I chose change, and everything opened

Last call to join Multimedia Love Letter Creative Somatic Retreat starting tomorrow

Dear ones,

3 flights and 40 hours on the road, I’m back home in Brooklyn from my 7-month trip in Asia!

❤️ SEEDS:

🌱 I root into the truth that my worth is not measured by numbers. I tend to my vision with love and trust. Even if it blooms slowly, it is blooming.

🌱 I allow my past identities to soften and fall away. I am becoming more myself each day.

🌱 My courage is in the showing up. My power is in the sharing. My radiance doesn’t need to be earned. It’s already here.

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I choose change

This time last year, I had also just returned from a 6-month Asia homecoming. I was still integrating a message I received on a sacred mountain in Taiwan:

Daily bliss is possible.
Abundance is our birthright.
We don’t have to return to lives that shrink us.
I am committed to practicing and affirming my imagniation of what a good life can be fro me and my tribe.

🧚How to live if you die today?

Now, it’s my second year of living like a walking tree—rooted in New York, nomadic in Asia.
It hasn’t always been easy, but it’s been full of clarity.
I’ve never felt more aligned.

I floated in the ocean under a full moon in Honolulu.
Watched the sunset over volcano park and the most expansive Milky Way on Big Island.
Marched in Taipei Pride, queering the steps of City Hall.
Danced underwater in Kending with water creatures.
Took a riverboat to a golden Buddha temple in Bangkok.
Soaked in a milk bath by the sea in Hua Hin.
Cleansed in natural hot springs at a farm retreat in Chiang Dao.
Shared work with Chinese queer diasporic artists in Chiang Mai.
Deepend relationships with my family and slowed down together.
Lived in a home in Hanoi with my birthday as the door code.
Practiced somatic portraits with queer kin in Huế, Vietnam.
Visted alternative communities and spaces across oceans
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So many portals.
So much expansion.
None of this would’ve happened if I didn’t choose change—
and say yes to the unknown.

Change is scary.
Growth is uncomfortable.
But again and again, I’ve learned this:

• You deserve to be gently held while you transform.

• You deserve to invest in your self-love and healing even when you’re still figuring it out.

• You deserve to play with your creativity even if it’s not for business.

• What you give yourself now will echo for years.

• There is magic on the other side.

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Multimedia Love Letter Starts May 4th (tomorrow!)

The Multimedia Love Letter Creative Retreat begins tomorrow on May 4th 6-7:30pm ET.

If your body has been whispering yes—this is your sign.
It will be a gift for yourself that keeps giving.

Today is the LAST DAY to join us.

This space is for those of us who:

✴︎ Live in the in-between—across cultures, roles, and ways of being
✴︎ Hold everyone else, but forget how to hold ourselves
✴︎ Carry ancestral complexity and want to reclaim our story
✴︎ Are ready to tend to our inner fire and return to our own voice, body, truth

It’s a creative practice of devotion.
A space to reconnect with yourself in community gently, bravely, honestly.

A few things to know:

✨ We move slowly. This was designed for busy, tender beings.
✨ We rest. We center integration, not overwhelm.
✨ We create. We understand we are the change makers.
✨ We care. You won’t be alone in this.

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Tuition Options:

• Founding member price: $777 (50% off full price of $1555)
  ✨ No code needed—limited spots remain at this price

• Payment plans available:
  – 4 monthly payments of $194.38
  – 9 monthly payments of $87 (just reply to this email to request this option)

If it’s not your season to join, here are three free workshops you can watch for free and start playing. :)

• 1. Embody Your Future Self: a somatic self-portrait workshop

• 2. Design Your Virtual Presence: a somatic website visioning workshop

• 3. How to Be Seen: A somatic creative ritual for visibility and liberation

You can also watch this alumni meet up recording to get a sense of what people have made and the ripple effect that comes after. :)

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You don’t have to be ready.
You just have to be real.
Hope to meet you inside.

More info: sunsetstudio.love/multimedia-love-letter

With love from the in-between,

Meng