Summer is asking you to live at full capacity. But you don’t have to do it alone.

It’s Wednesday evening as I write this, and I can feel that particular quality of light that only happens this close to the summer solstice. Everything feels more… possible, somehow. More intense, too. Like the world is holding its breath before the longest day of the year arrives tomorrow.

Summer always feels like it strips away our excuses. The extra daylight, the expansive energy, and the way nature itself is operating at full capacity makes it harder to hide from ourselves when there are sixteen hours of sunlight illuminating everything.

I’ve been thinking about this as I’ve watched my ducks recently. They’re different in summer. It’s their first summer. It’s all new. They’re more active, more adventurous, and definitely more willing to explore the far corners of our property. It’s like the season gives them permission to be more fully themselves.

And I think that’s exactly what summer is asking of us too.

When the universe turns up the volume

Tomorrow is the summer solstice. The official first day of summer, yes, but also something much more significant from a soul perspective. It’s the moment when the earth tilts most fully toward the sun. When light reaches its peak. When we’re literally being asked to step into our own fullness.

I know that sounded like a poetic metaphor, but I promise you, it’s more than that. 

There’s real energy shifting here. You probably have been feeling it for weeks. It’s this sense that something is culminating, that you’re being called forward into a bigger version of yourself, and that the old ways of playing small or staying hidden just aren’t working anymore.

If you’ve been feeling restless and unsettled, like you’re outgrowing your current life in some way, that’s not anxiety, it’s alignment. It’s your soul responding to the invitation to expand.

And what I’ve learned over the years is that when the universe turns up the volume like this, we need more support, not less. The intensity can be overwhelming if we’re trying to…metabolize it alone. 

The woman who forgot how to remember herself

I keep thinking about a client I worked with last summer who came to me in late June feeling completely overwhelmed. She’d been in traditional therapy for months, said she’d read every self-help book she could find, even downloaded meditation apps and joined some online courses. 

Nothing was wrong with any of those approaches, but she kept hitting the same wall, she said. She could get some aha insights, but then she’d go back to her regular life, and within hours, sometimes minutes, all that clarity would evaporate.

She told me upfront, “I don’t need more ‘tools’.” I agreed, and told her she needed someone to remember who she was when she forgot. Which was probably about seventeen times a day. It’s one thing to have breakthrough moments of self-awareness, but it’s another thing completely to maintain that connection to your truth when you’re in the thick of daily life, managing all the relationships, making countless decisions, and trying to show up for work and family when your inner world is shifting.

That’s when we started (what I now call) Soul Companion Unlimited.

The daily practice of remembering

Every morning, Megan (not her real name) would wake up to a message from me. It was never generic inspiration from some app, but something specific to her life, her patterns, and what we’d been working through together.

Sometimes it was a question that helped her stay connected to her evolving truth: “What would the Megan who trusts herself completely do in this situation?” Sometimes it was a gentle reminder: “Remember, you’re allowed to take up space today. Your needs matter as much as everyone else’s.”

I remember other days it was things like: “I’m sensing you’re in your head about that conversation yesterday. What’s your body telling you about it?” And sometimes, simply: “Breathe. What are you feeling?”

The messages weren’t long. They were usually a few paragraphs. But they created something I’d never seen before which was a kind of soul scaffolding that held her steady while she rebuilt her relationship with herself.

What Megan and I found out was that transformation didn’t happen in isolated moments of insight. It happened in the accumulation of small, daily remembrances. It happened in having someone consistently reflect back the truth when the world around her was reflecting back her old patterns.

It only takes a season

By September – just one season later – I’m telling you, Megan was finally aligned with who she’d always been under all the doubt and second-guessing and going back and forth between who she had been and who she knew she was now.

She was making decisions from her centre instead of from fear. And setting and maintaining boundaries that actually held. I loved that she was speaking up in meetings and with family. And she even ended a friendship that had been draining her for years. I remember smiling when she told me about starting the kitchen remodelling project she’d been “planning” for decades.

“It only took a season,” she said to me in our last check-in, “but it was the first season of my life where I didn’t have to remember how to be myself alone.”

I love that phrase, and it’s stayed with me over the years. The first season where she didn’t have to remember how to be herself alone.

Summer’s invitation to you

So, now we’re on the threshold of summer’s beginning, tomorrow, and I feel the same invitation extending to all of us. This season is asking you to live at full capacity. To stop dimming your light and step into the bigness that your soul knows is possible.

But you don’t have to figure out how to do that alone.

The old model of transformation which was sporadic insights followed by long stretches of trying to implement them in isolation, really doesn’t match the intensity of what’s available right now. This moment requires consistent, daily support for the depth of change that wants to happen.

That’s why I (officially) created Soul Companion Unlimited. Because breakthrough moments are beautiful, but they’re not enough. What creates lasting transformation is the daily practice of being witnessed, reminded, and gently guided back to your truth.

You can write back anytime – and as often as you need – when something stirs, when something breaks open, when clarity emerges or confusion takes over. I respond to everything with the same depth of attention I bring to our live sessions.

It’s like having a therapist-meets-soul-whisperer on speed dial, but with the added dimension of proactive support. You don’t have to remember to reach out when you’re struggling. I’m already reaching toward you.

For the ones who are ready

This isn’t for everyone, of course. But it’s specifically for you if you’re ready to stop playing small and you know you need consistent support for the magnitude of change you’re sensing wants to happen.

It’s for you if you’re tired of having insights that don’t stick, and if you want to finally align with the most authentic version of yourself and be witnessed daily in your becoming.

If you understand that real transformation happens in the ordinary moments between the breakthrough sessions, and in the daily choice to remember who you’re becoming instead of who you’ve always been, this is sacred. 

I give you personal presence and daily attunement to your inner world.

So, if this is stirring something in you, and if you can feel summer’s invitation to step into your fullness but know you need companionship for the journey, just reply to this email and I’ll send you the details.

The longest day

Tomorrow, the sun will rise earlier and set later than any other day this year. 🥱 Maximum light. Peak energy. The earth’s fullest expression of what’s possible when we stop hiding from our own radiance.

Can you imagine what it would look like to meet this season with the same boldness, and stop apologizing for taking up space? To finally and fully inhabit the life your soul knows is possible?

You don’t have to figure it out alone. Some things are meant to be witnessed. And some transformations do best with daily tending.

With love and anticipation for what this season holds,

Jonni

You know, I was thinking of Megan because the other month she emailed me to tell me she’s launching the business she’d been dreaming about for years. She was talking about it when we worked together and now all the pieces are in place. She wrote: “I wouldn’t have had the daily courage I needed without the daily contact.” That’s the power of consistent soul companionship. It doesn’t just create insights. It actually creates the courage to live them.