Welcome to
THE LIVING YEAR
A seasonal initiation into soul growth and embodied leadership. Living life as art, in rhythm with body and time — without outsourcing your authority.
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What happens when we ignore and override the intelligence of our natural rhythms for too long?
Stability in the nervous system that supports consistent leadership and clear choices.
We are living in a time that asks for courage.
I don't mean the kind that seeks attention or takes the front of a movement, but the quieter kind that comes from knowing yourself, tending your life, and understanding the role you are here to play.
This is courage lived close to home.
The courage to live well, consistently, and in rhythm, even when the world feels unsteady.
It is the choice to inhabit your life fully, and to root yourself in nourishment, devotion, and creative expression, and to act from truth rather than the shifting ideals of the moment.
This is not loud work.
But it is how real change begins.
The Living Year is a living practice.
A seasonal initiation into embodied self-authorship.
It is for capable women who want to meet life as it is — through motherhood, aging, change, desire, grief, and responsibility — without outsourcing their authority or abandoning what makes life beautiful.
We are not lacking information. Most of us are saturated by it. What is missing is integration: a way of living that allows nourishment, beauty, and creative expression to remain intact regardless of what is happening in the world.
The Living Year offers a place to orient yourself to time, to your body, and to the seasons you are actually living inside of — both internally and externally.
Many women sense that something vital has gone missing from the equation of daily life. The modern world pulls us out of rhythm, out of nourishment, and out of authorship. Time becomes something to manage, the body something to control, and beauty something postponed.
The Living Year brings what matters back to the center.
The Living Year follows the intelligence of time itself.
It moves in rhythms and cycles, resisting the pull of hustle culture and constant engagement.
The work is paced seasonally, anchored to the solstices and equinoxes, and designed to be lived alongside real life. Each phase of the year offers clear teachings rooted in the body, biology, nourishment, and seasonal law, with practical rhythms you can return to over time.
This is a space for integration, not urgency.
The structure favors consistency over intensity, and depth over performance. It is a long-form relationship with rhythm, rather than a container to consume or complete.
You are invited to show up — and trusted to take responsibility for how you engage.
This is not a place to be carried...
It is not an endless loop of healing or emotional processing, and it is not spiritual entertainment. This work stays rooted in the body and in lived reality, rather than bypassing it through mindset or manifestation.
The body is not treated as a problem to fix or a vehicle to escape.
It is an instrument — one you can learn to tune. Through attention, nourishment, and rhythm, the body becomes a reliable source of feedback, revealing the truth of the seasons you are living inside of and the choices they require.
If you are looking for someone to tell you what to do indefinitely, this will likely feel frustrating. If you are attached to softness without responsibility, it may feel confronting.
That is intentional.
This work respects your capacity.
When you trust yourself — truly trust yourself — something shifts. You begin to meet the world from a different place. And once that orientation is felt, there is no going back.
Why this work matters now
We’re living in a time of acceleration. Information moves faster than the body can integrate, systems are losing coherence, and the old forms of external authority are starting to fracture.
A lot of women feel this as anxiety, exhaustion, or a quiet sense of being unanchored even when, on the surface, life looks “fine.”
The answer isn’t more stimulation or more effort. It’s orientation.
When you live in right relationship with your body and with time, something changes. You stop reacting to the world’s pace and start to feel steadier inside it, able to respond rather than be pulled in every direction.
In this work, the Earth is not something to worship or escape into. It is the classroom. The soul is the student, and love, lived through responsibility, timing, and intention, is the curriculum. This work is not about retreating from the world, but about becoming capable of meeting it without losing clarity or trust in yourself.
And the women who shape what comes next won’t be the loudest ones in the room. They’ll be the ones who are most internally aligned.
The Living Year is a Living Library
It is a curated body of teachings, reflections, and practical guidance designed to be returned to as life unfolds — not content to consume, but orientation to live inside.
Rather than moving through linear modules, you work with the material as the year asks. The structure follows real shifts in time — changes in light, season, and demand — and offers points of recalibration as life moves, intensifies, or turns.
These moments are not dramatic. They are precise.
They meet you where something is already changing — in the body, in rhythm, in responsibility — and help you respond with clarity rather than habit.
The Living Year is not about keeping up.
It is about knowing where you are, and acting accordingly.
Hey, I’m Ali
My work lives at the intersection of body, time, nourishment, and truth. I’m interested in how women actually live — how we move through our days, make decisions, care for ourselves when no one is watching, and lead when life asks something real of us.
I’ve spent years studying seasonal wisdom, traditional nourishment, circadian biology, women’s cycles, and the ways the body responds to light, stress, rhythm, and care over time. But more than that, I’ve lived this work — through initiation, motherhood, change, grief, devotion, and deep recalibration.
What I know now is simple.
Most women don’t need more information. In many cases, there’s already too much of it. What’s missing is a way to live what we already know. Too many women are half in, half out — circling their lives instead of inhabiting them.
I’m not here to fix you, save you, or tell you who to be. I’m here to offer a place that restores trust in your body and teaches you how to orient yourself through time with clarity and integrity.
I also believe we are here on purpose.
Not by accident or as a coincidence of biology or timing. Each of us carries a soul, and there is an intelligence — call it God, source, or truth — that moves through life asking something of us.
Right now, that asking feels clear.
This is a time that requires women to be strong in a different way. Not hardened or loud, but rooted. Able to stay present, discern what matters, and hold responsibility without collapsing or numbing out. To live with conscience, steadiness, and love, even as the world feels uncertain.
Strength, in this sense, isn’t about doing more. It’s about being anchored enough to choose well.
This work exists to support that kind of strength.
There is birth. There is death. There will be both grief and joy.
And through it all, we must find a way to live a good life.
Some of the territories this work moves through:
The Living Year works with the actual turning points of the seasons, the moments when time shifts and the body registers change before the mind catches up.
It treats light and darkness as information, showing how the sun and the arc of the year shape hormones, sleep, appetite, mood, and nervous system resilience.
It teaches the body as a source of feedback, helping you read hunger, fatigue, desire, and emotional states as meaningful signals rather than problems to manage or override.
It draws from long-standing maps of time, including Traditional Chinese Medicine and ancestral seasonal frameworks, to support better timing, clearer decisions, and more precise use of energy.
It approaches food as relationship rather than rule, supporting nourishment that respects season, place, and individual constitution without ideology or restriction.
It works with herbal medicine as a form of partnership, using plants to support the body’s natural rhythms and capacity for regulation instead of forcing outcomes.
It cultivates the ability to conserve energy wisely, knowing when to act, when to wait, and when to let something complete so life can reorganize naturally.
Who this is not for
Do not join The Living Year if you want to be soothed but unchanged.
Do not join if you are attached to endless healing without responsibility.
Do not join if you want someone else to carry your authority, make your decisions, or tell you who to be.
This work will ask you to listen.
Then it will ask you to move.
If that feels threatening, this is not your container.
If that feels relieving — keep reading.
