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08/27/2025

Sunbeam on a Stone Path 〰️

Sitting on the side stoop -
saying hello to the rising sun.

Coffee steaming beside me -
on this late August morning.

I hear the hum of this quiet little town waking up – with an occasional car driving by.

The cats wandering the property -
playing detective with their noses to see what visitors we may have had in the night.

A sun beam streaming through the trees -
highlighting parts of the stone path in front of me.

Water droplets falling from the metal roof illuminated by the sunbeam – with tails of micro droplets that look like the tail of a shooting star.

I look to my left and see long gangly legs -
dancing on a leaf.

I look to my right and see a slug -
hugging a single blade of grass in the unruly wildflower garden bed.

The bees are waking up.
My cup of coffee finished.
Time to head inside.

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I hope you can sneak a mindful moment into your day, too. To savor in the beauty and awe around you. Opening your heart and eyes - and being in connection with.

Big hugs, friends! 🙏🏼💜🌲

08/12/2025

Understanding Your Pace, Pulse, and Natural Rhythm 〰️

Life moves as fast or as slow as we make it. And I have often found that if life feels like it’s moving too fast, it’s usually an indication that we’ve lost touch with moving in a way that supports our natural operating system (which looks a little different for each of us).

I’ll use myself as an example…

In order for me to stay in better contact with myself as I move through my weekly commitments, I know it’s imperative for me to have a “less is more, slow-and-steady, quality-over-quantity” intention and rhythm. This means I’m rarely overscheduled - allowing breathing room between commitments to digest each experience as fully as possible.

I keep my mornings open for self-care, home-care, and backend business needs and development. I don’t schedule clients back-to-back. And I don’t say yes to more social commitments than I can handle (which, of course, varies depending on my client load, my menstrual cycle, and the quality of sleep I’m getting).

If I’m saying “yes” to something, it’s because I’m genuinely well-resourced and available. If I say “no” to something, it’s rarely because I don’t want to do it, but more often because I need to fill my tank first before I feel available to.

I’ve spent yeeeears listening, learning, refining, and honing in on designing a lifestyle that better supports what balance, success, and wellbeing mean to me…and I have some space in my schedule to help you explore the same!

If life is feeling a little out-of-balance, if you feel like you’ve lost touch with yourself or that you’re just going through the motions, or if you’re making choices that you know aren’t serving your highest interest (and therefore the interest of those around you), I would love to connect. DM me or go to the link in my bio to learn more about how I work.

Big Hugs, Friends! 💜🌸🌿
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06/20/2025

Summer Solstice 〰️

I find that I grieve a bit on Summer Solstice – it’s the knowing that our daylight will become less and less.

I find that I celebrate on the Winter Solstice – because it’s the knowing our daylight starts its ascent to more and more.

It’s already officially Summer – and in a blink, I feel like it’ll be Fall. So, maybe I’m grieving the end of Spring, too.

I usually grieve the end of seasons, especially if I haven’t been outside enough. And if I haven’t communed with nature enough during its season, that usually means I’m probably missing time with myself, too.

So let me lift my eyes from this page –

To feel the cool rock I’m sitting on,

To finetune my ears to take in the orchestra of birdsong,

To see the fluttering wings of the yellow butterfly in flight,

To say hello to the shadows on the tree’s trunk from the sun filtering through its canopy above.

To feel the humid breeze graze across my skin in this shady spot I sit,

To focus my gaze on the bird of prey circling high above –

With the backdrop of the puffy white clouds dancing across the blue sky.

Let me not miss what’s right in front of me.
Let me not miss myself.

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Solstice Blessings, friends. 💜☀️🪶🌸🌿

05/28/2025

Sitting on a big rock in my backyard having my morning coffee with the birds and the bugs.

Wisps of dandelion seed floating by, and the image of a dandelion puff imprinted by lichen on the rock.

It seems like dandelion might have a message for me, for us.

I head inside to look up the meaning of her medicine, and this is what she has to say…

- Let go of what no longer serves you.
- Trust the journey, even in uncertain times.
- Reconnect with your childlike faith and wonder.
- Be patient – what you’ve planted is growing, even if you can’t see it yet.

To connect even more deeply with dandelion wisdom, consider sitting with this journaling prompt…

“What am I ready to release, and what new dream or version of myself am I ready to trust into being?”
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Big Hugs, Friends…💜🌸🌿

11/23/2024

Changing Seasons, Changing Self 〰️

It felt like there was fire running through my veins in August and September. Fueled by a special interest, the changing season, and an especially beautiful September, it felt like someone/something was moving me and I was just along for the ride, trying to keep up.

I was aware of this as it was happening and did my best to not add fuel to the fire by making unhealthy choices. Being a witness to my experience, I allowed myself to be moved – trusting that my body/system knew what it needed, that there was a purpose in all of this. I literally couldn’t get enough movement in nature and movement through writing.

My body felt alive – grateful for the freedom and ability to roam.

My brain – focused and fixated – an uncomfortable tunnel-vision of intensity and hyperfocus.

