Holy holy, this deeper devotion to ourselves. I’m feeling it too. Thank you for the unintentional permission slip and the grace we are giving our time to deeper relations in 2026. It’s moving onward and forward !
Thank you, Michelle. I’m really touched by how you named this, that deeper devotion and the grace it brings. I’m glad we’re moving into 2026 with that shared intention.
Thank you for your beautiful letters! Yes, so many of us women carry that quiet ache, and we want to be brave, not busy. 2025 has taught me to slow down and do each thing carefully and with attention. It has taught me to honor myself, give myself grace, find the quiet times, and learn to say No.
Maryann, thank you for reading so closely. I am really touched that the phrase brave, not busy landed for you. The way you described slowing down, honoring yourself, and learning to say no feels very much in the spirit of this letter. I am glad you are here.
New to substack and already lucky to have found you! 2025 taught me that the person I was , years ago, my true self, is still here, and I am slowly reclaiming her, after years of being too ‘busy’ to focus on who I am. I am just now realising that I am the girl with dreams, the essence of who I am, is still inside me, and I am making the effort to get in touch with her again, to revisit long held ambitions, beliefs and values, and see where they can take me now. Sort of excited and nervous for what I am going to find within myself.
Kate, this is beautiful. The way you named it, that your true self is still here and you are reclaiming her, will resonate with many women reading. Excited and nervous is a sacred combination. I’m really glad you found your way here.
Thank you, Sue. That means a great deal to hear. I’m grateful for your presence here and for the way you’ve met this space so openly. I’m glad we’ll be carrying this quiet honesty with us into 2026.
The beautiful heartbeat of Katherine asks, what did you discover in 2025 that you don’t wish to forget.
Truly many insights to choose from, but one recent series of interconnected downloads was most notable.
But to fully explain a little story first. On one of my AZ travels, my son and I stopped at the Bio dome in Oracle. They were kind and offered us a tour, during which our guide explained that this was actually Bio dome 2. The first experiment had failed and they had to start over.
Curiously, we asked, why did it fail?
His answer was WIND. He explained that they had failed to program in wind into the ecosystem and without that resistance the trees grew weak and failed, the oxygen levels suffered as did the entire biome.
Years and years later still working through the scars of abuse and neglect, which left me self worth deficient. Just a little over a week ago many divergent and previously at least partially cloaked pieces revealed themselves.
First piece given; wind is adversity. Adversity is Wind.
Secondly, My mother was my wind. She was my needed adversity to challenge my own structures of value, principles and honesty. I was always searching for the hidden understandings in a higher octave.
The wind made me strong through buckets of tears. The wind gave me clarity through endless nights of confusion. This wind allowed me freedom of soul and body while trapping my mind inside ugliness.
Third piece; How can I hate the wind.
Fourth piece; Hating the wind simply results in me hurting myself.
Fifth piece; realizing that my adversary was instead a very necessary teacher, removed the emotional overlay of pain, abandonment, of feeling unworthy of being loved.
I was, if only for brief moments of time, able to see the essence of the rose (her name) in all its textured beauty and complex incomprehensible layers, sovereign and independent of my history or opinions.
And I want to remember that in that moment I realized that I could forgive.
That it might be possible to detach from the pain with clear sight and open heart.
This feeling of unencumbered energy between the two of us is what I choose to bring into 2026. Seeing her free, frees me. Freeing us releases karma.
How can I hate the wind? It is simply being the wind.
And if I am no longer in resistance to the wind, do I then stop creating pain?
So now in my new program, which I have given myself permission to rewrite, I now recognize that former female counterpart as Mighty Wind Woman.
There is something here about wind, strength, and what shapes us over time. Thank you for sharing this so generously . I imagine many of us will recognize our own stories in different ways.
This is so beautifully held. You can feel the courage it took to press publish that first time, and the courage it’s taken to keep pressing it since.
What moved me most was how you describe the shift from writing into the void to writing into relationship. That moment when words start to be answered by other lives. That’s rare, and you’ve tended it with so much care.
This really does feel like a room, not a platform. A place to breathe, to be honest, to recognize yourself in someone else’s sentence. Thank you for building and protecting that kind of space.
Walking into 2026 with gratitude for what you’ve made here, and for the depth you’re choosing over noise.
Thank you for this, Nat. The way you named writing into relationship really stayed with me. That shift has changed everything for me, and it means a great deal to feel it recognized and reflected back with such care.
I am deeply grateful for how you described this space, and for the way you stepped into it. Your words feel like part of the room too. Thank you for being here and for meeting the work so thoughtfully.
Congratulations on trusting yourself and bringing us all your beautiful words which resonate and align so well with my own experience. Thank you and may 2026 have many wonderful things in store for you! xx
Holy holy, this deeper devotion to ourselves. I’m feeling it too. Thank you for the unintentional permission slip and the grace we are giving our time to deeper relations in 2026. It’s moving onward and forward !
Thank you, Michelle. I’m really touched by how you named this, that deeper devotion and the grace it brings. I’m glad we’re moving into 2026 with that shared intention.
Happy To Be HERE Now (:
Thank you for your beautiful letters! Yes, so many of us women carry that quiet ache, and we want to be brave, not busy. 2025 has taught me to slow down and do each thing carefully and with attention. It has taught me to honor myself, give myself grace, find the quiet times, and learn to say No.
