Like a gardener diligently showing up to water the soil, pull weeds and fence the garden bed from hungry critters, there's only so much I can do: provide proper conditions, nourish what is organizing, encourage the natural intelligence of the seedlings to take root, soften, and begin to open.

But the natural intelligence itself is the thing doing it.
I am just the gardener.

​In a culture that elevates doing, my deepening stance of being, and doing that emerges from being (as opposed to doing untethered from being), sometimes still triggers doubt.
Am I missing something?
(read: Am I not enough?)

The irony is that the more I sink my roots into being, the easier doing becomes. It flows, it reaches further. It lands. It calls situations into my life that resonate with the heart and soul work I am here for.
It is humbling and empowering both at once.

And so, as I go into four podcast interviews this week (not preparing, just arriving, as me), I hold the torch for you too, to sink your roots deeper, and let your branches reach higher, not straining, but ecstatically unfolding.
  
INVITATION into the Body & Soul Sanctuary:
Now is an optimum time to join us, as we are in a renewal phase of learning in the Sanctuary. It is FREE to inquire and to experience a discovery call with me, so please reach out in the Village or directly here with any inquiries about this. It's my intention to further your clarity of your heroine's journey, whether or not we end up working together long term.

A testimonial from Sheryl:

​The eve of our Spring Equinox ritual at the Body & Soul Sanctuary brought a fresh visitation of rain.
I stood at my altar in my office, having cleared it completely for a full reset, lit incense, and cracked the window to hear and smell the wet air...

Stepping beyond mere professional space-holding—while doing ritual in private—and into welcoming others into my sacred altar space has not been a small thing.
I have often felt like the Easter hare who is still half-bird, laying rainbow eggs while learning to scavenge, lope, and nibble grass on the ground. Integrating the part of me that is fully unfettered with the part that carries the weight of suffering has been a continuous journey. Sometimes it’s hard to know if it has been fruitful. Are the rainbow eggs doing anything other than sitting around, merely decorative?

Shedding skins of conditioning, questioning habits, beliefs, and ways of operating, and waking up to the unconscious ways culture promotes mis-truths, has been an uncovering both external and internal—and has heightened my desire to ensure that what I do here has substance, not mere decoration.

As I placed items on my altar anew last week, each thing vibrated, each thing lived in my hands. And when I planted each seed from our Village ritual and covered them with flower water, whole portals were activated. I actually believe that. Not just symbolically.

I think the reason it’s so hard to believe in magic these days is not because it’s not real, but because so much has become decorative. So much has become about reputation, performance, perception. The false allure covers over the true gold, but it doesn’t mean it’s not there.
I am feeling grief as I write this.

Magic isn’t feeling happy or successful every day. It’s knowing that everything is held in a field of Grace, and that it’s possible to traverse the full spectrum of experience and never be outside of Original Blessing. Once we know that, it’s possible to work with life—not to rescue it or be rescued by it, but to be present with it—while holding the memory of flight.

Many of the women I work with, and myself included, have wounds of codependency and feminine oppression we’ve had to heal. Part of coming awake is reclaiming our body wisdom and our connection with greater forces than the institutions that structure our modern culture—not because structures or institutions are “wrong,” but because they are designed to contain and create with those primordial energies, occasionally collapsing and reconstructing in more evolved ways, as informed by that mysterious soup—the beneficial “chaos” that makes renewal possible.

I’ll admit I often don’t know what I’m doing, even as I continue to sharpen my container so that my eggs come out fully formed and not as gooey messes all over the ground. But like all birds (and even birds-turned-hares) have the wisdom within to lay an egg, so too do we have the wisdom within to birth creations that restore magic to the land.

Stepping into creatorship sometimes threatens the forces that rely on our dependency to operate. But operating from mere individualism is lonely and antithetical to our nature. True interdependence, as I understand it, is a practice of leaning into a coherent field—a reliable and ordered universe that is benevolent in nature and wants us to flourish—while fully pursuing our authentic expression supported by that field. It is not anarchy, nor disempowered approval-seeking, but standing upon one’s feet like a sturdy tree: alert to our own sense of choice and our right to be fully ourselves, while connected to the web of existence in which we are nested, never losing our sense of being cradled, supported, and held—even as we fully inhabit our individuality, even our eccentricity.

My prayer this spring is that we all remember we are held by greater forces than the ones we are outgrowing, that we lean into that support and allow it to buoy us as we reach higher and further than we have before. That we allow our innate power to pulsate through our bodies as truest expression into the world—to shape it collectively, to regenerate the forest with the intelligence of the wise mycelium, the memory of renewal contained within the sprout, the tree-needle tip, the tiny bud. And may the process be ecstatic.
  
