I grew up around chaos — addiction, fear, and instability. Like many of us, I learned to survive by performing, fixing, and staying strong. Over time, I drifted away from my real Self — the calm, steady part of me that knows I’m already enough. That loss of connection shaped everything.
I spent decades chasing peace through work, achievement, relationships, control — anything to quiet the ache inside. On the outside I looked fine; on the inside I was anxious, restless, and never safe in my own body.
For forty years I searched for answers — therapy, success, spirituality, self-help — and every path helped a little, but never completely. Because what I was really struggling with wasn’t one problem. It was the long echo of disconnection — the belief that I was separate from love, from others, from myself.
Now I know I was never broken. I was just trying to find my way back home.
My healing began the moment I stopped trying to fix myself and started listening to myself. Instead of pushing the pain away, I began to turn toward it — gently, with curiosity instead of judgment. Through this process, I discovered that every part of me had a reason for being here. The part that overworked was trying to feel safe. The part that numbed wanted relief. The part that criticized me thought it was keeping me in control. They weren’t my enemies — they were my protectors.
Learning to meet these parts with compassion changed everything. I began to reconnect with something deeper — the steady, loving awareness inside me that I had lost touch with long ago. That’s what Internal Family Systems calls the Self — and what I now recognize as my own source of peace, strength, and love.
I also learned that healing doesn’t happen alone. It happens in community, when we are witnessed without judgment and held in safety. That’s when real transformation begins — when the nervous system finally feels it can rest.
This became the foundation of Women Rising: a place where we remember together who we really are.
What gives me hope is seeing that the same healing that found me can find anyone. No matter how long we’ve been disconnected, the Self inside us is never gone — just waiting to be remembered.
We don’t need to be fixed; we need to be met.
When we come together in honesty and compassion, something ancient happens — the nervous system calms, the heart opens, and we begin to feel at home again. That’s why Women Rising exists: to make healing simple, accessible, and shared.
It’s for every woman who’s tried everything and still feels like something is missing. It’s for those who carry anxiety, shame, or exhaustion and are ready to stop running. It’s for the ones who want to belong, to lead, to rise — and to bring others with them.
The hope is this: when one woman reconnects with her Self, she becomes a light for others. And when enough of us do that together, we heal not only ourselves — we heal the world.
To heal the collective by helping women remember who they are — whole, worthy, and connected.
Through trauma-informed circles, spiritual awakening, and a regenerative economic model, Women Rising transforms recovery into a living system of healing, belonging, and shared prosperity.
We are building a 21st-century framework for healing and wealth — where every woman who heals becomes a catalyst for change, and every act of courage circulates value back into people and planet.
Women Rising was born from the space between breaking and becoming — a place I know well. After three decades of recovery work, spiritual searching, and trauma healing, I realized something essential: healing doesn’t happen from trying to fix ourselves.
It happens when we finally remember who we are.
Women Rising is that remembering. It’s a path home — through the body, through love, through truth. These gatherings are not about perfection or performance. They’re about presence. About showing up as you are — messy, magnificent, human — and learning to live from your wholeness instead of your wounds.
Together, we move through 13 Steps to Integration & Wholeness, a modern evolution of recovery designed for women rising from trauma into power.
Each meeting is a soft landing for your nervous system and a spark for your soul — a space to reconnect, release, and rise with others who are doing the same.
Meetings begin soon.
Come as you are.
Bring your story, your tenderness, your truth.
This is how we rise — together, fulfilling lives.
After years in traditional programs, I began to sense that something deeper was calling — a way of healing that included the body, not just the mind.
In that search, I discovered ancient and early spiritual writings — that speak of awakening through inner knowing and direct experience of love.
Their message resonated: true ascension is not about leaving the human experience, but embodying it fully.
That realization changed everything. Where traditional recovery models emphasize surrender to something outside of ourselves, Women Rising invites women to come home to the divine within — to experience transformation not by transcending the body, but by inhabiting it with awareness, compassion, and truth.
This is the evolution of recovery for a new era: a path of integration rather than separation, embodiment rather than escape, love rather than fear.
Please email me at: kym@womenrising.earth
