Sydney’s Substack

Integration: A Living Altar

I don’t want to keep collecting insights like seashells I never use. I want to build something with them. This is what I’m learning about integration…

Aug 5 • 

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July 2025

Sacred Doesn’t Always Feel Good: What Healing Actually Looks Like

Healing doesn’t always look like "love and light"- in fact, it rarely does. Sometimes, it’s grief, rage, and unraveling. A sacred, hot mess.

Jul 23 • 

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Goodbye, Beloved: A Letter to My Womb

A love letter to the womb I’m preparing to part with- grieving, honouring, and reclaiming the sacred within my changing body.

Jul 15 • 

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June 2025

The Day I Danced with the Earth

I'd been afraid the healing hadn’t lasted. That I’d lost the part of me who felt safe to move, to feel, to be seen. But one night in ceremony, I…

Jun 20 • 

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May 2025

Soul-Sore, Spirit-Soft: The Season I’m In

Not every ache needs to be healed. Not every moment needs to be a lesson. Sometimes, the soul just wants to be held.

May 31 • 

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Rest as Ritual: The Healing Power of Slowing Down Before You Break Down

We’ve been taught to prove, produce, and push. Well, let this be your invitation to pause, soften, and remember the power of choosing rest before you're…

May 22 • 

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What Ceremony Taught Me: What it Truly Means to Release

You can journal. You can cry. But sometimes, healing needs more. Sometimes, it needs ceremony.

May 13 • 

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Burning Brighter: Beltane, Snake Medicine & Sovereignty

Snake medicine changed everything for me. Not by asking me to release, but by showing me how to reclaim. This Beltane, I’m not just blooming- I’m…

May 2 • 

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April 2025

Becoming Me: 30 Lessons in 30 Years

A love letter to the magic, the mess, and everything in between.

Apr 26 • 

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The Earth as Healer: On Sacred Reciprocity and Remembering Our Roots

Earth Day is more than just picking up trash—though that matters too. It’s a remembering. A reconnection. A sacred return to the land that’s always been…

Apr 22 • 

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The Myth of Having It All Figured Out: On Turning 30 and Becoming Who I’m Meant to Be

I used to think 30 meant figuring it all out, finally getting it “right.” But now, standing on the edge of this new decade, I know better. This isn’t an…

Apr 16 • 

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The Quiet Spiral We Don’t Talk About

I didn’t fall apart- I just slowly drifted from myself. And by the time I noticed, I was already deep in the spiral.

Apr 7 • 

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