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The Second Bite

Midlife isn’t a crisis—it’s a wild, holy becoming. This is your invitation to experience midlife as it was meant to be: sweet, curious, delicious.

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What do you expect rest to DO for you?

"Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down." — Anne Lamott Here's a question for you, Reader: what do you expect rest to do for you? I used to expect rest to feel like dessert — a reward for after the big win, for whenever I'd finally "earned" it. Last week, lake-deep with nowhere to be and nothing to do, I caught myself expecting the spaciousness to make things happen for me. Was I relaxing enough to access my intuition? Was I actually...

Support for women ripening into their second bite of life. Pre P.S. Today I'm hosting a workshop I think you'd love. We'll spend two hours making an altar together — a tangible space in your home for the part of you that keeps getting pushed to the back of the line. Two hours of using your heart and hands to express what your ego keeps interrupting. And a recording you can return to again and again. $24. Join me today for MORE OF YOU. Hi Reader, How’s your heart today? It's been a while since...

Support for women ripening into their second bite of life. Pssst… If you loved the creative practice I shared this weekend, come go deeper with me in our June community workshop, MORE OF YOU. Learn more and register here. Hi Reader, My yoga nidra certification arrived a few weeks ago — and it got me thinking. I've sat with a lot of women around the "Do I need another certification?" question. And it almost always comes down to this: Do you need the credential to open a specific door? Or are...

Support for women ripening into their second bite of life. Dear Reader, Have you ever woken in the night with this wish? Tell me what to do next.Give me the steps.Just let me have something solid to hold onto. I know I have. And it makes so much sense. Because our culture is absolutely addicted to the idea of an optimized life. We've been conditioned to believe that if we could just get the right steps, in the right order, the future would bend to our will. The plan is how we feel like we are...

Support for women ripening into their second bite of life. Dear Reader, I'm on a mission to help mid-life women step into the identity and experience of the ripened woman. But, of course, ripening isn't something I can define for you — it lives in your body, your story, your hopes and dreams. So I'm asking. What does ripening mean to you? Living full tilt on your own terms? Deep self-trust? Moving through life at a sustainable pace? Wanting more, but not from a hustle place? Someone who no...

Support for women ripening into their second bite of life. Dear Reader, I love planning and preparing. Welcoming new clients, writing yoga nidra scripts, envisioning workshop curriculum, all of it. There is something sacred about it — finding the poet whose emotional register matches just so, sitting with a single opening question until it clicks into place, layering in the details that whisper to the women walking in: you are welcome here, you can be cared for here, someone is holding this...

Support for women ripening into their second bite of life. Pre P.S. Looking forward to seeing some of you this weekend! If you’ve been considering my Tuscany retreat, but want to experience what it is like to work with me first, this is your chance— SOFTENING THE OVERWHELM THROUGH YOGA NIDRA, EXPRESSIVE ARTS, & COACHING A workshop for midlife women who are exhausted by holding it together — and ready to let their whole body exhale. Sunday, May 31 · 12–2pm ET · Live on Zoom · $24 When you...

Support for women ripening into their second bite of life. You're invited! Softening the Overwhelm A live, on-line workshop for midlife women who are exhausted by holding it together — and ready to let their whole body exhale. Sunday, May 31 | 12–2pm ET Dear Reader, “ Anxiety is stripped away by concentrated listening and perceiving." ~ Marion Woodman Marion’s wisdom sums up why I made this new workshop. When it comes to overwhelm, what most of us are starving for isn't a quick fix. Even if...

Support for women ripening into their second bite of life. Dear Reader, Today I'm bringing you a few journaling prompts — and a blessing — for those of us who are waiting until it's perfect to begin. Your journaling prompts: What did you love to make as a girl? A young woman? What creative act have you been postponing — and what's the story you've been telling yourself about why? What creative process have you always wanted to try? If you knew your first attempt would be mediocre and no one...

Support for women ripening into their second bite of life. Hi Reader, Today I want to talk about that sketchbook you keep meaning to open, the melody that hums somewhere in your chest with nowhere to go. If you’re anything like the women I coach, there’s a good chance you've put creativity largely on the back burner. Maybe it was the years you poured into your children's imaginative lives while yours went dormant. Or the graduate program that trained you to think in arguments and evidence...