.Hi friend,
It's been a little while since I've shown up in your inbox.
And honestly? A lot has been happening behind the scenes.
I've been writing. Thinking. Rebuilding. Asking myself some pretty big questions about what I want the next chapter of my work—and my life—to look like.
And somewhere along the way, I realized something:
I don't want to spend the rest of my life talking only about what we've survived.
I want to talk about what comes next.
How we rebuild.
How we rediscover ourselves after years of being someone's wife, mother, caretaker, fixer, peacekeeper, employee, emotional support system—or whatever else the world needed us to be.
How we rebuild our careers and our finances.
How we take care of bodies that are changing whether we gave them permission or not.
How we navigate grown children, aging parents, relationships, divorce, dating, grief, friendship, confidence, health, money, purpose—and all the wonderfully messy pieces of becoming a woman who finally gets to ask:
What do I want now?
That's where Michelle Kai comes in.
Rebuilding the Life That Belongs to You
Michelle Kai is the next evolution of what I've been creating.
I'm still me.
I'm still going to talk about toxic relationships, healing, narcissistic abuse and the things that brought many of us together in the first place.
But I want to go further.
Because surviving was never supposed to be the destination.
We deserve a life on the other side of survival.
And I want to figure out what that looks like together.
And speaking of new chapters…
Tomorrow, The Architect of Hope goes on sale on Amazon for just 99¢.
This book is incredibly personal to me.
It's for the woman who stayed longer than she thinks she should have.
The woman who kept hoping.
The woman who became incredibly skilled at finding explanations for behavior that was slowly destroying her.
The woman who looks backward now and asks:
"How did I not see it?"
Or maybe…
"Why didn't I leave?"
The Architect of Hope explores something I've had to learn the hard way:
Sometimes we don't stay because we're weak.
Sometimes we stay because we're extraordinarily good at hope.
We keep believing.
We keep rebuilding.
We keep trying another approach.
We keep thinking that if we can just find the right words, create the right environment, love enough, understand enough or try hard enough…
maybe this time things will change.
Tomorrow, you can get The Architect of Hope for only 99¢ on Amazon.
👉 [GET THE ARCHITECT OF HOPE FOR 99¢]
If you've been waiting to read it, tomorrow is the perfect time.
And if you've already read it and it made you think of another woman who might need it, I'd be incredibly grateful if you'd send her the link.
One little thought as we head toward fall…
There's something about this time of year that still feels like a beginning to me.
Maybe it's all those years of back-to-school seasons.
New notebooks.
Fresh calendars.
New routines.
That tiny feeling that somehow September means we get another chance to begin.
So I'm borrowing that energy this year.
And maybe you can too.
Before September arrives, ask yourself one question:
What is one thing I could do before the end of this year that would make Future Me's life a little better?
Not reinvent your entire life.
One thing.
Open the savings account.
Apply for the job.
Schedule the appointment.
Walk twenty minutes a day.
Write the first page.
Take the class.
Set the boundary.
Start the thing you've been talking yourself out of.
We have spent an extraordinary amount of our lives taking care of everybody else's future.
Maybe this season, we start taking care of ours.
That's what I'm doing.
And I'd really love to have you along for the ride.
You can find the new Michelle Kai content here:
🎥 YouTube: [VISIT MICHELLE KAI ON YOUTUBE]
✍️ Medium: [READ MICHELLE KAI ON MEDIUM]
There is so much more coming.
New conversations.
New experiments.
New resources.
And yes—probably a few spectacular failures we'll learn from together.
Because I'm not interested in pretending I have everything figured out.
I'm interested in figuring it out.
And if you're rebuilding too?
Pull up a chair.
I'm really glad you're here.
With love,
Michelle Kai (Jessi)
Rebuilding the Life That Belongs to You
P.S. Don't forget—The Architect of Hope is just 99¢ tomorrow on Amazon. If there's a woman in your life who needs this message, tomorrow is a wonderful opportunity to send it her way. ❤️
👉 [GET THE BOOK FOR 99¢]
