How we meet life shapes how we experience it.
Surpassing Labels is the spoken expression of The Spiral Current—a place for questions, observations, stories, and conversations about how we meet the lives we're living.
I'm Felicia, a writer and speaker, and I'm interested in the things we don't always notice: the stories we carry, the expectations we inherit, the ways we've learned to protect ourselves, the relationships we've formed with our experiences, and everything else that can shape a moment before we even realize it's there.
Some episodes begin with something I've noticed in my own life.
Others begin with a question I can't stop thinking about. And some are conversations with people whose experiences invite us to see life from somewhere we haven't stood before.
I'm not here with a formula for living.
I'm much more interested in what we might recognize when we become curious enough to look again.
Welcome to Surpassing Labels.
What if personal development starts too late?
Not too late in life, but too far along?
So much of personal growth begins by asking what we want, where we're going, and who we want to become.
But what happens when we're simply trying to get through today?
In this episode of Surpassing Labels, I explore the gap between where personal development often begins and where people are actually living.
Drawing from my experiences as a mom with children with medical needs and former mindset coach, I question what we might be missing when we focus so much on changing our lives that we overlook our relationship with the lives we're already living.
Because growth doesn't have to begin with a five-year plan.
Maybe it begins with a different question.
What's here right now?
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Life in Relationship. Experience in Motion.™
How we meet life shapes how we experience it.
With love, Felicia
Music Credit: Intro and outro music composed and produced by Hudson Sheline.
2 Nov 2026
Episode 26: It’s Always You, Just From a Different Place
What if the person you were ten years ago wasn’t a different version of you, but simply you, meeting life from a different place?
We hear so much about becoming our best selves, stepping into our future selves, and raising our frequency. But what if life isn’t a ladder we’re supposed to climb?
What if it’s a landscape we’re continually moving through?
In this episode of Surpassing Labels, I’m exploring how our experiences, relationships, expectations, and circumstances shape where we stand and what we’re able to see from there.
I reflect on the person I was ten years ago, the expectations I carried without questioning, and what began to change when some of those expectations loosened.
We explore what it means to have an origin point, how our capacity changes from moment to moment, and why I’ve stopped thinking of change as climbing higher.
Because a hard moment isn’t a lower version of you. It’s what you’re meeting.
That’s not lower. That’s heavier.
And sometimes what feels like growth isn’t about climbing at all. It’s about the fog thinning enough to see more of where we’ve been standing all along.
Not a better version. Not a higher one. Just the evolution of you.
It was always you. It still is. Just from a different place.
Continue the Conversation
Surpassing Labels is brought to you by The Spiral Current.
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Read and reflect with me on Substack:
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If this episode resonates with you, I’d love for you to share it with someone who might appreciate a different way of looking at change, growth, and the human experience. You can also follow Surpassing Labels on your favorite podcast platform so you don’t miss future conversations.
Life in Relationship. Experience in Motion.™
How we meet life shapes how we experience it.
With love,
Felicia
Music Credit
Intro and outro music composed and produced by Hudson Sheline.
16 Oct 2026
Ep 25: You Don’t Have to Become Her | The Future Self and the Person Who’s Already Here
Become the woman who already has what you want.
Think like her.
Decide like her.
Be her.
And the results will follow.
Most of us have heard some version of this. But what happens when an approach that works for some people gets handed to everyone as the way change happens?
And who is this future version of ourselves we’re being asked to become, anyway?
In this episode, I’m exploring the idea of embodying a future self and why the certainty attached to it stopped me in my tracks.
I also share a piece of my own story. For a couple of years, I worked hard to become the coach I thought I was supposed to be. I built everything I believed she would have. Eventually I realized I’d been imagining her through so many other people’s eyes, and I’d never really looked through my own.
What changed wasn’t that I stopped wanting things.
I started listening differently.
And that opened a direction I couldn’t have imagined at the start, one that became The Spiral Current.
This isn’t about dismissing future-self practices or offering a new formula in their place. It’s an invitation to get curious about the pictures we carry, whose voices shaped them, and the person who’s already here, living the experience.
Because maybe we don’t have to become someone else to begin moving toward something different.
Maybe we can begin right where we are.
Explore The Spiral Current
Website: https://spiralcurrent.com (https://spiralcurrent.com)
Read and reflect on Substack: https://thespiralcurrent.substack.com (https://thespiralcurrent.substack.com)
Music Credit
Intro and outro music composed and produced by Hudson Sheline.
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