July 2025
Hello loves. As I sit in my favorite coffee shop on a sunny July Monday morning, catching up on the latest season of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, I finally feel like I am able to put words to page about how this year has been going. I think writing and sharing about my life has felt challenging over the last several months because how can I share the struggles in my life when they are nothing comparatively to the state of the world. The tragedies happening across the globe break my heart every single day and it feels ridiculously difficult to know what to do or how to help. I think the important thing I’ve tried to remember and what I want you to remember is that doing what you have the capacity to do in any given moment is the best possible way you will be able to support those in need. Now is not the time to police your activism or worry about if one way to help is “worth it”. Whatever you feel called to do, do it. Whether you have the time and energy to attend rallies or protests, lend your hand in volunteer groups, donate money or supplies, reach out to your government officials, or even just be a support system for your local community - any and all effort compounds to create massive change for the world. If you do feel inclined to donate money, I have included a few links below to donate to charities to help support those in need.
Okay - thank you for listening to me touch in on a very important piece of life right now (you can blame my Aquarius rising and Libra sun for wanting to bring justice to this imperfectly just world).
Back to open share of my life. I knew going into this year I was going to be given some curve balls. With Pluto taking it’s chokehold in my first house I was prepared for a deep rebirth of self over the next 18 years. I was mentally preparing for a “blowing up” of my identity. What I wasn’t prepared for was loss. January 11th, 2025 I embarked on a overnight woman’s retreat in Camp Colton, OR alone. I didn’t know a single person but I wanted to prove to myself that I could do something I was afraid of and come out of the experience better. It was a beautiful event full of sisterhood and connection that wrapped up on January 12th with an early morning tea ceremony which was so peaceful and powerful it brought me to tears. I drove home on a high, full of love, lightheartedness, ready to take on a whole new year, a whole new me. Little did I know that night I would find out my biological mother passed away that same day.
Brodee almost dying
Woo Woo
Eureka
Sedona
Rebranding
Leave from work
What I’ve learned and working on now