Heart-Led Living + Courageous Self-Care — Full Moon in Leo
I’m writing from sunny Arizona, where I’ve been splitting my time for the past six months. I snowbirded here last winter to escape the Colorado cold and quickly fell in love with desert winters. I returned home for Colorado’s lush summer and colorful fall, but once temps dropped again, I found myself craving warmth and palm trees.
I feel incredibly grateful to have places to land in both locations, allowing me to bop back and forth with relative ease. I’ve always loved road trips and changes of scenery, but I also deeply crave being grounded, settled, and surrounded by my comforts.
While travel lights me up, it can also disrupt routines, digestion, sleep, and overall sense of stability. One of my biggest priorities these last six months has been learning how to ground myself even when my environment keeps changing.
When the body doesn’t feel safe, it shows up everywhere – in our relationships, work, energy, and creativity. So much of self-care is simply signaling safety back to the body and nervous system so we can stay in tune with our rhythms.
Lately, these are the practices helping me ground and take care of myself:
Barefoot Grounding
If you’re somewhere warm enough, get your bare feet on the earth whenever possible.
On a recent Colorado hike, I slipped off my shoes and realized how much I’d missed that direct connection. Something shifts when we physically connect to the earth - tension softens and the body recalibrates.
Our feet are rich in nerve endings and energetic pathways. Keeping them warm and connected supports circulation, hormonal balance, and overall nervous system regulation. Even if you can’t go barefoot outside, keeping your feet warm and cared for goes a long way in supporting whole-body wellbeing. Or perhaps consider investing in some barefoot shoes. I like these :-)
LEGS UP THE WALL
A simple yet powerful reset. Just five to ten minutes with your legs up the wall helps circulation, eases swelling, calms the nervous system, and encourages lymphatic flow. It’s one of my favorite evening rituals after being on the road or on my feet.
Sunlight, fresh air, nature
Winter tends to keep us cooped up inside. Shorter days, more screens, neutral indoor colors. Even stepping outside for a few minutes helps reset your mood and energy.
Let your eyes look at something alive again. Nature’s colors, light, movement - it reminds the body we’re part of something bigger and cyclical.
And if you live somewhere where sunlight is scarce this time of year, investing in a red light can help support energy, mood, skin, and recovery through the darker months.
cooking as self-care
Cooking at home has become one of my favorite grounding rituals. Touching, smelling, tasting, and preparing your own food awakens the senses and signals safety to the body.
Preparing nourishment with your own hands is deeply regulating and reconnects us to rhythm, creativity, and care.
I’ve been focused deeply on self-care as we move through the quiet of winter. And while Leo energy is often bold and fiery, this Full Moon doesn’t necessarily demand loud action. Instead, it invites intentional confidence and gentle reconnection with what lights us up from the inside out.
To me, Leo calls in heart-led living and courageous self-care.
What makes you feel alive right now?
What lights up your heart?
What brings warmth back into your system?
Winter can make it harder to access our spark, but Leo reminds us that the flame never truly goes out. And as the days slowly begin to lengthen again, we’re invited to tend that inner fire.
Maybe courageous self-care looks like resting more.
Maybe it looks like saying no.
Maybe it looks like choosing joy without guilt.
Wherever you find yourself right now, let this Full Moon be a reminder to live from your heart and follow what feels nourishing.
If you’re in a season of recalibrating – tending to your gut, your nervous system, or simply trying to feel more like yourself again – this is the work I love to support.
Working together, we create simple, sustainable practices that help you feel grounded, nourished, and back in rhythm with your body.
You can learn more or reach out to me here if it feels aligned.