Hello Muses! I wanted to personally invite you to something really special I’m hosting to start the new year. It’s called Root to Rise: Awakening the Feminine Energy Through Presence, a gentle but powerful 7-day mindfulness immersion for the woman who knows she’s meant for more, but keeps finding herself slipping back into the same patterns. Over these seven days, we’ll gently root into presence together, so you can interrupt those autopilot moments, feel more grounded in your body, and start making choices that actually align with the woman you know you are. By the end, my intention is that you feel: ✨ more present and grounded in the moment ✨ more emotionally steady ✨ more connected to yourself ✨ more trusting of your intuition ✨ more capable of choosing differently, in real life If you feel the pull, trust it. 🤍 I’m so excited to begin, and hope we'll be going down this path together. You can find all the information/sign up here: https://www.maiaconsciousliving.com/root-to-rise/

This month, I keep returning to the theme of safety, and by safety, I don’t mean external stability or having everything “figured out.”I mean the felt sense of being safe within yourself. In my experience, this is one of the most essential foundations for sustainable transformation. Because yes, we can use every tool and technique to manage stress or navigate moments of trigger… but if we don’t feel fundamentally safe with ourselves, we will always default back into old patterns. And a lack of internal safety doesn’t only show up as nervous system dysregulation. That’s the internal experience. Externally, it can look like: - not feeling safe to be fully seen, so you hide or dim parts of yourself - not feeling safe to be heard, so you silence your opinions, truth, story - not trusting your voice, your choices, or your intuition - holding back because you fear the consequences of being the real you - believing that slowing down means you’ll fall behind, lose momentum, or fall apart We were never meant to live in a constant state of bracing, pushing, rushing, or running on stress. That way of living is not only unsustainable; it’s quietly and visibly draining the life out of you. **So the deeper question becomes** How do we rebuild safety in a body that’s been conditioned for years to live in overdrive… and in a self that learned to hide, dim, or silence itself just to survive? And before we get into the “how,” we need to understand why. Your body learned these patterns for a reason. Your high drive, your vigilance, your perfectionism, your tendency to stay busy, these were protective strategies. They formed during times when being softer, slower, or more open did not feel safe (usually a patter of this, not just a one-off). Your system chose survival over authenticity, protection over presence. And that was intelligent, adaptive, loving, even. This is where compassion comes in. Because you cannot build safety in a body you’re still judging.