From the Forest
Stories and science from the space between — fascia and plants, the body’s quiet wisdom, and why returning to ourselves matters now more than ever.
These are notes from the path: ethnobotany, awareness, and the slow work of coming home to our own skin.
Systems Coaching is open: the work behind the work
I have been quietly building the backend of every business I have run. It has a name now, and you can hire it.
The Other Half of the Ledger: what my overgiving cost my husband
Martyrdom does not only cost the woman doing it. There is a second person in the room, and they learn to stop asking too. The research on over and under functioning explains twenty eight years.
Unmask the Martyr: this is the work I was meant to do
The mask of the woman who never asks for anything gets praised out loud, which is exactly why nobody notices what it costs. It reaches into ten areas of a woman’s life, and in January I am teaching it.
How Martyrdom Keeps Women Small
Self-sacrifice can look like virtue. For a lot of women it works as a survival strategy, and it quietly costs us our voice, our bodies, and any sense that we are worth keeping without earning it.
From the Den — One Year of the Den
Quarterly notes from the Aware Wolf community: one year of the Den, plus pieces from Sheristen McCullah, Claire D’Gaia RN, and Terra Shepherd.
Lessons and Observations of a Green Witch
by Terra Shepherd As we cross the solstice threshold and move from Spring to Summer, I like to reflect on what I learned and observed