What we notice shapes what we build.

I’m Meredith Reigle — a writer, systems thinker, working at the intersection of soul & strategy.

I love creating spaces — written, digital, or in-person — where people can feel seen, softened, and sparked into truth.

Cultural Essays on Truth, Spirit, and Connection

  • Take a Ladder to the Moon: On Rewriting the Rules of Ambition and Refusing to Settle

    “The moon you’re reaching for might be strange or inconvenient. That’s fine. It’s not their ladder.”

    This essay reimagines the well-worn “shoot for the moon” mantra through a personal lens — from childhood dreams left unexplored to the systems that reward us for settling. We trace the origins of the phrase back to Norman Vincent Peale, unpack its cultural baggage, and offer a new approach to ambition: building your own ladder, rung by rung, toward the life you actually want.

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  • Parasocial, But Make It Political

    “We don’t just admire anymore — we attach, we manage, we expect. Even our tenderness comes with terms.”

    This essay explores the evolution of parasocial relationships in the age of social media — from fandom to fixation, from projection to power. With case studies ranging from Swifties to Mariah Carey, Pam Anderson, and Lady Gaga, it asks: What happens when admiration becomes entitlement? And how do we care for the parts of ourselves we’re still projecting toward?

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  • The System and the Self: On Fighting From Within, and the Art of Not Cringing

    “Don’t kill the part of you that’s cringe. Kill the part of you that cringes.”

    This essay is a manifesto for the earnest ones — the ones still trying to play the trust fall with a system that keeps dropping us. From Kamala Harris admitting the system is broken, to Amy Poehler reminding us we have the food, this piece explores how to stay soft, strategic, and spiritually intact inside institutions that want us fragmented.

    👉 Read: The System and the Self: On Fighting From Within, and the Art of Not Cringing →

  • Symbolic Truth In A Scalable World: On AI, Astrology, and the Ache to Be Real

    “We don’t know what it means to be real. And we’re aching to remember.”

    In a time of AI acceleration and symbolic erosion, this essay explores the tension between truth and truthiness, astrology and authority, and what it means to stay human when everything around us wants to scale.

    👉Read: Symbolic Truth In A Scalable World: On AI, Astrology, and the Ache to Be Real →

  • Spirit Sick: On Dreaming, Grief, and Los Angeles Weather

    “Even when the city makes no sense, I still say: God, I love it here.”

    This essay is a love letter to Los Angeles, to the ache beneath the dream, and to the strange courage it takes to keep hoping when the world feels spirit-sick. It’s about grief, wonder, and why we stay — in the city, in the work, in the dream itself.

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  • Chosen Aloneness: How We Got Here, and How We Come Back

    “We’re not just lonely — we’re opting out of connection altogether.”

    This essay explores the slow shift from community to curated solitude — how our tools privatized our lives, how discernment fades without witness, and what it might look like to build sacred spaces for being human again.

    👉 Read: Chosen Aloneness: How We Got Here, and How We Come Back →

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I never put posters on my wall growing up — too afraid to choose, too afraid to be seen.

What if I picked wrong?

What if someone..gasp…judged it?

The full Poster Series can be found here

This is me undoing that.

The Posters is a slow collage of essays — love letters to the musicians, movie characters, and cultural icons I’ve secretly admired for years. Each one is a reflection, a declaration, a piece of me I used to hide.

Now here I go, putting them on the wall. Finally.

The Posters Series

A reclamation in collage form.

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A cultural salon for beauty, slowness, and sacred imagination.

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Meredith Reigle is a Los Angeles–based writer, systems thinker, and emotionally fluent human exploring themes of emotional labor, quiet resilience, and post-perfectionist truth-telling. She blends poetic structure with narrative voice, working at the intersection of personal mythology, systems thinking, and social observation.

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