Sunday Not Blue

A gentle reset, every other Sunday

#23 - Jan 4, 2026

The Body that Keeps the Score

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Hey Reader,

🌞 Not-Blue Moment

Saturday morning, 6:41am. I woke up and vomited everything in my stomach.

It hasn’t happened in a long time—that familiar combination of PMS and emotional overwhelm that makes your body say “absolutely not.” I spent the week reflecting on 2025, writing to my future self, revisiting vision boards, processing two years of leaving investment banking to build a climate platform.

Apparently, my body had thoughts on all that processing.

So I did something radical: I didn’t push through. I made vegetable soup. I sipped it slowly.

I joined Ali Abdaal’s Spark Summit from my couch, wrapped in a blanket next to the heater—half-present in the talks, wholly present in my own need for gentle, guided reflection. (There’s still one day left if you’d like to join: aliabdaal.com/spark-2026. I’m particularly looking forward to sessions from Nir Eyal and Anne-Laure Le Cunff today—both past guests on my Escape 9 to 5 podcast, which feels like a lovely full circle. See p.s for their episodes.)

My body needed the slowness. I gave it permission.

✨ Spark to Carry Forward

This week, I scheduled an email to my future self and opened the one I wrote a year ago. The practice was so simple, so powerful, that I can’t stop thinking about it.

What my 2025 self knew: “Success isn’t about how much you’ve achieved, but how aligned your actions are with your values.”

What my body knew on Saturday: Sometimes alignment means stopping. Listening. Letting your nervous system catch up to your ambition.

We’re so good at pushing—building, creating, showing up. But are we as good at noticing when our bodies are trying to tell us something?

The vomiting wasn’t random. It felt like a physical release of emotional weight I hadn’t fully noticed I was carrying. Two years of building. Two years of uncertainty. Two years of learning what “enough” means.

When I wrote to my future self, I said: “Remember, the journey is the reward itself.”

On Saturday, the journey was vegetable soup and permission to rest.

💌 Gift for Your Pocket

If you haven’t tried it, I cannot recommend this practice enough: Schedule an email to your 2027 self.

Tell them what you’re hoping for, what you’re afraid of, what matters most right now. Use Gmail’s “Schedule send” or go to FutureMe.org.

Then forget about it. Let it be a gift from your present self to your future self.

I also made a landing page with gentle prompts to help you get started:

👉 lydia-c-linzi.kit.com/dear-future-me

And if you’re looking for a spark of inspiration to begin your year, Ali’s free summit is a wonderful, no-pressure resource:

👉 Join the Spark Summit 2026

✍️ Prompt for Your Week Ahead

What is your body trying to tell you right now?

P.S.

The latest Escape 9 to 5 episode is live with the wonderful Gillian Liu. We talk about building in public, managing creative energy, and why rest isn’t the opposite of productivity—it’s the source of it.

Listen here: Why She Didn’t Quit Her 9-to-5 (and Built a $10M Business Instead)