Subtract to Succeed

Subtract to Succeed

Day 52: Breaking Pattern, Breaking Ground

What a 4-Minute Song Helped Me See About Subtraction

Mar 14, 2026
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🎵 Today’s song: Pluto — Sleeping at Last

“When I break pattern, I break ground…
I wake up more awake than I’ve ever been before.
Like a final puzzle piece
It all makes perfect sense to me.

The heaviness in my heart belongs to gravity.”
- from Sleeping At Last’s song, “Pluto”

This refrain landed for me during a transformational retreat with the magical Natalie Kuhn in Ita…

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