Three New Ways to Actually Take Care of Yourself (Without Breaking the Bank or Your Schedule)
Introducing monthly wellness offerings that meet you where you are - messy, tired, and probably scrolling this on your phone while pretending to listen to a meeting.
Here's the thing about self-care in 2025: it's become another performance metric. We're supposed to optimize our morning routines, biohack our sleep, and somehow find zen between answering emails and wondering if we remembered to feed the dog.
I call bullsh*t.
Real wellness isn't about adding more to your plate. It's about creating space for what you actually need - rest, release, and sometimes just a place to feel your feelings without someone telling you to "look on the bright side."
That's why I'm launching three new monthly offerings that are free, virtual, and designed for real humans living real lives. No special equipment required (unless you count the pile of laundry you'll use as a bolster). No previous experience needed (unless you count being tired as experience, in which case you're overqualified).
The Monthly Reset: Rest & Restore
First Wednesday of every month, 6 PM MT/8 PM ET
Remember when your biggest decision was whether to watch one more episode or actually go to bed? Now your nervous system runs like a browser with 47 tabs open, and your shoulders have taken up permanent residence near your ears.
This 45-minute therapeutic yoga class is designed specifically for the chronically overstimulated. We're talking gentle movements that tell your body it's safe to let go, using whatever props you can scrounge up around your house. That water bottle you keep meaning to refill? Perfect yoga block. Those pillows you bought to "make the couch cozier"? Essential equipment.
This isn't Instagram yoga where everyone looks like they were born in downward dog. This is "I haven't stretched in three months and my back sounds like bubble wrap when I move" yoga. The kind that actually helps.
Who it's for: Anyone whose idea of relaxation has become "only checking work emails twice during dinner."
Monthly Melt into Dream State
Fourth Wednesday of every month, 6 PM MT/8 PM ET
Yoga Nidra is basically meditation's cooler older sibling who figured out how to be deeply restorative without making you sit cross-legged wondering if you're doing it right. It's the practice of conscious sleep - like taking a 30-minute vacation from being you (the you that remembers every embarrassing thing you've ever done, anyway).
You lie down somewhere comfortable, and I guide you into that floaty space between awake and asleep where your nervous system finally gets permission to stop running the show. It's like hitting the reset button on your brain, except instead of losing all your browser tabs, you actually feel better afterward.
No experience necessary. No flexibility required. The only skill you need is the ability to lie down and let someone else do the heavy lifting for half an hour.
Who it's for: Anyone whose brain treats bedtime as an opportunity to review every life choice they've ever made.
Heartbeat: A Space for Grief & Grace
Third Sunday of every month, 10 AM MT/12 PM ET
Here's what nobody tells you about grief: it's not just about death. You can grieve the job you lost, the relationship that ended, the life you thought you'd have by now, or even the person you used to be before everything got so complicated.
This 75-minute session combines sharing circle, gentle writing, and restorative movement because grief lives in the body, and sometimes it needs multiple ways to move through us. We start by creating space for whatever you're carrying (sharing is optional - silence is also welcome), move into some reflective writing, and close with gentle yoga that helps your nervous system remember it's safe to soften even in the middle of hard things.
This isn't therapy, but it's therapeutic. It's not about "getting over" anything or following someone else's timeline for healing. It's about having your experience witnessed by people who understand that grief is love with nowhere to go.
Who it's for: Anyone carrying loss of any kind, or those who support people who are grieving.
Why Monthly? Why Free? Why Now?
Monthly because sustainable self-care isn't about daily perfection - it's about showing up consistently for yourself without the pressure of another daily habit to maintain (or feel guilty about dropping).
Free because taking care of yourself shouldn't be another financial stress. Because wellness shouldn't be a luxury good. Because everyone deserves a soft place to land, especially right now when the world feels particularly sharp around the edges.
Virtual because sometimes the hardest part of self-care is having to put on real pants and drive somewhere when you're already running on fumes. Plus, there's something beautifully honest about practicing from your own space, surrounded by your own mess, in your most comfortable clothes.
This Isn't About Fixing You
These offerings aren't designed to fix, optimize, or improve you. You're not broken. You're just human in a world that's forgotten how to let humans be human.
Maybe you need all three. Maybe just one calls to you right now. Maybe you'll sign up for one and life will happen and you'll miss it, and that's okay too. The invitation will be there whenever you're ready.
Because here's what I know after years of watching people try to wellness their way out of being human: what we need most isn't another productivity hack or optimization strategy. We need permission to rest, space to feel, and places to remember that we're not meant to carry everything alone.
So consider this your permission slip. Your nervous system has been waiting for you to slow down. Your heart has stories that need witnessing. Your body has been asking for gentleness.
Maybe it's time to listen.
