09/28/2026
Last night filled my whole heart. ❤️🔥
I’m still trying to put into words what it felt like to look around that fire and see such a beautiful community of people gathered together in kinship. People willing to show up, be present, hold space for one another and, maybe most importantly, hold space for themselves.
The energy was SO big and strong. You could feel it.
We started by journaling privately. Nobody had to share what they wrote or explain what they were releasing to anyone.
When it was time, everyone tied their journaling with red string to a sprig of basil, which we used to represent purification and release. I walked around the circle and collected each person’s piece to bring to the fire.
I invited everyone to stand if they wished as we burned all of our releases together.
And then something happened that I hadn’t planned at all. 🥹
People just naturally started reaching for one another’s hands.
Before I knew it, this huge, beautiful circle had formed around the fire.
We stood there together, hand in hand, and watched all of those words, experiences, fears, beliefs, patterns, grief, or whatever each person had privately chosen to release go up in flames.
Nobody needed to know what the person beside them had written.
Nobody needed to explain themselves.
We just stood together and held space for one another while it burned.
That moment will stay with me for a very long time. ❤️🔥
And getting to experience my mom stepping forward into her own power and so lovingly sharing her beautiful heart through meditation and Group Reiki is something I will never forget. Watching her share that part of herself with everyone gathered there made me incredibly proud of her. ❤️
After releasing, we shifted into creating our intention jars.
Everyone chose herbs and ingredients that represented their own hopes, dreams, goals and intentions for the coming season.
I loved that we had just physically released something into the fire, and then we got to use our hands to create something new.
Something tangible to bring home. Something to look at throughout the coming season as a reminder of what they hope to grow, welcome and create in their lives. 🌿
And throughout the evening, people wandered the trails, spent time around the fire, shared food, talked, laughed, got quiet and just experienced the space in whatever way felt right for them. ❤️
At the end of the night, we pulled one final card from the Gratitude Oracle. There wasn’t some big complicated question behind it. I simply wanted one card that the entire group could take in and receive together after everything we had just experienced.
And the card we pulled was…
In Between.
Of course it was. 🥹
We had just released what we were ready to leave behind.
We had created something representing what we hoped to bring forward.
And there we were…
In between.
Between releasing and receiving.
Between one season and another.
Between what was and what will be.
There was something so fitting about ending the night there.
Not needing to immediately know what comes next. Not needing to have everything figured out. Just honoring that space after we let something go and before whatever is coming next has fully arrived.
Sometimes we’re simply in between.
And maybe there’s something beautiful about allowing ourselves to be there. ❤️
There were SO many people who helped make this night possible.
Leah Brooke sang beautifully, as she always does, and brought something to the evening that a playlist simply never could. ❤️
My incredibly talented sister, who also happens to be a pastry chef, made the most amazing pumpkin bars. 🤤 Others brought treats to share too, which made the whole evening feel even more like community.
My Aunt Katie and cousin Trish helped everyone create and finish their intention jars.
Emily helped get nearly 50 people checked in and settled.
And I have SO much gratitude for Margaret and Keife for opening their land to all of us and giving us the most perfect space, beautiful trails, and one incredibly powerful fire to gather around. 🔥
So many others reached out to help, carried things, brought things, helped set up and clean up, checked on me, and simply stepped in wherever something needed to happen.
I truly could not have done this without each and every one of you. 💕
There were so many individual pieces that went into creating this night.
But then everyone showed up.
And somehow all of those individual pieces became something much bigger.
People laughed. People cried. People got quiet. People walked the trails. People released. People received. We ate together, listened to beautiful music, made intentions and stood around a fire holding hands with people whose stories we may not even know.
For a couple of hours, a group of humans simply showed up for one another.
That was the part that got me.
This is what I want more of.
Community. Connection. Kinship.
Spaces where we don’t need to fix each other or even know each other’s stories to hold space for one another. Where we can come exactly as we are, honor whatever season someone else might be walking through, and remember that none of us are doing this whole human experience alone.
To every single person who trusted us enough to be part of this:
Thank you. You created this with us. ❤️
My heart is very, very full.
And after experiencing what happened around that fire…
I have a feeling this won’t be the last time we gather. 🍂🔥❤️
