Rising Strong Wellness LLC

Rising Strong Wellness LLC Embodiment and Somatic Healing Coach. Body image whisperer. Diet Culture REBEL. Energy dealer. Feeling feeler. Story holder.

06/05/2026

This morning I'm listening to the rain fall while diving into an anatomy training.
And honestly, it feels like medicine.
I love learning about these bodies we live in. The muscles, fascia, nerves, organs, and intricate systems constantly working on our behalf. The more I learn, the harder it becomes to see the body as a problem to solve.
There are days when being in my body feels easy and natural.
And there are days when it feels harder. Days when old stories, discomfort, grief, overwhelm, or disconnection make me want to be anywhere but here.
On those days, anatomy helps me find my way back.
Not because it fixes anything.
But because it invites awe.
Awe that my heart keeps beating.
Awe that my lungs keep breathing.
Awe that my nervous system is constantly adapting.
Awe that this body has carried me through every season of my life.
The more I learn, the more compassion I have.
For my body.
For other bodies.
For the incredible complexity of being human.
So today, between the rain and the learning, I'm feeling grateful.
Not because embodiment is always easy.
But because there is always something to wonder at.
And sometimes wonder is enough to help me stay.

Is there a physical part of you that you can connect with today?

Mindful School of Yoga


In Today's Episode of Noticing...A few days ago I invited people to start collecting "Things That Make You Go Hmmm..." m...
06/04/2026

In Today's Episode of Noticing...
A few days ago I invited people to start collecting "Things That Make You Go Hmmm..." moments.
Not because they're life-changing.
Not because they have a lesson attached.
Just because they're interesting.
Delightful.
Unexpected.
Wonderfully human.
And apparently once you start paying attention, they begin finding you.
This morning I was driving past an open corn field when a silver star-shaped balloon floated across the sky in front of me.
I thought:
Well, there it is for today.
My official Hmmm moment.
But the day wasn't done.
A little later, my friend Stevie and I were standing in the Home Depot parking lot when a guy named Zac approached us carrying a guitar.
He asked:
"Can I sing you a song?"
Naturally, we said yes.
So Zac serenaded us with Blink-182.
In the Home Depot parking lot.
Before 9:30 in the morning.
Hmmm.
And apparently it's my lucky week for seeing men on unusual forms of transportation.
Yesterday I was unloading the car when a very small-bodied man dressed head-to-toe in a bright blue leotard-type situation zoomed past on a Segway.
A few days before that, I heard someone yell:
"YAHOOOOOO!"
I looked up and saw a grown man riding a scooter down the sidewalk.
No kids.
No destination that I could tell.
Just him, his scooter, and the wind in his hair.
What can I say?
It made me smile.
None of these moments changed my life.
But they changed my morning.
And maybe that's enough.
One of the things we're exploring this month is how aliveness often returns through noticing.
Noticing beauty.
Noticing delight.
Noticing oddness.
Noticing the little things we usually rush past while we're busy trying to get somewhere.
The world is full of tiny stories.
Tell me one you witnessed this week.
Something strange.
Something delightful.
Something unexpectedly human.

What's your latest "Things That Make You Go Hmmm..." moment?

