Hello again, dear ones. Welcome back (or for the first time, for those who have recently joined) to the monthly Resourcing the Revolution newsletter.
As I write this edition, the early leaves have begun to release from the trees, even as the summer heat still blazes. It’s as if we’re suspended in time, standing between here and there. Caught in the honeyed slowness of summer’s end, while the air starts to whisper of what’s coming next.
This is the month when everything — the sun, external pressure, and the noise of the outer world — feels just a little more intense.
We’re still being asked to show up… but our energy’s wearing thin.
And if we’re listening closely, this moment offers a quiet invitation:
To draw a line. To gather and reclaim our scattered pieces. To come home to ourselves in a world that constantly asks us to self-abandon.
This is the moment when boundaries stop being optional.
They become sacred. Not there for punishment, but as protection.
As restoration.
This month, we’re exploring the kind of boundaries that liberate instead of constrict.
Sacred boundaries aren’t about keeping life out — they’re about choosing what gets to come in.
They are the containers that hold our energy, protect our clarity, and carve the channels through which our authentic selves can flow.
The edges that allow us to move through the world with more ease, more clarity, and more sovereignty.
Let this month’s edition be your permission to pause. To listen inward. And to start again — from the inside out.
You ready? Let’s begin.
Quote of the Month: Hold Yourself Close
In a world full of loud opinions and performative progress, this month’s poem brings us back to the quiet wisdom of inner alignment.
Before we can set boundaries with others, we have to meet ourselves honestly. To pause, listen, and choose our next step from a place of deep knowing.
Let this be your reminder that the first step doesn’t need to be big, visible, or fully formed. It just needs to be yours.
Start close in, don’t take the second step, or the third,
start with the first thing close in, the step you don’t want to take.
Start with the ground you know, the pale ground beneath your feet, your own way of starting the conversation.
Start with your own question, give up on other
people’s questions, don’t let them
smother something simple.
To find another’s voice, follow your own voice, wait until that voice becomes a private ear listening to another.
Start right now, take a small step you can call your own, don’t follow someone else’s heroics, be humble and focused,
start close in, don’t mistake that other for your own.
Start close in, don’t take the second step or the third,
start with the first thing close in, the step you don’t want to take.
— David Whyte
Sacred boundaries don’t begin at the edges of your life. They form in the pause, the breath, and the step you’re willing to take inward.
Idea of the Month: Hold Your Truth
You’ve probably heard it in a yoga class (or whispered it to yourself while pushing through discomfort):
“Everyone says it’s supposed to look like this.”
Let's pause for a moment and challenge that idea. What if just thinking you're "supposed to" is what's pulling you out of alignment in the first place?
In yoga, students often contort themselves to fit the shape of a pose, even when it doesn’t serve their body.
They override their signals — stressing knees, compressing backs, chasing the picture they saw on the cover of Yoga Journal or on Instagram.
Sometimes they mistake pain for progress. Or shame themselves for not going deeper. For not looking like the student at the front of the class with “perfect” form and designer gear.
But the truth? Your pose doesn’t need to look like anything other than what supports your breath and honors your body’s truth.
And… wait for it… life is the same.
Society sells us stories about what success is supposed to look like. What leadership, parenting, spirituality, healing, activism, and even rest are supposed to look like.
So we push through, stretch thin, and tolerate tension that doesn’t belong to us — all in service of some invisible standard or someone else’s definition of success.
But discomfort isn’t always a sign of growth. Sometimes, it’s just a sign you’ve crossed your own boundary.
So what are we supposed to do?
This month, I invite you to turn inward first. Let the poses (or other kind of movement) be a conversation, not a performance. And let your life be shaped from the inside out.
Less external prescription. More "Your Name Journal" (replace with your name).
There is strength in choosing what aligns, even when it doesn’t look like what you were taught.
Astrology of the Month: What (and Who) Holds You
It’s been a while since I added a new category to the newsletter, so why the heck not? And, let’s be honest — if you've been here a while, you know the stars tend to slip their way into my writing whether I plan it or not.
So when I saw astrologer and ritualist Brianna Saussy talking about Jupiter’s 13-month journey through Cancer (June 2025–June 2026), I knew I had to include it here.
This next year, the sky is speaking directly to everything we’ve been feeling and everything we’re trying to build.
Here’s what Brianna had to say:
Your Sacred Circle Transforms Family, whether blood or beautifully chosen, will become wellsprings of inspiration instead of sources of drain. You'll discover a new power to choose when to extend your energy and when to preserve it. Boundaries become blessings, not barriers.
The Call to Root Deep This transit whispers an ancient invitation: make Heaven a place on Earth. Jupiter in Cancer amplifies your ability to:
* Transform your living space into true sanctuary
* Deepen bonds with those who truly see you
* Plant roots in soil that feeds your soul
* Build foundations that will support not just you, but generations
I don’t know about you, but that sounds like medicine to me. Especially now. Especially here.
Because in times like these, sacred boundaries aren’t just personal. They’re collective.
You. Me. We.
Photo of the Month: Held by the Land
The stream on the edge of our property knows where to go.
There’s a quiet intelligence in the way water moves. In a world that often teaches us to push, hustle, or overflow, the water becomes our teacher.
It doesn’t need a map. It doesn’t force itself in every direction. It simply responds to the contours around it, flowing where the land invites it.
And the land, in turn, doesn’t cling or control, but simply shapes the borders through which the water can move.
Over time, the stream’s course may shift.
In seasons of heavy rain, it may break containment and overflow.
But when held in right relationship, it becomes life-giving. Source. Sacred.
Boundaries are like that.
They don’t demand. They don’t defend. They offer a shape that allows flow. A container that protects the sacred. A direction that doesn’t need to be figured out, only felt, followed, and honored.