Maryann, thank you for reading so closely. I am really touched that the phrase brave, not busy landed for you. The way you described slowing down, honoring yourself, and learning to say no feels very much in the spirit of this letter. I am glad you are here.
thank you!
New to substack and already lucky to have found you! 2025 taught me that the person I was , years ago, my true self, is still here, and I am slowly reclaiming her, after years of being too ‘busy’ to focus on who I am. I am just now realising that I am the girl with dreams, the essence of who I am, is still inside me, and I am making the effort to get in touch with her again, to revisit long held ambitions, beliefs and values, and see where they can take me now. Sort of excited and nervous for what I am going to find within myself.
Kate, this is beautiful. The way you named it, that your true self is still here and you are reclaiming her, will resonate with many women reading. Excited and nervous is a sacred combination. I’m really glad you found your way here.
I so appreciate your pieces and deeply relate. Thank you and Happy New Year!
You have created a beautiful space for us here, it is wonderful to hear that in that creation you have gained as we have 🙏
Thank you Katherine, for your idea, and your courage. Looking forward to sharing the quiet moments, the insights, the truthes in 2026 ✨️
Thank you, Sue. That means a great deal to hear. I’m grateful for your presence here and for the way you’ve met this space so openly. I’m glad we’ll be carrying this quiet honesty with us into 2026.
I'm new to this so I just want to say that I'm looking forward to more of your messages! Thank you for all of this!
The beautiful heartbeat of Katherine asks, what did you discover in 2025 that you don’t wish to forget.
Truly many insights to choose from, but one recent series of interconnected downloads was most notable.
But to fully explain a little story first. On one of my AZ travels, my son and I stopped at the Bio dome in Oracle. They were kind and offered us a tour, during which our guide explained that this was actually Bio dome 2. The first experiment had failed and they had to start over.
Curiously, we asked, why did it fail?
His answer was WIND. He explained that they had failed to program in wind into the ecosystem and without that resistance the trees grew weak and failed, the oxygen levels suffered as did the entire biome.
Years and years later still working through the scars of abuse and neglect, which left me self worth deficient. Just a little over a week ago many divergent and previously at least partially cloaked pieces revealed themselves.
First piece given; wind is adversity. Adversity is Wind.
Secondly, My mother was my wind. She was my needed adversity to challenge my own structures of value, principles and honesty. I was always searching for the hidden understandings in a higher octave.
The wind made me strong through buckets of tears. The wind gave me clarity through endless nights of confusion. This wind allowed me freedom of soul and body while trapping my mind inside ugliness.
Third piece; How can I hate the wind.
Fourth piece; Hating the wind simply results in me hurting myself.
Fifth piece; realizing that my adversary was instead a very necessary teacher, removed the emotional overlay of pain, abandonment, of feeling unworthy of being loved.
I was, if only for brief moments of time, able to see the essence of the rose (her name) in all its textured beauty and complex incomprehensible layers, sovereign and independent of my history or opinions.
And I want to remember that in that moment I realized that I could forgive.
That it might be possible to detach from the pain with clear sight and open heart.
This feeling of unencumbered energy between the two of us is what I choose to bring into 2026. Seeing her free, frees me. Freeing us releases karma.
How can I hate the wind? It is simply being the wind.
And if I am no longer in resistance to the wind, do I then stop creating pain?
So now in my new program, which I have given myself permission to rewrite, I now recognize that former female counterpart as Mighty Wind Woman.
A force that shaped me.
It’s a bit counter intuitive…
Shaking hands with the devil to ‘disarm’ him / her/ them… thereby befriending your own inner demons.
There is something here about wind, strength, and what shapes us over time. Thank you for sharing this so generously . I imagine many of us will recognize our own stories in different ways.
Morning Katherine
I am chuckling. I guess I missed my mark. Yes. Indeed. There is something here about those things.
To clarify a tad.
We are all given adversity
For without it we are weakened versions of our true potential.
The wind equates to adversity in the bio dome scenario
The wind is a requirement for growth and an integrated soul honors this uncomfortable truth.
And it’s unproductive and even harmful to hate the wind for bringing adversity….
It can be your greatest gift of strengthening, healing and the shaping of your truest self …. once emotions are set aside, neutralized or tempered.
It helps you to see your outlines, your boundaries, and the opportunity to define and redefine yourself to yourself.
Trauma can then lose its entanglements in your pain body
I can hear how much reflection and healing is woven through what you wrote.
This is so beautifully held. You can feel the courage it took to press publish that first time, and the courage it’s taken to keep pressing it since.
What moved me most was how you describe the shift from writing into the void to writing into relationship. That moment when words start to be answered by other lives. That’s rare, and you’ve tended it with so much care.
This really does feel like a room, not a platform. A place to breathe, to be honest, to recognize yourself in someone else’s sentence. Thank you for building and protecting that kind of space.
Walking into 2026 with gratitude for what you’ve made here, and for the depth you’re choosing over noise.
Thank you for this, Nat. The way you named writing into relationship really stayed with me. That shift has changed everything for me, and it means a great deal to feel it recognized and reflected back with such care.
I am deeply grateful for how you described this space, and for the way you stepped into it. Your words feel like part of the room too. Thank you for being here and for meeting the work so thoughtfully.
Congratulations on trusting yourself and bringing us all your beautiful words which resonate and align so well with my own experience. Thank you and may 2026 have many wonderful things in store for you! xx