06/02/2026

What we’re building inside the membership isn’t another place to fix yourself.
It’s a place to remember yourself.
This month we’re exploring:�☀️ Wild Belonging�🍓 Pleasure, Presence & the Nervous System
The other day I was out working in the garden. The weather was perfect and the whole neighborhood seemed unusually alive.
Kids were outside.�Dogs were being walked.�Someone was grilling.�The birds were making a racket.
Then I heard someone yell:
“YAHOOOOOO!”
I looked up and saw a grown man riding a scooter down the sidewalk.
No kids.
No destination that I could tell.
Just him, his scooter, and the wind in his hair.
And I couldn’t stop smiling.
Because that moment felt like such a perfect reminder of what we’re exploring this month.
Aliveness doesn’t always arrive in grand, life-changing moments.
Sometimes it looks like taking the long way home.
Sometimes it looks like jumping in the lake after a hot day.
Sometimes it’s strawberries at sunset.
Sometimes it’s laughing with friends.
Sometimes it’s riding a scooter down the sidewalk because it feels good.
One of my favorite parts of this community is that there is no right way to participate.
Some come for the journal prompts.
Some come for the movement practices.
Some come because they’re healing their relationship with food or their body.
Some come because they’re tired of carrying everything alone.
Some come because they miss feeling alive.
We are creating space and learning how to live our lives again. To notice the small, beautiful moments. Life gets wider.
There is more room for pleasure.�More room for rest.�More room for joy.�More room for being human.
And maybe that’s what so many of us are actually longing for.
Not another thing to achieve.
But a place where we can soften, belong, and fully participate in our lives.
If you’ve been craving that feeling lately...
You’d fit right in. ☀️🍓🌿

https://www.risingstrongwellness.com/bundles/rest-reflect-your-monthly-body-mind-sanctuary

One of the things I love most about the Virtual Classroom is this:You get to take your community and your practices with...
06/01/2026

One of the things I love most about the Virtual Classroom is this:
You get to take your community and your practices with you wherever summer leads.
Onto the porch with your morning coffee.
Into the woods.
To the lake.
Across state lines.
Into the quiet moments between plans.
Back home to yourself.
The classroom was created with real life in mind.
Not rigid routines.
Not perfection.
Not “keeping up.”
Just accessible, nervous-system-informed support that can move alongside your actual life.
Inside you’ll find movement practices, meditations, reflections, and embodiment opportunities that don’t require extra striving or elaborate preparation. Practices you can return to gently — whether you have five minutes in the morning, a quiet evening outside, or a moment alone in a borrowed space.
Because healing doesn’t only happen in structured sessions or dramatic breakthroughs.
Sometimes it happens barefoot in the grass.
Sometimes while noticing your breath soften at sunset.
Sometimes while pausing long enough to feel the land beneath you.
Sometimes while remembering your body is not a problem to solve.
Summer offers us something unique:
a chance to take what we’ve been uncovering all season and begin integrating it into ordinary, everyday life in the wild.
This work has never been about becoming “better.”
It’s about becoming more connected.
More honest.
More present.
More able to inhabit your own life.
And you don’t have to do that alone.

This week I greeted the garden again.Hands in the dirt.Knees against the earth.The familiar rhythm of beginning.Every sp...
05/30/2026

This week I greeted the garden again.
Hands in the dirt.
Knees against the earth.
The familiar rhythm of beginning.
Every spring I remember:
my body belongs to seasons too.
There are times for blooming.
Times for resting underground.
Times for pruning.
Times for wildness.
Times for slow becoming.
The garden helps me return to that truth.
Not everything in me needs to be optimized.
Some things simply need tending.
I’m trying to live more seasonally these days.
To notice what my body is asking for instead of forcing it into permanence.
More warmth.
More sunlight.
More nourishment.
More softness.
More slowness where possible.
The earth never shames itself for changing.
I’m trying to learn from that.

I spent a week in the desert covered in red dust wondering how trees grow from stone and why women are taught to shrink ...
05/28/2026

I spent a week in the desert covered in red dust wondering how trees grow from stone and why women are taught to shrink themselves instead of belonging to the earth like everything else.
The body is an ecosystem, not a project.
Head over to my substack to hear about our trip to Sedona.
It's a good one.
pssst hit subscribe while your there. wink wink

https://open.substack.com/pub/risingstrongwellness/p/i-saw-red-for-an-entire-week?r=gniru&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

☀️ JUNE IS (almost) HERE ☀️This month inside the membership we’re exploring:Wild Belonging — Returning to AlivenessPleas...
05/28/2026

