January 2026: Why Everything Feels So Heavy Right Now

In this episode, I begin by pausing.Before diving into today’s conversation with my guest, I wanted to hold space for the emotional weight so many of us are carrying right now. This is the first full week of January 2026, and everywhere I turn — with my clients, in my community, and in my own body — I feel the grief, anger, fear, and exhaustion moving through the collective.I speak honestly about what it’s been like to witness this moment as a former therapist and as someone stepping more fully onto the priestess path. I share why I am moving away from the medicalized lens of diagnosis — not because suffering isn’t real, but because so much of what people are experiencing is a natural response to living in a world that does not support human life, rest, connection, creativity, or safety.In this reflection, I explore:Why anxiety, depression, burnout, and numbness are often symptoms of systemic failure — not individual brokennessWhat it means to hold collective grief and rage without collapsing into hopelessnessThe priestess role of holding duality: honoring the collapse of old structures while still tending the vision of what comes nextWhy feeling our feelings fully is not indulgent — it’s essentialHow rage and grief can be alchemized into clarity, courage, and creative powerI talk about the necessity of fierce love — love that is tender and boundaried, compassionate and unwilling to accept what is dehumanizing. I reflect on the fear that comes with imagining an entirely different way of living, and why change will not come all at once, but through sustained courage, heart, and collective imagination.This episode is also a reminder of why I created this podcast in the first place: to help seed new blueprints for how we live, love, heal, relate to money, steward technology, and care for the earth and one another. The change we are longing for does not come from outside authority — it comes from within us, and then between us.Toward the end of the episode, I share about my upcoming eight-week beta course Sacred Desire, and why I believe reclaiming desire, pleasure, and embodied truth is deeply radical work in times like these. I speak to how women reconnecting with their desire, boundaries, and inner fire is not escapism — it is world-changing.Join the Sacred Desire Waitlist Here! Inside Sacred Desire, we focus on:Reclaiming your relationship to sexuality, intimacy, and pleasureUnderstanding the barriers that have disconnected you from your desireHealing in community rather than isolationRising together, supported and witnessedIf you feel a pull toward this work, I invite you to join the waitlist. When you do, you’ll receive:My FREE Sacred Body Workbook: A Guide to Healing Body Image + Embracing PleasureA FREE 45-minute Desire Discovery Call with meSpace to discern, without pressure, whether this container is right for youAbove all, this episode is an offering of presence. A reminder that you are not alone, that your feelings make sense, and that even in the heaviness, something new is trying to be born.Hold your grief. Honor your rage. Do not abandon hope.We are still creating what comes next — together.Join the Sacred Desire Waitlist Here! The course begins January 21st, 2026. If you cannot make this round AND want to be on the waitlist for future launches of this course, please also join the waitlist and we can begin your reclamation journey through a free desire discovery call and being in my newsletter community before future launches.Please send this to a friend that you think may benefit from this work as well. I am so grateful to anyone that is spreading the word about this sacred work and helping those that are ready step into the divine fire and collective love and liberation.