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Discover What Your Soul Really Wants - a Tincture
I've been taking in enough hard news lately that I started asking myself a hard question - does work like this even matter right now?! Here's where I landed, plus what's actually inside the workbook.
Five Tarot Spreads for Women in Midlife Transition
Midlife has a way of placing certain thresholds in front of you whether you asked for it or not. These five tarot spreads were built for exactly those moments - find the one that names where you are right now, and begin.
Your Soul Has Been Leaving a Trail. The Good Girl Keeps Explaining It Away.
She's been running the show so long you've stopped noticing. The Good Girl knows exactly what's reasonable to want. She has no idea what you actually want.
The Exhaustion That Sleep Doesn't Fix
I've been exhausted. Not the kind that sleep fixes. The kind that means something needs to change.
When You've Forgotten What You Actually Want
You're not broken. You're not ungrateful. You're not asking too much. You're just a person who has gone long enough without asking yourself the one question that changes everything: what do I actually want?
When Your Soul Gets Loud Enough to Hear
There's a particular kind of knowing that lives in the body before it reaches the mind. You feel it as a low-level hum of wrongness - a tiredness that sleep doesn't touch. If that sounds familiar, you are not broken. You are paying attention.
When You've Drifted From Your Own Life (And How to Find Your Way Back)
It wasn’t a dramatic betrayal of yourself. You just kept doing what you were supposed to do. Then one day you looked up, and the distance was very real.
The Downhill Slope Feels Like Freedom
I ran out of zink paper before I'd made a dent. That's when I knew something had shifted.
The Cost of Not Settling. (I'm Glad I Didn't Know.)
There are some projects you would never start if you knew exactly what they would take. This isn’t a cautionary tale. It’s the portal.
What I Mean When I Say Reconnect with What Feels Alive (And What It's Not)
I was sitting on the couch, lost in a book, fresh off my first attempt at homemade ice cream. And I realized I was happy. And then I got scared. Here's what that moment taught me - and what it has to do with everything I'm building at the Apothecary right now.
Soul Breadcrumbs: What They Are and How to Follow Them
Your soul has been leaving you a trail. Not a dramatic one. Just small, specific things - a scent that stops you cold, a morning that feels like a gift, a want you've been apologizing for. This is what following them can look like.
What Does It Mean to Feel Alive?
We talk about feeling alive like it's dramatic. It isn't. Here's the quiet, unglamorous truth about what disconnection looks like - and what it actually takes to return.
Home as Body as Soul
There's a space in my home I'd stopped seeing.
That happens, doesn't it? The places we pass through every day become invisible. We stop arriving in them. We just move through.
The Difference Between Busy and Alive
Last Thursday, my honey went into the office for a bit and I had the house to myself. I had a plan but the energy pulled me somewhere else.
There Was a Reason You Stopped
Something shifted last week. You may have felt it - or you may not have noticed yet, because that's how it usually goes. The thaw is often softer than the freeze. Mercury went direct on March 20.
The Year of Inhabiting This Life (An Unexpected Update)
February's theme was always going to be Inhabiting This Body. Then the back and leg pain showed up - and made me more determined, not less.
What are ‘Life Winks’?
Life Winks are the synchronicities that stop you mid-breath and make you wonder if something bigger is paying attention. It is. Here's how to recognize them.
No, Thinking About Death Isn't Morbid - Here's What It Actually Is
If the idea of thinking about your own death makes you want to immediately think about something else - this post is for you.
How I Actually Engage Mortality Awareness in Ordinary Life (And What It Has Me Doing)
Mortality awareness sounds meaningful in theory. Here's what it actually looks like on a regular day - and what it has me doing.
What Thinking About Death Actually Does for You (It's Not What You Think)
Thinking about death sounds like the last thing that would help you get clear on what matters. Here's why it might be the only thing that does.