March doesn't announce itself with certainty. It arrives the way transformation always does: With one foot still in the cold and one reaching toward something it can't yet name. Neither winter nor spring. Neither who you were nor who you're becoming. This is the liminal space. The threshold. And most of us have been taught to rush through it. In my work with women in recovery and transformation, I've come to believe that the doorway itself is sacred, not just what waits on the other side. The...

This March lunar cycle carries us from the Full Moon in Virgo to the New Moon in Pisces - an alchemical journey from striving to acceptance , from control to trust, from perfecting to allowing. In the language of Lunar Alchemy, this is the movement from Earth to Water , from the part of us that wants to analyze, improve, and fix, into the part of us that must learn to rest, soften, and surrender . In recovery and wellness, Virgo energy is deeply familiar. It shows up as: The desire to get...

Eighteen years ago, I put down substances. What I didn't know then - what nobody tells you in early recovery - is that sobriety is just the beginning. You clear away the alcohol, the drugs, the destructive behaviors. You do the work, whether that means showing up to meetings, working through steps, being consistent with therapies, or developing other practices. You rebuild your life. And then, if you're lucky, you get to face the really uncomfortable question: Now what? Because the world...