Life Is Pure Participation. And BOOK LAUNCH!

Dear loves,

Life is pure participation. 

You participate through how you perceive yourself and the world around you, you participate with your presence, and you participate with your co-creation—whether a conversation, a glance, a movement, a word, a child, a song, or a moment.

You participate whole-heartedly every time you remember who you are. Every time you remember what lights you up and you move from that. Every time you show up to life in a way that is true to the raw flesh and emotional waters and soul bones of you. And if you do that, you feel like a woman LIVED. You feel alive to yourself and through yourself. 

You participate whole-energetically when you find a spaciousness of love and curiosity around the being you are. When you not only affirm you will know her and unknow her as many times as she may ask you to, but you will faithfully also LIVE her. 

You participate when through the way you move in your moments, you vibrate the unique frequency you are. It is through living that essential frequency of you that harmony arises. Life sifts to find what is resonant to you, what magnifies you, and what evolves you. 

You let yourself be felt when you live not for what society may have told you life is. Not for who others may wish to shape you into. Not for how fear may contort and distort your essence. But for the light and being you are that you know as home—indescribable, magnetic, and luminescent.

She is you, and she is always ahead of you, too, calling you to more of your innate being, asking you to be a vaster Love.

When my dear friend and author Marianne Richmond and I sat down to write the guided writing journal "This Book Is a Retreat" a soulful pact was made within.

If we are going to give a book THAT name, then it must carry the energetic imprint of what a retreat is to us, and for me personally through ten years of devotion in circle facilitation, what a retreat has revealed itself to be to me and the women who have gathered.

Because for me a retreat is only a retreat if it invites you—calmly, vividly, steadily, and in some sweet resonance in your soul—towards yourself. Towards your essential being. Towards unlocking what gets in the way. Towards the unique vibratory signature you are and you share. Because I want, and life wants, you to participate as YOU.

I write to you today, having first held this book two weeks ago, feeling in that very moment within the seed of my soul heart—the magic IS in here. And, quite literally, so much of the retreat journey has also been poured into these pages. 

This Book Is a Retreat: 101 Soul-Nourishing Questions to Reconnect with Yourself is launching at the end of this week, and is currently available for pre-order. I'm over the moon sending notes out to women who have joined in this circle, asking them to lend their energetic vibrance to the launch of this new "retreat" into the world.

Our deepest wish is this guided journal finds it way into hands and groups of hands, and further expands the circle. 

I am going to be sharing more and giving you glimpses into these pages. I will also soon invite you to join me in a community journey. For now, I wish to share my joy, and to invite you into this book, where I have faith you will find more of you, and more of yours. 

With love and reverence,

Aimee