Gather & Pause

Gather & Pause 🪶 A virtual sanctuary for women
🌿 Calm • Creativity • Connection
🪺The Nest Retreat Center
🪑The Kitchen Table Community

03/08/2026

Happy International Women’s Day!

I accepted an invitation from some Substack women to create a 21st-century response to IWD26. I created, Women Weaving: A Manifesto.

Thank you to the women in my community who helped shape this manifesto. And to those whose photographs appear in the video version of this manifesto - women who gathered in the forest, who walked with a medicine woman, and who continue to walk beside one another.

Your presence lives inside these words.

03/05/2026

Are you looking for a spacious pause, a place to slow down, create with your hands, and spend time connecting with others?

Threads of Color is a collaboration with watercolor artist Christine Vabre of . Together, we’ve designed a spacious, hands-on gathering for slowing down, creating beauty, and enjoying the quiet companionship of others.

Join us on Saturday, March 14 from 10:30am - 2:30 pm MDT for this virtual retreat experience. To register, hit the link in the bio.

This month’s magazine is called Tending the Hearth. It’s full of ideas to prepare a place for what wants to grow. Link...
03/02/2026

This month’s magazine is called Tending the Hearth. It’s full of ideas to prepare a place for what wants to grow. Link in the bio.

There’s a lot happening in the Nest in March. You’re invited to check it out! Link in the bio.
03/02/2026

There’s a lot happening in the Nest in March. You’re invited to check it out! Link in the bio.

The barn door has been opened.After a season of quiet tending, the Nest Retreat Center is ready to host its first gather...
02/10/2026

The barn door has been opened.

After a season of quiet tending, the Nest Retreat Center is ready to host its first gathering of the year - a half-day retreat called Threads of Color. We’re now taking registrations. https://luma.com/ib44s6n8

This is the first of four half-day retreats I’ll be offering this year. Each one is designed as a spacious pause, a place to slow down, create with your hands, and spend time connecting with others.

Threads of Color is a collaboration with watercolor artist Christine Vabre of Octopus Connection. Together, we’ve designed a spacious, hands-on gathering for slowing down, creating beauty, and enjoying the quiet companionship of others.

01/15/2026

Why celebrate love for just one day?

Connection Bingo invites us to make Valentine’s Week a practice -
one small moment of connection at a time.

Self-care.
Friendship.
Family.
Community.

Simple prompts that remind us what truly matters.

Connection Bingo is available now in The Pause Shop. Link in the bio.

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