the format of these monthly updates is directly inspired by how my family and I stay connected with each other. you can expect some main points, some tangential stories, some vulnerable reflections on things that feel uncertain, and an invitation to share what’s up with you too.

🌕♑ here’s some snapshots of what june looked like:

🏠 We go to digital apartment viewings

🥷 4 months and a few sessions later, we finish our ‘intro to D&D’ one-shot

☕ After weathering some gross drive-by mischief, we have a great coffee-hang with friends

🥣 We enjoy some salmon bowls and camaraderie over missing our first rental offer due to Gmail spam/tab filters

🐜 A singular ant shows up during a qi gong practice in which I was deeply grieving what I would have to change in my habits to adjust to the rule of thirds when it comes to my capacity

🏠 More apartment viewings

☕ Another yummy, fun caffeinated friend-date

🐌 We rescue a wayward snail who had somehow found it’s way onto a ferry

📰 I experience the simple joy of seeing my Toolkit offering in Garden’s newsletter for the first time

⭕ I take more hula hoop breaks while working

💃 I dance a little bit in my living room

📦 We start packing up with still no new place lined up to live

💭 My dreams are even wilder than usual

🏠 So many apartment applications and viewings

🗣️ My friend and I discuss sensory nightmare desserts, our curiosity around how World Cup athletes in the U.S. are handling U.S. food, the hilarity of Scully and Mulder being bad at their jobs, and the embodied process of caring about making food that tastes good

⛈️ Thunderstorms show up for support on the day we activate our contingency plan to ask to stay with friends at the end of our lease—complete with the most dazzling 90+ minute lightning show I’ve seen in a long time

🪩 We celebrate a cherished friend’s birthday with an epic CC rave

😵‍💫 We gather documents to file taxes for our first year in the NL

🏠 Still applying, still viewing

🥳 A mix of dark ambient music and Bad Bunny playlists help me wrangle enough focus to finish building the Healing Artists’ Directory for We Still Move in time for a solstice launch

🃏 Getting to look forward to another delightful and mirthful game night with good friends helps get us through the slog of the apartment hunt

💰 We unexpectedly receive a small chunk of funds for huurtoeslag that we thought we didn’t qualify for

🌡️ A historic heatwave arrives just as we start packing up our apartment, bringing with it the hottest evening on record in the NL

🫂 We temporarily stay with gracious, supportive friends

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 I virtually attend part of my 2026 family reunion after months of sending newsletters

🛠️ We help out some sweet friends with renovations at their place

👂 My ear clogs ups from allergies

🏴‍☠️ We finally start watching One Piece! We Are!

🎤 We get to hear a dear friend sing

🏠 We end June with still no place to rent

soothing words that found me during hard times

What is rooted is easy to nourish
What is brittle is easy to break
What is recent is easy to correct
What is small is easy to scatter

the Dao De Ching, quoted by Mimi Kuo-Deemer in a qi gong class I attended

conversations with myself

I really didn’t know how much I needed that thunderstorm this month. In this clinging heat to sit and watch the storm resist the very dark of night itself. To sit in the dark and let the thunder wash over me, reveling in the fickle splashing of rain on the window. The disparate mumbles of thunder, their crescendo into mirthful din and booming banter. It’s a feast and the cavalry has arrived. I miss this wonder, this smallness. It’s a relief to shrink into a more wieldly form, no longer so big to keep bumping up against my sprawling mess of worry. When I can feel the rumble in my heart, it’s the quiet bliss of resonance, sharing a wavelength with the storm. You will never convince me that fireworks are better than this.

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As nervous as I’ve been for everything—housing, taxes, upcoming visa deadlines, getting a business off the ground, facilitating in this bodymind that keeps just feeling more and more unfamiliar every day—I find that, for all the anxiety I experience before facilitating, it’s the thing that comes most easily to me. Much like I miss dancing, and much like I’m probably so rusty, I also see how quickly it all comes back, if a little clumsy at first. Never do I feel more like “I can do this” than while I’m doing it. Which doesn’t help with pre-facilitation jitters unfortunately. If anything, it feels like an undeniable call to keep doing, keep being in it, that it’s something I can do regardless of whether I feel like it is.

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I found myself a bit envious and a bit in the same boat with this snail who found itself on the ferry. Moving slowly aboard something slowly moving, not knowing how much further is left to go. But the snail gets to do so with home already on its back. I wish someone could pick me up too, and let me land in a better place to live. We're a bit accustomed to living out of suitcases at this point. As much as it's not the most comfortable, we're definitely getting a lot of practice/experience with the vulnerability of asking for (and accepting) help.
And it makes all the difference to not have to figure it out alone ❤️‍🩹.

✨ where you can find me this month

• Resilience Toolkit practice group | sign up
  weekly on Thursdays @ 8am ET / 1pm GMT / 2pm CET

• Spots open for CC Solo 3-part Resilience Toolkit Intro

  • It’s been awhile since the last PWYC CC Resilience Toolkit Intro I hosted back in February. It may still be awhile before I can host another.

  • In the meantime, I have some availability for more flexible sliding scale 1:1 series.

• July availability: 3-part Resilience Toolkit Intro for orgs / private groups

  • Do you have a group of folks who want to learn the Resilience Toolkit? If you already know times that everyone can show up, I can work with your capacity and desired session frequency to host a private intro series for your work team, your community garden pals, your D&D group, your family—whomever!

• Accepting contract work for admin / newsletter / systems transition needs

  • in addition to my own newsletter, I maintain the regular newsletter for my family’s bi-annual reunion, along with similar services other more formal clients ☺️ If you’ve been wanting to get away from MailChimp, ConstantContact, Gmail, etc. for your newsletter—or just want support with a new/established one, I can send over a quote for what a project / ongoing support for that looks like.

Thanks for reading, wishing you moments of ritual, rest, and restoration.

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