Your Summer 2026: Taste & Feel? (Newsletter #38)

What is your most beautiful version of summer 2026 looking, tasting and feeling like?

A year ago I had a big epiphany. Actually it was much more than that, a lived experience that went very, very deep. It was August 2025, and it arrived as an embodied sense of «everything I am looking for is already here.» Right in front of me. Such a deep sensation.

Especially and I know this could be true for you as well: Someone who loves to create, push forward, has lots of ideas & visions and loves to make things happen….

I knew I couldn’t hold on to this sensation yet. It would show itself and then probably disappear again. I call these moments reference points. They are a lived experience of what is possible to feel, sense and be, beyond my reality so far. A little like a movie trailer for what comes next in your personal cinema of life. 😉🎥

I can’t just hit PLAY yet. Would be nice though.

What I can do is make a decision based on that sensation. And the decision is to go and travel and simply BE, in the moment, with my family. That is what I can do and will do. It is where I am steering as the author of my life.

I am adding a little challenge to it, because I know this somehow makes it much easier for me to dive into something new.

My challenge: going fully offline for about a month. No newsletter, no WhatsApp, no email, no LinkedIn. I will probably still reach for Google Maps and Spotify. 😉 And I even bought myself phone minutes to use across Europe as we travel through France, Spain and Portugal to stay in touch with my loved ones. ☎️

What I dream of is this:

A sense of enoughness, presence and flow. Watermelon-highs, playing in the sand, the sun on my skin. Forgetting what clocks and computers look like, and counting the seeds in my watermelon instead. Or not. Dancing and singing with my little one and my partner to some beautiful street music. A sense of paradise (did I just say that?!), connection and realness, emerging in nature, in the green and the blue and maybe also the heat. Taking the time to prepare beautiful meals. Nurturing the relationship to myself and to the people I love. A lot of being. Curiously exploring what is here now. I can already smell the salty water and a grilled fish.

And yes, of course I have a song for this summer, how could I not 😉😅? It’s Watermelon Sugar. Light and fun, have a listen. 🍉

And you? Tell me what your dream summer 2026 is looking, feeling, sensing and smelling like.

I will be fully back on August 24 and coming back online a bit earlier, I assume with a fresh perspective and a full tank of energy, re-emerging into 1:1 coaching relationships in nature and into my new role as community lead of WomenDorf.

For now I wish you a wonderful, light, playful summer. A watermelon-high kind of summer, or whatever intention you are setting for yourself. I look forward to connecting in all freshness at the end of August. 🍉💦

Love,
Pia