Out of Apples
Decades ago, a dusty secondhand book changed the direction of my life in about a hundred pages. Here's why I wrote one, hoping to do the same for someone else.
She Who Holds Our Freedom
Before Rewilding Yourself was a book, she was a painting. A painting that wrote a story.
I Was Somewhere Else
On forgetting a deadline, choosing a yes and ten days that don't come easily anymore.
Six Roses, and a Face I Still Remember
On living through a dark night of the soul in a town that didn't approve of energy work, and learning we rarely know what we're doing for others just by healing ourselves.
The Nudge—On trusting a feeling before you can explain it
A finished plan, an unexpected pivot, and what it means to trust an inner sensation before you can fully explain it.
The Impermanence of All Things
Original mixed-media painting by Suzanne Schevene Brokaw showing pale vertical forms rising from a swirling coral and green underlayer
The Monkey I Didn't Ask For
A painting session that didn't go as expected and what showed up instead. On trusting what emerges.
Witnessed—An experience of True Reflection
On being truly seen — not read, not skimmed, but witnessed — and what it confirmed about a life built differently than most.
She's Ready. So Am I.
Rewilding Yourself: A Wilderness Journey Back to Who You Actually Are is now available for pre-order. A transformational wilderness journey for women ready to come home to themselves.
Predictable, Rebellious, or Not Bothered?
When my author's copy arrived with off-center text, I asked my advance readers what they thought. Three responses, three ways of being — and what they reveal about how we move through life.
I Didn't Plan to Rewild Myself at an Art Retreat
A week on Whidbey Island turned into an unexpected rewilding journey — the Pondering Pond, Whispering Winds, the Mystic Mountains. The map has a way of finding you whether you're looking for it or not.
When You Slow Down, You Remember You Matter
Seven simple ways to tend to yourself when life gets loud — from a woman just back from her first art retreat. Self care isn't a luxury. It's how we remember we matter.
The Serious Business of Joy
I didn't mean to paint her. But Cleo the capybara had a message about joy, embodied living, and the kerfunkle I'd been putting off.
Nobody Arrives at Themselves Quickly—Becoming... Slowly
The journey back to yourself is never quick. A deeply personal story about 29 years of inner work, a ukulele, a song that became a painting, and a word written nine years before it became a book title.
The Woman Who Caught the Train … On Living Life Fully
A tribute to a woman who lived fully — who caught trains, baked cinnamon rolls over open fires, and leaned back in Hospice and said "I like it here." A meditation on courage, love, and what it means to be unapologetically yourself.
Spring Anger Is a Superpower: What the Wood Element Wants You to Know
Feeling restless, irritable, or pushed to do all the things this spring? That's not a problem — it's the Wood Element at work. Learn how spring anger becomes your greatest source of strength and clarity.
Nourishing Your Nerves: Coming Back to Ease After Activation
Learn how the Vagus nerve helps you move from stress to ease. Practical tools for nervous system regulation when old traumas resurface or life activates you.
It Hit Me. It Stopped Me. I Had to Embrace It.
My nervous system was so on edge that hearing a complaint—from anyone, about anything—felt like screeching fingernails on a chalkboard. So I stopped.
Winters Invitation to Dream - Preparing for New Growth
Winter is the season of dreaming, of deep nourishment, of rest, of stillness. And when we are able to embrace the gifts of the season, we have the energy, the clarity, the enthusiasm and the wisdom to make our dreams come true.