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32. happy spring equinox

32. happy spring equinox

opening my books to paid subscribers

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naomi shimada
Mar 20, 2025
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Dear beloved supporters of TC,

I’ve wanted to offer you all something special as a thank you for supporting me as a paid subscriber for so long, even as my process has unfolded at its own pace.

In my last letter, I shared that I am stepping forward into offering myself to the world in a new way. For the past five years, I have been immersed in deep study, moving through various teachings, methodologies, and traditions—seeking to understand, navigate, and contribute meaningfully in these times. This has been both an intellectual pursuit and a deeply personal process, shaped just as much by my lived experience as by formal training.

Most recently, I have been trained as a somatic, body-oriented coach and an apprentice in grief tending, building on earlier studies in transpersonal psychotherapy and process-oriented psychology both of which I chose, for now, not to pursue further. Yet, both have given me a beautiful foundation. Alongside these, my path has been shaped by many contemplative practices, relational work, and an ongoing inquiry into what it means to hold space for deep transformation.

The word coach, rooted in performance and outcomes, has never felt like mine. What I want to offer feels more like guiding, holding space for an emerging process, witnessing rather than directing, listening rather than offering solutions.

This work is about creating space for what already exists within you to unfold. It is an intuitive and body-oriented approach that honours the wisdom of the nervous system, the rhythms of grief, and the power of being truly seen. We don’t always need more answers, more solutions, or more doing. Sometimes, what we need most is simply space, someone to sit with us in the unknown, a place to land, to exhale, to be met exactly where we are.

Even though this is a new offering, it feels less like a shift and more like an organic extension of everything I have already been sharing—through my writing, speaking, and the conversations I’ve started here. In many ways, this next step is simply another way of holding space and deepening into the work that has been unfolding all along.

And so today, on this spring equinox, I want to plant seeds of intention—to step forward, offering this work not as something fully formed but as something alive, growing, and evolving.

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