The Wild Alchemist

09/05/2026

So...what happens when the survival strategies we learned as kids follow us into adulthood?

Yesterday we hugged our inner child.
Today,.we talk about why that actually does something.

When you were little and life felt unpredictable, your nervous system learned to protect you.

Get loud. 📢

Get small. 🥺

Get perfect. 🎁

Get angry. 👹

Whatever worked.

But it wasn't just one moment. Every experience that made you feel unsafe piled on top of the last.

And for some of us, the piling never stopped - conditioning our system to stay on guard.

Always scanning. Always bracing.

That's why we snap at the small things.

That's why we feel terrible when the people around us aren't happy.

That's why we can go from fine to fury in half a second and wonder what just happened.

Your nervous system has been doing overtime for decades. Nobody ever told it the shift was over. ✌️

When we offer ourselves safety - a hand on your chest, a breath, a kind word to our younger self - we activate the vagus nerve. The part of our brain responsible for rest and calm. We send a signal that says "we're ok right now."

Over time, that rewires the default.

That's not woo. That's neuroscience 🤓

And it's worth doing 💫💜💫

09/03/2026

Sometimes the little version of you who learned to be tough, loud, hyper-independent, angry, invisible, perfect, useful, funny, whatever she needed to be...

Simply needs to know she’s safe now 💜

She needs the grown-up version of you to show up and say:

I’ve got you.
You don’t have to do this alone anymore.

And that rage goblin?
Sometimes she’s just standing guard over a very small person who never felt protected in the first place.

Healing your inner child doesn't always mean digging through the past.
She just needs to be seen. She needs to be loved. And she needs to be told that it's ok, she doesn't have to protect herself anymore.

So today, I invite you to take a minute and give that little version of you a hug. ✨

💜

09/03/2026

Day28 🎉🎉🎉

I had something way cooler in mind. But the things didn't want to cooperate. So this is what you get 😆

Who's got the good goods on teleprompter apps and anti glare reading glasses??

Help!! 🤣

09/01/2026

My favorite way to end a long day. Keira cuddles 🥰

08/31/2026

Be Scared, Do It Anyway: Day 24 ✨
This weekend, I got to share something really special to me with the ladies at the retreat:

Ho’oponopono. 💜

I made this little oracle deck specifically for them, pulling from the energy of the eclipse this weekend and weaving it into 24 different Ho’oponopono prayers around release, forgiveness, letting go, creating space, and moving forward.

Before the retreat, I sat with the cards and infused them with Reiki, setting the intention that everyone would pull the card and receive the message they needed for the weekend.

And you guys...
THEY DID!! ✨

Watching everyone pull their cards and immediately connect with what they received was probably one of my favorite parts of the entire weekend!

Then everyone had picked theirs and I had one card left.

I literally looked at it like, Well... what am I supposed to do with this one?

DERP.
IT’S FOR MEEEEEE. 😂

And apparently I was included in my own intention, because damn.

Permission to Change.

Giving myself permission has been a huge focus of mine lately. Giving myself permission to move forward. To want more. To become more. And maybe most importantly, creating enough safety within myself to actually allow that change.

But this card added another layer I hadn’t really thought about.
“I’m sorry for every time I made myself smaller to remain familiar to the people around me.”
Oof.

And then:
“I give myself permission to change and become unfamiliar even to myself.”

OOF.

Because maybe moving forward isn’t only about feeling safe enough to become who I know I can be.

Maybe it’s also about giving myself permission to become someone I don’t know yet.

To stop requiring the next version of me to make sense from where I’m standing now.

To let her be unfamiliar.

You are allowed to become someone you have never been.
Yeah. I think I’ll keep this one. 💜

08/30/2026

What an absolute blessing to help these incredible women kick off the ladies retreat last night. ✨

And today I got to spend the day doing something I love so, so much: Reiki. 🥹💫

Watching the weight lift. Watching faces brighten. Hearing the laughter get a little louder and seeing people walk away just a little lighter than they came in...

THAT is the good stuff. 🥹

My cup is very, very full tonight.

And we’re not even done yetttttt!! 😂✨

Can’t wait for tomorrowwww!! 💫

08/29/2026

Smudge circle under the full moon?

Yes. Please!

An amazing opening night for the women's retreat 🥰

PS: night sight setting is rad 🤩

Day22Part2 😆

08/28/2026

Welp. I missed a day. 😆

Life lifed. I was busy. The world kept spinning.

And instead of turning it into a whole thing and beating myself up about it... imma just keep going.

Two posts today. Problem solved. 😂

Turns out consistency does not require perfection. Who knew?!

💥

08/26/2026

08/26/2026

Nothin special today. Just a pretty sunset 🤩

Enjoy!