Barefoot Wisdom: Personal Reflections on Soul Tending

Most women don’t wake up one day and realize they’ve lost themselves. It happens gradually. You give your energy to your children, your partner, your work, the steady needs of the people around you. You become skilled at noticing what others require before they say a word. You learn how to keep things moving, how to hold it all together. And somewhere along the way, you begin to feel a little farther away from your own life. Not unhappy, exactly. Just numb. Disconnected. As i

It’s something I hear often from women who sit across from me—both in my office and out here on the farm beside the horses.They’ll pause, look down, and say quietly, “I never thought this is where I would be in my life right now.” That statement always lands with such weight.Because behind it is so much: grief, disappointment, confusion, self-judgment, longing. We all carry an inner picture of how we thought things would go—the career, the relationship, the family, the sense

Lately, I’ve been reflecting on a concept I came across called the “ceiling for the feeling.” It’s not my phrase, but it resonates so...

In March of 2023 I lost a baby. I was 21 weeks pregnant and had complications the entire pregnancy. An event like losing a baby is...