Shedding old skin, swapping tires, and my own version of a sabbatical.

Have you ever tried to change a tire while driving at 100 km/h on the highway?

I remember when Mathieu, with whom I work at Ecstatic Temple, made that comment. At the time, we had just created the nonprofit for the Ecstatic Temple (after I had managed the project as a sole entrepreneur for five years), and we were doing our best to implement changes in the organization while still keeping the machine running. (Ah, the entrepreneur's life…)

In April, I had a bit of a similar feeling. I was extremely busy professionally (the kind of month where I look at my calendar and think, “What did I do to myself?!”), and I had to put certain things aside just to get through. At the same time as my seven-day work weeks (and I don’t even count my hours), I could feel my creative drive awakening. Ideas, inspirations, desires—and especially all the points of friction and the limitations between what I want to do and what’s actually possible—were glaringly obvious.

I’m very proud of what I accomplished this month: I witnessed beautiful transformations with my clients, I offered magical ritual sessions, I held space for a first medicine ceremony, and I facilitated a training and team-building retreat for the Ecstatic Temple team (also a first!)—not to mention wonderful moments of connection with friends, new contacts and professional projects, and lots of inspiring conversations.

These are all things I LOVED doing—and want to keep doing.

But not like this.

Back to the metaphor of changing a tire on the highway.

April was definitely a month of movement and transformation (just look at the weather…). I was carried by the energy of emerging from my cocoon and returning from Costa Rica. But I can’t sustain this rhythm long term. And above all, I’m being moved by an incredible wave of new ideas, inspirations, and visions...

Life wants to flow through me, and I’m listening. The current is strong—I want to follow it, to be carried by what wants to be born.

And for that, I need time and space. I realize that no real change is possible if we stay stuck in an old cocoon that no longer fits. It’s time to let go of some branches.

In the coming months, I’ve decided to carve out space in my schedule—not this time to rest, but to create. To take a step back for a broader vision. To make room for the next professional version of myself to take form.

Here’s what that will look like:

• I’ll be limiting my one-on-one coaching and massage sessions to 4 appointments per week, so I’ll be working with a maximum of 8 clients per month.

• I’m inviting more ritual care sessions, which deeply nourish and inspire me, and are also a beautiful gift for those who choose them.

• I’ll be doing fewer event and workshop facilitations this summer.

• I’ll focus the rest of my free (and unpaid) time on revisiting the structure of Ecstatic Temple (mission, vision, values, processes…), traveling, continuing my training (I have 3 trainings planned between June and August), and letting myself be nourished by these experiences.

• A repositioning of my services is coming in the next few months!

If you’d like to work with me under my current offerings, now’s the time. I still have space for TWO clients in May and June.

And I invite you to join my last workshops before July!

In April, I wrote..

The Good the Bad, the Ugly - About drama triangle

About being too much - Why it takes a village