May we each remember: boundaries are not restrictions. They are sacred riverbanks for the work and life we long to live.
What if we allowed our lives, our relationships, our impact, to flow like that?
Short Practice of the Month: Hold Still and Listen
Sometimes, you need to conjure up a micro-moment of clarity before reacting, overcommitting, or absorbing something that doesn’t belong to you.
When the world moves too fast for your nervous system to keep up. When emotions rise. Or when you’re not quite sure whether what you’re feeling is yours or someone else’s.
So today’s short practice is what I’ll call a 1-Minute Boundary Check.
How to do it:
Place one hand on your chest, one on your belly.
Take a couple of slow, even breaths to connect with your body.
Then take another slow breath and ask: Is this mine to carry?
On the exhale: Do I have the capacity?
Wait. Listen. You might need to repeat the questions.
Trust the first whisper, not the loud inner chatter.
Then move (or don’t) accordingly.
The more often you check in, the easier it becomes to respond from alignment instead of urgency.
And in that space, boundaries stop being a wall and start becoming the foundation of inner sovereignty.
Post of the Month: Hold the Line (Gently)
We’ve been conditioned to believe that caring means carrying it all.
That to prove our worth, goodness, or impact, we have to push through the stress and overwhelm that often comes with deep devotion to something or someone.
But what if that version of caring actually costs us?
This month’s post from the archives invites a radical reframe:
The things that you are working on are important, perhaps even life-altering. (We are worldchangers, after all.) That being said, is your work more important than you?
Stop.
I know the answer that just went through your head, because it’s the same answer that I came up with as well. Take a second to think about it, though – to really think.
Examine the question, and then reframe: what would be lost to the cause if you were no longer around to champion it? Imagine the world, minus the world-changers. How much more of an impact could you have if you brought a whole, happy, and healthy you into the game?
Please note, I’m not encouraging apathy. But I am inviting us all to create the kind of sacred boundaries that allow us to show up fully present, deeply resourced, and ready to reshape the world.
That kind of caring might be the most revolutionary act of love you make this year.
Song of the Month: Hold Yourself as Whole
This month’s lyrics come from Kelly Clarkson’s song Broken & Beautiful, an anthem to the complexity of modern life.
I never held my hand out and asked for something free I got pride I could roll out for miles in front of me I don't need your help, and I don't need sympathy I don't need you to lower the bar for me
I know I'm Superwoman, I know I'm strong I know I've got this 'cause I've had it all along I'm phenomenal and I'm enough I don't need you to tell me who to be
…
I'm tired. Can I just be tired? Without piling on all sad and scared and out of time I'm wild. Can I just be wild? Without feeling like I'm failing and I'm losing my mind
Can someone just hold me? Don't fix me, don't try to change a thing Oh, someone just know me 'Cause underneath, I'm broken and it's beautiful
This song is a declaration. One that says:
I can be messy, fierce, exhausted, and enough, all at the same time. I don't need to be fixed; I just need to be treated with respect.
Let this track be your permission slip to take up space exactly as you are.
To draw the line. To stay whole.
And to rise. Broken AND beautiful.
Mindset of the Month: Hold Space for Stillness
When I read this post from Anima Mundi Herbals, my entire being shouted YESSS!!
Reclaiming regulation as rebellion is a movement I can get behind. A fellow voice whisper-shouting through the noise that maybe, just maybe, we can give a big middle finger to the status quo.
“Yet we, the herbalists, the moon-ceremony leaders, the crystal-carrying healers, the forager-stargazers… we are moving in a different direction this year.
That’s because we’re craving a slower, more inward-facing, and quieter path, designed to nourish our nervous systems, protect our energy, and feast on stone fruits and runny eggs for breakfast, all while basking in the sun without burning out.”
As summer winds down and the edges of autumn start to show, perhaps it’s time to rewrite what it means to be alive, radiant, and free.
And to choose something more sustainable: nervous system nourishment.
Boundary-setting isn’t just about saying no to other people. It’s also about saying yes to yourself.
To sleep. To sunlight. To stillness. To food that feeds your body’s wisdom. To movement that feels like joy, not punishment. To practices that regulate your inner world so you’re not at the mercy of everything outside it.
We’ve been sold a version of freedom that’s loud, fast, and often unkind to the body. But true liberation? It looks like knowing what stays inside your sacred container — and what gets released.
This month, let’s all commit to the radical act of doing less.
Hydrate with intention. Lie in the grass. Eat a plum and call it a spell. Protect your energy as if it were an ancestral treasure.
Why? So your revolution can be well-rested.
Hold Your Sacred Container
May this month bring you back to your own edges — not to harden, but to gently hold what's real.
To clarify what’s yours. To soften into what matters. To remember that boundaries are not barriers to connection, but bridges back to yourself.
Start close in.
Breathe.
Choose what stays inside your sacred container.
And let that be enough.
Until next time: rest, then rise.
P.S. I’m brewing something for the fall that’s all about deep restoration and sacred structure — just like this.
If your body whispered yesss while reading this, stay close.
(And mark your calendar for the weekend of October 3-5.)
Exhaustion and helplessness are not our only options. We can stay informed without burning out. We can take action in ways that align with our strengths. We can care for ourselves and our communities. We can hold onto our shared humanity. And we can look toward a future worth fighting for. As a guide, channel, and truth-teller, I help women changemakers reclaim their identity, step into their power, and cultivate the space they need to thrive. I don't just teach "self-care" — I help women come home to themselves. This is more than personal growth; it's about awakening the collective, allowing the divine feminine to rise, and shaking up the status quo to build a more beautiful world. I believe that – together – we can be catalysts for impact and positive change.
