Dear Friends, I hope the start of this year has been gentle with you. Like many of you, I have felt surprised and at times overwhelmed by global events. Quite honestly, January felt like an entire year. For the more sensitive ones, it was a heavy month. Thank you to both returning friends and new…
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When Love Means Letting Go: Grieving a Pet and the Unnatural Goodbye
Dear Friend, If you are here, you may be grieving someone small but immeasurable. A companion whose love was uncomplicated, whose trust in you was complete. You may be holding the same ache I carry, the grief of losing a beloved animal, and the unthinkable weight of being the one who had to let them…
How to Handle Grief Over the Holidays
Dear Friends, It’s been a while since I’ve written here. This past year, I poured all of my energy into something intense and necessary. While working full time, I was also advocating for fairer conditions at work through my union. It was a long year of researching labor laws, showing up, speaking out, standing firm….
Twinklet Bear and the Day of Remembering
Twinklet Bear lives in a quiet little series of stories for the tender-hearted, the tired-hearted, and the ones who never got tucked in. This is one of them. It was a quiet morning in the Gentle Woods. Sunlight slipped through the trees like golden ribbons, and Twinklet Bear was just waking up in her little…
Are You Clairsentient?
Are you clairsentient? Sometimes known as “clear feeling,” clairsentience is the quiet gift of sensing energy, emotions, and truth beyond words. You might not always know how you know … you just do. Dear Friends, I believe that when we’re born, we arrive in our purest form, uncorrupted, untouched by shoulds and shouldn’ts. There’s a…
What My Saturn Return Taught Me About Leaving, Returning and Becoming Myself
Dear Friends, There’s a moment in every adult life when something cracks open… and nothing goes back to how it was. For me, that moment was my Saturn return. Astrologically, a Saturn return happens around age 29 to 31. This cycle repeats every 29 to 30 years. It marks the time when Saturn, the planet…
Grounding Crystals for the Hypervigilant and Sensitive
Dear Friends, One of the long-term effects of being an ACA or growing up in a dysfunctional or unpredictable home is something called hypervigilance. It means you’re always on alert, constantly scanning your surroundings, paying close attention to people’s moods, tone of voice, facial expressions, even their silences. You might not even realize you’re doing it….
How to Reset Your Energy After Feeling Triggered
Dear Friends, If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed for no clear reason, this post is here to help you gently reset. A word, a memory, a moment. For me, as an ACA, sometimes it’s not even a memory that triggers me. It might come from seeing something real and heartbreaking, seeing cruelty, reading about suffering or…
Feeling Triggered? A Letter to Your Inner Child
A Gentle Note : This letter is for those tender moments when you’re feeling triggered, shaken, or unsure. Let it meet you where you are. Dear Friends, This week something happened that really triggered me.I had to speak up, say something hard, say something true, to my psychological nemesis: that older, authoritative male figure ……
Chiron: The Greatest Wound, The Deepest Gift
Dear Friends, The stars have been here for billions of years silent, steady, watching everything unfold: our joy, our heartbreak, our healing, our longing. There’s something comforting in that… to know we are seen by something vast and timeless. Something that will remain long after we are gone. Every few years, I return to my…