Karen Schachter

03/28/2026

The myth of “not enough”:

The “good” woman, the one who’s survived for years on crumbs in exchange for approval can never feel like “enough” for long, because real women need more than crumbs as sustenance.

Maybe you’re not meant to be “good” anymore, but instead, full of your own true self?

03/26/2026

If you dont want to watch the whole videos #, here are the takeaways:

1) You matter.
2) The call within you for expression/your desires matter
3) A part of you knows you are talented/brilliant/worthy - it’s the part that wants more & is frustrated - start remembering her

It’s vulnerable to let your longings AND your self matter. It opens you up way more than minimizing, shrinking, hiding & cynicism do.

But you can be vulnerable because…what else are we doing here if not to walk that edge where the big breath of aliveness lives?
❤️

03/25/2026

Aliveness, eros, life force gets activated when we walk on the edge between desire and fear.
Reading my non-edited writing scares me, but im here for that.

Also, you get to do whatever the f feels good to you even if you held yourself back yesterday.

You get to be whoever you want to be in this moment, today. Consistency is so very overrated. It’s aliveness & vitality we’re seeking, yes?

You are not who you were yesterday nor who you get to be tomorrow 🥰

03/24/2026

What if the fear of “wanting too much” and “being too much” is a lie?

What if all that inner restlessness, the anxiety, the secret fear of “wait, is this all there is?” isnt the problem but instead a doorway to your deepest wisdom, your inner creatrix begging for expression?

What if it was never about wanting too much but being willing to settle for “not enough”?

I spent years labeling my hunger for more as “selfish.” Thinking i was wrong; trying to fit into what was “acceptable to want.”

Once I started listening, life got way more juicy & paradoxically, everyone around me got way more of me. (A fully alive woman is pretty much the least selfish version around).

You can not deny the pulse of your life force for too long without paying a pretty high price.

So tell me: What do you want that you’ve been calling “unrealistic”?

03/23/2026

“You’re still pretty for your age.”
Ohhhhh geeee thank you for that “validation”, random internet dude.

Thank you for letting me know that I still meet your standards. That you’ve deemed me acceptable in a culture that worships smooth skin & perpetual youth.

Guess what tho?
I am a woman who is done seeking approval that comes thru the lens of a culture that fears (older ie uncontrollable) women.

I no longer shrink myself into anyone else’s vision of what a woman should be.

Ahhhh…the audacity to think we need your permission to exist beautifully - at any age 😍

03/21/2026

Here’s why I ❤️ the jungle:

🌺She does not tell me that I need to be neat & organized & new & perfectly curated to be beautiful.

She says instead:

🦋You can be anything.
At any moment, you can change direction in service of what’s most alive.

☀️Your radiance lies not in curating your truth for others’ consumption but letting it be who it is.

🌴And there’s room for all of us:
the jungle rejexts conformity & embraces uniqueness.

💫Her capacity for growth is endless. (Like yours)

💃🏼What others call chaos is simply their fear of the wild, the unkempt creative woman whose desires & needs are not controllable; whose embodied vitality cause them to question what they’re tolerating in the name of “acceptable.”💃🏼

Costa Rica retreats are finally back after a long hiatus. It’s where visionaries come to deepen their remembrance & create the architecture that serves the vision rather than cut the beautiful wild vision down to fit a world that asks for sameness & bores the F out of them.

Stay connected or dm if you want to know more.

03/17/2026

To create the changes we want, we must be willing to do the things we havent yet done…

To step into the unknown & source safety from within instead of from comfort-zone sameness.

Retreats are powerful because you are literally leaving your “sameness” behind and, with powerful guidance, stepping into the new.

And different than a vacation, retreats like mine carry deep intention; powerful emotional & energetic holding; and deeply sourced wisdom & practices that guide you to quite literally experience yourself anew.

The world is on fire.
There’s never been a more important time to claim your own aliveness; to resource your own body & heart; and to follow the path your soul came here to experience.

Early-bird $6500 for 10-day all-inclusive experience + some juicy bonuses for my hell-yessers!
❤️

03/12/2026

Two weeks ago, I had the privilege of leading a women’s retreat to Peru.

