Hello everyone! I'm still buzzing from our conversation with death doula and NYTimes Bestselling Author Alua Arthur last week in the Elevate with the Collective Speaker Series. If you missed seeing her live, you can still sign up to receive the replay when it is released later this week. It was an amazing evening. COMING UP: "What is happening?!?!" is at the end of the month. This is an intro to this time in women's lives when we're either entering perimenopause (It starts earlier than you...
7 months ago • 2 min read
The first time I heard Alua say "thank you so much for giving me a minute of your life to think about the end of it" my life changed. We all have those moments, right? Those moments in our lives that change our path, nudge us a different way, allow us to see from a new perspective. Hearing her was one of those moments for me. I don't exactly remember how I found Alua. I do know that it was on Instagram and it was years ago, somewhere in that pandemic altered state we were all in. Remember...
7 months ago • 1 min read
We are excited to welcome Alua Arthur, death doula and NY Times Bestselling Author of Briefly Perfectly Human to the Elevate with the Collective community. Alua is the founder of Going with Grace, created to relieve the burden of dying without proper end of life support. Alua and her team support people as they answer the question "What must I do to be at peace with myself so that I may live presently and die gracefully?" and support family members through and beyond their loved one's death....
8 months ago • 1 min read
I sent a message earlier this week asking if you were "Ready to get your trance on?" Are you? Have you been feeling stuck? Maybe you're feeling overwhelmed that the year is half over already? Or are you someone who is thinking something like 'wow a lot has happened so far this year!' All are welcome at next week's community trance so we can REFLECT on our journeys over the past six months. And if you're up for it, take some time to vision what the next six months will bring. I'll guide the...
10 months ago • 1 min read
Georgia and I, we go way back. This quote, what she says here, is one of the reasons I love her and her work. “The cliffs over there. You look at it and it's almost painted for you, you think. Until you try. I tried to paint what I saw. I thought someone could tell me how to paint a landscape, but I never found that person. I had to just settle down and try." She continued during the interview: "I thought somebody could tell me how, but I found nobody could. They could tell you how they...
12 months ago • 1 min read
Hello! Welcome to all of the new subscribers who joined me via the Elevate with the Collective Speaker Series with Jennifer Chesak.Down below, I give information on how to only receive notifications about any upcoming speaker series events, but I hope you’ll stay with me so we can learn more about each other! If you’re new here, or maybe you’ve been on my list for a while but haven’t worked directly with me yet, I’d love to share more about who I am and what I do. I’m in my middle essence....
about 1 year ago • 5 min read
Earth Medicine: What is possible? If you had asked me five years ago if I would be feeling as great as I am today, I would have laughed. That laugh would probably have been tinged with a bit of hysteria. Disbelief. A thought of 'are you f*cking kidding me?' I was: Stressed out. Overworked. Not just at work, but everywhere.Juggling work and home and a kid and an elderly dog and an aging feral cat and a husband. Oh, yeah and business travel six - eight times a year. Traveling was great, but...
about 1 year ago • 2 min read
Earth Medicine: 5 Week Self Care Journey TL;DR: Earth Medicine starts April 9; 5 weeks of community exploring self care and earth medicines; bonus integration circle and individual sessions with Alex & Kyona included. Use 15%OFF for a discount for speaker series attendees. Eleven years ago, I watched this sunset. My husband and I used to walk with our toddler almost every evening at Gas Works Park. If the clouds were agreeable, we'd get a sunset like this one.A lot has changed in eleven...
about 1 year ago • 1 min read
It's here! The launch of our Elevate with the Collective Series kicks off this Thursday at 5:00 pm PDT. Our first speaker is Jennifer Chesak, author of The Psilocybin Handbook for Women. I have my own healing journey with psilocybin. I'll be sharing more about that in a blog post next week. To share some of my journey with earth medicines feels very vulnerable. I also recognize that if I don't share my story, then how will earth medicines ever become normalized? These are plants. They grow in...
about 1 year ago • 1 min read