Dear Strong Woman,

The best part is coming home.

Last year I started coaching two particular women in the same month. Both incredibly magnetic. Both recently single after sudden ends to relationships. Both feeling called to find themselves again in order to move forward fully grounded in who they are.

A common theme in sessions with all my clients is the idea of creating a home within ourselves. Us women often find this to be a faraway concept at times due to years of putting others needs first. We don’t know what we truly want or need because we’ve shoved it down too long.

With each of them we dove in and did the work to discover what they needed to feel grounded and connected to the essence of themselves. Wouldn’t you know that a few short months of creating a home within led to them both buying actual brick and mortar homes.

It’s true - your outsides are reflections of your insides.

I’ve been experiencing my own home-within transformation over here. Aside from taking care of Des, the path forward elsewhere had been pretty murky. Going back to what I was doing before didn’t feel the same because I didn’t feel the same. I had to reinvent.

The beautiful thing with this reinvention is that doing so has actually been a homecoming in disguise. I’m in the process of relaunching Dear Strong Woman , a heartfelt return as we approach the five year anniversary of its debut, but I’m expanding my vision for it. What used to be a means of self-expression for me will now also be a resource for all women who want to share their stories. I used to just create the space for this, but this next evolution of DSW will include the tools, team, and training for women who want to get out loud.

So with that, Happy International Women’s Day to all the women finding ways to come back home to themselves. If you’re yearning to be out loud with your story - whether it’s a blog, book, podcast, TED talk, song, or other form of self-expression, I’d love to hold the mic for you.