Below are two offerings for you:
First, a recent interview on the Functionally Enlightened podcast, in which I got to share message of hope and some supportive guidance for folks in the implant-injured and chronic illness community, which is one of my favorite interviews so far.

Second, a link to join the Body & Soul Village, where you can connect to learn about joining a container designed to support you in reconnecting with your innate magic to sustainably uplevel your life.

Now is an optimum time to join us, as we are in a renewal phase of learning in the Sanctuary. It is FREE to inquire and to experience a discovery call with me, so please reach out in the Village or directly here with any inquiries about this. It's my intention to further your clarity of your heroine's journey, whether or not we end up working together long term.

*A note on the interview:
Reparenting myself through the agony of degenerative autoimmune disease was a powerful initiation that ultimately freed me in many ways, but while it was happening, it felt like HELL. It was SO uncomfortable, confusing, disorienting, and unpredictable. And also, SOOO lonely. Because nobody I knew understood anything about what was going on. Getting to share messages of hope and practical guidance for folks struggling with similar challenges was very special for me. I was very grateful for the opportunity, and I hope it brings some ease to those in the midst of such an intense experience.

This morning I learned an Ostara/Spring Equinox story that felt like a beautiful example of my soul work, and the work we do in the Body & Soul Sanctuary.
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Apparently, the word "Easter" is tied to a Germanic goddess named Eostre who radiates warmth from within, much like the Greek goddess Demeter (mother of Persephone) who represents the verdancy of spring. Eostre is often followed by creatures, including birds, who are messengers of her radiance and joy, helping it spread to the far corners.

It is said that one of Eostre's birds became sick or injured and was too weak to fly, so she turned the bird into a hare, whose strong body was much more grounded and capable of spreading Eostre's messages upon the ground. This hare never lost her bird-like ability to lay eggs, magical rainbow eggs that she lay all over the earth, maintaining both the spiritual memory of flight but now also possessing the embodied strength of the earth, and becoming a living example of renewal.

For those of us who have touched the Mystery and recall the magic of flight and are now called to sustain that light in the tangible ways we create our lives here on the ground, this story is perfect for the exact moment of rebirth happening on Planet Earth.

Alchemy is not about denying the dark, the pain, the tension, the corruption, and the woundedness as it reveals itself. But it is about recognizing that revelation (seeing with clear eyes what is) lays the groundwork for transformation. For how can we transform what we do not see? But clear seeing without nature's miraculous power of renewal can lead to depression, overwhelm, powerlessness, and a need to go back into numbness.

When we bring clear seeing (the gift of discernment, not naivete) together with the gift of renewal (the gift of an open heart that has not lost faith), we get the perfect container for rebirth.

In the Body & Soul Sanctuary, we will be celebrating renewal through a journey on the Wheel of Regeneration, experiencing it somatically together, sharing in simple ritual, and welcoming new members into our intimate container of initiation.

How is your personal longing tied to collective liberation?

Where does your deepest pain show you the edge of the path your soul is called to walk in this life?

My experience is that when we have the courage to step into creatorship with our life and to transform the wounds caused by trauma and conditioning, destiny emerges through the cracks.

Right now, we are seeing lots of cracks in the collective structure. Regenerative medicine teaches us to tend the terrain. Cracks expose weakness, but seeing the points where the terrain is weak means we can better determine what's missing, and fill in the gaps with necessary nourishment.

​Sometimes revelation looks like shock, but the gift in it is clarity. We are not powerless to respond when we respond from the deepest place of our soul. I know this from being physically handicapped and unable to stop the shock that ravaged my health (physically, mentally and emotionally) when the vaccine tore through my terrain like bullets (literally, it felt like that).

When I look back on that experience with a mindset of curiosity and opportunity, I feel I've been given a dharmic task to extensively study and map the journey one embarks upon when healing the gap left between body and soul due to injury, trauma, or the harder-to-track, often-nebulous soul loss that quietly lingers in wider culture where generations previously got lost along the way and hadn't finished putting the pieces back together when we were born.

That journey I have mapped for you to the best of my ability in the Body & Soul Sanctuary, and I look forward to sharing a taste of it with you at our Spring Equinox ritual gathering next Wednesday March 25th at 9 AM PST, which is free to attend.

There was a moment I woke at 2 AM and stood out under the moon in shorts and a tank top, observing how the warm, salty air gave my body the just-right sensation to relax a level deeper.

And when I went for my first swim in the gentle waves, I approached the ocean slowly, listening for her cues, not rushing our reunion. She pulled me in with the endearing and delighted energy of a long-lost aunt taking me into her bosom, and as I bobbed and floated in her rolling waves I wept with unexpected release.

This is what happens when we stretch at the just-right-sized threshold, accumulating moment-to-moment readiness to step onto our new floor of learning. The growth is pleasurable, even blissful.

