LifElevated Wellness

08/05/2025

08/01/2025

"To walk in nature is to witness a thousand miracles." —Mary Davis

08/01/2025

07/29/2025

🌱 Healing doesn’t always begin with words.
Root to Rise invites you on a gentle, guided journey of self-expression, grounding, and growth—designed especially for those navigating the layered impacts of family separation, identity fracture, and ancestral disconnection.

Guided by trauma-informed wellness coach Hope Sacher, this 12-week experience, inspired by The Artist’s Way, offers you space to:
🖌️ Create with intention through expressive art
🫁 Regulate with breath, movement, and body awareness
📖 Reflect and write from a deeper place
🌿 Reconnect with nature and your inner wisdom
🤲 Heal in community with others who truly understand

🗓️ Begins Sunday, September 21 | ⏰ 3 PM–5 PM ET
💻 Online — tender, brave, and supportive
🖍️ No art experience needed—just bring yourself
🧰 Simple supply list provided

💬 “This space isn’t about art—it’s about belonging to yourself again.”

📍 Space is limited. https://www.hiraethhopeandhealing.com/online-workshops Follow + to stay updated.

07/28/2025

Sharing my morning view..... Komorebi

Why Mindful Mornings Matter

How we start our morning sets the rhythm for our entire day. Those first few moments, before the emails, the noise, the “to-do” lists, are sacred. They’re a doorway. A chance to choose presence, rather than rushing into autopilot.

Mindful mornings are the foundation of holistic wellbeing, nourishing our mind, body, heart, and spirit. Just a few intentional practices, breathing deeply before getting out of bed, sipping warm tea/coffee in silence, stretching with the sunrise, journaling your thoughts or gratitude, can create a ripple effect that steadies you throughout the day.

When we start our day with conscious intention, we move through life more grounded, more aware, more connected.

"Small morning rituals = big shifts in your life."

So today, try this:

Pause.

Breathe.

Feel the ground beneath you.

Let your body wake up with kindness.

Set one gentle intention for your day.

You don’t need hours.
Just presence.
Just you.

What’s one mindful habit you love in the morning? Share below ⬇️

07/17/2025

As I sit in the quiet after another sacred retreat with Hiraeth Hope & Healing, my heart is overflowing with gratitude and awe.

To the beautiful souls who showed up with open hearts, to Erin Marie and Cindy Olson McQuay who so lovingly held the space, and to my fellow facilitators Eve, Janet Nordine and Stephanie, who brought such depth, compassion, and magic….thank you. Thank you for trusting the process, for sharing your stories, and for weaving truth into your tapestries, both literally and metaphorically. Thank you to Knitter's Knitch for donating all the yarn for our workshop sessions, we are beyond grateful for your generosity!!

This weekend, I wasn’t just a facilitator. I was also a participant …. a woman, an adoptee, someone who has known loss and longing, but who has also known the fierce beauty of healing. As you each began to “weave,” I felt my own threads pulling tight and loosening in new ways. Every knot, every color, every strand held meaning. I saw my story through new eyes, not as something broken, but as something beautiful becoming.

This journey, my journey, has not been linear. It has been woven with grief, resilience, disconnection, rediscovery, reconnection and grace. To stand beside others walking their own paths, and to witness the courage it takes to show up in your truth, is one of the greatest honors of my life.

To be invited back again and again to Hiraeth isn’t just about leading. It’s about belonging. And for someone whose story began with separation, that means more than words can say.

Here’s to the threads we’ve woven together. May they remind us we are never alone and that healing is not just possible, it’s sacred.

See you all at the next retreat!

With love,
Hope 💜💫

07/16/2025

Where Are the Men?

We get this question sometimes — and we ask it ourselves.

The truth is, we don’t see many men at our retreats.
Not because they aren’t impacted. Not because they don’t carry the loss.
But because they were never given permission to feel it.

Men are taught early on to be strong, to stay silent, to push through.
Grief, vulnerability, and identity loss? Those aren’t conversations most men are invited into — especially when it comes to forced separation, donor conception, or erased lineage.

But the pain lives in men, too.
Even if it’s buried. Even if it’s never been named.

If you’re a man who was silenced from your truth — who wonders where you come from, who questions the story you were told, who’s grieving something no one else can see — we want you to know:

You are welcome here.

You don’t have to perform strength in this space.
You don’t have to justify your silence.
You just have to come as you are.

We are holding space for you — fully, without judgment.
When you’re ready, we’ll be right here. https://www.hiraethhopeandhealing.com/