Seasonal Women’s Circles

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For the past five years, I have been holding seasonal women's circles rooted in nervous system healing, somatic practice, breathwork, and Internal Family Systems (IFS) informed inquiry.

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This work grew from my own healing journey. While living in Cambridge, I spent four years in a weekly women's circle led by my therapist. Being witnessed alongside women of different ages and life experiences transformed my understanding of self-compassion, shared humanity, and the healing that becomes possible in safe community.

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Later, during a breathwork journey, I received a vision of creating circles where women could come together to slow down, soften, and reconnect with themselves through the wisdom of the body.

There is something powerful that happens when women gather this way. One woman softens and another follows. One heart opens and suddenly others feel safe enough to open too. The body remembers it is not alone.

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Many women arrive carrying so much. Caring for others. Staying strong. Pushing through. These circles become a place to set some of that down.

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the way home | a three-month body-led women's circle
Oct 18
the way home | a three-month body-led women's circle
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• Build greater safety and trust within ourselves

• Soften self criticism and perfectionism

• Process held emotion through the body and breath

• Reconnect with intuition and inner wisdom

• Cultivate greater grounding, compassion, and connection

Together, we learn to trust the wisdom that has been within us all along.

Together, we will explore how to

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  • "It helped me tap into areas of healing in my body connected to past trauma that other modalities haven’t reached. I’ve done talk therapy, which helped me, but this practice helped me go deeper and get out of my head and into my body."

  • "During the women's circle, I learned how to be kinder, softer, more loving, more gentle, and more compassionate with myself than in my first 30-plus years on this planet."

  • "It helped me immensely to release shame, stress, grief, and anger that had built up in my life over a very challenging four years."

  • "I can say today with complete and total confidence that the program cracked my heart open in a way I've never experienced or felt before."

  • "I have always preferred one-on-one sessions, as I can be sensitive to absorbing others' energy. However, I took a chance and later joined her women's circle.These became my monthly therapy sessions."

  • "Madeleine's deep experience, skill set, gentle and kind nature, and beautiful guiding presence with breathwork, energy work, somatic movement, journaling, and sharing made all the difference for me."

  • "While each standalone session provided significant support and personal growth, I'm certain that it was the combination of all six sessions in the full series, and the cadence of the six sessions over an extended period of time, that afforded me a transformative experience and breakthrough moments.