Abi Keene Healing

05/11/2026

letting go is not simple but can be a practice. Here is where I failed, and yet...
There's an invitation in this stage of life to move energy back to self, and away from over-doing / caring / giving.
It's a practice.

05/07/2026

Dear friends, here is my latest newsletter/dharma talk 🥰

The other day I gave my son’s friend a ride home, and as grownups do, I grilled him with annoying adult questions about his senior year of high school and the looming college transition. And he said something quite profound, he said, “you know, I thought that when I get to my senior year I will seize the moment and really live it, but now I’m in it and it’s just passing”. And I thought to myself “how so right you are”, because this is exactly how we live our lives, always in a hurry to get to the next thing, thinking that once we get there we will feel the sense of arrival and presence. But in the meantime, not yet. Not just now.

Often the good things we so look forwards to just zoom by, Like when I visit my mom across the ocean and feel the precious time we have together just dwindle away. When it comes to the harder times, we often hold our breath waiting for it to pass so that we can resume living. And when it comes to the mundane, we mostly just zone out.

There’s an illusion that we keep replaying, that this being-present is case scenario depended, when in fact, it’s only here right now—whether you are simply washing dishes, or you are having a hard time, or you are doing something you love. It’s just here and just now. It is in the bearing witness to the moment exactly as it is.

I was just listening to a recording of a traditional healing song I learned on my singing trip to Georgia and the Caucuses. This song evokes such deep longing in me that every time we sang it, and still now when I hear the recording of our singing, my heart breaks into a million pieces and the tears flow.

But a longing for what? Tears over what?

For me it feels like the existential sorrow of being human. The paradox of being alive knowing that we will die. The pain of seeing time eat away the things we love, knowing that everything comes to an end, and the bearing of this unbearable. And in it, mixed with sorrow, is the search for presence so as not to waste it, so as to taste it fully, so as to be here wholeheartedly in this brief experience called life, senior high school year and everything else.

A client recently signed up to work with me because she wanted help being more present in her life. She recognized this tempus fugit and wished to find the inner anchor to arrive at so that she can breathe her life in moment by moment and really appreciate it. As my grandma Hazel said just shy of her 102nd birthday, “it all just passed in a blink of an eye.”. If we don’t practice this presence, it ain’t going to happen on its own. This is where we have a choice.

In this inevitability of time’s arrow, what do you long for in your life?

What does being present through it all mean to you?

And what will help you on the path there?

May you be your wildest self,

♡

Abi
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04/27/2026

Hello dearest friends and happy spring! 🌻

In this season of renewal I’m happy to report that I have 2 spots opening up in May for my 1:1 transformational coaching journey, designed to support women in their midlife and beyond shed the old ways of fears, doubts, self judgements, and really seize this time of life as an opportunity to live freely, purposely, and joyfully.

Women come to this work when something inside whispers - there is more. More truth than the roles they’ve been holding. More creativity waiting to be born. More courage for the change that feels both terrifying and inevitable. They are done over-giving. Done shrinking. Done living on the surface. Midlife has cracked them open, not as a crisis, but as an initiation. A spiritual deepening. A remembering. A return to the woman beneath the pleasing, beneath the performing. They come because they are ready to live from that place.

If you are feeling the frustration of holding back, and a sense of disappointment in life or yourself, knowing that there is more depth to explore, and realizing that you have been procrastinating for a long long time - then this might be for you.

If you are ready to take the reins for your life, and not let inertia win, then book a free consultation with me.

On this free call I will help you tap into the true vision you have for this next chapter of your life, shed light on the sneaky ways you stand in your own way, and assess if this journey is the right fit for you.

Regardless, you will leave with clarity, inspiration, and feeling deeply heard.

It breaks my heart to see women dim their light and abandon their deepest longings because they don’t fully believe in themselves, letting shame, judgment, and fear define what’s possible. I know change is possible, because I’ve lived it. It begins with the courage to say yes to yourself and take just one small step forward.
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May you be your wildest self ❤
Abi

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04/08/2026

Yesterday was a gloomy day. The constant rain and grey skies brought my spirit down for no particular reason and all the reasons I could find. My mom’s voice looped in my head telling me to pick myself up and get useful. Her dad, my beloved grandpa Joe, who escaped Czechoslovakia and the holocaust and settled in England, had zero tolerance for self pity. The clear message was always that you get up, move your body, and get productive.

This of course is a great tool, especially when surviving a war, but could it be that we can miss out on something very important by pushing past and bypassing the What-Is?

