After three weeks away, Erin is back....but not because she has it figured out, but because showing up anyway is the whole point.
This episode is an honest check-in: on an OCD flare that was the most significant in years, on the creative paralysis that followed, and on what finally helped her find her way back. She traces the silence back to the AI series she announced in episode 169, which quickly began to feel like spacewalking without a tether, and the stakes felt high, the subject felt vast, and her nervous system did what nervous systems do.
What pulled her through? The Artemis II moon mission and what its crew taught her about suiting up into genuine uncertainty. The musician Raye, whose new album she has had on repeat and whose literary, unafraid lyrics have been helping her see herself clearly at a low moment. And eventually, the decision to just start.
She also makes good on her commitment to the AI series — confirming it is still coming, reframing what it actually is, and naming exactly what she is promising you.
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Episode Takeaway
What have you been returning to this week — a song, a show, a person, an idea — that you keep coming back to without fully understanding why? Sit with that for a minute. What does it tell you about what you actually need right now?
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