the Self Study Papers
Welcome to the blog by the Duality Project. We're so glad you're here. Within these papers, you'll find stories, explorations of ideas, emotions, and learnings. Take what you need and leave the rest.
Hey!
When's the last time you felt like yourself?
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it means to fully trust and lean into who I am. Like quirks, perfectionism, chaos, and all!
How does that change my experience of this one and only life I'm sure I get to live?
What happens when...
Storytime with Ruby
Howdy!
Does it feel like fall where you are?
I'm writing to you from Kate's living room. The sun glistens into the trees and streams through the divided-light windows; the air outside is warm but brisk in the way that only early autumn can offer us.
By now you likely know that...
Storytime With Kate
I love everything about the Self Study Program (except the admin stuff on the backend of course but I'm grateful that Ruby and I get to do that together, like everything else.)
Anyway, one of my favorite parts of the Self Study Program are the one-on-one coaching calls that...
Storytime with Ruby
Happy Autumn!
I hope this email finds you in a moment of pause; or perhaps it offers that pause for you.
I am currently in Georgia, and it doesn't quite feel like fall today. It's 88 degrees and sunny.
But I can feel the shift anyway. The days getting shorter. The...
Storytime with Kate
Hey, you're so easy to love. Do you know that?
Ruby said that to me in a text the other day. I'm pretty sure she's said it to me before but this time, I felt that. I felt easy to love. I like who I'm being these days. I like how I'm being towards myself. I like the impact that...
Storytime with Ruby
Has this ever happened to you?
You reach out to a friend to hang out.
One week later you meet up at a cute, local coffee shop mid-morning on a Friday.
You both get a chai latte and a little treat.
You sit outside because it's perfect 70 degree weather and overcast.
Your friend...
Storytime with Kate
Inventory day at any retail or restaurant job normally SUCKSSSSS. This isn't that :) We're doing life inventory
If you're anything like me, and I know you are because you're here...
you work hard. on yourself. a lot.
The other day I was in my dream car that I recently...
Storytime with Ruby
I just got back from a spontaneous and life-changing trip to London to see my college bestie (and Taylor Swift!!!). We have another friend from college who is the photographer for Paramore (they opened for Taylor on the European leg of the Eras Tour). When he reached out to my...
Storytime with Kate
I'm not sure if you've noticed, but we were kind of given a step by step direction manual: school, marriage, house, kids, work, *shhh* (divorce), retirement, die.
yikes, it honestly sounds bleak when I just type it out like that.
Well, and yeah. It has actually always...
Storytime with Ruby
I just moved across the country for the fourth time in my short 32 years. The difference this time is that there's no home to move in to. Jake and I have decided to spend the rest of this year with family and to take 2025 as an opportunity to travel. We have no plan. We have...
Storytime with Kate
I’m about to tell you a broad story about me and then how I’ve grown. See how you can relate :)
Years ago Ruby was telling me about how she and her sister, who she’s very close with, sometimes sit down and have the “these are my least...
Storytime with Kate
Today one of my very best friends called me vapid. / adjective. "without liveliness or spirit; dull or tedious: a vapid party; vapid conversation."
and before you run in to jump down his throat for that bullshit I want to give you some context:
I'm not...
