What if the headline read: “Wild-hearted rebel seen talking to trees again?"

What if you got to write the news of your own life?
That’s where this week’s Field Notes for the Soul begins.

Every Wednesday, I send out a quiet little ripple...part reflection, part remembering, part nudge to stay wild-hearted and true.
Sometimes it’s a story. Sometimes it’s a practice.
Always, it’s an invitation to come back to your own knowing.

This week’s note is all about rewriting the inner headlines…
and remembering we get to shape the story.

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New: Guided Meditations for Coming Home to Yourself

 

In a world that moves fast, pushes hard, and rarely pauses, the most radical thing we can do is come back to ourselves.

I’m thrilled to share a new offering that’s been quietly growing behind the scenes...
a collection of 5-minute guided meditations created with care and intention to help you reconnect with your breath, your body, and your truth.

Each meditation is just $5.55, downloadable, and yours to keep...so you can return to them anytime you need a reset.

Whether you're feeling scattered, overstretched, or simply longing for a moment of stillness...these meditations are little anchors. Invitations to listen inward. To soften. To return.

Here’s what’s available now:

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🌿 Let the River Reconnect You

A 5-minute guided meditation for softening, releasing, and remembering your natural rhythm.
Let the sound of river water and gentle guidance bring you back to center — perfect for quiet mornings, barefoot walks, or when life feels loud.
🎧 Includes river sounds + closing affirmation.
👉 Get the meditation »

 

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🌀 Return to the Wisdom Within

Your body holds an ancient knowing. This 5-minute practice helps you tune back in.
Through breath, sensation, and gentle prompts, you’ll remember: You have a compass. You were born with it.
🎧 Best with headphones and a quiet moment.
👉 Download here »

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🔒 The Sacred “No”

A 5-minute guided meditation to reclaim your boundaries and your energy.
Your No is not selfish. It’s sacred. This meditation is a soft but clear reminder that honoring your limits is a form of love...for yourself and the world around you.
🎧 Includes reflection + breathwork.
👉 Access now »

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🏡 Coming Home to Yourself (Free)

This one’s for everyone.
Even if you’ve felt too far gone, too tired, or too disconnected — there’s a place inside you that never left.
This short meditation is a gentle doorway back to the part of you that remembers how to come home.
✨ Completely free. No strings. Just presence.
👉 Listen for free»

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If you're new to meditation or unsure where to begin — start here.
You don’t need to be perfect or practiced.
You just need a few quiet minutes and a willingness to feel what’s real.

Because sometimes, the next step in your healing isn’t a big one.
It’s a breath.
It’s a pause.
It’s five minutes of remembering you belong to yourself.

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💛 More coming soon. But for now, may these meditations meet you where you are — and gently bring you home.

With heart,
Rachel

Photo Credit: Image by Rene Tittmann from Pixabay

 

 

 

07/31/25: What makes you feel?

 

I was asked this question some time ago...and it’s been in the back of my mind every since. This is a heart-opening question. One that makes you pause and think about things that brought you instant joy or instantly caused tears to well up in your eyes without explanation.

Feelings like these are uncontrollable. They just happen.

It’s a “this” happens...then “that” response instantaneously arrives. Like riding a roller coaster...you’re being thrashed about...up...then down...then up...then down...and the whole time your body is responding in realtime.

You walk into an art museum...and at the end of the hall is hanging one of Claude Monet’s original water lily paintings. It’s big. Something like 4 feet by 6 feet. And it takes your breath away because you realize the colors are different than what you’d seen depicted in pictures. Which then of course means...you’re looking at...and in the presence of...an original water lily painting by Monet

You get emotional...tears well up in your eyes...and you can’t explain why.

This is what it means to feel. And these are examples of things that make you feel.

When it comes to listening to your body’s conversations with you...what I mean to say here is...when your body is speaking from a soul level to you...these are the things that carry the most meaning in life on earth. The unexplainable...yet SO FULL of knowing that you wouldn’t think of questioning the truths that lay deep within that experience. You just know somewhere deep inside you that this experience was filled to overflowing with meaning and truth and infallibility.

These moments...cannot be described with simple words. There are layers upon layers upon layers of truth and knowing that a simple word cannot contain. And the emotion these moments cultivates is impalpable.

Some more examples...witnessing the birth of a child, the arrival of someone you dearly love at the airport after being absent for too long, a sunrise over the Blue Ridge Mountains, the sound of thousands of gallons of water pouring over a waterfall where you can feel it in the air...and can feel it in your bones.

Maybe now you understand what I’m speaking of here. The deep deep deeply meaningful experiences of being human with a soul. Those moments when something outside of you...where something almost celestial transcends into your personal spaces and touches your heart.

So I’ll ask you again.

What makes you feel?

Photo Credit: Henry Mowry from mowryjournal dot com Sunrise over the Blue Ridge Parkway

 

 

 

 

Wholeness is my Rebellion!

 

Not hustle. Not burnout. Not overexertion to prove I’m enough.
Wholeness.

