Dear Reader, The sleepytime tea is steeping. The open journal on your lap. A puzzle in progress. And yet, you still go to bed feeling... kind of blah. You don't have to hit a dramatic, collapse-on-the-floor kind of burnout to be soulfully dehydrated. You can be doing everything "right" and still not wake up feeling replenished. The overculture sells us a one-size-fits-all version of rest (looking at you, 8 hours of perfect sleep). What we actually need to refill our cups… well, that shifts...
19 days ago • 1 min read
Dear Reader, When I asked a friend the other day about her dreams, she looked at me like I'd asked her to recite a poem from memory. "I don't have time to think about my dreams," she said. I've been thinking about it ever since. Because it's not really about time, is it? It's about what we've been trained to consider a legitimate use of our attention. We live inside a culture that has colonized the things that should belong to us most intimately — how we sleep, how we eat, how we go for a...
26 days ago • 2 min read
"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...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
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...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
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...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
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...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
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...
2 months ago • 1 min read
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...
2 months ago • 2 min read
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...
3 months ago • 3 min read