Mom Wife Soul YOGA

09/03/2025

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🌱 Our Work in the Deep 🌱

Grief shows up in the body ~ in the weight of our chest, the heaviness in our shoulders, the ache in our bellies and our bones. It is a part of us; it is our own humanity. It is also here, in the body, where we mend it.

The body is where we discover our remedy. Through embodiment and connection, we create a healing balm ~ one that soothes not only the pain or sorrow within our own lives, but also the heartbreaks and catastrophes of the world around us.

Together, we can nurture growth in the soil of our souls. It is almost as if we create compost for new life, through tending to this soil in our practice, transforming even our deepest and darkest experiences into fertile ground for healing and renewal.

Through breath, presence, and gentle tending, we mend what feels broken and cultivate what longs to bloom. 🌸

✨ ✨ You are not alone. Wholeness waits within the body, and its medicine is received through your connection ~ to yourself, and to the greater body of community ~ and through your own willing remembrance. Our body is the sacred container for our lived experiences, and holy ground for limitless possibility and profound renewal. 🌱👣🌻

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08/27/2025

YES ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 This is the heart of my work in my personal life and in my professional life. ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 I have grown leagues as both a human and a mother by learning how to regulate, communicate, and work through disagreement or conflict with respect, regardless of age or relationship. It takes a willingness to learn, grow and expand beyond my own awareness and what I've known before. At the core of this is the belief that everyone in the room is equal, and that each person has the right to their feelings and their experience. And in that same spirit, I’ve learned that my voice matters too, that I can honor others while still standing firmly in my own truth and advocating for myself. ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

A great resource is a book called "Nonviolent Communication" which helps to identify feelings and needs and communicate them in a way that supports mutual acknowledgment and respect.

That doesn't always mean someone else can or will communicate in this way; which is where the emotional regulation comes in. Regardless of how another person responds, we must be aware of our own emotional response, and how we conduct ourselves in our personal interactions.

A lot of times this means giving up whose right or wrong and coming to a place of mutual regard and shared understanding.

Sometimes people won’t be willing to meet you there. When we are regulated, we can practice discernment and be willing to walk away if there is no room for improvement and respect, protecting our peace without closing our hearts.

Emotional regulation is not a final destination, but an ongoing practice. You can use every interaction as a means of practice. 💝

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08/26/2025

💜✨️💫💜

🌿✨ The Grief Movement ✨🌿

The Grief Movement already has the most followers because no one is immune to the human experience. We all experience grief.

No matter who you are, how much you have, or how beautiful your life may look… at some point, you will meet grief. Most of us already have grief we carry with us.

And here’s the truth: grief doesn’t separate us. It connects us.
It reminds us of our shared humanity. 💗

The remedy ~ is reconnection & rest. 🌙
Restoration brings relief, yes… but even more, it restores and re-members.

✨️ Rest brings us back together again.

It gathers back what was dismembered.
Body. Mind. Heart. Spirit.
It returns us to connection, to life, to our inner truth.

To remember who we really are as a whole human, reclaiming rest, celebrating bliss & honoring grief. 💫

✨️ What if rest became a way we remembered ourselves ~ together?

This is just the beginning.
I’ll soon be sharing simple weekly practices, gentle rituals, and monthly restorative spaces you can join from anywhere.

For now… I’d love to know, how does this land for you? 💫

08/21/2025

🌙 Heal-Thy Self Yoga: The Blissful Path & Holistic Wellness Retreats | Body & Soul Care ✨ Sacred Rest | Wholeness, Healing & Belonging ✨️💜

Grief is not something to outrun, avoid, deny, fix, or put away. It lives in our body, shaping our breath, our sensations, our very presence, and perception of the world. And because it lives in us, the way through is not escape ~ it is embodiment.

When we allow ourselves to rest, breathe, and move gently with what is here, grief softens its edges. Not gone, but met. Not solved, but companioned. In this presence, the body becomes both the vessel and the medicine, teaching us to live, to feel, to belong, in the here and now, as it is.

This is a holy act. An act of soulful activism ~ to rest, to feel, to stay present in a world that pushes us to numb and produce. This is a quiet revolution.

The Divine does not rush to erase or fix but abides ~ steady, spacious, ever-present. Holding all without judgment, just as it is.

When we, too, choose to stay, to hold space, to breathe with what arises, we step into that same sacred rhythm. To live this way is to remember that presence itself is prayer.

Through healing balms of restorative movement, soothing practices of regulation, rituals of reflection & intention, and the grounding presence of community, we find the pathways of respite and repair, for ourselves and each other, together.🌙

Together, we can offer ourselves a sacred rhythm of ritual, rest, renewal, and return. 🌸 And so we begin, step by step, breath by breath. 👣✨️

This is just the beginning.

In the seasons ahead, new offerings of rest, ritual, and community will open as invitations to journey deeper ~ together, in presence, in wholeness, in belonging, in shared love & inner harmony. 🌙💜✨️

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✨ Sacred Rest | Wholeness, Healing & Belonging ✨️💜

Grief is not something to outrun, avoid, deny, fix, or put away. It lives in our body, shaping our breath, our sensations, our very presence, and perception of the world. And because it lives in us, the way through is not escape ~ it is embodiment.

When we allow ourselves to rest, breathe, and move gently with what is here, grief softens its edges. Not gone, but met. Not solved, but companioned. In this presence, the body becomes both the vessel and the medicine, teaching us to live, to feel, to belong, in the here and now, as it is.

This is a holy act. An act of soulful activism ~ to rest, to feel, to stay present in a world that pushes us to numb and produce. This is a quiet revolution.

The Divine does not rush to erase or fix but abides ~ steady, spacious, ever-present. Holding all without judgment, just as it is.

