As my family and I walk through 2026, we are doing it with deeper intentions. I'm going to be laying out a monthly guide here. This is my personal guide for making 2026 the year of embodied mastery. I'd love for you to follow along if you'd like to be more intentional with your year.
It's April and we made it, Loves. You may notice that this month's embodiment is a few days late. Well that just sums up how I have been feeling the last few days of March. Even though I set an intentional outline for 2026 in December, I knew that there would be much ebbing and flowing through this year. 2025 saw so much loss and shedding for my family and for my closest of friends. When the end of March rolled around and I was sitting down to type out my hand written notes for this blog.... I just didn't have the energy. So, I didn't force myself. I am exhausted with just pushing through for the sake of pushing through. I want this to be the start of me being soft with myself. I hope that you find that you are also being intentional with softness for yourself.
So, just a little recap for March 2026. It wasn’t just a fresh start—it was a fated reset. The kind where what begins is informed by everything you’ve survived, shed, and transformed. This is where our pain became the catalyst for our change. March did not disappoint in being the threshold it promised to be. March was truly the liminal gate, Loves. It's no wonder we have all been muddling through an absolute collective exhaustion. A collective EXHALE, if you will.
April brought us a beautiful full moon on April 1st. Most people know this is as the Pink Moon. Coincidentally, this is also the same day that Artemis II was launched to the Moon by NASA (if you are the kind of human that believes in coincidences - me not so much, it's a heck of a coincedence).
In Rome, it was traditionally known as the Aperio (translates "to open"). This comes from the opening of a new season, a portal, the welcome moment when the flower buds open to the sun.
The Dakota Sioux knew her as the Moon when the Streams are Again Navigable.
The Cherokee call her the Flower Moon.
Me....I like her lesser used name....the Awakening Moon.
The name Pink Moon doesn't actually come from the color of the moon. It is inspired instead by the blooming of the pink moss phlox, a wildflower native to the Eastern and central US. This beauty shows up like a bright pink carpet in the Spring.
Easter comes in on April the 5th this year. While Easter officially celebrates Jesus' resurrection three days after He was crucified by the religious politicians of His time, Easter is always celebrated the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring Equinox. Easter also lands around the time of Passover, which remembers the liberation of the Jews from slavery in Egypt. This reminds me that no matter what your faith, we are ALL connected by nature. It is the common ground on which we can stand united in Love. It is a beautiful symbolic reminder that Jesus' death and rebirth parallels the death and rebirth of the earth's sun, which comes back to "life" after the Spring Equinox.
The Awakening Moon reflects the natural cycle when the sun finally reappears after seeming to "die" in the long, dark, cold nights near the winter solstice. Dark trees go green again as they spring forth in light and new life. May April's Awakening Moon gently nudge us from our deep winter sleep.
With this springing forth of life...thus springs forth the pollen that brings atrocious sneezes and sniffles. Now is a beautiful time to take in some local honey. Local honey is especially helpful as it helps ward off some of the season's allergies. If you are looking for heavier support, Great Faith Organics Seasonal Allergy Tea takes the support to an entirely new level. Top it off with some local honey for extra potency.
Now we really begin to move from warm, cooked foods to consuming more fresh, in-season foods. With this Awakening Moon, our bodies are slowly waking up its digestive fires. We can slowly begin to incorporate raw foods again.
Someone very special has a birthday in April. ME. With the Awakening Moon and my 46th birthday arriving this month..... I can't go one without talking about 2 of my favorite flowers.
They just happen to signify my birth month, the daisy and the sweet pea. The daisy symbolizes innocence, loyal love, and purity; but it also means "I'll never tell!" The oldest daisy on record is the Bellis perennis, known as Daeges eage (or Day's eye) in the Middle Ages because its petals close at night to cover the yellow center.
Today there are more than 90 varieties of flowers that are called daisies, and they come in red, yellow, purple, orange, blue, and pink colored petals, and vary widely in size. But they are, as director/writer Nora Ephron once wrote, "the friendliest flower."
The sweat pea signifies blissful pleasure, and are used to say goodbye. Sweet peas may be a pretty flower, but they are so much more. They are one of the oldest food crops on our planet, domesticated by humans about 11,000 years ago.
This energy is the reason that I have chosen April's intentions.
April feels like JOY without Permission. Too often I have made myself hold permission before I could feel Joy. As if Joy were some reward that I needed to earn first.
Theme: I let myself feel good.
Choosing my non-negotiables: I create without transmuting pain. I allow pleasure, beauty, and laughter.
How I am setting the tone: I notice guilt when ease arrives and I choose to release the guilt. This is continued work towards safe boundaries.
Because I have lived most of my life out of a trauma response, it was often hard for me to listen to my intuition. So, hearing my intuition means knowing how my body speaks to me. This means not being reactive anymore, but being proactive. In a way that honors my limits and holds my "no" as a sacred threshold.
Anchor question: What joy have I been postponing?
April Affirmation: I invite pleasure, movement, and breath safely back into my body.
I chose two new stones to work with this month. I chose the stones based off of the fact that they drew me in with their beautiful color and patterns. I chose a stunning malachite palm sized stone and 2 beautiful copper spheres. Later on, I researched each stones qualities. Only to find, that my intuition was spot on. I am learning to trust myself more and more with each passing day.
Together these stones tell a story....
I don’t need another supplement.
I need the truth to move.
Not sit in my chest.
Not get stored in my hips.
Not recycled into exhaustion.
Simply moved.
This is conductive healing.
Where my body stops bracing…
and starts allowing.
If you have been along on this year's journey with me, you know that "bracing" has been heavy in my spirit. Bracing means where my nervous system placed "braces" to contain my pain.
Malachite reveals what’s real....
even the parts I’ve been spiritualizing to avoid.
Copper will carry it....
through my body, my breath, my becoming.
This is not aesthetic healing.
This is not curated softness.
This is the moment I realize my symptoms were never the problem…
They were the signal that something needed to pass through.
And when it finally does?
Relief doesn’t feel like collapse.
It feels like current.
Like breath returning to the places in me that forgot they could expand.
I am not blocked, like I have always been told....
I have simply been holding.
And I don’t have to hold anymore.
A beautiful herbal ally for this month is Lemon Balm (Melissa officinalis).
Energetic medicine: Sweet Melissa brings us lightness, ease, unguarded joy. Joy that doesn’t bypass depth...but joy that coexists with it.
I have a beautiful herbal tea blend that I am making a tea infusion with, Great Faith Organics Sacred Ease.
I have not been feeling drawn to working with the candles this month, perhaps it's because the light is returning. However, I am feeling drawn to filling myself with joy and spending time with the people I love the most and doing things that make me happy.
This is my favorite quote at the moment:
“The only wasted potential is the one you abandon....not the one you grow slowly.”
Maybe I love this quote because I am not in a season of wasting. I am very much in a season of structuring and embodying. And although those look quiet…they’re not wasted at all.