About Narrative Alchemy

Narrative Alchemy is the newsletter for Cozy Little Universe, a Reflect Tech studio offering tools and practices for navigating life’s turning points—using intentional travel as method, mirror, and metaphor.

Subscribe to get fresh essays every few weeks on how reflection, travel, and technology help us transform the narratives we live by into a map that leads you somewhere you actually want to go.

If you’ve ever felt lost, in-between, or ready for something more, you might find something of interest here. You don’t need to burn everything down or fly across the world to begin. You just need curiosity, honesty, and a willingness to meet yourself where you are.

Who’s behind it?

Jen Twang is the founder of CLU and author of Atlas for Lost Souls: 40 Life-Changing Journeys Through Space, Time, and the Self.

A former marketing executive and international business journalist, she spent decades crisscrossing continents and burning through passports until she finally found what she was looking for.

Now she’s building Cozy Little Universe, a “visitor center” at the edge of the Unknown, to help people navigate their own thresholds with more clarity and courage.