As the day continued with me fighting the gloom with busyness, I had the nagging feeling of missing out on something important, a call from the depth of me asking me to stop, pause, and just sit quietly with this particular flavor of gloom.

It’s easier to armor against pain by getting busy, than to sit with our super tender parts and accept the present moment exactly as it is.

Recently someone shared her pain with me, her stuckness mixed with her deep longing for purpose and direction knowing that there is more to her than how she is currently living. Under her surface there was the burden of shame, as if not having it all figured out meant something was wrong with her.

As she spoke, I knew that I can help her, but not by bypassing this deep pain for the sake of taking action in her life. No. I would teach her how to meet and soothe this pain, thus heal the places that hurt so much. Only from that deep connection to herself will she step back into life, clearer, softer, and ready.

Growth, alignment, and freedom, happen when we step deeply in, in order to come out.

A gloomy day is not just a nuisance to hold our breath through, so that we can at last exhale when we arrive on steadier grounds, but an invitation to dive deep into our softest parts and heal.

I sit quietly and ask myself: Abs, what’s going on for you right now? And I pause and I listen to the story my underbelly has to share. It’s usually quite simple and foundational- I feel sad, I’m overwhelmed, I feel alone, I feel behind, I’m afraid I’m not good enough, I’m lost, I’m lost, I’m lost.

We sit together in this silence and we breathe.

From there, softer, aligned, and less judgmental, we can move back into our day with freedom and possibility. From there, we build.

May you be your wildest self ❤️

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(Etching by Liam Keene)

03/18/2026

Let yourself stand out 😍

03/09/2026

Last chance to join my free class tomorrow, Tuesday at 4:30 EST
Midlife Reimagined- for the soulful midlife woman who is ready to make the brave changes calling her!
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03/05/2026

Look at these spectacular roots... I just had to touch them. And it makes me think about our roots, and how we can rebuild ourselves from the roots up. I believe that real change starts from within, and we can heal the world when we heal ourselves, and it starts with each and everyone one of us doing the work inside.
As above so below...

It's not healing to wage a war inside ourselves by self judging harshly, rejecting, and holding ourselves back from true expression.

So we start inside, learning to be our own best ally, and then we spread it onward. Not by skipping ourselves, but by tending to ourselves first. It's not selfish, it's needed. It's love.

To take another step towards self care and self freeing, come join me for a free class for the Soulful Midlife Woman who is READY to start tending to her calling, her needs, her life.

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03/04/2026

speak to so many women who share about feeling stuck, feeling that there's more to them than what they allow to express, that they feel frustrated, or burdened, or disappointed...

But truly, we don't have to stay stuck in this painful place. There are tools, and support, and community, and we don't have to stay alone on our path.

For myself, receiving supported when I was feeling completely stuck in my own inertia was a life changer. And I used to be the type of person who rejected help because I thought I should be able to figure it out on my own...but that was actually my fear of opening up and showing my under belly to someone else, the fear of my own vulnerability.

I can't stand seeing others stifled, dimmed, or self beating on themselves. Especially when I know that help exists, and we can create freedom in our life to allow more of us to come out and play- more of us to come out and be expressed and experienced. More of us to come alive!

So come gather with me so that you can unleash your next level self!

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03/03/2026

come join me for a free online class-
Midlife Reimagined: for the Soulful Midlife Woman Ready to Make the Brave Changes Calling Her
(Link in BIO)

This is for you if-

✔ You want to stop feeling like you’re living below your potential.

✔ You wish to bring a creative vision to life (book, art, writing, meaningful work).

✔ You are in front of major life changes and need clarity and courage.

✔ You long to break patterns of people-pleasing and build strong, healthy boundaries.

✔ You wish to deepen your spiritual connection and live more aligned with your truth.

03/02/2026

Hi all,
I'm super excited to offer this free class on Tuesday 3/10 4:30-6:00 EST in the virtual space.

Midlife Reimagined:
For the Soulful Midlife Woman Ready to Make the Brave Changes Calling Her ✨

If you are feel the ache of untapped life, the frustration, comparison, and the quiet shame of not having “figured it out” by now, all wrapped around a longing for more purpose, more joy, more of yourself, then don't stay stuck there...

Life is too short to hold back your fullest self expression.
And now more than ever, it feels even more urgent to heal the world through healing our own selves. We start with our individual insides, learning to accept and love the person that we are, and from there, we can spread light and love into a world so desperately in need of it.

Learn More and save your spot:
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Can't wait to see you there 🥰

Midlife Reimagined- A Free Gathering for Women Ready to Stop Shrinking, Get Clear on What’s Next, and Move Toward It with Courage