Intrepid Her

08/24/2025

Still feeling postpartum after this hike!

Every year when my kids start school again I see my mama friends that I didn’t keep up with through the summer and they tell my some version of the same thing
☀️summer was so busy☀️

All the sun
All the fun
All the friends
All the rivers
All the lakes
All the camping
All the family
All the music

One season to fit all the fun

Don’t forget to slow down and

✨Taste the sweat on your upper lip
✨Laugh really hard
✨Ask how the check out person’s day is
✨Feel gratitude
✨Look at the stars
✨Hear the opposition with an open heart
✨Fall in love with your wrinkles
✨Let your kids make the plans
✨Taste a garden tomato 🍅
✨Give in to that nap

Inhabit the moment
Inhabit your body

06/19/2025

Link in bio

Rites of Passage are pauses in the chaos of life
A pause to honor moments that fly too fast 💨
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My daughter found the idea of celebrating her growing up and her menstrual cycle quite alarming

But I was set on creating a moment for her to remember
I was going to give her something I never had
I was going to weave power and confidence into her adolescence
I was going to celebrate her blood 🩸

I talked her into it and she was able to have the experience with a few close friends last year before entering middle school

I was crying by the end of it and she was glowing with all the care and attention we mothers showered on her and the other girls

“Mom thank you, I really loved today”
She said to me afterwards

06/09/2025

This mama is ready to invite a few clients into her work/life balancing act!!

Even though breastfeeding every 2 hours and through the night feels like a full time job

Even though taking care of my babe creates pleasure in my life

Taking care of my babe is not my end all be all

I can not live just for my baby and my kids

I love my kids

And I love my separateness from my kids

I love me too

And right now what I’m craving is the mentor me, the coach me, the me that guides another woman into her muchness

I’m ready for you

Maybe you are a fellow mama in search of some separation from the role of “mom”

Maybe you have been stuck in someone else’s script and you’re ready to start starring in your own story

Maybe you are uncomfortable in your own skin and you just want to feel the freedom to dance at that upcoming concert

Whatever itchy scratchy uncomfortable something you are experiencing
We can work with it
We can integrate it
We can turn it into fuel for your dreams

Reach out

11/20/2024

Me & .being.wellness after a saucy ceremony💞This woman exudes brilliance, she walks in the room and knows her worth
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Do you know the song by Sammy Kershaw, “she don’t know shes beautiful”?

Essentially its about a woman who walks around having zip idea how lovely she actually is, walking into bars and down the street and not knowing why people are whistling at her

Well, I used to sing that song over and over to myself. I wanted so bad to be that woman, I wanted to have someone singing how gorgeous I was. I wanted another persons validation because I couldn’t give it to myself

I don’t think that sentiment is rare in women. Its an epidemic of slighting our abilities and not owning up to our brilliance

and the beginning of this epidemic can be traced back to some point in childhood

Because my daughters are confident as hell for the most part

They are not afraid to dance when everybody is looking, or share about a really great piece of art they did, or say “i look really good in this dress”

I don’t know when, why, or how it happens but some which way on the path to young adulthood we lose sight of the inner knowledge that we are BRILLIANT

We start listening more to everybody else’s garble and less to our bodies KNOWING

🌵Lets get back to that knowing
🌵Lets sing “fack yes I know I’m beautiful”
🌵Let’s celebrate our individuality, our differences and our unique BRILLIANCE

10/25/2024

Join and I to celebrate and honor all stages of the pregnancy/birth journey✨

We are gifting a few spaces to bodies in need of extra support. Please reach out via DM

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A rite of passage is potent magic
Let’s create more sacred moments
Let’s remember transitory periods of our life
Let’s honor our experiences wholly
Let’s celebrate in a community of care and respect
Let’s mourn for old pieces of ourselves that do not fit, welcome the liminal spaces between, and move forward into our next iterations

10/11/2024

Pregnancy Rite of Passage
October 29th, 6-8
8 spots open, link in bio
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What happened to rites of passage?
Gathering to ritualize and honor BIG life events?
Events that can rock a body to the core, flip scripts, and cause worlds to shatter

Sure we have birthdays, holidays, anniversaries, funerals, and baby showers

But what about the other pivotal points in a life?

