Cerissa Leese

It took me years to arrive at a diagnostic framework I trust. Years of understanding the history of where this practice comes from, and why that history matters for the work. Years of sitting with the science until it started to clarify rather than complicate. Years of developing the body awareness practice that lets me read a situation before I touch it, rather than casting into the dark and hoping. Twenty-four years. And I kept thinking: it should not take that long. It does not have to.

Grey Hair, the Crone, and Reclaiming What Was Never Theirs to Take There's a moment a lot of women in their 40s and 50s reach: standing in front of the mirror, watching the grey come in, and feeling something complicated move through them. Maybe it's defiance. Maybe it's grief. Maybe it's the quiet exhaustion of realizing how many years they've spent managing their appearance for an audience that was never worth the performance. I want to talk about that moment. Because it is so much bigger...

When I think about children in the craft, I always hope for wonder and prepare for boundaries. Forcing participation, overriding discomfort, or rushing a child into experiences they aren't ready for doesn't build a magical foundation, it builds resistance. But a child who is allowed to approach the craft on their own terms, at their own pace, in age-appropriate ways? That child may one day have a practice more powerful than you can imagine.