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A place to learn to love your whole self. Space holder, mother and heartwork advocate.

07/24/2026

Ten days before we left, Greta fell and sliced her nose cartilage top to bottom and had to have emergency surgery. I was thrown into a hyper vigilant state - constantly monitoring her every move and having visuals of her sutures opening.

Every night I would remind her how incredibly strong her body is and how her body knows exactly how to heal.

And then I packed us up, not sure if it was the “right” thing to do but knowing how hard we had worked to make this adventure possible. And as we settled into our spots on the airplane I smiled because I had everyone with me in one place.

It’s a trauma response - when we are tucked into a small space together, I know we’re safe.

Knowing my kids are safe and feeling safe in my body allows my nervous system to settle and creates pockets for my mind and breath to slow.

In a book I’ve come back to a handful of times, author Resmaa Menakem says “there’s a way out of this mess, and it requires each of us to begin with our own body.”

He talks about the importance of a settled body and how we need skills of nervous system regulation and ways to integrate our traumas.

A settled body might look like:
- learning to trust your body
- not bypassing or overriding your body’s genius (avoiding its experience)
- being able to stay present with feelings of discomfort + pain
- noticing sensations and body experiences
- the ability to harmonize and connect with other bodies around you, while encouraging those bodies to settle as well

How do we settle the body?

We practice - as much as we can. Rest. Sleep. Ask for help. Letting someone help you. Breathing slowly and fully when faced with intense discomfort and pain. Staying with it, instead of avoiding it or walking away.

None of these come easily to me. It’s something I continue to practice every single day. There are some seasons where I intentionally avoid them because I don’t have capacity and there are others (like now) where every day I’m hit with the feelings and I’m riding them like waves.

What I do know is that taking this trip, seeing dear friends and being with my fam jam in the place I met Jeff 18 years ago was epic and I’m so grateful we said yes👍🏼💛✨🫁

06/11/2026

I am not normally one to post about our intimate family ups and downs *and* yesterday was a day. And the nurses, doctors and staff at Children's Minnesota blew my mind. Anna, who made a fort for Greta so she didn’t have to see the iv going in her arm, Bailey, who gave her ample Frozen stickers for her water bottle, Erin who brought me a charger when my phone was dying and I needed to contact Jeff, Lynn, who made sure we weren’t rushed before surgery and handled all of us popsicles when it was all over.

Greta was by far the bravest of us all through it all. I am eternally grateful to my friends who are nurses and who held my hand when I felt like I was going to faint right after it happened.

I am here for all of the ways in which we need to support our bodies - through fertility, pregnancy, postpartum and deep into motherhood. There is no one way and mixing east with west, crunchy with pharmaceuticals, surgery with popsicles is all permissible. You need to do what you need to do and only you can feel into that truth in your own body.

Here’s to the mothers of wild spirited children, the ones who need to add the extra high top lock on the door, the ones who are holding onto their hearts outside of their bodies. We can’t prevent accidents and we can’t protect them forever - we can however continue to show up soft and strong when they need us (and I have a feeling this won’t be the last for me).

Deep exhale and happy birthday to my husband Jeff McCachren - your birthday fully got side swiped by Greta but we can’t wait to love on you later today.

Also, flowers are blooming and life is wild and amazing. I love you, send G your love for smooth healing ❤️‍🩹

04/05/2026

You know those years where you stumbled so many times you barely thought you’d make it? A fully deep in it, crushing, hard to pull through, holding what feels like everyone and everything. Maybe you were also hit with a bunch of things that most humans don’t like to talk about like we were. Words like addiction, recovery, abortion, miscarriage, job loss, unemployment, infertility, government assistance, depression, sickness, death, grief or relational betrayal.

Words that we often don’t say out loud, let alone share, discuss or expand upon for fear of judgement, shame or making someone else uncomfortable.

And yet we all experience them, because, we are human. All of us. We are all susceptible to faltering, making mistakes, hurting one another and feeling pain.

Last year I had to stand up stronger than I have in a long time. Maybe ever. I wasn’t sure how I would keep standing. But I did. And so have you (I’m sure).

