Cold Confidence

03/12/2026

After a beautiful and unforgettable chapter, Cold Confidence- as it is- is closing.

What a ride this has been! When I started Cold Confidence, I felt so strongly that I *had* to. That it was needed here... sub 40 degree water. I didn’t fully know where it would lead, but I everything lined up and led me to believe it was what I was to do! And because of that leap, I’ve had the incredible honor of guiding hundreds of people through ice baths... many through breathwork... and I have witnessed so much courage and connection.

I have watched people step into the ice for the first time with fear in their eyes and come out elated- and stronger than they imagined they could. I’ve witnessed breakthroughs, healing, friendships, and soft, private moments that I will carry with me forever.

To everyone who trusted me to hold that space — thank you. Truly. It has been one of the greatest privileges of my life.

Speaking of life... it has a way of leading us without explanation.

After spine surgery in November and with another surgery ahead, my body is asking — very clearly — for a slower season. A season focused on healing, recovery, and taking care of myself physically.

And, so... rather than continuing on this path while people wait on me, or wondering when my next event might be, I’ve made the decision (with Don's help) to officially close Cold Confidence.

This isn’t a goodbye to cold water. The Puget Sound Plungers community will continue, and I’ll be at the beach unless I am medically unable. I’m believe in the power of the cold. I just won’t be running a business Cold Confidence anymore.

I'm naturally a little uncertain about what comes next. But this journey taught me something very important: I can do hard things. ;)

And right now, the hard thing is slowing down.

Thank you, thank you, thank you... from the bottom of my heart ... thank you for being part of this incredible adventure. I've got no regrets! 💙

02/16/2026

I still believe strongly that we all need to SCREAM!

Give our brains a break (psychedelic breathwork) and then Let. Sh*t. GO (with a somatic full-body scream).

Also..., I'm still having trouble locating a place for a large group to have that experience safely.

So- I'll be offering Two-for- One or Three- for-One
I SCREAM sessions for $120. (Ice baths as an additional add on)

This will give you and opportunity to scream, in community, with people you trust- your friends.

I'll be opening my calendar for a few Saturdays and can also schedule outside of my public calendar (DM me).

The link will be Live later this week.

*please allow 3-4 days between scheduling and session so I have ample opportunity to create your custom playlist.

02/14/2026

Happy Valentines Day!

These are Hlellebores, known as the roses of winter.

A couple of years ago a woman came to a workshop and she was so incredibly brave, her ice bath was very challenging- she overcame a lot of fear that day. It was beautiful, the other women at the workshop offered so much support!

She messaged me and asked if she could bring me some hellebores, telling me how they are winter roses and should be my company flower 🌸 . I loved that and she came with 4 plants, planting them for me on one of the coldest days, it was 28° and the ground was frozen!

That thoughtful gift has never stopped giving... these plants are green all year and bloom so beautifully while the rest of the garden sleeps.

The amount of flowers increase every year and clients, company, and us (!) enjoy them so, so much!

Her sweet gesture in gratitude had rippled out... and continues to... and it is one of the examples of why I love random acts of kindness- because we just never know- you know?! ❤️

01/29/2026

I am contemplating a group Scream session and need to guage interest.

IF I can find a location, it would consist of psychedelic breathwork that incorporates a primal scream timed in an integral moment of the practice. It helps to fully release pent-up feelings.

I would invite you to scream, directing your energy from your feet through your body to the throat to the release—allowing what needs to come up to come up.

This process can help people go even deeper into their meditation and breathing pattern—often facilitating letting go of emotions, sensations, and pain they’ve been holding on to. It is especially helpful for reducing tension and it triggers natural endorphins in the body.

There are a few things I would have to work out, but I could accommodate 10 people myself- if there is interest.

Anyone else feel the need to SCREAM?!

01/15/2026

When you visit Cold Confidence, you'll be experiencing your icebath in a Morozko Forge Prism (commercial unit).

She is quite a beautiful machine, and I'd love to introduce you. 🥶 🙂

I'm open this Saturday and have afternoon appointments available.

www.coldconfidence.com

(If you are interested in a Scream Session, it must be booked by the end of day Thursday for me to properly prepare.)

https://youtu.be/rRfOp9z8wqo?si=FrlWrZr1fyJwt6yy

Cold therapy has been one of my favorite practices for over two decades, from freezing bodies of water in nature to Russian spas and finally to homemade ice ...