(It’s amazing what a driver longing and yearning are – for the sun and for another. I have compassion and love for this very human part of me.)

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October was intense in its fullness and demands – professionally and personally – but the fire in my veins and brain was, thankfully, starting to subside.

And now, here in November, a smooth balanced grounded shift in my energy has arrived.

It’s soft + quiet + trusting + stable.

Tying up loose ends and tending to energy leaks, I feel my sense of self and internal steadiness strengthen once again. My brain and body and heart are in much better resonant relationship these days – and I’m feeling more embodied and whole as we move into the remaining days of this year.

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Whatever season you may find yourself in, I hope you’re able to witness yourself with love, trust, compassion, patience, and faith as you move from this season of self to the next! 🙏🏼💜🕊️

10/22/2024

The nature of death and decay -
Some things falling away.
There’s an intelligence in the decay -
the breakdown.

Grief and acceptance –
in the release.
Especially when it’s been a long time coming.

A falling away -
A shedding to the ground.
Insulation for winter hibernation.

What’s left standing –
naked, exposed, bare, free.
Relief on the other side of release.

It’s time to let go of the things that have already let you go, you beautiful sensitive soul.
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These words are inspired from the nature of the season, but also the season of a long-time friendship feeling fully closed and complete as of last week.

The ending of the 20-year friendship actually started 3.5 years ago with an abrupt halt and ghosting from this person. Something I had seen them do several times with former partners, but never once did I consider that they may do the same with me.

Having a significant person fall away without an understanding of why was one of the most painful and hurtful abandonments I’ve experienced.

I’ve attempted a couple of outreaches over the last couple of years, with no response. Last week, a video of us popped up on my phone and instead of feeling any lingering hurt, I smiled at the memory.

Without attachment to any outcome, I felt inspired to send the video to this person. After a few days, they responded. To actually make contact offered a layer of heart healing.

After sharing a few niceties over a couple of days, I invited the possibility of us meeting up at some point for more understanding of what happened at the end. They initially responded saying they’d stay open to that possibility, but a short while later changed their mind.

Within any relationship rupture, if the relationship is important enough, repair will ideally be had on the other side. I wasn’t looking to rekindle a friendship, per se, but out of respect to the entirety of the friendship, I thought there might be some healing in having a conversation for more understanding.

Although the scab of the wound opened up a bit when being shut down, that interaction gave me more closure than I’d previously had. This person had already done their own work letting this friendship go - I feel I can finally do the same.
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May my experience have you not feel so alone in your relationship ruptures, and inspire a layer of heart healing, acceptance, and creating your own closure. 🙏🏼💜🌲🍂

09/18/2024

On Surrendering + Submitting to Something Far Greater Than Self 〰️

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If I have a sub relationship with anything – it’s the weather, the seasons, and my cycle.

Let my feelings and actions be at the mercy of their patterns, rhythms, and moods.

It’s liberating being so fluid to their ever-changing direction. Bowing in gratitude for leading my surrender.
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I sometimes struggle on weekends with analysis paralysis - often from my needs and wants conflicting with each other.

With the desire to fit so much in, but overwhelm of where to start and fear that I won’t get to it all (I mean, do we ever?).

The weekdays provide a sense of structure, anchoring, and containment that works really well for me –

And come the weekend, there’s often SO much openness that I become a bit disoriented.

An inner conflict of the need for freedom, space, and openness to move intuitively on the weekends as I see fit –

Combined with the knowing that the weekend freedom will come to a close in the blink of an eye, creating this internal pressure resulting in shut down/stuckness.

Those weekends are the hardest for me – and create the most shame.

So, I’ve learned to surrender to the shut down, and have compassion for it –

And yield to the weather patterns, the season, my cycle to provide a sense of direction in those hardest moments.

Submitting to something greater and far more intelligent than me helps. 🙏🏼💜🌲

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(In your hardest moments, what is it that you surrender to?)

12/19/2023

Sitting here in quietude and candlelight - while the howling wind dies down and the pelleted rain comes to an end.

There is something so calming when the power goes out - even when there’s a lingering wildness outside.

Today’s work put on hold - and instead my focus was used on year-end reflection.

Thousands of photos revisited jogging memories of the past year - the highlights, the challenges, the learning, the blessings - conscious reflection for conscious closure.

Grateful for the unexpected gift of today - and eager to put more words to the year-end reflection soon.

Hoping everyone stays safe and warm in the aftermath of the storm.

(Photo from last weeks storm)

10/29/2023

Our hearts are heavy, but her beauty holds us up. Thank you, Maine. 🙏🏼💜🌲🕊️

10/24/2023

I went into the woods to chase the morning fog -
Mother Nature had another plan for me.

These webs were everywhere –
I couldn’t help but marvel and linger.

We had so many busy friends through the night – or are these webs always here and with the right conditions (this light and this dew) brought alive?

They left their mark, their woven art - everywhere.

Fascinated and fixated on each weave.
No two designs were alike -
Like a snowflake and a fingerprint.

I went into the woods to dance with the morning fog - and I was greeted with so much more.

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