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Below are a number of previous sharings and reflections. Sign up to receive future letters directly to your inbox.
Below are a number of previous sharings and reflections. Sign up to receive future letters directly to your inbox.
I Released A Song This Summer … What Happens When You Say Yes to Your Voice
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For as long as I can remember, songs have been arriving with lyrics, harmonies, melodies whispered in quiet moments. But in the busyness of life and leadership, I have often pushed them aside.
This summer, I said yes. An invitation came to write a song and collaborate on a ...
Sep 05, 2025
ancestry
burnout
female leadership
find your voice
grief
leadership coaching
podcast
resilience
success
women's empowerment
If you have a moment to listen...
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I was recently featured on Nikki Trott's award-winning Going Conscious podcast, where we had a powerful conversation about leadership, transformation, grief and the journey that led to creating the Isumataq Collective.Â
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My journey from Goldma...
Aug 08, 2025
ancestry
female leadership
grief
leadership coaching
podcast
resilience
success
women's empowerment
Permission to Pause: A Summer Reflection
There’s a particular moment in the summer, somewhere after the solstice in June, when the sun’s power feels both restorative and relentless. Its light nourishes, yes, but it also reveals the ways in which we might be running too hot, spinning too fast, circling too many suns at once.
Everywhere I...
Jul 18, 2025
burnout
self-care
transformation
The Grief You Haven’t Given Words to - Ways to Tend to What’s Been Lost
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Grief doesn't always arrive loudly.
Sometimes it walks beside us quietly, unspoken, unrecognised, even unnamed.
It may look like the death of someone we love.
The conversations we never got to have.
But it may also live in the loss of a role that once defined us.
The version of ourselves t...
Jul 16, 2025
coaching shorts
grief
We can be…For they existed
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I love this poem because it calls us back, it reminds us that grief is not only sorrow; it is testimony. It marks that something mattered. That someone mattered.
Grief is not a single event. It ripples. One loss stirs up others, personal, ancestral, communal. It sends tremors through the b...
Jul 16, 2025
coaching shorts
grief
poetry
Resilience Can Be Remembered: A Gentle Invitation to Begin
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This week, I had planned to share our Finding Resilience Coaching Short with you, but before I do, I want to speak to what has been most alive in me these past few days: the quiet, sacred act of being witnessed.
I have found unexpected healing in allowing myself to be deeply h...
Jul 16, 2025
ancestry
coaching shorts
resilience
This Happened to Me!
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I realise that I still need to give space to the topic of last week's letter and to be with my Eloise. I notice the pressure I feel to write this week, to share something new and insightful, and yet I can't summon anything else forth, until I have given this grief, however old, its rightfu...
Jul 16, 2025
coaching shorts
grief
She Would Have Been 14: On Éloïse, Grief and the Great Waters of Annecy
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This week I have been in mourning, more so than I had anticipated after all this time, and yet it is fitting, given the topic of grief, which we will gather around next month in our second Coaching Short. After nearly 15 years of speaking relatively little about this immense experience, I ...
Jul 16, 2025
coaching shorts
grief
The Forces That Guide Us…
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I had the pleasure of speaking with Matthew Green on Resonant World recently, and I'm so grateful for the space that we shared.
Among many things, we explored the topic of ancestry, something that feels especially alive for me as it was the focus of our first Coaching Short, Finding Resili...
Jul 16, 2025
ancestry
coaching shorts
interview
Meet The Inaugural Cohort Looking at The Power of Ancestral Resilience & Find Out How You Can Do This Course
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Wow! This is our inaugural cohort who gathered for our first live session to examine resilience through a regenerative and ancestral lens. These are some of the 44 women who that heard that call. I've included a few testimonials below...
 I was blown away by the deep sharing and incredibl...
Jul 16, 2025
ancestry
coaching shorts
community
self-development
sisterhood
transformation
A Nod from the Ancestors - Resilience and Our Pathways to Healing
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Just over a decade ago, my mother died two months before my daughter was born. It was a profound threshold. I was grieving in the late stages of pregnancy and of course, despite trying to move on for my new baby, this continued while nursing a newborn. Everyday I walked the tightrope of u...
Jul 16, 2025
ancestry
grief
resilience
self-development
transformation
Oh To Be a Woman...
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I have checked and I have full permission to share this moment with you. A dear friend of mine's daughter turned 13 this week. Izzy, her mother had asked her adult female friends who have known her daughter for much of her life, to write a prayer, wise words or wishes, which she would add ...
Jul 16, 2025
rites of passage
sisterhood
womankind