01/06/2026

Not this weekend, but next... I'll be open for drop-in ice baths, contrast therapy or even a scream session (with at least 3 days notice).

If its contrast that you want, shoot me a message or visit coldconfidence.com to schedule!

01/02/2026

Happy New Year!

No ice bath today, we cold plunged with our community! Puget Sound Plungers

01/01/2026

Want to feel better? Take an ice bath/get into cold water.

It really is that simple.

12/10/2025

Intentional cold exposure is the quickest (nearly immediate) most passive healing modality that I had never heard of. I mean, yes, I had heard of ice baths for athletes but that was an extreme form of 'icing it' that held no appeal to me at all.

Now that I am thinking about it, neither did cold plunging. 🙃

But you simply:
get in,
sit down,
breathe... and wait for it!

Such a jump start for a great mood, for improved blood flow, for pain relief, for a lymphatic flush, and the very subtle but real beginning to mental and emotional resilience that I never saw coming and I hadn't heard or read a lot about.

But when you purposefully put yourself into a situation that triggers fight-or-flight in your body and you breathe calmly through it... you are smoothing over the hard-wired neuro- pathways that the stressed-out you created and repeated over and over- your small traumas... you are creating tens of thousands of new neuropathways from a place of meditative calm. You are literally re-programing your brain to remain calm. You are developing emotional regulation skills on a cellular level.

And, should you take up an intentional cold exposure practice... you will begin to notice it in your daily life. So will your people.

It is a pretty cool side benefit. It showed up for me around month three, I was plunging nearly daily. When did it show up for you?!

12/03/2025

I have been saying for years now that our bodies are our own personal pharmacies....that we only need to learn to access the medicine!

Cold, for me, has been the most powerful medicine... and teacher. Through cold i learned about the vagus nerve.

But, did you know it was my 2 years of studying circadian biology that brought me to the cold?
It is the reason that the Puget Sound Plungers started at sunrise, for the light exposure- to get the light code in my eyes, and that it is still my preference. In the sea, at sunrise, we get the medicine- we are grounding, we often sing... plus, trace minerals from the water, nature, and the magic that come from the 🌊 and community as well... dreamy- it is, in my opinion, the perfect 'health hack/health habit' that checks so many boxes!

I guide people privately at the beach, with breathwork before the plunge- humming at times and after-plunge practices and here- in my ice bath- I sing, hum, chant....all practices not new, simply forgotten to many (definitely not all)... and they are all powerful, all medicine!

I encourage you to breathe deeply every day, every hour-on the hour, and give your body what it craves! Sing, or hum MORE... whatever that looks like to you... and practice a relaxing breathwork pattern and some good old-fashion positive self-talk as you fall asleep (new research coming out of Harvard is pointing to just how important this is!)... because when your sleep is better, your life is better.

11/03/2025

We are our choices.

Every day, we’re given dozens of tiny opportunities
to pause, to breathe, to shift... to chose differently.

Those moments are where transformation begins.

The truth is, we don’t actually rise to our goals —
we fall to the level of our habits.

To be better, we must do better —
not harder, not faster, just more intentionally.

What’s one small choice today that future you will thank you for?

10/29/2025

Ponderings from the ice bath:

Do you know when you are happy?

How do you know? Is it a feeling? *Just* a feeling?

Is it a thought- "this is happy"?

Do you hit 'pause' and give it that acknowledgment?

Do you accept it without question, lean in and enjoy it- happiness?

Do you see it, voice it, and give thanks for it - sing its praises- in order to more clearly cement it into your brain?

Do you witness happiness in others and tell yourself stories that you won't ever have that? That it's not for you... it is for other people? Other kinds of people? *Happy* people??

Do you know that happiness is a choice? It chooses you, sometimes, that's true. And it may seem to choose some people more often or more easily ...

But what if that's not true? What if the other people, those people, are just excellent attractors, excellent at calling happiness in... good at choosing to be happy- regardless of what is, or is not, happening around them?