It was a little past midnight.

I just returned from a week-long spiritual retreat. Emptied. Expanded. Attuned. Only to come home to a literal emptying.

I walked into a house where the refrigerator had stopped working.

Everything inside was warm.
Spoiled.
Gone.

So I spent the next morning throwing it all out. Every container, every leftover, every carefully chosen item. The fridge was hollow now. And so was I.

Somehow, it felt fitting.

It was the fourth refrigerator I had in this house in ten years. One time, the freezer door was left open. Another time, the motor failed. Each time, I told myself it was just bad luck. Or poor design. Or a minor inconvenience.

But this time, after a week of being spiritually stripped bare, I couldn’t ignore the pattern.

Something deeper was trying to speak.

And I started to wonder:

What is a refrigerator, really?

It’s a box designed to preserve the past. To keep things from changing. To delay decay. To protect what was… so it can survive into what’s next.

But what happens when that container breaks?

When preservation is no longer possible? When your life no longer fits into the tidy compartments you created to keep it all together?

When one breaks, especially again and again, it’s almost as if life is saying:

It’s a disruption of false security. An unraveling of control. A sacred refusal to let you freeze the past.

And yet, even as it crumbles, you reach for it again.

You cling to what’s familiar, even when it is broken. You try to patch it, salvage it, and hold it together.

Because letting it go feels inconvenient.
Because change requires energy.
Because it throws off the rhythm of life.

But perhaps this is really about a life that can no longer be preserved in the form it's in.

And maybe that’s what life has been trying to show me—again and again. Not just that something in the house needs replacing.

But that something in me does.

And maybe this isn’t about the physical house at all. Maybe it’s about the energetic one.

And you might be facing your own version of this—something that keeps breaking, falling apart, refusing to work no matter how many times you fix it. Because it’s not about that thing or situation in your life. Maybe it’s a version of you—one you’ve long outgrown but keep reaching for out of habit.

But we’re taught to preserve, aren’t we?

To extend the shelf life of what’s comfortable, even when it no longer nourishes us. Not just our routines, but our identities. The familiar roles and reflexes we’re conditioned to cling to—the ones that keep us smaller than we’re destined to be, repeating the same life with the same patterns, the same emotions, and the same inner story day after day.

But what if your life was never meant to be preserved?

What if it’s meant to be expanded?

What if there’s a great destiny waiting inside you?

What if you took the time each day to unravel and reveal it layer by layer?

That’s the deeper reason I created something called "The Identity Shifting Morning Practice"—not as a course you take once and move on from, but as a repeatable system that rewires you from the inside out. A daily practice of uncovering the version of yourself you’ve always known you were meant to be—fully alive, grounded in purpose, and aligned with your highest potential…

No longer waiting for change, but embodying it.

With each session, you’ll retrain your subconscious, reconnect with your future self, and align your nervous system so transformation feels safe, natural, and inevitable.

If that speaks to something inside you, you can explore the full experience here.

But whether or not you join me, know this:

Something to feel, express, and embody—new each day. Because the parts of you that are truly nourishing… were never meant to be stored away.

Real nourishment is alive.
It’s fresh.
It’s fleeting.

It wants to be savored.

So maybe this is your invitation.

Not to repair what appears “broken” again. But to ask:

• What have I outgrown?
• What wants to be emptied, cleared, blessed, and released?
• What would it mean to start fresh… from the inside out?

Sometimes the retreat doesn’t end when you get home.

Sometimes the real retreat begins the moment life empties the fridge and quietly asks:

With gratitude. 🙏🏻

If you have any questions or want to share some of your own insights, feel free to hit reply and let me know. I read and reply to every email.
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​As always, remember:

You are a Conscious Creator of your reality!
Keep creating your best self!

Anthony V. Lombardo

https://anthonyvlombardo.com

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