Puddle of Sunshine Spiritual Guidance

03/06/2026

02/28/2026

I’ve been a little in over my head working on all these various side quests that relate to the system, I’ve been building… ANYWHO!

Bold journey reached out to me to do an interview segment on optimism. I’ve had the time to think about it. I definitely have more to say. At some point along the way, nihlism got fed up with me. I now declare myself to be an absurdist— specifically because nihilism is rooted in negativity. It is a lack mindset. We’re always looking for the comparison that need to be made in the situation specifically, the one that puts us on a different tier than others.

I’ve worked on 3 main topics over the past year:
1.  Learning how to carry joy in the midst of suffering.
2. Nervous system regulation +  how I talk to/treat myself
3. And dissolving my attachment to whether things are good or bad.

What is good in the now may turn out to be bad later. What is bad now can later reveal itself have been good.

Who am I to say?

I have yet to become omnipotent. Declarations as such are out of our hands. And when you become comfortable with the unknown that is when you can be an absurdist. That is when you can be an optimist. Innocent optimism is not the same as purified optimism.

*mic drop*

Lol, but here is the interview if you guys want to check it out!

We're excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Emily Greer. We hope you'll enjoy our conversation with Emily below. Emily, thank you so much for joining us. You are such a positive person and it’s something we really admire and so we wanted to start by

02/20/2026

Men are more likely to be loyal to other men because other men can potentially cause more harm than a woman can. Research shows that men rely heavily on other men for a sense of identity and belonging, meaning his ”love” for you can be overridden by his fear of being ridiculed, losing social standing, etc.

It’s not that he doesn’t love you. It’s that he doesn’t have an identity if he does love you the way you deserve. His identity is rooted in the perception of others.

He doesn’t even exist.

When it comes to loyalty, men are more likely to stay loyal to a system that doesn’t work rather than restructure from the inside. Restructuring means admitting the system is crumbling. To admit the system doesn’t work is to confess men have not done their job to their utmost ability.

Instead of viewing this as a way to grow, these men who rely on external perception naturally return to the consideration of how other people view this.

It’s shame.

The shame is only present because men are consistently loyal to a system which emphasizes self erasure while discouraging truth and transparency.

So now I must ask:

Do you really think your pain will suddenly flip the script?

Do you really think a person whose identity is maintained through external validation and self erasure gives a s**t about how many times their actions leave you sobbing and shaking until you finally pass out?

Do you think you matter more than his ego?

02/18/2026

Happy Wednesday, my dudes.

Remember that all of your perceivable reality follows your mindset. Use the law of mentalism to benefit you. Confirmation bias will do its best to pull you by your ankles back into the pit of your gloom + doom (aka your negative mindspace).

Guess what?

You sure as heck didn’t RSVP to no PITY PARTIES!!

(Repeat after me to reset your neural network)
I welcome new points of view!
I actively seek out experiences that stretch my capacity.
I am more than my thoughts; I am watching myself evaluate my own thought.
I search for truth even when I can stay comfortable with validation.
I am curious about the world around me and feel blessed to learn more.
I accept it when i’m wrong and feel blessed to grow more neural pathways.

If we’re always right, we’re technically driving in a loop. Gotta take a left and break the recursive loop sometimes!

Enjoy the day you thought yourself into having!
Xoxo em

02/02/2026

My selfie game has been major lacking as a result of both being in love and having my nose 10,000 pages deep in my “theory of consciousness”. Said theory encourages spiritual growth based on the stretching of the awareness, complete with practices to help you navigate each step along your path. It involves complex and chaos mathematics, religious understanding, shadow work, and creative expression based challenges, universal and hermetic laws, manifesting methods, practices for clearing distortion, communication cards, Story Work by Mark England, poetry, archetypal recognition, astrology, human design, emotional mapping, developing spiritual gifts, and so much more content. I have been dreading gathering these documents for years now. Alas, I’m deep in the mf paint reading, editing, generating syllabi and workbooks and questionnaires. It is an outrageously tedious undertaking. This post is proof that I’ve been hot during the process. (lol)

12/28/2025

Last night I got hard-core called out by my cards. Ouch.

When you deliberately practice watching your own thoughts for over 5 years, you look back and realize you built the ladder out of your own pit.

Your nervous system regulates. Your ego loses the need to “prove” itself. You realize that everyone is projecting. Everyone is mirroring.

Even you.
Even me.

Last night I felt led to the call out that landed on my plate.

“Service that serves whom?”
“Separated from intuition.”
“Law of detachment isn’t a boundary.”
“Even your shadows have shadows.”

I sat with that for a few midnight hours in the living room floor last night.

My prayers are spoken in gratitudes. Notebooks filled with colorful pen marks reminding me of the rainbow of shades my emotional color wheel has on deck. Heck, sometimes I write my shadows down and glue them eye level on a collage.

I can see it.
With or without a visual.

Even with all of this tedious metacognitive restructuring, there’s still a boatload of spots we can hide harbored inertia. Intentions we dare not show the light of day and habits we shield from even ourselves— these shadows stare back.

I am grateful to sharpen my iron by pattern recognizing my way back to still point.

How do you ground yourself after intense self realizations? Do you have any recommendation to share?

Honored to Witness
Xoxo

11/25/2025

The face I make when I properly read your mind

11/20/2025

A retelling of the story of Persephone from a 15 year old version of Emily.

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11/12/2025

If you’re looking for book recommendations— I got you. 😉

10/17/2025

Ineratta- a mistake painfully woven into the Kore; irrevocable felix culpa stitched into recognition henceforth.