Hi,
San Miguel has changed me.
And not in the way people think.
It wasn’t one big moment.
It wasn’t some dramatic breakthrough.
It was a series of quiet realizations… that I haven’t been able to unsee.
I’ve been here two months.
Five Airbnbs.
Completely different energies.
From a $40,000 a month home… to places that weren’t aesthetically aligned at all… to homes on hills, in town, outside of town.
And what I realized through all of it—
Is how much environment matters to me.
How much beauty matters to me.
How much I feel everything.
And at the same time…
How I make a home anywhere.
That’s something my mom gave me.
That ability to walk into a space… and create warmth, beauty, presence.
I’ve seen that in myself here over and over again.
And I’ve also seen something else.
How much I’ve expanded.
The way I walk through the streets now.
The way I sit in the square with my coffee.
The way I take up space without questioning it.
The way I receive.
That’s been the biggest shift.
Because there has been so much love here.
From friends.
From new people.
From conversations I didn’t expect.
From moments that felt… almost orchestrated.
And I could see so clearly—
It wasn’t that love wasn’t there before.
I just wasn’t fully letting it in.
And that landed in a way I won’t forget.
Because it made me realize…
How much more is available in my life—
Not by doing more.
But by allowing more.
More connection.
More beauty.
More support.
More life.
There was also contrast.
Places that didn’t feel right.
Moments where I felt the misalignment immediately.
And instead of making it wrong—
I let it show me my standard.
What I’m no longer available for.
What I am available for.
And that’s the shift.
Not “I need to change everything.”
Just—
I see myself clearly now. And I choose accordingly.
That’s what this season has been for me.
Not becoming someone else.
Becoming more of myself.
And if you’ve been feeling that in your own life—
That quiet pull…
That sense that something is opening…
That you’re ready for more, even if you can’t fully explain it…
I want you to know—
There’s nothing wrong with you.
You’re not late.
You’re not behind.
You’re responding to something real.
And you’re allowed to follow it.
Reinvention is open right now.
And this is the work we do.
Not surface-level.
Not “change your habits and hope for the best.”
We shift who you are being.
So your life actually reflects it.
If you feel this…
I’ll be sharing more from here before I leave at the end of the month.
This place has given me a lot.
And I’m taking all of it with me.
Rewrite the rules,
Melissa