Like..

The portal of pregnancy
First blood 🩸
First love making
Leaving the nest
Empty nesters
Abortion
Miscarriage
Divorce
Separation from long term partners
Changing identity
Last blood/menopause
And on
…….
What part of your life would you have liked to pause and honor?
……………..
The last 2 pictures are from my daughters blood ceremony that I co-hosted with

My daughter was hesitant at first to accept the offer to host a celebration for her 🩸

But after she couldn’t stop thanking me. She felt so held and cared for. She felt Special for being able to bleed, for getting to experience this woman’s rite. She felt prepared for what was to come

Far fuc*ing cry from my own experience..
Here is a tampon
There will be pain
Don’t get pregnant

My experience is similar to many women’s but we can change that

We can choose to embrace chaos, blood, and evolution

We can teach our daughters to love their bodies
We can honor all the messy moments of life
We can celebrate the chaos of what it means to be human

10/02/2024

Embodied Pregnancy Celebration
October 29th
Link in bio

Read on to find out why I created this offering❤️
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This go-around pregnancy has been hard

My first two I was pretty damn selfless
(Literally lacking any desire, knowledge, or inspiration to put myself first)
I just let them take over without a care
Believing it my duty as woman to be nothing other than thrilled, in love, and stoic in the face of the MAJOR upheaval that pregnancy & birth is

9 years later as a completely evolved being from who I was before, a being with desires, boundaries, and sovereignty..

This Pregnancy has been a wholly different experience

This Pre pregnancy was riddled with
doubts- what if it’s not possible
compromise- 2 parents with some different values
fear- are we ready to change everything?

1st trimester began with so much joy, love, and excitement

Then,
I was hit unceremoniously by waves of grief and loss of identity
My body was not my own
I felt muted and lifeless
Something was physically sucking my life force
Will I ever feel pleasure again?

??????

I had to take a break from life to sort through my experience

And

My hormones finally stabilized
I can eat all the foods again
I re-found my pleasure
I have felt my unborn move and it thrills me to the core

I am reminded every moment-I have created life

This (pregnancy!)is a monumental not to be taken lightly feat

And I have come into the 2nd trimester with such a desire to celebrate 🎉 and support this journey of pregnancy (whether it’s your 1st or your 4th) for other women

This is a journey worthy of being recognized in all the glory and all the sorrow one experiences

This is a rite of passage
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Tell a pregnant friend, your pregnant partner, that pregnant lady you know..

You are a goddess and you deserve to be celebrated for the whole of your experience

Sign up link for ceremony in my bio

09/25/2024

I used to worry a lot a lot a lot

I would worry about..

what to do with my free time, my body, wrinkles, never having enough time, how to get everything done, only eating certain foods, what others would think, looking a certain way, getting into intimate conversations and having to speak about myself and my dreams and desires, the future, money, taking charge and initiative, making the first move, looking stupid, my body functions, letting my needs be known, being vulnerable, peoples perceptions of me

Worry was a full time job for me
And I wasn’t getting paid for it

All my worrying left me feeling stuck, empty, and alone

I couldn’t let people get too close to me, they might see the real me..and that was scary

So I numbed instead of facing my issues. I drank heavily 🍻slept around carelessly 🛌 and ran off for the next adventure obsessively 🚵🏻‍♀️

There is always a catalyst to evolution, to change- something that rocks the moment and cracks the fissures wide enough to allow in something more

Mine came and I knew I had to get out of my rutted old ways
It took years and it continues to be a process as new lights get shown on old wounds
But I am committed

