As 2022 draws to a close, I pause with immense gratitude for you.

This year has been one of deep conversations and breakthroughs. Intense and uncomfortable learning experiences. Finding meaning through grief. Continued trauma recovery personally and professionally. Excitement as I look at the present and into the future.

I have been learning and growing right along with you. Your presence in my life has been a huge part of that.

I want to take this time to thank you for being in my life. You have placed your trust, time, energy, and money with me, and I do not take that for granted. You bring a ton of light into my life.

Man, I love my job. I don’t love all that we have collectively been through when it comes to trauma and grief, sure, but I love our time and work together.

Healing happens in community.

Wishing you a peaceful and restorative holiday season.

As Promised, a Winter Blessing

“The winter solstice time is no longer celebrated as it once was, with the understanding that this is a period of descent and rest, of going within our homes, within ourselves and taking in all that we have been through, all that has passed in this full year which is coming to a close… like nature and the animal kingdom around us, this time of hibernation is so necessary for our tired limbs, our burdened minds.
Our modern culture teaches avoidance at a max at this time; alcohol, lights, shopping, overworking, over spending, comfort food and consumerism.

…and yet the natural tug to go inwards as nearly all creatures are doing is strong and the weather so bitter that people are left feeling that winter is hard, because for those of us without burning fires and big festive families, it can be lonely and isolating. Whereas in actual fact winter is kind, she points us in her quiet soft way towards our inner self, towards this annual time of peace and reflection, embracing the darkness and forgiving, accepting and loving, embracing goodbye the past year.

Winter takes away the distractions, the buzz, and presents us with the perfect time to rest and withdraw into a womb like love, bringing fire & light to our hearth.

.. and then, just around the corner the new year will begin again, and like a seed planted deep in the earth, we will all rise with renewed energy once again to dance in the sunlight.”

–Brigit Anna McNeill

With love,
Kelly