Dear Reader,

When was the last time you felt truly alive?

Not simply productive.

Not needed by someone.

Not checking another thing off your list.

But alive in the way you once ran toward something simply because it delighted you.

Alive in the way you laughed before wondering what anyone thought.

Alive in the way you could become completely absorbed in something small and beautiful.

Alive in the way you trusted that something wonderful might be waiting around the corner.

Somewhere along the way, many of us become very good at being adults.

We learn to be responsible. To care for everyone. To carry what needs carrying. To keep going.

And sometimes, without even realizing it, we become so practiced at surviving life that we forget how to be delighted by it.

We don't necessarily lose our capacity for wonder.

We simply accumulate so much around it.

The stress. The roles. The old stories. The responsibilities. The ways we've learned to protect ourselves.

Which has me wondering:

What if rejuvenation isn't really about becoming younger?

What if it's about becoming more alive?

This is something I've been exploring deeply in my own life — including through an unexpected journey with my skin — and it inspired this week's podcast series.

If you've been...

• carrying so much for others that you've forgotten what lights you up
• moving through your days feeling responsible, productive — and a little depleted
• tending everyone else while forgetting how to receive care yourself
• missing the playful, curious, spontaneous version of yourself
• longing to feel lighter, more radiant, and more connected to life again

...this week's journey was created for you.

EPISODE 064 ~ HIGHER HEART CHAKRA REFLECTION

What happens when someone who has spent her life healing others suddenly needs to receive healing herself?

My dear friend and fellow Ayurveda teacher Dr. Avanti Kumar-Singh joins me for a deeply vulnerable conversation about her experience with breast cancer, learning to receive, and rediscovering childlike wonder on the other side of something that changed her life.

✨ Listen if you're usually the strong one, the giver, the healer — and receiving has always been harder than giving.

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064: When the Healer Needs H... Aug 31 · True to Yourself: your s... 66:39   ​

EPISODE 065 ~ HIGHER HEART CHAKRA RITUAL

What if rejuvenation has less to do with resisting the passage of time — and more to do with how fully we allow ourselves to be alive?

In this episode, I share three Ayurvedic-inspired rituals for rejuvenation that I've been exploring in my own life — practices for tending the body, releasing what weighs us down, and reconnecting with the part of ourselves that still knows how to experience wonder.

We'll also explore the ancient goddess archetype Mahagauri and my own unexpected skin journey — including how caring for my skin has become less about trying to "fix" something and more about learning to tend myself with love.

✨ Listen if you're ready to discover three simple rituals for returning to greater vitality, joy, and aliveness.

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065: How to Feel Young Again... Sep 2 · True to Yourself: your s... 21:27   ​

Bring the Ritual Home 🌿

One of the Ayurvedic practices I share in Episode 065 is the art of anointing the body with oil — transforming skincare into an act of loving care.

It felt like the perfect moment to introduce my new Things I Love shop, where I'll be sharing Ayurvedic beauty, wellness tools, books, and other things I love.

I'm delighted to begin with Sahajan, created by my friend Lisa Mattam to bridge ancient Ayurvedic wisdom with modern clinical science. I have the joy of serving as Advisor of Ayurveda to Sahajan and advised on the creation of their beautiful Sacred Flower Oil.

Use ANANTA-15 for 15% off Sahajan products.

My organization The Ancient Way may earn a commission from these affiliate links at no additional cost to you, helping us share ancient wisdom more widely. 🌿

EPISODE 066 ~ HIGHER HEART CHAKRA RELEASE

Is there an old version of yourself you've been carrying that's ready to be released?

In this guided visualization, we follow the wisdom of the cobra shedding its skin — releasing an old belief, role, identity, or way of protecting yourself that may once have served you, but no longer fits who you're becoming.

And underneath that old skin, we invite back something that may have been waiting there all along:

playfulness. softness. wonder. rest. joy.

✨ Listen if you're ready to release what no longer needs to grow older with you.

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066: How to Release What's A... Sep 4 · True to Yourself: your s... 14:54   ​

What's Coming Next

This week, our journey invited us to experience rejuvenation as a return to aliveness.

To tend ourselves with love.

To release what has grown too heavy.

To make room for delight.

And to remember that the part of us capable of wonder was never lost.

Perhaps it was simply waiting for us to come back.

Next week, we arrive at Leading With Integrity — the culmination of our nine-part Divine Feminine Hero's Journey, and the place all of this inner work has been preparing us to reach.

Because all of this inner work — learning to feel safe, reclaim our power, open our hearts, speak our truth, trust our inner knowing, and return to aliveness — was never meant to end with us.

It prepares us for how we show up in the world.

How we lead.

How we serve.

How we use our gifts, our voice, and our influence without abandoning who we are.

Next week, we'll explore what it means to lead from the person you've become — with integrity, courage, and a deep alignment between what you believe and how you live.

And whether you've been walking with me from the beginning or you've only just arrived, you can enter the journey here.

Reflect. Ritual. Release.

I'd love for you to subscribe on your favorite podcast app so you don't miss what's next.

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And if someone came to mind while reading this — someone who has carried a lot, given a lot, and could use a reminder that there is still so much life waiting to be lived — I'd be so grateful if you'd share this week's journey with them.

Some of the most meaningful healing begins when one person quietly says,

"I thought of you."

Thank you for trusting me with your attention, your heart, and a small part of your own journey home.