For a little while, I’ll be stepping into a softer rhythm. I’m currently on maternity leave, which means I won’t be as active in the day-to-day running of our business for some time. I’ve tried, with care and good intentions, to combine nurturing our small business while being fully present with a six-month-old—and I’ve come to realize that this does not align with the essence of living slowly and intentionally. Right now, my most heartfelt priority is tending to my family li

In the slow living space, we speak often of softening. Of slowing down. Of trusting our own unique unfolding and allowing life to meet us where we are. For many of us, this way of being feels like a deep exhale after years of striving, pushing, and forcing ourselves into shapes that never quite fit. Yet there is a quiet misunderstanding that can arise here— one that deserves gentle attention. Softening is not about doing nothing. Trusting your path is not about waiting passiv

For a long time in my relationship, I didn’t realize how much of myself I was keeping behind invisible armor. Not because I didn’t love my husband, or because something was wrong between us — but because I had spent years living from a place of striving, pushing, performing, and proving. I operated from the same energy in our marriage. I was always “on,” always holding everything together, always strong, capable, efficient. From the outside, it looked like stability. But on t

I spent years living in the ache of self-improvement — years believing that if I could just dig deep enough, understand enough, fix enough, I might finally feel like I was allowed to rest. I didn’t see how tirelessly I was working on myself, how every book, every workshop, every new insight kept me chasing a version of me I still hadn’t reached. And for a long time, I mistook this chase for healing. It felt responsible, even admirable — to always be searching, always unpackin

Over the past weeks, we’ve watched the number of visitors on our blog quietly bloom — women finding their way here from all over, and a growing wave of interest meeting us on Pinterest each day. And truly… we feel it. We notice you. We appreciate you. Deeply. We’ve realized that writing here isn’t just communication for us. It’s connection. It’s presence. It’s the most honest way we know how to share what we believe in. And so this blog — along with the letters we send out th