The Shift Shop

Research suggests that spending at least 120 minutes in nature each week is associated with better health and well-being and it doesn’t have to happen all at once.

Before this becomes another wellness goal to perfect, let smaller moments count: coffee on the porch (my fav) , ten minutes beneath a tree, a walk without tracking your pace, or simply noticing the sky between appointments.

Nature cannot repair an unsustainable workload, but it can offer the body fewer demands and more room to notice what it needs.

Choose one place outside and protect 20 minutes there this week. Where will you go?

If you lead a team, consider how you can protect time for restoration not merely recommend it.
Source: White et al., Scientific Reports (2019).

My recent continuing education has brought me deeper into somatic healing, yoga, breathwork, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and back to something I have witnessed throughout my career:
The body often registers strain before an organization names the problem.

Somatic based practices can help people recognize what they are feeling, reconnect with themselves, and respond with greater intention. But those tools should never become another way of asking people to adapt indefinitely to chronic urgency, invisible labor, or inadequate support.

Sustainable change requires both: resources for the person and an honest examination of the conditions surrounding them.

If your organization is ready to move beyond individual resilience and address what is shaping people’s capacity, start a conversation with The Shift Shop.

You don’t have to connect with your baby in a “perfect” way.

Some days it’s the kicks, the quiet moments, the bedtime snuggles. Other days, connection might feel harder to find, and that’s okay, too.

“I accept how I connect with my baby right now.”

A gentle reminder from the Centering YOU card deck to meet yourself where you are, without comparison or pressure.

✨ Pull a card. Take a breath. Come back to yourself.

Shop the Centering You card decks at centeringyou.com.

What kind of rest are you actually missing?

Sometimes rest isn’t about doing less. It’s about recognizing what’s been asking too much of you.

Physical rest. Sensory rest. Emotional rest. Mental rest. Relational rest.

And sometimes what we need most is structural support—not another self-care assignment to add to the list.

We’re reflecting on what it really means to rest, and why the Second Shift Dress was designed with that question in mind.

Read the full perspective on the blog. Link in bio.

Today, on Labor Day, I’m thinking about a dress with no pockets.

Before The Shift Shop, there was an old sundress—and a question:

What are women carrying that our systems don’t see?

The dress never became a business, but the question stayed with me. It became the foundation for The Shift Shop and the work I do today.

This Labor Day, I’m honoring the labor that often goes unnamed: caregiving, organizing, anticipating, and holding everything together.

The dress is on ice.

The work isn’t.

Read the full origin story at the link in bio.

We’re feeling the loss of two women who changed the world in very different ways.

Dolly Parton and Gloria Steinem reminded us that there is no one way to be a powerful woman. You can build, organize, write, sing, disrupt, nurture, speak your mind, and make your own rules along the way.

So much of what we take for granted today was once something women had to fight, demand, and imagine into existence.

We’re grateful for their voices. Grateful for their courage. Grateful for the space they made for all of us to become more fully ourselves.

And we’re reminded: **the work of making more room for women is never finished.**

We keep going.