In this powerful final episode of 2025, I share the biggest announcement to date on the podcast: I'm closing my group therapy practice, Parent Wellness Group. This isn't a story about failure - it's about releasing an identity that no longer aligns with who I'm becoming. Join me as I walk through the woods and reflect on the profound timing of this decision, the year of the snake's invitation to shed old skins, and what it means to truly embody the next version of yourself as you step into 2026.

Key Points

1. Announcing the closing of Parent Wellness Group, a profitable and successful clinical therapy practice
2. Understanding the limitations of talk therapy and why insight alone doesn't create lasting change
3. The profound timing of closing a nine-year cycle that began in 2016 when I started my clinical practice
4. How 2025 (the year of the snake) has been about shedding and releasing old identities
5. Reflecting on the parallel experience of releasing yoga teaching to make space for The School of Mom
6. Why holding onto the therapist identity was keeping me from fully stepping into my purpose
7. The difference between being liked and being effective as a guide for mothers
8. Moving from therapist to embodiment guide - helping women move insight into their bodies
9. Why familiar patterns keep us stuck even when they're no longer serving us
10. What it means to embody your values rather than just understand them intellectually

Quotes

"I cannot authentically be in a group where I am guiding and supporting women to do the scary thing, to step into their next version of how good can it get, if I haven't done this for myself."

"I am no longer interested in listening to women stay stuck in the same patterns that aren't actually serving them. I am no longer available for that."

"We'll choose a familiar hell over an unfamiliar heaven every day."

"I'm no longer responsible for your feelings and I'm not sorry about it. I'm responsible for being a guide to help you be responsible for your feelings."

"You are never gonna get there if you simply think and talk about it."

"To fully embrace and embody the identity that you're becoming, you can't have these competing identities."

Reflection Questions

1. What was happening for you in 2016-2017, and is there something resonating with the completion of this nine-year cycle?
2. What has 2025 asked you to shed or release this year of the snake?
3. What identities, patterns, or ways of living have been keeping you safe but are no longer aligned with who you are becoming?
4. What part of you is familiar and safe but actually in conflict with your next level of flourishing?

What's Coming Next

The podcast will return in January 2026 with a deep dive into the difference between insight (from therapy and meditation) and Mom-Site (embodied nervous system healing work).

Mark Your Calendar

Live Free Gathering: Wednesday, January 28th at 7:45 PM EST - A ritual and ceremonial offering to celebrate and honor our unique thresholds from the year of the snake to the year of the horse. Link coming in the new year.

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Thank you for tuning in to this episode of "Mothering Ourselves Mindfully." We look forward to sharing more insights and inspiration in the upcoming episodes!

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