The kind that comes from listening to my body.
From telling the truth to myself.
From choosing rest, peace, and clarity…even when the world rewards the opposite.
And from showing up...with every part of myself.

I made a shirt to wear this reminder out loud.
Because in a world that feeds on disconnection, choosing to be whole is radical.

This is for the wild hearts, the soft souls, the everyday rebels who know that coming home to yourself is the most powerful move you can make.

Shirt samples just arrived, and I finally got to put it on.
And guess what? They’re officially available now just $16.07.

If “Wholeness is my rebellion” speaks to something true in you…
you can wear it too.

Click here to grab yours.

and...I Love this Forest Green color!

 

 

 

 

Help Keep This Wild-Hearted Work Alive.

There’s a quiet truth beneath everything I create...from meditations to Field Notes, blog posts to t-shirts, river recordings to soul-fueled storytelling:

This work is personal.
It’s vulnerable.
It’s alive.

And it’s offered freely, from a place of deep calling...not just to express, but to connect. To create space for healing, reclamation, and return. To remind us that even in the chaos, there are still sacred places to land.

If you’ve found meaning here...
If something stirred, softened, lit up, or steadied in you...
If you’ve felt seen, soothed, or sparked in a way that matters...

Then first, thank you for walking this path with me. Your presence, your time, and your resonance are already a gift.

And...if you're wondering how to support the continuation of this work, here’s a simple way:

👉🏽 Want to help keep this wild-hearted work alive? You can make an offering here.

Think of it as a virtual trail snack. A refill of the creative well. A gesture of reciprocity — heart to heart.

Whether it’s $3 or $30 or simply sending this along to a friend who needs it, it all contributes to the ecosystem of this mission:
To create a healing, honest space where we can return to what’s real, together.

I believe in soul-led sustainability. In choosing work that’s aligned.
In living a life that honors the wisdom in our bones, and the truth that we were never meant to do this alone.

So if you feel called to support...thank you!
And if all you ever do is read these words and carry their essence with you?
That’s enough too.

With gratitude and reverence,
Rachel

Photo Credit: Image by Florian Dittmar from Pixabay 

Introducing Field Notes: A Weekly Invitation to Come Home to Yourself

 

There are moments when life hands you a mirror.

Sometimes it’s a quiet unraveling, sometimes a full-on rupture...but either way, you’re left standing in a space where the only path forward is deeper. Closer. Truer.

That’s where Field Notes was born.

It’s a weekly email I send each Wednesday...midweek medicine for anyone who’s been holding it all together for too long. A place where I share real reflections from the field of the forest, of the river, of the heart.

These aren’t polished essays or motivational fluff. They’re living transmissions from my own journey of unlearning, reclaiming, and wild-hearting.

Because healing isn’t linear...and coming home to yourself is a process we repeat over and over, in deeper layers each time.

In Field Notes, I write about:

• What it means to trust your body’s truth after years of override

• The quiet rebellion of choosing rest over performance

• Listening not just to the water and wind...but with them, as if your body remembers the language.

• Undoing what’s been programmed...and rewriting your own way

• Saying the sacred “no”

• And the everyday courage it takes to stop shrinking and start belonging to yourself again

You’ll also get access to the growing library of healing tools I’ve created — meditations, practices, and printable resources to help you remember who you were before the world told you otherwise.

Field Notes are free. Always.
Think of it as a gentle hand on your back midweek… a pause, a breath, a recalibration.

If you’re ready for realignment, soft rebellion, and finding your way back to the wild wisdom within you — I’d be honored to have you join us.

👉 Click here to subscribe to Field Notes and receive your free audio meditation: “The Power of the Sacred No.”

Welcome to the quiet revolution.
You don’t have to do it alone.
Let's do it together. Let's walk the audacious path of becoming ourselves again.

Photo Credit: Image by Ma_Frank from Pixabay

 

 

 

 

Wear the Reminder: “Love Is All There Is”

 

💗 A T-Shirt. A Truth. A Way of Seeing the World.

In a time when everything feels loud...the headlines, the heartbreak, the constant push to do more, prove more, be more...this shirt is a quiet offering:

Love is all there is.

Not as some fluffy idea or bypassed platitude...
But as a bone-deep remembering.

This shirt was born from that remembering.
That even when everything else is uncertain —
Even when the noise is deafening,
Even when you’re tired of holding it all together —
Love is still here.

In how we show up.
In how we choose again.
In how we extend grace to ourselves and each other.

It’s not naive to lead with love. It’s radical.

Because love asks us to soften when we want to armor up.
To stay open when the world tells us to close off.
To meet the moment...and ourselves...with compassion, not critique.

This shirt is a wearable invocation.
A gentle nudge.
A sacred mantra to carry on your chest and in your bones:

Love is all there is.

If that feels true for you — or if you want it to feel true again — this one’s for you.

🛒 Grab yours here — and let it be your daily reminder to return to love.

Share with someone who radiates this truth. Or someone who might need the reminder right now.

Let’s be the ones who choose love...again and again.