Designing Your Own Energy Architecture
From pushing against depletion to aligning with internal rhythm
Dear friends,
It’s July, and the fireflies have been dancing with the stars every night. I’m in a period of deep clearing and shaping—building towards the external forms that match my internal pulse.
At a dinner recently, a friend described how she structures her creative life: intense, focused work for several days in a row—sometimes 16–18 hours a day, deep into the night—and then total stillness. Four days off. No obligations. No productivity. Just collapse and float.
I was stunned. That kind of rhythm would flatten me. It’s not how my system works. And yet, something in her permission to go so hard let me investigate my own relationship to ‘pushing’.
I, too, am an immersive worker. And I have a history of burnout—drawn from past overgiving, blurred boundaries, and spiritual and emotional overextension.
When I stepped out of my 9-to-5 track and began to architect my own life—first, I had to deprogram the capitalist clock I still carried with me in the silence of my own room. Then, in response to my past experience, I focused on building strong energetic walls. I’ve spent the last few years creating systems that protect against depletion—designing for balance, recovery, and gentleness.
But after that conversation, something stirred.
Was my recovery from burnout becoming a kind of rigidity? I sensed I am ready for a new phase: where I no longer need to protect myself from the hum of the machinery running, sometimes until it stops. Maybe I am ready to push because it feels good, not because I seek approval. Maybe I am ready to burn the candle into the midnight hours, not out of the desire to achieve—but out of the desire to grow.
What I’ve learned—through iteration, collapse, and slow re-emergence—is that energy can’t be standardized.
Not in institutions. Not in creative work. Not in how we live.
Most of the systems we’ve inherited—9-to-5s, 5-day grinds, endless Zoom calendars—were never designed with our humanity in mind. They assume all bodies work the same way. They assume energy is linear, extractable, consistent. And they punish those who move differently. Even in places that talk about ‘people-centered culture’, the implicit expectations of how people actually move signal what is allowed and encouraged, and what is merely language or frameworks.
On a personal level— what if we started with how we actually are?
Not how we’ve been trained to be. Not how we’re expected to perform. But the real rhythms—those that emerge when we’re listening.
This is what I call personal energy architecture.
It’s the ongoing process of designing your days, your projects, and your creative life around your actual energetic patterns—not someone else’s blueprint.
Even in the most rigid workplaces, there are ways we can honor our Source. Even in the most flexible schedules, there are inherited exploitative patterns we can run on ourselves.
With personal energy architecture work, we meet our reality with open eyes: the real limitations, yes, but also our real agency. We bridge the two. Ultimately, we grow our real agency to such a point where our external environment must shape itself to meet it. That is the goal.
For me, that means honoring the part of me that thrives when moving between different rivers. It means knowing that my most powerful energy comes in pulses—not steady streams—and that those pulses need incubation. Rest. Space.
It means building systems that don’t collapse when I do.
And lately, I’ve been loosening the architecture again.
One night, after that dinner, I let myself follow a different rhythm. I fell asleep on the sofa from 10 to 2:30, then wrote until 5:30 a.m. before resting again. It reminded me of something ancient—about rhythms I’ve read about in books like Wintering by Katherine May—how people once slept in two shifts, waking in the middle of the night to tend fire, to write, to dream.
This wasn’t burnout. It wasn’t output. It was chosen immersion.
And because I had built space to hold it, it didn’t break me.
I deeply believe: what we need now are personalized, living systems that nourish us. What we need now is permission.
If you feel called to design your personal energy architecture, come book an architectural alignment session.
We will look at how your energy works, how your life is structured, and where we can turn the dials towards increasing the current of lifeforce through you. Not towards productivity (inside-out)—towards Source (outside-in).
Once you are plugged into Source, your energy flows smoothly.
Three Architectures
Here are three archetypal energy architectures that may resonate. You might recognize yourself in one. Or feel invited to sketch your own.
1. The Weaver
Moves between multiple projects in parallel, energized by switching lanes. Needs mental variety but physical continuity. May work in 2–3 hour bursts on each thread.
2. The Deep Diver
Immerses fully in one project or mode for days, then needs total rest. Requires uninterrupted space and a clear runway. May feel like a tide coming in—and must trust the out.
3. The Spiral Mover
Returns cyclically to the same ideas or tasks, but in new forms. Works best with spacious time, ritual anchoring, and recurring return. Often sensitive to environmental cues (light, sound, season).
None of these are prescriptive. You might be a hybrid. You might move between forms. What matters is attunement.
Because when you are aligned with your energy, things move. Not because you’re forcing them—but because you’re finally not resisting yourself.
And this isn’t just about wellness. It’s about creative power.
When we stop pouring energy into systems that aren’t designed for us, we suddenly have access to energy we didn’t know we had. Not because we found it—but because we stopped leaking it.
Welcome to Architectural Alignment.
A session for anyone building a business, a creative practice, or simply a new rhythm of life—and wanting the infrastructure to hold it.
It’s not coaching. It’s not consulting. It’s a form of system sensing: listening for your actual pattern, and shaping structure around it. You’ll leave with clarity, language, and a system that meets you where you actually are.
If you want to work together, here’s where to book.
With form for your authentic flow,
Saga
What the world needs 💛 thank You, Saga 💛💛💛💛 so beautiful! 🍯 as always.