Despite the tests (stressful delayed flights that had me sprinting across the airport, a huge histamine flare after I ate food that had been seasoned with black pepper), life rose to meet me, celebrating my courage, and expanding the horizons of what's possible after a disabling neurodegenerative injury that collapsed my life to smaller than the size of a pinhole, for a while.

In the past few years, I entered that pinhole fully. I rocked the tiny me that was inside there for days. Until nothing mattered but the rocking of life back to life and the refusal to neglect protecting what demands respect within: the soul and her clear desire to live only according to what is good, true, and nourishing to me, and what nourishes my body, the garden bed from which my soul enacts her dharma.

And now this "garden bed" has legs that can walk up spiral staircases multiple times a day to her rooftop studio rental after traveling across hemispheres and changing time zones and 50 degree temperature shifts!

On my trip, I also got four full days of life and business masterminding with the lovely ladies of the Wellness Professionals Academy and Club Thrive. I chose to focus on integrating more and more the reality that I am not just a practitioner, but a founder, with all of the new qualities required to live in this new identity sustainably.

​On the last day in Punta Mita, we were blessed to get to ride alongside a baby whale with her mama, and her dad swimming protectively behind. The image above is of her turning to wave at us, playfully.

Delight is such a powerful activator.

And perhaps this is the gift of saying YES to the journey of being shocked awake on so many levels in the past few years. Once you choose to play along consciously, life gets to play with you, tickle you, and gently coax you out into deeper waters. And it can be friendly.

On that note, I invite you to join myself and the members of the Body & Soul Sanctuary for our Spring Equinox Ritual gathering, coming up in just two weeks!

Please pass this invitation along to any women in your life who are truly ready to step into a container that will support them in getting their "soul legs" activated. Women who are ready to reflect their radiance and be rooted into their own sovereign and natural power.

​Within the Sanctuary, women are supported to:

• Stabilize their nervous system at deeper and deeper levels
• Transmute and alchemize long-standing patterns and core wounds
• Integrate a more expanded version of themselves into everyday life
• Create tangible ways to express soul purpose in the world

I’m coming to you from the tender alchemy of a new identity, still raw and not yet fully formed.
I’ve been shedding a major pattern in my life: overcompensating, overperforming, overdoing. 

Lessons in letting go of this have been arriving strongly for some time, and I truly believe that my illness, the vaccine injury, and the near-death experience were the universe’s abrupt way of stopping me in my tracks.

Since then, I’ve come a long way in pausing, listening, and feeling my way into each next step. And this isn’t just about the visible, physical ways I’ve been overextending — it’s mostly about the emotional labor of overcompensating for the ways I wasn’t being met in life, in ways that no one could see. That labor was real, heavy, and often invisible, and it shaped so much of my experience.
And yet, each chapter still surprises me, lifting me toward the next level of realizing my dreams — and also bringing me face-to-face with the next revelation of the ways I’ve been overtaxing myself, overperforming, overdoing.

The answer is not collapse. It’s not giving up. The answer is to stand fully — as I teach my clients to do — in the honesty of the wound itself and to learn from it. For me right now, the emotion I’m sitting with is disappointment. Disappointment in the ways I’ve shown up with sincere passion and longing, only to find that environments, collaborations, or experiences weren’t able to meet me at the level of depth, intimacy, and soul resonance I crave.

This work of embodiment, of integrating soul and body, has been both liberating and humbling. We do not become transcendent and untouchable; our human needs become even more imminent. And our job as a soul is to believe we are worthy to tend to and receive them — not through control or mimicry, but by inhabiting and radiating a profound sense of deservingness from the inside out.

I’m about to step into a new level of expansion post-recovery: traveling internationally by myself for the first time since my illness. I’m calling on the strength and confidence of my younger self, who traveled with ease — but I know this is different. Then, I was living in functional freeze and unaware of certain needs and emotional processes I hadn’t yet attended to. Travel was part of what led to some of the gut issues that followed me from my twenties into my thirties, and likely the reason for developing a metabolic syndrome I had to learn to reverse.

Still, I cannot ignore this calling. Five planets, including my sun, sit in Sagittarius — and my soul insists on pilgrimage, on bringing my body and consciousness to faraway places for new experiences This is a deep, embodied calling I’ve worked hard to honor. This is me getting back on the horse in this powerful Year of the Horse to test the next level of my resilience.

This journey is a massive exercise in letting go of control, while fully inhabiting agency. I’ve learned there is a sweet spot: we must take full control of ourselves, our choices, our navigation through life — but, like the serenity prayer says, there is much we cannot control, especially in seasons of planetary chaos like the one we are navigating. The deepest wisdom lies in discerning the difference and in staying present while trusting a higher power.

