Embodied Living, LLC

💌 An invitation is waiting for you.

What initial began as a fun, creative way for me to stay connected with those following the Embodied Living journey has quickly evolved into something so much more meaningful!

I've realized this is more than another newsletter to skim through.

These monthly notes are thoughtfully crafted to welcome a pause in your day. As an opportunity to reflect on nature's seasons, and how our own lives may mirror these natural cycles.

As permission to slow down, and look inward. To take 5 minutes and reconnect with your body in a way maybe you've forgotten was possible, or perhaps discovering for the first time.

A reminder that there is whimsy and magic all around us, if we slow down long enough to look.

Because of this, these monthly notes are becoming the Embodied Letter. A monthly letter sent to your inbox filled with seasonal reflections inspired by nature, guided somatic practices, creative rituals, moments of whimsy, and early invitations to upcoming Joy Seeker gatherings and retreats.

As a member of the Embodied Living Community, you'll not only receive a monthly Embodied Letter, but also have exclusive access to the Embodied Living Library. A ever-growing collection of guided practices, somatic movements, mindful meditations, and creative rituals. Starting now, a recorded guided practice from each Embodied Letter will be available in the library for us to practice together.

If you're a woman ready to deepen your connection to yourself, others, and the natural world around you for a more present and joyful life, you're in the right place!

When you join the Embodied Living Community, you'll receive my welcome gift to you, The 5-Day Somatic Reset for Overwhelmed Nervous Systems: a gentle guide to support you in moving from survival to presence with simple, trauma-informed practices .

Your invitation is waiting.

🌿Follow the link to join us: https://discoverembodiedcollective.com/5-day-somatic-reset

Registration for Soft Summer Reset is now closed. 🌿

Thank you to everyone who has followed along, shared the retreat, and encouraged this dream over the past few months. It has meant so much to me!

If you'd like to be the first to hear about future Joy Seekers gatherings, retreats, and workshops, I'd love to stay connected.

Join the newsletter and receive your free 5 Day Somatic Reset for Overwhelmed Nervous Systems here: https://discoverembodiedcollective.com/5-day-somatic-reset 🤍

Joy is our birthright.

The Joy Seeker Collective is not a yoga class. It is not a workshop. It is not a networking event.

It is a community of women who have decided that joy is worth seeking on purpose, even in the middle of hard seasons. Especially then.

We come together through movement and creativity because these are the languages the body understands before the mind catches up. When we make something with our hands, we bypass the part of us that is always evaluating and performing. When we move together with care and intention, something in the nervous system begins to remember that it is safe to be present.

The magic and whimsy that Joy Seekers is built around are not decorative. They are healing. Play reconnects us to aliveness. Wonder interrupts rumination. Creativity reminds us that we are more than our symptoms, our schedules, and our survival responses.

If you have been looking for a community where you can stop pretending you have it all together, this is it.

Our next gathering is the Soft Summer Reset: A Joy Seeker Day Retreat on August 15th in Gulf Breeze, Florida. Limited spots available.

What is one thing that feels genuinely magical to you, even now? ✨

The Soft Summer Reset: A Joy Seeker Day Retreat was built around one question: what does it feel like to spend a whole day being fully, unapologetically yourself?

Not the version of you that manages and achieves and holds it together. The version that plays without purpose, rests without guilt, creates without judgment, and moves in ways that feel good rather than correct.

Your day unfolds this way: morning vinyasa yoga to gently wake your body. Afternoon restorative yoga to let it soften. Free time in where the only rule is there are no rules. A fire ritual for releasing what no longer belongs to you. Massages, açai bowls, and open time beside the water. A powerful Authenticity Workshop to guide you back to yourself.

Everything is invitational. You are always in choice. The space is trauma-informed and intentionally small, because the kind of work that happens here requires safety and intimacy.

You will leave with a quieter nervous system, a fuller sense of who you actually are, and tools to help you return to yourself when the world makes it hard.

Limited spots remain for August 15th!

What would a day of being fully yourself actually look like for you? 💛

Your body knows what it feels like to hold it all together.

