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...
14 days 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...
21 days ago • 3 min read
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...
28 days ago • 2 min read
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...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
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...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Support for women ripening into their second bite of life. Dear Reader, I want to tell you what I did with my overwhelm this past weekend. (Because it was glorious!!) I spent two hours with a small group of women — plus some chalk pastels, torn open paper grocery sacks, scissors and glue — making a mess and letting the overwhelm say what it needed to say. Three things came through. I think at least one of them is for you. Everyone is overwhelmed right now. Some of us have a parent in hospice....
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Support for women ripening into their second bite of life. Hi Reader, You know that feeling of carrying something around for weeks — turning it over, trying to get clear, waiting until you understand it well enough to say it out loud? Most of us spend a lot of time there!! I was in a session recently with a group of women I love deeply. One of them brought something tender and unresolved, right in the freshness of it. I don't even know if this makes sense. It's still pretty fresh. Sorry, I'm...
2 months ago • 2 min read
Support for women ripening into their second bite of life. Hi Reader, For a long time, my inner life got fed crumbs. Not intentionally. That's not how it happens, right? Nobody decides to put themselves last. It just becomes the shape of things — the default setting you stop questioning because you're so busy living it. I couldn't even tell you when exactly it moved to the bottom of the list. (Not because I didn't care. Because I cared about everything else first.) My heart's desires got the...
3 months ago • 2 min read
Support for women ripening into their second bite of life. Dear Reader, When Bonnie came to work with me, she couldn't name what was wrong. Only that something was. "I know something is… off," she confided. "But I have no idea what that something is." As I listened, the picture filled in: A career that used to really sparkle. An artistic streak she'd abandoned. A marriage she'd stopped bringing her full weight to. Aging parents on both sides. Children's tuition to think about. A promotion...
3 months ago • 2 min read