Heart Compass

This month in Wholly Woman , we're sitting with a proposal from Clarissa Pinkola Estés that I keep returning to. The body is not your other half. She is a sovereign being, with her own intelligence, her own wisdom, who decided to partner with you, so that you could have this human experience. Estés calls her the Body Consort. She is how you move through the world, how you experience pleasure, pain, beauty, time. She is also vulnerable — a being who requires your care, your at

Starting a new year often brings a desire to reflect on the months behind and ahead. This can create judgment of our past or anxiety about our future—leaving us disconnected from ourselves. The mind wants to create a story: did we succeed or fail? But the body doesn't traffic in those binaries. It holds something else entirely. Here's a simple practice to end 2025 in conversation with your body instead of at war with your mind.

A personal story of how an ordinary crisis opened a doorway to embodied healing. Through myth, self-compassion, and the warmth of awareness, we can learn to turn toward the cold places within and reclaim our aliveness.