Hello! I’m Michelle Janine.

I love to create cute, vibey spaces where we can come together to make some big shifts in our life. What I’ve learned the most from this past year, is that life is all about BALANCE. Healing work can be heavy and dense, so it’s important to balance that out with fun and lightness. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not talking about toxic positivity. I believe more than ever that you have to feel the low lows in order to appreciate the high highs. For years, I was so numbed out that I didn’t even know there was a spectrum of emotions that could be felt. And it is a GIFT to feel the whole range of emotions, the good and the bad.

My greatest teacher in this lifetime has been grief. I lost my mom when I was 22 years old, then lost my dad nine years later when I was 31. With the death of my mom, I didn’t have the tools to process what happened or how I was feeling and I chose to party to mask the pain. I hated it when people asked me about her death, I thought everyone was pitying me, and I hated the fact that everything in my life had changed. And when I lost my dad, I started working with a Somatic Therapy coach to move through my emotions in real time. Grief is a wild ride - anger, sadness, confusion, joy, aliveness - all these big emotions wrapped into one word. As I worked through my emotions in real time, I felt lighter each day and I learned tools on how to process/feel into my emotions. And most importantly, I was learning what made me happy and sparked joy in my life.

All this to say, I found balance with the grief and joy, and that’s really what life is all about. And I learned that all of my emotions are valid.

It is a daily effort of self-awareness to continue working through my limiting beliefs, stories, and narratives and I know that I will never be perfect. I’ve found that gathering with other women, opening up, and relating is the key to healing. It’s the key to feeling loved by others. To give others the opportunity to support you. To realize that you are not alone in this lifetime. And I feel honored to have the opportunity to bring this to my community.