On the other side of this travel will be the second round of Metamorphosis in the Body & Soul Sanctuary. I am eager to see how it unfolds. While I am confident in the quality and depth of the work I am offering, I’ve also been reflecting on the challenge of becoming visible to the women who are truly ready and helping them find their way into this container, women who, like myself, were leaning into places that couldn't fully reflect their radiance and buoy them upward into their own sovereign and natural power.

This year, we are focused specifically on women who are ready to:

• Stabilize their nervous system
• Transmute and alchemize long-standing patterns and core wounds
• Integrate a more expanded version of themselves into everyday life
• Build real-world structures to express soul purpose in the world
  
  

If you or someone you know is curious about this work, you are invited to our inaugural meeting for the second round of metamorphosis on March 25, the Spring Equinox — and it’s free to attend.

I was also recently featured in HANNA Magazine, sharing my thoughts on including the ego in the spiritual awakening journey. You can read the article here: Eyes of the Sacred
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Thank you for being part of this journey with me — for witnessing, supporting, and holding space for growth, curiosity, and embodiment. I am deeply grateful to share this work with you.

One of the most powerful principles from my training in trauma resolution training is this:

​We do not heal by reliving pain.
We heal by restoring pleasure where it was interrupted.

Conditioning, survival strategies, and chronic stress don’t just imprint fear into the nervous system — they interrupt our capacity to feel wholesome pleasure.
Not indulgence.
Not escape.
Not stimulation.

But the quiet, steady sense of rightness that comes from being connected to your own life force.
T
he warmth in your chest when something resonates.
The grounded satisfaction of moving at your own pace.
The subtle joy of feeling internally aligned.

When that kind of pleasure is stabilized, the nervous system reorganizes.
Capacity expands.
Desire clarifies.
Burnout softens.
And something deeper begins to grow.

In my work, I sometimes call this your dream seed — or soul seed. It's the intrinsic orientation within you that knows where you are meant to move. But seeds do not grow under pressure alone. They need fertile conditions.

They need the richness of healthy soil, the reliability of a solid garden bed, and a collaborative environment that supports this kind of pleasure to unfold...
That's why I created the Body & Soul Sanctuary.

The next round of Metamorphosis which kicks off at the Spring Equinox, is devoted to cultivating the inner conditions that allow your desire, authority, and embodied spirituality to root and rise.

If you are tired of pushing…
If you are ready to grow from alignment rather than survival…
If you sense that something in you wants to emerge, but needs the right soil…

I invite you to watch the video below to learn more about the upcoming season and our Spring Equinox gathering.
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Cultivate it in community with other awakening women.
Your pleasure is not a distraction from your path.
It may be the very doorway into it.
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As we move through the final stretch of the Year of the Wood Snake, many of us are feeling it: old patterns surfacing, structures wobbling, roles and relationships no longer able to stay ambiguous.

This is the part of the cycle where the snake shakes its tail — not to create chaos for its own sake, but to shed what can’t come forward.
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What I’m seeing, again and again, is this:

• excess falling away
• truths becoming harder to avoid
• nervous systems asking for honesty, not coping
• life paths narrowing toward what is actually sustainable
  
  

This isn’t failure. It’s refinement.

Before a year of action can arrive, the path has to clear. Before purpose can feel workable, it has to feel true. Before movement, there is discernment.

Inside the Body & Soul Sanctuary, the next cycle reflects this exact moment.

Beginning at the Spring Equinox, we’ll be entering a fresh and more elaborate phase, beginning a new cycle around the Wheel of Metamorphosis.

The Sanctuary experience is like an epic heroine's journey, where you get to take whatever you're working through in life into a professionally guided, sacred container, alongside an intimate community of other brave, healing, change-makers who are not just talking about, but enacting the reclamation of their full-bodied full-spirited wellbeing.
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This year, we will be not only tending and transforming the soil of our inner territory, but we'll also be simultaneously cultivating our outer dharma, so Sanctuary members will get support for projects and structures that want to be birthed into the world, to signify the new self as she emerges.

This phase is about embodied action, not self-improvement. About letting what is no longer essential fall away, so what remains has real weight and momentum.

David Whyte writes in Just Beyond Yourself:
“You are not here to be right.
You are here to be real.
And the real work begins
just beyond yourself.”

If you feel called to step into your next level life in a dedicated container along with a group of badass, humble, empowered women, now is an ideal time to connect and chat about enrollment.

Book a call with me here.

Or join the free community, where you can begin to learn about the work in your own time:

Body & Soul Village

Wherever you are today, however you are today, whoever you're with (or not with): I'm sending a wish for the just-right-size sense of being at peace within yourself within this life, even amidst the changes afoot.
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If you're curious to watch a recent podcast interview I did, check out my conversation with Earl James on the "Deal to Heal" podcast, on the theme "When Pain Shapes Identity--And How to Heal."