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A tool designed to help you flex and adapt to what life throws your way.
For getting things actually done, not perfect
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Live gatherings where you don't have to show up polished. Low-stakes, high-connection: for those times you just need to get it out.
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Join us (Lacey and Sara). We are leaving shame behind and saying the quiet parts out loud. No perfection required.
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Conversations about shame, real life, and how to actually live it. We talk about things like the mental load, burnout, invisible labor, and what it actually feels like to ask for help.
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Finding and sharing moments of joy from all kinds of people. From big to small, we share them to get the joy rippling out.
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Currently on pauseGuest conversations about the raw, in-progress parts of life: not just the victories, but the uncertain space between the challenge and the other side of it.
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"Shame grows in the dark."
Sara Kelly, co-founder"Stop should-ing all over yourself."
Lacey Tomlinson, co-founderTwo middle-aged ladies, just doing their best
We found each other in an online community and forged a partnership that highlighted a special kind of magic neither one of us had seen before: the ability to recognize the hard parts of life, give grace where needed, and still make practical strides forward.
It's this magic that started making us wonder: where is the support out there for people that acknowledges the emotional part AND the practical part? The "I see you" AND the "here's something that might actually help." Everything out there was either therapy-adjacent or hustle-culture-adjacent. We are whole people who shouldn't need to choose.
So we started building and wanting to invite others into the magic. From Ohio and New York, over video calls, and never actually meeting in person. We are a small but mighty team. Just two women who knew what it felt like to hold each other up from across the country and figured other women probably needed that too.
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