When we, too, choose to stay, to hold space, to breathe with what arises, we step into that same sacred rhythm. To live this way is to remember that presence itself is prayer.

Through healing balms of restorative movement, soothing practices of regulation, rituals of reflection & intention, and the grounding presence of community, we find the pathways of respite and repair, for ourselves and each other, together.🌙

Together, we can offer ourselves a sacred rhythm of ritual, rest, renewal, and return. 🌸 And so we begin, step by step, breath by breath. 👣✨️

This is just the beginning.

In the seasons ahead, new offerings of rest, ritual, and community will open as invitations to journey deeper ~ together, in presence, in wholeness, in belonging, in shared love & inner harmony. 🌙💜✨️

08/20/2025

☀️🌻🦋

Grief is not the opposite of joy—it’s the soil of the soul that joy grows from. Grief is our teacher, a doorway, a companion shaping how joy and love take root in our lives.

This truth has been a profound guide for me and my work moving forward.

With each day bringing another news headline, conflict, disaster, or loss, the world feels heavy. Whether we realize it or not, we carry that weight inside us, not just daily stress, but deeper, older things written into our bodies and nervous systems.

Alongside the ordinary demands of home, family, and work, we carry personal grief, ancestral wounds, collective fear, and the ache of a world in transition. Some of what we carry is inherited, absorbed, or woven into us through culture.

For years, I tucked away my own trauma & grief behind my healing work. I told myself I didn’t have time to be in pain because I was here to share bliss and magic. But grief has its own medicine, its own wisdom—and there’s no denying its power.

Health and healing aren’t about bypassing the reality of pain. It's about making room for it. Letting it speak to us & through us —bringing us to our breaking points, and to our own becoming.

When we allow space for grief, we deepen and expand. We open.
We remember that joy and sorrow live in the same house.
That loss and love are inseparable.
That being human means holding the balance between it all.

This is The Grief Movement.

Not only a personal process, but a collective remembering.
A practice of coming home to our full selves.
A commitment to stop compartmentalizing and start integrating.

It’s not about wallowing, but about witnessing - with tenderness, with courage, with care.

When grief is honored, it becomes a doorway—
to depth, to connection, to aliveness, to each other. It unites us all.

This is the work.
This is the invitation.
This is the movement.

The Grief Movement is about remembering that grief and joy are not opposites, but partners. When we honor grief, we live more fully, love more deeply, and we rise from sorrow into authentic joy, not as an escape but through tending to the soil of our soul with love.

08/18/2025

☀️🦋🌻 : where everything about you belongs. This is the medicine. This is the revelation.
This is the transformation.
This is the balance we’re here to learn.
Heal-Thy Self Yoga: The Blissful Path & Holistic Wellness Retreats

✨ “...because life is beautiful. Life is blissful. And life is brutal.” ✨

For years, my work has centered around creating spaces for shared joy, presence, and the magic of connection to ourselves and the world around us.

But here’s the truth: life doesn’t just stand in the light.
It gives us the full spectrum of our human experience.
The beauty and the brutality.

A season of intense health challenges pulled me off course. It was a detour I hadn't chose or planned for, it stopped me in my tracks. And it demanded I turn inward in a way I never had before. Wells of grief came up to be seen and heard, to be included. It asked that I be witnessed in my own humanity.

Everything changed direction, and it all came rushing in. Grief. Trauma. Old losses. The things I hadn’t had the time or capacity to fully feel while I was moving through life, doing the work, staying in motion.

If we only make room for the light, we’re not telling the truth.
If we leave grief, loss, and pain at the door, we’re leaving people behind - including parts of ourselves.

All of us belongs in our practice, in our retreats, in the conversation. Grief belongs here with us, where we can move with it, feeling what it brings forward, revealing what needs care, attention, or deeper connection, & inviting us to stay open, even when it’s uncomfortable.

This is the shift I’ve made in my life and in my work: To hold space for all of it.
To stop separating healing from hurting.
To honor both joy and sorrow as equal parts of what it means to be human.

I’m not interested in pretending.
I’m interested in wholeness.
In authenticity, in truth.
In creating new spaces that can hold it all- with love, courage, and compassion.

Because real healing happens when we stop dividing light from shadow, joy from sorrow. It happens in the balance between them. When we hold everything with open hands and open hearts.

This is the medicine.
This is the revelation.
This is the transformation.
This is the balance we’re here to learn.

08/18/2025

💝💝💝

05/19/2025

Last week was crazy and brought us:
One trip. Two kids' colds. One pink eye.
An incident at school. A musical performance.
Multiple early-pick-up calls. An urgent Doctor visit. And today?! A field trip. (🥳)
One mom. One pair of legs and tired eyes.
And you guessed it! A partridge and a pear tree!

Mothers hold the whole world together. We do what needs to be done. Our love and devotion is sometimes all we have to keep us going!

But I ask myself: “What will you do with this one wild and precious life?!" I’m answering the call everyday, come what may! ☀️🌿👣❤️

05/15/2025

Nature is my resting place, a place of deep care, reverence, grace, and an extension of our Creator. I woke up today not feeling well, which these days is pretty often. I finally got my appt to go over my bloodwork and feel like I may finally have a light visible at the end of this dark and mysterious tunnel. But meanwhile, this is my light. Its all I have where nothing is asked of me. Just my presence is enough. A mutual affinity and appreciation. I am so grateful for the Earth's medicine and wisdom. God gave the natural world as our resource and to know our Creator through Creation, our refuge. It gives me everything when I have nothing left to give. 🌿🌳☀️👣🌾🌻🧘🏼‍♀️❤️ A place to rest and receive, and for that, I am so grateful. 🥹❤️