Committed to living by my own beliefs, creating my own stories, being my own heroine, and continually moving my most authentic pieces of self into the outside world🔥

Moving my aliveness and pleasure from the inside->out

Journey to Embodied Pleasure is my 3 month coaching package

We will address all the worries
All the ruts
All of your deep desires
And all the pleasure that’s meant to be experienced
From the inside->out

Let’s do this 🌵
Reach out

09/19/2024

Whether your 1st or your 4th, Pregnancy is a pivotal period in the life of any mama-to-be

However, for the majority of women, the only celebration being had during pregnancy is a baby shower. Great for gathering the physical needs of an infant and revealing genders, but they leave me asking… What about mama?

Where are the horns and streamers for our changing body, the 1,001 fears that bubble up, and the loss of identity that childbearing can bring on?

In a world that continues to spin faster and faster, this is a special opportunity to relish in your (maybe once in a lifetime) 40 weeks to birth.

We will honor your journey and memorialize your gestation in community through ritual, ceremony, crafting, and shared story.

Sign up today 🌞 Link in bio

09/04/2024

🔥Do you allow your passions to guide you?

This picture might make little sense to you.. so let me explain

Over the past 2 years I have experienced deep surges of 🔥fire-y passion

I am passionate about so many subjects

One of which is contained in this picture

Even on vacation
With family
Out of country
I gather my non-recyclable waste around me

I plead with my kids not to drink out of those plastic cups on the plane..but sometimes they just want a juice with their inflight entertainment

After they are finished I wipe the plastic
Break it into small pieces
and stuff it in the vomit bag

Along the way
my waste piles up
with
snack wrappers
Candy wrappers
Bag check tickets
Chip bags
Produce containers
Straws from restaurants

And on
And on

When I get home I wash, sort, cut to fit, and squeeze into a TerraCycle box
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When you feel passionate about something
When you feel so deeply driven
When you feel like your heart might burst from your body in response to your fire 🔥

That’s living baby

I have a passion for recycling and trying(doing my best, but I’m not perfect)
to put the least amount by possible into landfills

~What are you passionate about?
~In what aspect of your life do you allow your fire to be felt, seen, heard?

I would love to help you feel&fuel your fire🔥
I want your Brilliance ✨
I desire your most authentic self

Your brilliance
Your fire
Is needed

🌵Reach out directly for guidance

07/25/2024

If you are not a “mother” that has physically birthed humans
you must have in some time and space, in some aspect of your life “mothered”

Maybe you have inherited children
Maybe you have experienced mothering and birthing your dreams
Maybe you have pet’s who are children
Maybe you have yourself to mother

Sometimes it is believed that a Mother must:
~forsake dreams for her “charges”
~be ok with loss of identity
~give 110%.. 100% of the time

I believe Mothering to be a blend of the selfish and the selfless. Stray too far to one side screams neglect, stray too far to the other I foresee a martyr complex

And in this age of chaos, I see many women leaning toward the martyr edge of the spectrum

But,
Mothers are Radiant & Pleasure-full women too
We are sensually alive
We are dreamers
We have desires

Mothers, remember the Journey to find yourself, your dreams, your pleasure, and your radiance can be unkempt and chaotic. But, there have been many who walked a similar path and you are not alone.

Reach out if you are in need of more structured guidance

I❤️ working with Mothers

06/03/2024

Fun Collaboration!!!

Join us in this enlightening episode of Table Talks, as Janell Warkentin sits down with Jessica Brunner, an inspiring embodiment and pleasure coach. Dive deep into the journey of self-discovery, where Jessica shares her transformative experiences and innovative techniques to help you connect with your authentic self and embrace the art of pleasure. ☕ Grab your favorite drink and settle in for a compelling conversation that could change the way you perceive yourself and the world around you.

Join us in this enlightening episode of Table Talks, as Janell Warkentin sits down with Jessica Brunner, an inspiring embodiment and pleasure coach. Dive dee...