”

RIPPLE

This week, I invite you to treat coherence as a gift — not something to master, but something to notice and receive.
Begin with one moment of honest self-awareness.
Where is your intention pointed today?
Where is your attention actually flowing?
And what is your awareness quietly trying to bring back into view?

Coherence doesn’t appear all at once.
It builds in these small moments of truth —
moments that steady you, center you, and guide your feet
in the direction your life is already longing to move.

One moment of truth at a time.
That’s where coherence begins.