Although I’d like to say every single thing is remedied or band aided or solved or over - we all know that’s not the way it goes. We keep living and experiencing and moving forward as best we can. Knowing more deeply than ever we are *the* one who can make the biggest difference in our own lives. And that it’s almost a guarantee that we will feel pain again.

By becoming curious to what keeps showing up for us (often over and over again) we can begin to finally shift the pattern.

Some truths I am (more) aware of today.

I am soft and I am strong.

I am not responsible for managing or fixing someone else’s emotions.

I want to love and be loved.

I want to see and be seen.

I now understand better that there is no one to be except to be myself right now, just as I am.

Life is all about making mistakes and giving ourselves room to constantly change and grow. Allowing our self to experience joy, creation and expansion through living life.

Be open to the universe.
Be open to life.
Be open to the experience.
Trust your intuition.
Have faith.
(And then say thank you).
I love you. Pass it on.
👍🏼💛🫁💫

03/19/2026

The extraordinary, ordinary moments in life ( we all have them).

One of my favourite movies is called About Time (if you haven’t seen it, this is your nudge to watch it sometime soon). The movie reminds us simply that our life, in whatever form it takes - is precious in its imperfection. I often refer to it as a beautiful mess.

It’s easy to lose sight of the beauty in the everyday moments while we are preoccupied with experiences and regrets from the past or anxieties about the future.

Today I am here — experiencing.

What I have come to know to be true is that today is ordinary and extraordinary all in the same breath.

Be open to the universe
Be open to life
Be open to the experience
Trust your intuition
Have faith
You are worthy of the life you want to live
👍🏼💛🫁💫

02/20/2026

Candle lit, music on, lights off, one is in the bath, two are tucked in watching a movie, dinner cooking on the stove.

There are messes all around me. Feelings are coming out in every way you could imagine.

I inhale and I exhale.

There are toddler feelings and puberty feelings, there are feelings of being left out, of not being enough, of wanting to be loved and seen and feeling unsure. There are also hungry bellies and tired eyes and bodies that don’t know how to regulate themselves.

Breathing in, I notice my inhale.
Breathing out, I notice my exhale.

Being a mother right now means a lot of honouring exactly where everyone is at. In my home, and, out of my home. Collectively there is a lot of carrying and holding and needing and wanting and deserving to be held.

Today, this is where I am. Tomorrow it will be different.

It just will be because it is that way.

How you feel is how you feel and where you are right now isn’t going to be where you are forever. One slow step at a time.

Keep helping your neighbours, make pancakes, drop them off, deliver groceries, say hi to someone you don’t know in the parking lot of a store, honour your gifts, let them shine and let others shine too. You are magic. I love you. Pass it on 🙌🏼💛☀️✨

01/27/2026

Ethics over politics. You don't have to know everything for something to FEEL wrong. I believe we can all tap into our intuition or gut sense. Be kind. Offer grace and compassion. And remember to keep breathing. I love you, I am listening. Breathing in, I am aware of my in breath. Breathing out, I am aware of my out breath.

01/13/2026

mothers must mother
each other, too.
we must hold each other up &
surround each other strong &
in the ear
of every new mother
we must whisper,
you belong.
you belong.

- come together | for valentina

🫁💛✨

Deepest gratitude to my Minnesotan sister Johnna for initiating this evening and reminding me why we need to gather in person. For cooking the most delicious food for us all - truly a meal to remember. That herbed butter!!

Thank you Alex for baking bread that melts in your mouth and a cacao Bundt cake that was exactly what we all needed to finish the night. I am so grateful to have been able to hug you in person and hope everyone orders from her incredible bread drops throughout the month here in MN 🙌🏼

Thank you to the amazing woman and her family who opened up her home to us and all the women who showed up without knowing a soul and let themselves exhale, inhale, eat and gather in person. It isn’t easy to meet strangers, especially right now, but my hope is that we can continue to create moments to remember that we all belong.

I love you, pass it on.

11/26/2025

A place to learn to love your whole self - holiday edition. I love you, pass it on 👍🏼💛🫁💫

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