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Reclaiming the Signal
The low-tox conversation in wellness has largely focused on what we put on and in our bodies. Clean beauty, organic food, filtered water. But the energetic body is just as porous as the physical one. What we consume digitally moves through us. It shapes our thoughts, colors our emotions, influences what we believe is possible and what we believe about ourselves.
Cerissa Leese
Jun 33 min read


Food as Medicine: What Our Ancestors Already Knew
Modern wellness culture loves a revelation. Every few years a new diet arrives. Atkins in the early 2000s. Raw food in 2010. Paleo in 2013. Keto in 2018. Carnivore in 2020. Each one packaged as a discovery, a breakthrough, the thing we've finally figured out. We treat food science like it's new. Like we are the first people to ask what we should be putting in our bodies and why. Our ancestors would find this baffling. For most of human history, the relationship between food a
Cerissa Leese
May 274 min read


Twenty-Four Years to Find the Framework
It took me years to arrive at a diagnostic framework I trust. Years of understanding the history of where this practice comes from, and why that history matters for the work. Years of sitting with the science until it started to clarify rather than complicate. Years of developing the body awareness practice that lets me read a situation before I touch it, rather than casting into the dark and hoping.
Twenty-four years.
And I kept thinking: it should not take that long. It
Cerissa Leese
May 66 min read


Letting It Go
Grey Hair, the Crone, and Reclaiming What Was Never Theirs to Take There's a moment a lot of women in their 40s and 50s reach: standing in front of the mirror, watching the grey come in, and feeling something complicated move through them. Maybe it's defiance. Maybe it's grief. Maybe it's the quiet exhaustion of realizing how many years they've spent managing their appearance for an audience that was never worth the performance. I want to talk about that moment. Because it is
Cerissa Leese
Apr 223 min read
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