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I was reading a book called “With Your Whole Heart” to my baby today and it reminded me to keep the doors open for both joy and pain, and that whatever you do, do it with your whole heart. The strongest resilience is built when you’re brave enough to keep your heart open to what hurts and keep going anyway.

Sometimes I imagine myself as the dam between my daughters and the vast bodies of water that will want to swallow them through shame. I vowed to raise them with love through a lens of believing they are whole people with feelings that matter and opinions that count. I want to earn their respect through connection and not fear or shame. I asked my oldest to finish a few phrases many of us probably grew up with and her confusion and answers made my heart burst. I said, “As long as you live in this house…” (you’ll obey my rules) and she replied, “ummmm I’ll live here?” I then told her, “I’ll give you something to…” (cry about) to which she replied, “smile about?” The work of starting a new branch on your family tree is heavy and hard - but so worth it for these answers 💛

To the fire-breathing first born daughters - don’t change. The world needs your intensity, your energy, your resistance and curiosity. Your wild, untamed ways will serve you well and when the whispers of “she’s too much” drift into your periphery, know that you are exactly enough. Don’t shrink, don’t silence, don’t stop. The world needs you exactly as you are. And to the fire-breathing first born little girls living inside grown women - the same goes for you too. It’s okay to not be society’s perfect version of a female. Be you. 💛

It’s astounding just how much can change in a year. My vision for what the year would hold was unraveled. Multiple life changing moments beyond my control collided into what I had planned. It required surrender, strength, wisdom, and power. It reminded me you only get shown the one next step you need to take and just how powerful intuition can be. The most beautiful moments from this year were all centered around love. Watching an intimate backyard wedding where the officiant’s timely words of how “vast and unpredictable the world is” and that “love is a force like no other that doesn’t follow the rules of time or reason.” This was most certainly a year of shedding, closures, and final chapters aligned with the year of the snake and a “9” year. A year of burning down what no longer belonged. I’m feeling this next year will bring new beginnings, refreshed ways of being, space for creativity to come through, and an expansion into higher purpose. My favorite moment from 2025 was finding myself on all fours in the middle of the floor in the bright light of midday breathing a new human being out of my body. Her home birth reminded me of my power and what’s possible with belief and focus. I’ll forever carry inside me the woman that gave birth to that child in that way with the knowing she’s capable of anything. I’m not setting intentions or goals or choosing a word for next year. Instead, I’m deeply listening right now for what’s next, and leaving space for the path to unfold in a way perhaps even better than I imagined. You never know what can happen in a year. Cheers to 2026 ✨

Fear and financial insecurity drive so many decisions. What if you put those two things on the shelf today and allowed yourself to imagine what you really wanted, and believed it could be possible. Change your thoughts, change your world.

One of my greatest teachers lives in this little body. She was so sad tonight and I sat with her while she was deeply feeling, not to fix or evaluate but just to be there as she learns what sadness feels like and what to do with it. Even as a full time working mom that slayed some serious dragons today, my biggest accomplishment was hearing her whisper, “I know you do” when I told her I loved her as she drifted off to sleep because I know she feels safe enough to be vulnerable around me. Imagine as adults if we knew what to do with the discomfort of sadness, anger, guilt and fear. Imagine seeking out and knowing what feels safe and how to be vulnerable. This is our greatest work as we raise little souls and wire their brains and perhaps in the process, rewire our own. ✨

“Did you find what you were looking for?” I fumbled through an answer while I processed what she really meant. I was afraid to admit what I was really looking for because I wasn’t sure if I was ready to receive it. What if I did, and loved it - and then it was taken away. What I realized is that it’s important to get really clear on what it is you’re seeking, because if you don’t your fears will take over as they seek to feed themselves. Fear or faith, present joy or future fears - you choose.

These beautiful words found me today before a session and served as such a great reminder 💛

Today someone asked me what I felt like I had control over and I shrugged as I said, just me. There are so many things that have left my locus of control right now, but my comfort comes from knowing I can choose how to be, how to communicate, how to respond, how to move, how to love. Life is a spiral. You might walk up part of your staircase and love the floor you’re on, other times not so much. But it’s part of the cycle. Part of our learning. Much like the unalome tattooed on my chest. Peace and clarity come in waves between the trials and tribulations but one day you just mind find yourself knowing a little something if you stay brave enough and open enough for the journey.