We are born into promises we never agreed to — promises made by systems, roles, beliefs, and inherited scripts that tell us who to be in exchange for safety, love, or belonging.

In this episode of Expect Nothing, the slow decay of external promises is examined, along with the moment of awakening that arrives when the structure once trusted can no longer hold.

This is a meditation on self-sovereignty, the exhaustion of performance, and the liberation that follows when life is no longer organized around a future that was never yours.

This episode is not about loss.
It is about retrieval.

About recognizing when devotion has been misplaced — and learning how to bring it home.

These themes are explored further in Diana Wallace’s poetry collection The Poet Who Forgot Her Name, available wherever books are found.

Expect nothing.
Begin again.
Glow anyway.

Lunar Phase: Waning Crescent — release of inherited vows