A GATHERING TO EXPERIENCE BELONGING & BEING SEEN & ACCEPTED EXACTLY AS YOU ARE.
THE INVITATION
This gathering is
for both of you.
For some of us, sleepovers were magic. A place where you felt completely yourself with your friends. Where belonging was easy and being seen felt good.
For others, they were painful. A place where you felt left out, judged, or like you had to perform to be accepted. Where belonging felt conditional.
This gathering is for both of you. No mean girls allowed here.
We're creating a sleepover where you get to belong exactly as you are. To be seen without performing. To receive appreciation without deflecting. To open your heart in a circle that accepts you completely.
This is the sleepover where belonging is unconditional. This is what you're invited to experience now.
Come as you are. Experience being seen and accepted as you are.
THIS IS FOR YOU
If you're tired of
the armor.
You don't have to be "good at" receiving to come. We're all just practicing together tonight.
✦ You deflect compliments automatically
✦ You feel alone even in groups
✦ You're exhausted from performing and just want to be yourself
✦ You have a hard time receiving appreciation without immediately returning it or explaining it away
✦ You carry the quiet sense that you're not quite enough and you're tired of carrying it
WHAT THE NIGHT HOLDS
A room where
being seen
feels safe.
Everything we do tonight is in service of one thing: helping you experience what it feels like to be fully received. Not fixed. Not assessed. Just held by a circle of women who are practicing the same thing alongside you.
THE PRACTICE AT THE HEART OF THIS NIGHT
Learning to receive.
Most of us were never taught how to receive appreciation: only to deflect it, return it immediately, or minimize it before it can land. Tonight we practice something different: letting it in. We witness each other. We appreciate each other. And when appreciation comes toward you, you simply say thank you and let it be enough.
I. Opening: Breath & Sound
We arrive in our bodies before we arrive in the room. Breath and sound to open the heart, to soften what's been held closed. The body leads the way in.
II. Compassion Practice & Partner Work
Eye contact. Mirroring. Rotating partners. Exercises that practice being fully present with another person (seeing and being seen) without the need to perform or manage the moment.
III. Closing Song & Collective Reflection
We close together. A song, a moment of collective witnessing, a space to notice what it felt like to be held by a room that accepted you completely. What you carry home is yours.
THE SPACE WE HOLD
A room where vulnerability is a superpower.
✦ YOU BELONG HERE EXACTLY AS YOU ARE
Not the version of you that has it together. This version. Right now.
✦ WE PRACTICE RECEIVING, NOT PERFORMING
Vulnerability and open-heartedness are the whole point, not things to manage or move past quickly.
✦ WE WITNESS WITHOUT FIXING
What someone is feeling is not a problem. We hold it with them without trying to resolve it.
✦ WE CELEBRATE - NO MINIMIZING OR DEFLECTING
What is good here gets to be named and received. Fully.
✦ CONFIDENTIALITY IS SACRED
What happens in this room stays in this room.
✦ THE POP-UP RULE
When receiving appreciation, you can only say "thank you." No deflecting, no explaining, no immediately returning it. For every deflection, you hold eye contact with the person who appreciated you for 30 seconds in silence. It's more powerful than it sounds.
THE DETAILS
DRESS CODE
Sleepover Cozy
Come in your PJs. Soft clothes for a tender night. The softer you dress, the easier it is to arrive softly.
WHAT'S PROVIDED
Everything You Need
Sleeping bag, pizza & popcorn, music & good vibes. A room that holds you from the moment you walk in.
THE CIRCLE
Ten Women Maximum
Always. The depth of connection this night holds requires genuine intimacy: a circle small enough that nobody disappears into the edges.
WHAT TO BRING
Your open heart, or whatever version of it is available tonight. That's enough.
A willingness to be seen: imperfectly, partially, exactly as you are.
Permission to receive even if you don't know how yet. We're practicing together.
Optional: a journal for after. Some things want to be held in writing once they've been held in the room.
THE INVITATION
Come as you are.
You don't have to perform your way into this room. You don't have to be healed or whole or ready. You just have to be willing to show up and let a circle of women who are practicing the same thing hold you while you do.
This is the sleepover where belonging is unconditional.
Where being seen feels safe.
Where you remember what it feels like to be enough.
P.S. If you're scared to come because you're "not good at receiving," come anyway. We're all just practicing together. You don't have to do it perfectly, you just have to show up.
P.P.S. This gathering is tender. Bring your softest self. Bring the part of you that's tired of being strong alone all the time.
INNER CHILD SLEEPOVER PARTY