Welcome to the soulstice journal. The space for going deeper.

following your heart

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✨ editor’s note

After years of coming to you digitally, it’s finally happening: our first print issue is on the way. 

A physical thing that you can hold in your hands, underline, put on your bookshelf, sit in the park with and get lost in.

This has been, by far, the thing you’ve requested the most. And you could be in it.

Submissions for our first ever print issue are now open. The theme is follow your heart ❤️‍🔥 Think love, romance, integrity, listening to your gut, following the pulse of your creativity, risking it all for your deepest dreams, and other gritty, glorious acts of devotion.

We’re looking for articles & fresh takes, personal essays, creative work, recipes, movement routines, or other unconventional pieces. The heartfelt and the heartbreaking. The political and the poetic. The wild, weird, and wonderful things you can’t stop thinking about.

Pitches will be accepted on a rolling basis (so if you’re really excited about an idea, the sooner the better) and close June 1st. You can submit your ideas here (pitches from Soulstice members will be prioritized) ✨

You're the reason this exists — so naturally, you get first access. When pre-orders open next month, Soulstice members will receive an exclusive discount and members-only stickers, just for you.

Is there anything you would love to see inside the issue? Just respond to this email and let us know.

Xx Sabrina

P.S. If you’re missing this much is true, you can find more of Pedro’s writing and wisdom in his newsletter here 🌀

for journaling under the moonlight.

📝 reflections

➨ What is one thing you’ve been putting off doing that you really want to do? Why? What would it look like to take that thing, that idea, that desire, seriously?

➨ What is one small risk you can take this week to get you closer towards the life you desire?

➨ Close your eyes and imagine your ideal day. What do you do? What do you taste, smell, see, feel? Write down 3 tangible ways you can incorporate elements of your ideal day into your everyday, and then prioritize them.

in the air rn.

✨ vibes: cinnamon tea, explosive sprints, & going for it ❤️‍🔥

Stop waiting. Stop waiting for permission, for “the right time,” to feel perfectly prepared, for the exactly ideal circumstances.

It’s time to actually live your life. Because time is going to pass one way or another — the question is, how do you want to pass it?

The longer you wait to go after whatever it is you dream about late at night, the desires you whisper to the stars or to the most secret pages in your journal, the longer you put off living fully.

Even if you start imperfectly, you’ll already be almost there by the time you would’ve started if you waited until you were completely ready.

Brew a strong cup of cinnamon tea, get the energy flowing with some sprints, and tap into your internal fire. Go for it — the vibes support it.

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wellness tips for the whole self.

🫦 well, actually…

❤️‍🔥 How to be Hot: Facial honey tapping

If you want to nourish your skin, increase circulation (which means less puffiness), and gently exfoliate all in one, try honey tapping 🍯

We’ve talked about honey as skincare before in How to be Hot. It’s one of our favorite natural beauty ingredients, and now honey tapping has become one of our favorite holistic beauty rituals.

How to do it: First, wash your face and pat it dry. Then take about 2 tsp of honey between your fingers, rubbing them together to warm up the honey. Then gently pat or tap the honey into your face to create a suction effect.

Do this all over your face, scooping up more honey as needed, for 1-2 minutes. Then rinse off with warm water. Follow up with a spritz of rose water and your favorite moisturizer. This is a ritual best done at least once a week.

Fair warning that it could get a little sticky, so it’s best to do this over the sink in a shirt you wouldn’t mind getting honey on, or even in the shower.

✨🌸 Find more spring skincare tips for a holistic esthetician here

🌿 Natural rhythms: Go to sleep before 11pm 😴

You already know how important getting enough sleep is — but did you know when you get that sleep is almost as important?

Sleep is when your body detoxes and repairs, and it does its deepest work between 10pm and 2am. This is when your liver detoxifies itself, when your brain clears out all the metabolic waste it accumulated during the day, and when your body releases the most reparative hormones.

If you’re awake during that window, your body isn’t able to do all of that, which can lead to both short and long term issues. In fact, research has even shown that going to sleep between 10pm and 11pm is actually linked to lower rates of heart and circulatory diseases.

Put it in practice: as often as possible, put your phone away around 9pm, brew a mug of chamomile tea, take a nice warm shower or bath, and tuck in bed with a book. You’ll be drifting off in no time 🐑

🍵 Tidbits:

🧘‍♀️ Workout of the week: set the tone of the day with these morning stretches 🌞

🍋 What’s on the menu: This orange creamsicle protein smoothie for a refreshing, creamy treat 🍊

what’s on our radar.

🍵 little things

📖 What we’re reading right now: Natural Connection: Six Roots of Environmental Wisdom and Action by Joycelyn Longdon

"We often perceive roots as grounding, life-giving, nurturing forces. They are sacred and medicinal, essential to life on this planet [...] The survival of life on this planet depends on the roots that we nurture and that take hold, the roots we allow to run rampant, and the roots we restrict or redirect. In times of destruction, we must answer the call to intentionally plant new roots of balance and regeneration."

In Natural Connection, environmental justice technologist Joycelyn Longdon reimagines environmentalism as a collective way of being, rather than an individual action. Told through six conceptual roots — rage, imagination, innovation, theory, healing and care — it “draws on the legacies and ongoing resistance of marginalized communities around the globe to guide us toward a more sustainable relationship with the living world.”

It’s a poetic, deeply researched, hopeful offering that will resonate especially strongly in this current moment.

💻 What we’re streaming: Exposing the Myth of Southern Charm by PBS Documentaries (streaming free on Youtube)

From antebellum architecture to Bama Rush, the south is often romanticized. But underneath that so-called southern charm is a complex, dark, and contested history.

Through the perspectives of tour guides, homeowners, and local activists in Natchez, Mississippi, this documentary dives deep into the cost of that charm and the truths hiding behind it. It’s an engaging, thoughtful look at the ongoing debate over history, storytelling, and reckoning with the truth in a town where the past is never far from the present.

🎧 For your playlist: BOY IN RED by Isaiah Rashad and SZA

A song for yearning and dancing in the kitchen

🗞️ Spotted around the web:

🌀 Cycle syncing has never been more visible — or more contested. Some embrace it as feminist reclamation, while others are calling it an alt-right pipeline. We mapped the ideological landscape of cycle syncing content, because the truth is messier, more interesting, and more urgent than the conversation suggests. Dive into Body of Knowledge: Cycle Syncing Has a Pipeline Problem, part one of our 3-part series where we’re digging into the cycle syncing debate and exploring what it means to live by your own rhythms.

🍵 PCOS — a hormonal condition affecting 1 in 8 women — is now PMOS (Polycystic Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome), leaving many of those dealing with the condition feeling vindicated. The name change reflects the fact that PMOS (formerly PCOS) affects so much more than just the ovaries. It also helps widen the diagnostic criteria, which is vital because as it currently stands, about 70% of cases still go undiagnosed. This change is something women’s health educators and activists have been pushing for for a long time, and is hopefully the first step on the path to women getting better, more comprehensive care.

🤖 It may seem like AI is everywhere right now (it’s even being girlboss-ified), and that it’ll only get more ubiquitous. But not everyone is on board. Case in point: when the commencement speaker at the University of Central Florida called AI the "next industrial revolution," she was met with a chorus of passionate boos, with some students even yelling things like “AI Sucks!” Are we perhaps actually on the verge of an analogue revolution? We think yes.

until next time…

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