To the women who show up... & stay.

It's my birthday today & I wanted to do something different: I decided to write a love letter to the women who showed up... and stayed.Because that is what I'm celebrating today.

To the woman who drives across the state on a Friday night to Sacred Circle because something in her knows it matters. Who walks in tired, sometimes a little resistant, and leaves lighter than she came in. Who keeps coming back even when life is full of things asking for the same hours...

To the women who found this community & tell me that they're finally living in their body for the first time in their life. Not managing it or numbing around it, but living in it...

To all the women who drove to my TEDx talk in update New York. Who blocked out their day, piled in a car, walked into a room they didn't have to, and sat there while I shared what I'd been building for years. Past the lights, past the nerves, I saw you all. The fact that you were in the audience steadied something in me...

To the woman who got pissed enough to stop 'performing' her life and started actually living. Who took the strengths she'd been hiding for years and decided to use them: to lead, to build, to empower other women in Sacred Circle. I always knew it was inside you, Amy...

To the women who turned her pain into medicine. Who carried something for years that nobody knew how to hold for her — and instead of letting it bury her, she wrote it down and fucking published it. The thing that was killing them quietly is now a book on a shelf, helping others they'll never meet feel less alone. Mindy and Melissa: I am so proud of you both I could cry...

...And to the woman who hasn't been to a Circle yet but has been quietly reading these emails for months, wondering if she belongs here. You do. The room has been holding a seat for you the whole time.

You are the village, the one I built for myself when I needed one.

The proof, every single week, that this work works. Women who actually care about each other and aren't trying to tear each other down. Who aren't in competition with one another. Who genuinely shows up, especially when it's not convenient.

Women who show up...and stay.

Thank you. I love you. I'll never be able to truly put into words what that means to me. It is an honor and a privilege to watch you become the women you are today.

This is the best birthday gift I could ask for.​