Unbound and Untethered is not meant to be an anchor that tethers you to a certain way of being, but was curated into existence as a tool to help you feel sensitively (re)established in exquisite flow with life. It is the accumulative gathering and discarding of ideas and thoughts, feelings and experiences, to never be defined by anything in its entirety, or for an eternity, save love—what author Fleurian Maxton believes to be our truest essence and home.

With each subsequent passage, told and retold, may the medicines within the pages stir within you all that is meant to come to the surface, as it is revealed and witnessed. And, in your own time, may you find ways to meet—with perhaps a solemnity, a ferocity, or grace—that which is meant to travel forward without you, simultaneously unbinding and untethering yourself from the very thing(s) meant to be ceremoniously discarded.

With opportunities to further explore the sacredness that is self-guardianship, may this process help you to become evermore conscious of what is meant not simply to protect, but to deepen a love that only you can offer yourself.