Letters from Bali

Naming Your Shadow: How We Use the Gene Keys to Make Decisions as a Couple

Her shadow is withdrawing. His is overcomplicating. Naming them out loud changed how we make decisions in a marriage and a company. The honest version, including what the system cannot do.

What Are the Gene Keys? And How Two of Us Divided a Company With Them

Gene Keys explained in plain language, plus what happened when we read ours side by side. One of us came out the Remembering Woman. The other came out the Teacher. We divided the company along that...

Emotional Authority and the Art of Not Deciding Today

Roughly half of all Human Design charts carry Emotional Authority, which says there is no truth in the now. What that looks like in a wardrobe, a business and a life built on waiting.

How We Run a Business on Two Different Human Design Types

I am a Manifesting Generator with Emotional Authority. My husband is a Generator with Sacral Authority. One of us cannot decide today and the other decides instantly. Here is how we built a company...

What Is Human Design? The Five Types, Explained Honestly

Human Design in plain language. The five types, what your Strategy and Authority mean, where the system came from, and an honest account of what it can and cannot claim.

The Photograph She Almost Didn't Send

On the messages that arrive with no question in them, and what twice a week for several years has taught me about what women are actually telling you when they send a photograph.

The Drawer I Open Before Virgo Season

A practical letter for the six quiet days before the Sun enters Virgo. One drawer, three piles, and a way of taking inventory that does not require throwing anything away.

The First Piece I Didn't Sew Myself

A letter from Bali on the week the work stopped being only my hands, and what it actually costs to teach a craft rather than hoard it.

The Comb I Keep by the Window

Three mornings after the eclipse, the crescent came back. A letter on the forty second hair ritual that actually changes something, and why the practices that work are almost always this small.

The Five Day in a Nine Month

Today is a five day inside a nine month. Five wants to move, nine wants to release, and the pull in two directions is not a sign that anything is wrong with you.