Vitamin M: Why Wonder Might Be the Wisdom You’re Craving
Vitamin M: Why Wonder Might Be the Wisdom You’re Craving
When was the last time you went full-moon bathing?
I don’t mean metaphorically. I mean literally: bare feet on cool concrete, the moon pouring herself all over you like she’s been waiting all month for this reunion. I had that moment recently—unexpected and unscheduled—at 3:30 a.m. on the West Coast.
Jet lag, timezone chaos, or maybe divine intervention… who knows. All I know is that while West Hollywood was finally, finally calling it a night—after their final-final drinks and the echoes of Dominic Fike pumping from car speakers—I was wide-eyed on my patio, draped in moonlight and wonder.
The Many Lives of You
There was something ancient in that moment. Like I was tapping into one of the many lives of Julie Stenberg—but also, one of the many lives of you. Because haven’t you, too, stood under the sky and wondered:
"What if there’s more to all of this?"
That night, I let the moon speak to me. Not in words, but in something more elemental. A hum. A shimmer. A truth that didn’t need to be Googled.
Which brings me to this:
We’ve forgotten how to wonder.
In our hyper-digital, hyper-informed, always-searching society, we’ve prioritized knowing over feeling, answers over intuition, certainty over mystery.
And in doing so?
We’ve short-circuited the soul.
Vitamin M: The Medicine of Mystery
If the sun is known for giving us vitamin D—light, energy, and scientifically measured boosts to our mood—then maybe the moon gives us something different.
Maybe she gives us vitamin M: mystery.
You can’t bottle it. You can’t quantify it. You definitely can’t explain it to someone who’s clinging to facts like a lifeline.
But you can feel it.
In those rare and sacred moments when you surrender your need to figure it all out and instead, simply be.
Standing in the stillness of that moonlit hour, I imagined myself being coated in some invisible dust. Particles that can’t be seen by the average eye, but are immediately recognized by the soul.
They carry abundance—not the kind you earn or buy, but the kind you remember.
The kind that says, “You’ve always had enough. You’ve always been enough.”
When Wonder Becomes a Leadership Practice
You might be thinking, "Okay Julie, but how does moon-gazing help me as a leader, a parent, a partner, a dreamer?”
Here’s the truth: wonder is a leadership practice.
Because when you lead from certainty, you can only take people as far as you’ve already gone. But when you lead from wonder, you invite innovation, expansion, and courage.
Wonder makes space for possibility.
For new ideas. For uncharted paths. For deep healing.
And maybe—just maybe—for receiving the very thing you’ve been trying so hard to chase.
3:30 A.M. Wisdom Downloads
Back home in Michigan, 3:30 a.m. is my deepest REM sleep. My body’s tucked in, my mind’s offloading.
But out here, in a new timezone, I’m beginning to believe this wakefulness isn’t a glitch.
It’s a download.
A soul upload.
A cosmic upload.
Call it what you want—but I believe it’s divine.
Because sometimes, when your body is still, your soul speaks.
And what it says is not information—it’s knowing.
Not the kind you fact-check. The kind you trust.
So What Now?
I’m not asking you to change your whole life.
But I am inviting you to do this:
Tonight—or any night—step outside.
Look up.
Let the moon do her thing.
And instead of asking Google…
Ask yourself:
What am I meant to receive right now?
What is stirring that doesn’t yet have words?
Where have I been silencing the part of me that knows… without knowing?
That’s the magic of vitamin M.
It doesn’t come from books or blogs (yes, even this one).
It comes from stillness. From presence. From the part of you that’s always known how to wonder.
Your Move, Moon Child 🌙
So tonight, choose wonder. Choose stillness. Choose that sacred pause between knowing and not-knowing.
Let the moon whisper.
Let your soul speak.
And most of all… let yourself listen.
Because not all wisdom is loud.
Some of it shows up at 3:30 a.m., wrapped in silence and shimmering in silver light.
And your only job?
Is to receive it.
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So is the moon. 🌕
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