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THE WEEKLY THRIVE ED 1.3
The Weekly Thrive
- The Weekly Thrive Ed. 1.3
- Date: 2025-09-11
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Welcome to the 3rd edition of The Weekly Thrive. Last week we dove into raising kinesthetic awareness and how the body is much more intelligent than we give it credit for.
This week, we’ll be thinking about how chaos is a change agent and why stepping into uncomfortable change can be beneficial.
One thing to think about: what is your relationship to chaos?
I was talking to R this week about how people can be addicted to chaos because it keeps them from asking big questions or feeling big feelings.
Questions like: “Who am I really? What do I really want? Is the life I’m living mine or someone else’s? Is this good enough? Am I using my gifts or squandering them?”
Despite how painful and soul-killing it is to stay stuck in the fear we know, we still choose it after going after what we really want.
“Going after what we really want is annoyingly vague, and could mean anything, but I’m talking about the defining, fundamental aspects of life: the people we choose to spend our life with, the places we inhabit, the work we invest in, the things we created, and the Gods we worship. You know, the parts that actually matter in the end.” (p v.29)
But here’s the paradox: the same chaos that traps us can also liberate us. Like a soup of potential energy within us, chaos contains the raw ingredients of creativity and change, just waiting to be channeled.
In Greek mythology, Khaos was the first entity to exist. It was a being that represented a vast void of formless primordial matter. From Khaos, the entire universe emerged.
Our beginnings our not so different. 99% of the mass of the human body is made up of six elements: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus.1
Where do you think these elements came from? The United States? Europe? The elements that make up each of us came from the crashing of atoms within this universe, from the formation and destruction of stars.
It’s easy to think that chaos is the enemy, but stagnation is the true enemy.
“All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you. The only lasting truth is change. God is change.” ― Octavia E. Butler
The only constant in the universe is change.
One thing to write about: what pain are you avoiding?
What if instead of fighting your chaos, you rolled with it? What if the very things you want are hidden behind the very things you fear? What would you do if you weren’t afraid?
Change is uncomfortable becuase it’s unfamiliar. It’s not so much the fear of the unknown as it is the loss of the known.
Change doesn’t happen at our centers, it happens at our edge states. At the edge of what we know and who we are.
How can you delve deeper into the potential energy surrounding you this week?
One thing to act on: what change is calling to you?
What change are you avoiding because it’ll be uncomfortable? What small step can you take today to make it more manageable?
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See you next week! Ethan
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