The Season That Helped Me Press Play Again

When I brought Season of Yes to Clubmakse three years ago, it wasn’t just for you. It was as much a lifeline for me, as well. 

After the initial chaos of the pandemic, many of us were left wondering, “Is this the year I can set goals and actually achieve them, or will the rug be pulled out from me again?”

The world cracked open, rules got rewritten and suddenly “normal’ wasn’t just on hold, it felt like a myth we’d never quite catch up to. I heard it again and again in our community: “I don’t have the motivation to engage in my life + goals like I used to” I know for me, hope started to feel too big, too far away, or just plain exhausting to reach for. 

If you’re honest, did you ever fully find your way back? 

I know it hadn’t… and I’m even more aware now how much I’m still rebuilding. 

Somewhere between "unprecedented times” and waiting for things to feel right again, I slipped into a holding pattern. I got comfortable with the “no”: no to plans, no to reaching out, not to hope that might get dashed again. At first it felt like self-care and ‘rest’, but then it started to feel like a prison I was becoming far too comfortable, but miserable, in. It felt like being stuck. Like forgetting to say yes to what I actually wanted. 

If you can relate, I’m holding your hand and speaking directly to you right now. 

Here’s what I wish I had known, or what I wish someone would have said to me sooner:

You’re not wrong for feeling this way. You’re not broken for realizing you’ve outgrown parts of yourself and your life that no longer fit. And you’re definitely not lazy, unmotivated, or broken. 

You’re tired, you’re wise, and you’re more changed than you realize. And you don’t have to earn your way back to joy with more effort, more goals, or more “shoulds.”

This year’s theme for Season of Yes is “nostalgia” and I wanted to give you a little glimpse into why we chose this theme, specifically this year.

So, why nostalgia?

Because sometimes remembering who you are and holding space for those truths is the most radical thing you can do.

When the world feels like too much, nostalgia is a portal:

 
It can bring you back to the things that had heart before you learned to filter yourself out just to belong, to feel love, to receive acceptance, or to keep the peace. It’s a chance to reconnect with what lights you up, not what kept you in line.

This year...

This year, Season of Yes isn’t asking you to hustle, or fix, or ‘grow’ in the grind-it-out sense. It's a call to step back into the current of your own joy–the kind that feels like safety, like mischief, like summer nights that last forever. 

We’re letting the magic show up in the smallest ways.

Maybe it’s the sound of laughter drifting from a movie night, or the sweet, sticky hands that come with popsicles in the backyard. It might be sharing a memory in the chat, a song that pulls you back into yourself, or the look on someone’s face when you remember a detail that matters to them. It’s in the easy quiet, the unfiltered stories, the slow dances and the inside jokes that remind you: joy still lives here. 

This summer, I want you to taste what it feels like to belong to yourself again. To discover the wild, beautiful, and unfinished parts you shelved “for later.” To realize you can say yes–without explanation, without apology, and absolutely without doing it alone (I can’t stress this enough: community is more important now than ever. Even if it’s not with us, please find your people and stay close.)

If all you can manage is a tiny yes, that’s enough.

 
If all you want is to laugh and remember and find your people, we’ve gotchu. 

Oh yeah…and this year it will be on our new App, with so much goodness coming your way, I can hardly stand it! 

So, consider this your invite to our most epic 12-week-long house party this summer… your Season of Yes.

This is your chance to play your way back to who you were before the world told you who you “should” be.

Click here to sign up for Season of Yes.

I hope to see you there! 

Much love,
Sierra