I am a recovering perfectionist, productivity chaser, and people pleaser, coaching women to disrupt old thought patterns, let go of behaviors that keep them stuck, and make their joy an everyday priority.
🍂 Fall is More Complex Than Pumpkin Spice Memes 🍂
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Guten Tag, Reader, “I am so glad summer is almost over and I can come back to my routines,” said one of my clients this week. “I never want summer to end. It feels so much freer than the other seasons,” lamented another. Some people find summer too hot; others consider its days too long. Some can’t wait for pumpkin spice everything; others are grieving the loss of daylight. Personally, I relate to all of these views. (Well, except the pumpkin spice and daylight obsessions.)
Summer means missing and dreading my routines.Whenever I got into somewhat of a morning routine these last three months – BOOM! Another river trip, visitor, getaway… And while I miss my regular hours and flows, it has been good not to be shackled to them. Whatever your feelings about summer and fall, the equinox is an invitation for discernment:
Nature is quite generous, giving us a full three months to transition between warm and cold, light and dark, yang and yin, expand and contract, grow and restore. Culture, on the other hand, hardly acknowledges the need for such a passage (unless there is money to be made, of course; see the pumpkin spice everything…). Culture has tried to erase specific seasonal needs and desires from our bodies. Would we crave more daylight if we weren’t expected to be equally productive in winter as in summer? Women, especially, have been socialized to ignore and undermine their animal bodies. That’s why the fall adventure of the Midlife Wilderness Expeditions will tune into the transition frequency of the body. We will explore what our bodies need and practice saying yes to those needs. We will sort through summer’s growth and be intentional about what we want to bring into the fall: habits, thoughts, emotions, projects, maybe even people… We will focus on getting the best nourishment from that harvest to build the energy reserves we need for winter. ​Registration is now open. Please feel free to email me with any questions or concerns. Or book an absolutely obligation-free meet-the-coach call. I will see you back here in two weeks. If you liked this letter, please forward it to a friend. Always on your side, truly, p.s. If you got something from today's letter, why not buy me a coffee? In real life, or you can leave me a tip here. p.p.s.: If you want more of me than a letter every other week, you might enjoy hanging out with me on social media: |
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I am a recovering perfectionist, productivity chaser, and people pleaser, coaching women to disrupt old thought patterns, let go of behaviors that keep them stuck, and make their joy an everyday priority.
Guten Tag, Reader, Packing for the wildHER Rogue River Adventure. I am glad it all has to fit into a 3.8 cu. ft. drybag: Sleeping bag, down pillow, hiking shoes, camp shoes, river pants, camp pants, long underwear, tank tops, wool hat, sun hat, journal, pens, book, pajamas, chargers, battery packs, toiletries, meds, fleece jacket, rain jacket, rain pants, cotton comfort clothes, costume for the last-night-on-the-river celebration. Oh, and the little stuffed ant eater that has travelled across...
Guten Tag, Reader, “Alright, you know what’s coming…” I say to my client, and a big grin appears on her face. She wasn’t always this keen on answering the question I ask at the beginning of every coaching session: “What are you celebrating about yourself? What have you been proud of since we last spoke?”* “My intuition and the fact that I followed it,” she says I won’t tell you what she intuited, but I will tell you that her intuition was right on point, and the results are positively...
Guten Tag, Reader, It’s an afternoon in August, and I just brought my writing outside. The unseasonable temperateness of the temperatures makes it possible. (Did you know that temperature used to be a synonym for mild weather?) There is a lot of unseasonable going on right now. I might even say an unreasonable amount of unseasonableness: The Halloween Decorations are coming out in the temples of capitalism and today (August 6!) I even saw a Thanksgiving display. Apparently, it's time to plan...