Week 17 brings Laura face-to-face with an uncomfortable question after Mike drops a truth bomb about movies and reality. Two holiday films - one Hollywood, one raw - spark a conversation about whether she's been performing her life instead of living it. Her first troll comment arrives (finally), proving she's no longer playing it safe. Through closing out 2025's lessons and a brilliant relationship hack discovered during a bicker, she confronts the difference between meaningful work and hard work. Plus, the spa membership she finally decided on after two years? There's a plot twist nobody saw coming.

What You'll Learn:

• Why your need to be the main character might be keeping you from your actual life
• The canvas-clearing practice that prevents old patterns from bleeding through
• How making your marriage a team sport changes who gets to be right

The Pattern Shift: From: "My life needs to be interesting enough for others to care about" To: "My life just needs to be real enough for me to actually live it"

Link to Substack article: "A Love Letter For Your Brain"

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