For 7 days, the sacred lands held our hands as we cried, laughed, dreamed, and found our way home to our deepest selves - body, heart and soul.

Glennon Doyle says we should be outraged instead of meditating and retreating.
I couldn’t disagree more (definitely not the first time I disagree with her).
Women have been outraged for a long time.
Outrage gives you quick hits of being wronged; not real power.
Outrage keeps you feeling a pretend sense of righteousness.
Outrage perpetuates a system you say you hate; it will never ever transform it.

It’s time to collectively alchemize our rage, our grief, our deepest intuition into true power.
It’s time to retreat with other women. To remember. To witness and be witnessed.

To cultivate the world we want to live in by being the women who can actually vision it, birth it and hold it.

I’m taking a group back to Peru next April. This time for 10 days.
Sacred Valley. Sacred sisterhood. Soul remembrance. Life-changing (no lie).

If you want more info, shoot me a DM. I am working on an info page, but right now, meeting with people who are interested.

12/26/2025

12/22/2025

Recent world events have, at times, broken my heart and flattened my spirit; but I refuse to live in fear and despair.

Truth is, I’m a master alchemizer (meaning, I know how to turn a pile of s**t into compost and grow something meaningful).

I’m in deep commitment to live my life nothing short of “all in.”

Lit up, turned on and alive…and frankly, to stop fcking around with anything that’s not a
FULL YES to what TRULY wants to live through me and be received by me.

And I want you to join me.

The world is in desperate need of more light.
Let’s be it, shall we?

🔥10 Days of F💥CK-YESSS!!! Begins Jan 1.

Let’s ride the year of the horse straight into the sunset shall we?

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12/10/2025

I’ve been working on allowing my outsides to match my insides.
To be a clear reflection of what I know, who I am, how I think, what the Universe/God/the Divine intended for me.

It’s not small, it’s not a shriveled up deflated balloon with all the air seeped out of her.
Nor is it ultra-large, wildly famous, a need for a number of followers or fans or endless pats on the back either.

I want it to be honest though.
Too small is as “ego-driven” as too big.
Holding back, a diminishment of the divine, as much as pumping oneself up.

One thing I am sure of though is this: We don’t get smaller with age.
We may get invisible to the powers that be, guided to chase miracle potions, to grasp again on a pretty shell that promises validation and acceptance; but the truth is:

The light is brighter in me now; the flame more steady; the knowing rooted deeply; the center within myself, unmovable.

It is not defiance that says: I WILL NOT SHRINK WITH AGE.

It is simply truth.

It is a listening to the whisper, now sometimes a roar, that declares simply: Speak. Lead. Create. Play. Guide.
Be the woman who takes up her right-sized space.
Be a permission slip to other who don’t believe its ok.

I feel my cells listening, my fascia shifting to honor this deepened knowing; my skin shedding yet another layer, the lines in my face like the concentric circles of a tree trunk, identifying her growth, wider, deeper, more holy with each passing year.

11/24/2025

It’S THE ERA OF AGELESS EROS 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

When i look at this photo (a selfie taken 3 weeks ago on a retreat, waiting for the sunrise at the edge of the world), I see:

💕 The natural skin of an almost-60 year old woman whose been generous with the sun and steered clear of botox but spends a loooot on good facial oils, hair, and natural witchy concoctions

💕 The playful eye-twinkle of a child, maybe 8 years old, before she learned what “good girls” do & don’t

💕 The teenage-rebel dying to get into some good trouble with her bffs

💕The 43 years old whose embodied desire woke up & has been 🔥 most days since

💕 And my inner 80 years old who - having seen a lot - stayed awake & alchemized it all into wisdom.

As i look ahead towards my 60th (in human years 😳) in 5 months, i do not intend to age gracefully. I do not intend to act-my-age (wtf is that anyway???); nor do i intend to slow down, dry up or wear “age-appropriate “ clothing.

Every day I will be a new age…an exploration of new possibilities…a greater turn on & up of my juice…and a full-throttle aliveness.

Where are my other ageless women?
Where are my other women who want eros to be your guide rather than an external dictate of “shoulds?”

Let’s GO. 🥰🔥💕❤️🥳