The braced jaw. The lifted shoulders. The breath that never quite reaches your belly. The tightness in your chest that has become so familiar you have stopped noticing it.

Holding it all together is not just a mental experience. It lives in the tissue, in the fascia, in the patterns your nervous system has rehearsed so many times they run on autopilot.

One of the most healing things you can do is learn to put it down.

Try this: take a slow breath in and, on the exhale, consciously soften the muscles around your eyes. Then your jaw. Then let your shoulders drop just a little. Notice what that feels like. Notice if there is any resistance. Notice if any part of you believes it is not safe to release.

That noticing is the practice. Somatic healing is not about forcing your body to relax. It is about building a relationship with what is already there.

This is the kind of work we do together at Embodied Living, and it is woven through every moment of the Soft Summer Reset on August 15th in Gulf Breeze, Florida.

Where in your body do you notice you carry the most tension right now? ✨

The Joy Seeker Collective was born from a belief that joy is not a luxury. It is medicine.

For women who have spent years in survival mode, managing chronic pain, anxiety, or the quiet numbness of holding everything together, joy can feel impossibly far away. Like something other people get to have.

But joy is not frivolous. It is not something you earn after the hard work is done. It is one of the most powerful antidotes to pain and disconnection that exists. When we allow ourselves to play, to create, to laugh, to rest with intention, we send a direct message to our nervous system: it is safe here. You can soften.

Joy Seekers is a community of women committed to finding that softening together. To seeking the magic and whimsy in ordinary moments. To reclaiming the playful, creative, fully-alive version of themselves that chronic stress has buried.✨

We come together through movement, creativity, and genuine connection, because healing is always more possible when we are not doing it alone.

The Soft Summer Reset: A Joy Seeker Day Retreat on August 15th in Gulf Breeze, Florida is our next gathering. Limited spots available.

What is one thing that used to bring you pure, uncomplicated joy? 💛

Authenticity is not a personality trait. It is something you return to, over and over again, when the world has asked too much of you.

You were born knowing exactly who you were. You had instincts, preferences, and a way of moving through the world that belonged entirely to you. And then, slowly, life taught you to adjust. To shrink. To prioritize being acceptable over being real.

The version of you that exists now is not less than who you were. She is just further from herself than she would like to be.

Reclaiming authenticity does not happen through willpower. It happens in the body. When you slow down enough to notice what you actually feel. When you create space for the parts of you that have been quiet for too long.

This is the heart of Embodied Living, and it is at the center of the Soft Summer Reset: A Joy Seeker Day Retreat on August 15th in Gulf Breeze, Florida.

When was the last time you felt fully, undeniably yourself? 🌿

Three days left to save $50 on the Soft Summer Reset: A Joy Seeker Day Retreat l

The early-bird window closes June 30th, and after that the price increases for the remaining spots.

This retreat on August 15th in Gulf Breeze, Florida was created for the woman who has been meaning to do something for herself. The one who keeps putting it off because the timing never feels quite right, or because she is not sure she deserves a whole day just for her.

She does. You do.

A day of morning vinyasa, afternoon restorative yoga, creative expression, an Authenticity Workshop, a fire ritual, massage, açai bowls, and time beside the water. A small, intimate group of women in a trauma-informed space where you are always in choice.

Save $50 when you book before June 30th at discoverembodiedcollective.com/soft-summer-reset.

What has been getting in the way of choosing yourself? 💛

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from always doing everything right.

From being the one people rely on. From making sure the details are handled. From holding everything together so seamlessly that no one even notices how much energy it requires. From setting yourself aside so many times that you have lost track of where you went.

This is the exhaustion of a nervous system that has never truly been given permission to rest.

The Soft Summer Reset: A Joy Seeker Day Retreat was created specifically for this kind of tiredness. A full day of gentle movement, creative expression, restorative rest, and genuine community, where you are never asked to perform or produce or hold anything together at all.

Early-bird pricing saves you $50 and ends June 30th. Limited spots available.

What is one thing you have been putting off giving yourself? ✨