Returning to the River

I spent the last year studying the mind. Now I'm making space to listen to the soul again.

For a long time, I’ve lived with an internal split.

One part of me is deeply rational. She loves psychology, neuroscience, behavioral science, and understanding how change happens through the mind and nervous system.

Another part speaks a different language entirely. She is drawn to symbolism, intuition, spirituality, astrology, and the invisible energy that shape our lives.

For years, I’ve tried to make these two parts coexist. Sometimes successfully. Sometimes not.

Over the past year, I leaned heavily toward science. It gave me structure, credibility, and a solid foundation. But somewhere along the way, I lost touch with something essential.

I lost touch with my soul.

The publication is called Soul Meets Science, yet lately I’ve been writing mostly from one side of that equation.

So I’m taking a pause, because I’m listening more closely to where this work wants to go.

I don’t know exactly what this next chapter will look like. I only know that I want to give myself permission to speak more openly from the spiritual side of my experience. To explore energy, intuition, consciousness, and healing without constantly translating everything into the language of science first.

Psychology will remain one of my grounding shores.

But I want to allow the river to flow again.

Maybe every Substack expert would tell me this is the wrong kind of post because it isn’t about you - my audience. It’s about me.

And they’re probably right.

But this is the post I need to write.

Thank you for being here while I find my way into the next version of this work.

Love,

Talia

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