Specifically what that means for us who love exploring our spiritual and personal growth.

My family teases me, saying that my hobby is spirituality. And, yes, it’s true. When I have free time, I don’t want to craft or play pickleball or cook. (Although I have picked up mahjong and love that!) I want to dive into the spiritual space. As a woman in one of my circles recently said, “I love all this spiritual sh*t!” It’s fun. Not to mention informative, inspiring… and yes, uncomfortable when it asks us to grow.

Here’s one way I’ve been thinking about it: when I'm exploring or doing a deep dive into something, like a teacher, a practice, a book, a modality, I'm essentially building a recipe. I add little from here, a pinch from there. Not every ingredient has to make it into my dish. Some just don’t fit… they might even leave a bad taste in my mouth. I see this simply as information.

Discernment doesn't mean being cynical. It doesn't mean walking into spiritual spaces with our arms crossed, looking for “gotcha moments,” or waiting to be disappointed. It means staying curious and open while also staying tethered to ourselves. This isn't about deciding what's good or bad, true or false, or worthy or not. It's about asking the question: does this feel right for me, right now, in this season of my life?

The women in my circles are not a serious bunch. We laugh a lot. There's a healthy irreverence in how we approach this stuff. And part of that is knowing it's okay to question what's in front of us without judgment or without embarrassment, but with a good old fashioned gut check. Simply checking in with our intuitive guidance.

That's inner authority, and I think it's one of the most important things we can cultivate for ourselves within in the spiritual space.

I wrote more about this over on Substack — including why true belonging is always an inside job, and what it looks like to build a spiritual life from the inside out. Come read it when you have a few minutes.

📿 Feel better in 14 minutes. Free meditation for anxiety relief.

⭕️ The gift of spiritual friendship: “Spiritual friendship does not require elaborate structures. It begins simply: an invitation for coffee, a walk, a conversation that moves beyond surface-level updates. It requires initiative, intentionality, and vulnerability.”

🪣 The psychology behind creating a reverse bucket list. (And how to start your own.)

🌊 "Because of the nature of life, re-ensouling is not optional if we hope to weather the storms and tend our own divine flame." Read this beautiful piece.

🚿🎥 Spirit the Black Leopard: Watch this clip about an animal communicator and how she helps a black leopard and its keeper. Shared with me by a HTLC light-holder, Heather King (thanks, Heather!), who says, “It’s an amazing story. And the metaphor, of course, is that we think that the snarling, mean, dark parts of ourselves are bad. We don’t understand them and try to control them and that just makes it worse! If we learn how to listen to and understand the darkness, we often find they are the most sensitive and powerful parts of ourselves and we can have a new relationship with them and receive their gifts! Diablo’s transformation to Spirit is the perfect example.” A beautiful take on shadow work.

→ Summer Solstice this Sunday, June 21 ☀️ Some questions to ask yourself at this midpoint.

→ Beauty and light, found in the dark. 12 dazzling images from this photography contest. 📸

→ Random funny signs spotted in the wild. 🤭

For a small group only

Okay, I’m doing my official rollout about this starting in July, but I’m so lit up about it, I’m jumping the gun and sharing it here. (I mean, there’s a reason why my maiden name is Gunning!)

If you have been in any of my book studies on The Freedom Transmissions or on my community calls and workshops, I think you have a good idea of what this energy will feel like in this new 6-week course I’ve designed. It’s a live cohort and we are in it together.

This is six weeks of honest conversation and real community with other women, built around specific teachings I’ve cultivated from The Freedom Transmissions that speak to inner peace, personal freedom, and living closer to who you actually are. Not a page-by-page book study — a curated coaching journey through the wisdom, where it comes off the page and into your actual life.

The Alchemy Transmissions arrives September 22. It will ask us to dissolve "servitude through suffering" and step into Divine and human co-creation. But you cannot dissolve what you cannot see, and you cannot co-create from a self you've abandoned or know you’re growing out of. To step into our what’s next, we need to do our due diligence and make sure we’re grounded and ready.

This cohort builds the platform Alchemy assumes: knowing yourself at a soul level, what stories are holding you back, what you're ready to release… and, ultimately how you’re ready to show up in the world.

Then we can offer our service through joy. Then we can share our divine gifts. Then we’ll be in a place where we feel ready to truly give and receive.

It’s freedom first, then alchemy.

No more complacency when it comes to your divine gifts. This cohort is about courage.

And the timing is by design: we end on Thursday, September 17 — and the book arrives five days later.

A six-week cohort for women who want to stop performing and start being who they actually are — before the next chapter begins.

💜 P.S. Forward this email to one person you think might like it. That’s how this grows — one light-builder at a time. And if someone forwarded this to you and you’d like to keep receiving it, sign up here.

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