☀️ JUNE IS (almost) HERE ☀️

This month inside the membership we’re exploring:
Wild Belonging — Returning to Aliveness
Pleasure, Presence & the Nervous System
And honestly… this may be some of my favorite content we’ve created yet.
I had SO much fun making this month for you.
Over the past several months, we’ve explored thawing, tending the inner fire, reconnecting with ourselves, and gently emerging from survival mode. And now summer arrives carrying fullness, warmth, movement, beauty, and invitation.
This month is about softening out of chronic self-monitoring and remembering that healing is not only about surviving hard things.
It’s also about:
laughing,
resting,
moving,
savoring,
creating,
connecting,
playing, and allowing yourself to belong fully to your life.
We’ll be exploring pleasure as nervous system medicine, seasonal living through Ayurveda, the Summer Solstice, the Strawberry Moon, playful embodiment, nature connection, body image support, and the simple sensory experiences that help us feel alive again.
One of my favorite lines from this month’s journal is:
“Pleasure helps us remember: I am more than what hurts.”
Because pleasure widens our world.
It expands our tolerance for life, connection, beauty, and presence.
It reminds the nervous system that life is not only pressure, pain, productivity, or survival.
And honestly, you’ll probably find me this month eating strawberries at sunset and jumping into Lake Michigan after a long hot day in the garden 🌿🍓🌊
That feels like the medicine right now.
May the light of summer soften the places within you that have grown tired from carrying too much.
And may this season remind you:
there is still warmth waiting for you here.
drop 🕶️ in the comments and I'll send you the member link!










Anti–Diet Culture + Gentle Care





Nature + Wild Medicine (Grounded)





Community + Access


Tonight feels a little special. ✨I’m subbing a class this evening — and if you’ve been missing moving with me, this is y...
05/27/2026

Tonight feels a little special. ✨
I’m subbing a class this evening — and if you’ve been missing moving with me, this is your invitation.
Even though I haven’t been teaching my ENERGY RESET class lately (and I’m not fully sure when it will return this season), the heart of the practice is still here:
movement as curiosity,
movement as release,
movement as a way back to yourself.
This is not about dancing “well.”
It’s not about fitness perfection or getting anything right.
It’s about listening to your body through rhythm, breath, sensation, and expression. It’s about letting music move through the places that feel tight, tired, joyful, grieving, numb, alive — all of it.
Tonight we’ll shake, sweat, soften, breathe, and settle.
We’ll practice honoring the body instead of overriding it.
We’ll move with intuition instead of expectation.
Bring your whole self:
💛 your stress
🔥 your anger
🌙 your grief
✨ your joy
🌀 your uncertainty
🌿 your need for release or rest
Everything is welcome here.
If you’ve been craving this kind of movement, this kind of music, this kind of connection… I’d love to move with you tonight.
Come as you are.
The floor is waiting for you.

Lately I’ve been asking myself:How does spring feel in my body?Not: How does my body look?Not: How can I change it befor...
05/25/2026

Lately I’ve been asking myself:
How does spring feel in my body?
Not: How does my body look?
Not: How can I change it before summer?
But: What shifts inside me as the season changes?
More energy?
More vulnerability?
More longing to be outside?
More activation?
More tenderness?
As we begin moving toward summer, I also know this season can feel hard for many people.
If summer feels more difficult for your relationship with food or your body… you’re not imagining it.
There’s more exposure.
More social events.
Less routine.
More comparison.
And endless messaging about “summer bodies.”
That pressure impacts nervous systems.
It impacts eating patterns.
It impacts the way we move through the world.
This isn’t about lacking willpower.
It’s about living inside a culture that profits from body shame.
So this summer, I want to focus on something different:
Support over shame.
Curiosity over criticism.
Connection over control.
Your body does not need to become smaller to deserve a beautiful summer.

Address

Grand Rapids, MI

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Rising Strong Wellness LLC posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Business

Send a message to Rising Strong Wellness LLC:

Shortcuts

Share

Category