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Parenting by Design

Storytelling through the lens of Human Design, child energetics, and motherhood as a lived practice.

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A Realistic Guide to Working With Your Human Design ‘Type’

Your type isn’t a prescription for your energy. Here’s a more empowering way to understand and work with your type through the lens of parenting + motherhood

Substack Got Me Pregnant

Expanding my capacity through writing, clearing my channel for a spirit baby, and listening to (+ ignoring) the signs.

What It Actually Looks Like to Stop Performing

The five subtle ways I was abandoning myself in the name of being easy, productive, agreeable, and “aligned.”

The Cost of Confronting the Root of Your Pain

The thing I wasn't expecting my inner child to show me during a post-confrontation energy healing

The Friendship Breakup That Cracked Me Open

On the whirlwind of grief, performance, and the sentence that ended my closest adult friendship - and sent me looking for myself.

How to Use Human Design to Design Your Home: Kids Bedroom + Playroom Edition

Creating spaces where your children can rest, play, and become more of who they already are

Designing a Life I Don’t Want to Run From

Being in devotion to my home, leaning fully into motherhood, channeling spirit babies, and embracing the parts of myself I've been hiding

Mom-Envy is a Portal

What "that mom" on the internet is actually showing me about myself

Keep your friends close, and your Projectors closer

A love letter to Projectors, and those of us who haven't yet figured out how to lean on one another.

Human Design Digestion For Babies + Kids: Breastfeeding, Weaning, Starting Solids + Picky Eaters

A practical guide on how to actually use the deeper layers of the system to condition them *correctly* from day one

We Should Send Our Husbands Away More Often

How I survived five days alone with my kids without pulling my hair out or resenting my husband. And what it taught me about wanting to send him away more, go all in with my kids, and try for a third.

It's All Inside You

And why growling at a toddler might be the exact thing you need right now

What kind of parent raises a child who feels safe to be their True Self?

Hypothesizing what it takes to raise a child who never has to hide from you

Confessions of a misaligned Self-Projected Projector

On driving myself into the ground and building up the courage to say the hard Truth out loud

What If Some Projector Narratives are Limiting Me?

The stories mothers tell themselves about time, sacrifice, and putting everyone else first

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All the ways my 6/2 Ego Manifestor daughter is SO her design.

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Surviving Monday As a Projector Mom

On learning to honor your energy when the world says go

What Happens When You Finally Start Listening to Yourself?

How Human Design helped me identify what I specifically need to stay connected to myself

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Maybe I Don't Need A Different Life

Every time I feel the nagging urge to flee, I’m challenging myself to sink deeper into what’s right in front of me.

Why Does Parenting Feel So Different as a Projector?

How Projectors can use their gifts to parent more effectively

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I Am Actually Enjoying Motherhood

So why do I feel so embarrassed to admit it?