by Cat Skreiner Decoded: Musings on Human Design for living your BEST life BUSINESS / CAREER / RELATIONSHIPS / PARENTING Hey Reader, I've been busy over on Substack lately - and I wanted to bring the highlights back here for you, because some of this is too good to stay buried in an archive. Here's what's been landing: The business that looks right but doesn't feel right This one is for anyone who built something real, ticked all the boxes, and still finds themselves opening their inbox with...
27 days ago • 3 min read
by Cat Skreiner Decoded: Musings on Human Design for living your BEST life BUSINESS / CAREER / RELATIONSHIPS / PARENTING Hey Reader, I have a defined Ajna. Which means my mind doesn't just like certainty - it needs it. Not in a rigid, controlling way. More like... hand me a messy situation and I'll instinctively start pulling it apart, finding the logic, and rebuilding it into something that actually makes sense. Patterns. Frameworks. Processes. Clean, elegant structure. Honestly? That's my...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
by Cat Skreiner Decoded: Musings on Human Design for living your BEST life BUSINESS / CAREER / RELATIONSHIPS / PARENTING Hey Reader, IYKYK... You’re not even sure what you’re anxious about. But your brain won’t stop. You’re running through scenarios.Replaying conversations.Trying to get ahead of something that hasn’t even happened yet. And no matter how much you think it through… you don’t feel better. So you assume it’s anxiety.Something to calm down.Something to fix. But what if that’s not...
2 months ago • 3 min read
by Cat Skreiner Decoded: Musings on Human Design for living your BEST life BUSINESS / CAREER / RELATIONSHIPS / PARENTING Hey Reader, In the last edition, I introduced Chiron as the part of our chart that points to our deeper wounds. Not wounds in the dramatic sense.But the places where life asked us to adapt early. Where we learned what was safe.What was risky.What parts of ourselves were welcome.And which parts felt easier to hide. Everyone carries a Chiron theme. It’s not the same for each...
3 months ago • 3 min read
by Cat Skreiner Decoded: Musings on Human Design for living your BEST life BUSINESS / CAREER / RELATIONSHIPS / PARENTING Hey Reader, There’s a moment many people reach in midlife where something unmistakable happens. Patterns repeat themselves more loudly. Old hurts resurface with less warning. Experiences you thought you’d moved past suddenly ask for your attention again. This isn’t regression.And it isn’t failure.It’s timing. In the context of the larger shift we’re moving through, midlife...
4 months ago • 2 min read
by Cat Skreiner Decoded: Musings on Human Design for living your BEST life BUSINESS / CAREER / RELATIONSHIPS / PARENTING Hey Reader, Many people are arriving at this moment without a clear story for why things feel different. They’re not looking for a reset.They’re not trying to reinvent themselves.They just know they can’t keep doing things the way they always have. Old patterns start to feel heavy.Roles that once made sense feel constricting.Past hurts and betrayals surface, not to be re...
4 months ago • 3 min read
by Cat Skreiner Decoded: Musings on Human Design for living your BEST life BUSINESS / CAREER / RELATIONSHIPS / PARENTING Hey Reader, When external structures lose their authority, something interesting happens. People assume everything becomes unstable.That life gets chaotic.That we’re left without anchors. In reality, the opposite is true. What falls away are the supports that required constant maintenance.What remains are the things that can stand on their own. In the era we’re moving into,...
5 months ago • 3 min read
by Cat Skreiner Decoded: Musings on Human Design for living your BEST life BUSINESS / CAREER / RELATIONSHIPS / PARENTING Hey Reader, For a long time, effort was rewarded. The more you pushed.The more you proved yourself.The more you held it together. That equation made sense inside systems designed to absorb individual strain. But when those systems start to thin out, force becomes expensive. And eventually, unsustainable. This is why so many capable, intelligent, experienced people are...
5 months ago • 2 min read
by Cat Skreiner Decoded: Musings on Human Design for living your BEST life BUSINESS / CAREER / RELATIONSHIPS / PARENTING Hey Reader, Last weeks newsletter resonated with so many of you, it was so great to have so many hitting reply to let m know! There’s a reason this moment feels so personal for many women in midlife. It’s not just hormones.It’s not just ageing.And it’s not a personal unraveling. Midlife is already a threshold.A time when roles loosen, identities soften, and the strategies...
5 months ago • 2 min read