A place to pause

There comes a moment in a woman’s life when something inside whispers:
“This isn’t who I am.”
You’re here not because you’re lost or broken, but because the world you’ve been adapting to is too small for the woman you are.


WELCOME


In this Journal, you will find writings and reflections that trace the return to instinct, intuition, and soft power.
You don’t need to read everything.
Just follow what draws your attention and pause where your body tells you to.

This is where we begin.

A two-minute audio to orient you to what this Journal holds and how to move through it. There is no right way. Just your way.

You can enter the journal through different pathways. Start with the one that speaks most clearly to where you are now


IDENTITY & RECOGNITION

Writings for the moment when something inside you knows that the life you’ve adapted to no longer fits.
These pieces name the fracture-, not to fix you, but to let you be seen.

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THE BODY REMEMBERS

Reflections on the body as witness, ally, and source of truth.
Here, instinct and intuition are not metaphors, but living intelligence.

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RETURN &ORIENTATION

Writings on what becomes possible when you stop performing and start living from the body’s knowing.
This is not an arrival, it is an ongoing return.

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Wildish Nature II
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Wildish Nature II

A continuation of the previous essay titled Wildish Nature. This essay moves deeper into what happens after we lose contact with our instinctual nature: the hunger, the shame, the pretence, the slow slide toward addiction and self-abandonment. It is not light reading. But it is honest.

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Wildish Nature I
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Wildish Nature I

This is where the exploration began: an encounter with Clarissa Pinkola Estés and the concept of soul-fire. Here, I name the ways we are uprooted from our inner authority: the gilded carriage, the silencing elder, the slow forgetting of who we came here to be.

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