Field Notes

I'm taking a handful of 1:1 breathwork clients for January and February. If you want space to integrate everything this year stirred up - and start 2026 more connected to your body and intuition - I'd love to work with you. Dear friends, The winter solstice is here and I have a Field Note to share. I recorded this from my bed with the sun streaming through the window, five shades of green moss glo...

Dear friends, I’m back with our fifth Field Note, recorded from inside our kitchen in Mariposa, looking out at the rain coming down. The house is quiet, Nic took the kids to preschool. I’m feeling super cozy in my favorite wool socks. I know many of us are in a tender space heading into December. If you’re feeling the weight right now from the holidays, the year ending, all the expectations—you’re...

Dear friends, I’m coming to you from our kitchen table today. The house is finally quiet after Solomon’s seventh birthday party this past Saturday. The rain is pounding outside, our second storm of the fall. I can already see tiny green shoots pushing through the earth. It’s been three years since my book Permission to Rest came out. For so much of my life, I believed rest was something you earned...

Last week’s essay about transitions stirred something in me—and in many of you who emailed back. Today I’m sharing the practice I reach for when everything feels like too much. Dear friends,I’m back with our third Field Note, recorded from the southeast corner of our deck, listening for woodpeckers in the bull pines. The wind had just quieted, the sun tucked behind clouds, and I realized how much...

Dear friends, I'm back with our second Field Note, recorded from the south corner of our deck where the morning sun creates this perfect pocket of warmth. You'll hear wind through the oaks, maybe a rescue kitten named Yarrow, and birds who seem to be enjoying their morning in the foothills! Last month, we finalized our daughter Freya's adoption. After almost two years of uncertainty, she legally b...

Dear friends, Today marks the beginning of something new, a little project that has been on my heart for a while. I'm calling it "Field Notes"—spontaneous voice recordings captured in the quiet in-between moments of life: watching the horses graze, sitting under the oak trees, breathing in the momentary stillness amidst the wild and intense chaos of family life. You won't get careful editing and p...