Who am I becoming, and what kind of life do I want to make?

We begin by stepping back from the noise and asking a deceptively simple question:

What do I actually want?

We’ll explore desire, values, identity, imagination and personal mythos, and the difference between a life we genuinely want and a life we have simply learned to pursue.

Inner: Visioning the life you want to live. Exploring the archetypes that move you, who you want to be in the world, and what matters to you.

Outer: Turning that vision into an initial life map — the beginnings of a practical plan for work, money, relationships, health, home and personal growth.

This map will become our touchstone throughout the year.

Participants may also choose to work with an astrologer or other trusted practitioner as a complementary way of exploring this material.

Learning to live inside the body you have.

Our bodies are not obstacles to overcome on the way to becoming ourselves.

They are where we live.

This month is an introduction to caring for the body through food, nourishment, rhythm, rest, movement and relationship with the natural world.

Inner: Reconnecting with the body as a source of information, intuition and wisdom. Exploring embodiment as a way of becoming more deeply at home in ourselves.

Outer: Home cooking, nourishment, herbs and foundational practices for caring for your physical wellbeing and hormonal cycles.

Who am I beneath the noise, and what is the deeper thread running through my life?

What is the self?

Who is the voice that says I’m not good enough?
Who is the part that wants to run away?
Who is the part that desperately wants to be loved?

And what happens when we learn to relate to these parts rather than letting them run our lives?

This month invites us into the inner world: the psyche, the stories we tell ourselves, and how we can listen to a deeper current.

Inner: Meditation, parts work, self-inquiry, and practices for meeting difficult emotions and internal conflict with spaciousness and curiosity.

Outer: Creating a personal toolkit for navigating stress, uncertainty and challenge, as well as practices and touchstones that help you stay connected to what feels meaningful in times of unknown — including supportive herbs, breathwork, astrology, tarot and storytelling.

What does it mean to create a home of your own?

We turn toward one of the most tangible questions of adulthood:

How do I make a home that feels like mine?

Home is more than a physical space. It is the place where our inner and outer lives meet — the rhythms we create, the things we care for, the people we let in, and the relationships we maintain with the people and places we came from.

This month is about learning to create a home and community of your own while staying connected to the family you came from.

Inner: Exploring what home means to you, what it means to become your own person, and how to stay connected to family while developing greater autonomy. We’ll explore healthy boundaries with family, changing roles with parents, and the question of what it means to belong to yourself.

Outer: The practical foundations of tending a home: housekeeping, cleaning rhythms, laundry, organization, caring for your belongings, creating a functional and beautiful space, and the everyday practices that make a home feel cared for.

We’ll also explore the joys of domestic life — cooking, hosting, ritual and altar-making, beauty, and the small acts of space-tending that make a place feel alive.

OPTIONAL HOME RETREAT

There will also be an optional in-person retreat in the Hudson Valley for those who want to deepen the work together in person.

We’ll spend time practicing what we’re learning: cooking together, tending a space, building an altar, reflecting on family and boundaries, sharing a meal, and exploring what it means to create a home with intention.

And, we can roast a chicken and make soup together.

How do I want to love, and how do I want to be loved?

Our relationships are some of the most powerful mirrors we have.

This month turns toward intimacy, sexuality, self-worth, attachment and the patterns we bring into relationship.

Inner: Exploring desire, self-worth, attachment and relational trauma, parts and the places where we protect ourselves from intimacy.

Outer: Communication, boundaries, relational practices and creating a clearer vision for the kinds of relationships we want to participate in.

We’ll ask:

Where am I now?
What have I learned?
What do I want to call in and let go of in my current and future relationships?

What do I have to give the world?

Work is more than a way of earning money.

It can also be an expression of our gifts, values, curiosity and desire to contribute to our ecosystem and community.

But meaningful work does not always arrive as a lightning bolt of certainty. This month we will look at the venn diagram of our interests, skills, curiosities, golden threads, and deepest desires to explore what work we might want to put ourselves on the path of — knowing that it is always okay to change your mind.

Inner: Exploring vocation, purpose, gifts and the question: What kind of contribution feels meaningful to me?

Outer: Exploring career paths, experimentation, networking, skill-building and the practical process of turning interests and abilities into a working life.

We’ll use Ikigai as one framework for beginning to map the intersection of what you love, what you are good at, what the world needs and what can support you materially.

How do I make a living without losing myself?

Money is practical.
Money is emotional.
Money is cultural.

And for many of us, it carries far more meaning than the numbers in our bank account.

This month is about developing a healthier, more conscious relationship with money.

Inner: Examining our beliefs, fears, inherited stories and desires around money. Exploring abundance, what “enough” actually means, and the possibility of feeling resourced.

Outer: The practical foundations of financial adulthood: earning, spending, saving, budgeting, planning, responsibility and making decisions with the money you actually have.

The goal isn’t to become obsessed with money.

It’s to become capable of tending it in service of the life you want to live.

How do I tend the place I call home?

Having explored how to tend ourselves and the homes we create, we widen the circle.

The home we inhabit is part of a much larger home — the earth, the ecosystems, seasons and living beings that sustain us.

This month is about cultivating a more intimate relationship with the natural world and exploring what it means to be mindful stewards of the place we live.

Inner: Practices for slowing down, paying attention and reconnecting with the earth as a source of nourishment, wisdom and belonging. Exploring our relationship to place, seasonality, interdependence and the more-than-human world.

Outer: Practical ways of tending the earth in everyday life — composting, recycling, reducing waste, growing food, caring for the land around us, and making more conscious choices about what we consume and discard.

We’ll ask:

What does it mean to be a good inhabitant of this place?
What do I have a responsibility to tend?
How might my everyday choices become expressions of relationship and care?

OPTIONAL RETREAT

May will include an optional in-person retreat in the Hudson Valley centered around connection to the land, seasonal living, gardening, food and the experience of making something tangible together.

Take what you’ve learned and begin.

The final month is about gathering the pieces and moving forward.

We’ll return to the life map we created in October.

What has changed?
What no longer fits?
What wants to grow?
What have I learned about myself?
What kind of life am I actually building now?

This is not about having everything figured out or having become the finished version of yourself, but knowing yourself well enough to take the next step.

We’ll translate everything we’ve learned into a practical next chapter.

What are you ready to begin?
What are you ready to leave behind?
What does the life you’ve been imagining actually require of you?
What is the next right step?

This is where we move from reflection into action.