Why I’m Choosing a Winter Pause (and Courting the Muse)
Why I’m taking a winter pause from new projects, how Chronos and Kairos time shape creative flow, and why I’m courting the muse.
Finding Warmth in the In-Between Season
Seasonal living in the chilly weeks before woodstove season: sweaters, sourdough, a mug in the sun, and small pockets of warmth while you wait.
Further Along
The Rewilding Field Guide pairs each step of the journey with body-based practices, including Jin Shin Jyutsu points, so insight moves through you.
Scary Beautiful
A quarterly reflection on massage, brainstorming, and the year of writing — on why structure is what makes it possible to work at your edge instead of past it.
Out of Apples
Decades ago, a dusty secondhand book changed the direction of my life in about a hundred pages. Here's why I wrote one, hoping to do the same for someone else.
She Who Holds Our Freedom
Before Rewilding Yourself was a book, she was a painting. A painting that wrote a story.
I Was Somewhere Else
On forgetting a deadline, choosing a yes and ten days that don't come easily anymore.
Six Roses, and a Face I Still Remember
On living through a dark night of the soul in a town that didn't approve of energy work, and learning we rarely know what we're doing for others just by healing ourselves.
The Nudge—On trusting a feeling before you can explain it
A finished plan, an unexpected pivot, and what it means to trust an inner sensation before you can fully explain it.
The Impermanence of All Things
Original mixed-media painting by Suzanne Schevene Brokaw showing pale vertical forms rising from a swirling coral and green underlayer
The Monkey I Didn't Ask For
A painting session that didn't go as expected and what showed up instead. On trusting what emerges.
Witnessed—An experience of True Reflection
On being truly seen — not read, not skimmed, but witnessed — and what it confirmed about a life built differently than most.
She's Ready. So Am I.
Rewilding Yourself: A Wilderness Journey Back to Who You Actually Are is now available for pre-order. A transformational wilderness journey for women ready to come home to themselves.
Predictable, Rebellious, or Not Bothered?
When my author's copy arrived with off-center text, I asked my advance readers what they thought. Three responses, three ways of being — and what they reveal about how we move through life.
I Didn't Plan to Rewild Myself at an Art Retreat
A week on Whidbey Island turned into an unexpected rewilding journey — the Pondering Pond, Whispering Winds, the Mystic Mountains. The map has a way of finding you whether you're looking for it or not.
When You Slow Down, You Remember You Matter
Seven simple ways to tend to yourself when life gets loud — from a woman just back from her first art retreat. Self care isn't a luxury. It's how we remember we matter.
The Serious Business of Joy
I didn't mean to paint her. But Cleo the capybara had a message about joy, embodied living, and the kerfunkle I'd been putting off.
Nobody Arrives at Themselves Quickly—Becoming... Slowly
The journey back to yourself is never quick. A deeply personal story about 29 years of inner work, a ukulele, a song that became a painting, and a word written nine years before it became a book title.
The Woman Who Caught the Train … On Living Life Fully
A tribute to a woman who lived fully — who caught trains, baked cinnamon rolls over open fires, and leaned back in Hospice and said "I like it here." A meditation on courage, love, and what it means to be unapologetically yourself.