by Christina Rae | Apr 14, 2026 | Blog, Personal Reflections
A follow-up to “Honoring the Flow: The Bleed as Teacher” — a conversation about perimenopause, the midnight hours, and what it means to stop fighting your biology. The Clock Stopped Following the Rules For months now, I’ve been waking up...
by Christina Rae | Apr 13, 2026 | Blog, Personal Reflections
Perimenopause as Portal: A Raw Look at Ritual, Hormones, and Reclaiming the Bleed There is a moment, every month, when my body issues an announcement. Not a gentle nudge — more like a memo delivered with urgency. Stop. Go inward. This is not optional. It took me years...
by Christina Rae | Jan 12, 2026 | Blog, Personal Reflections
I am standing in the doorway between worlds. This week has not been a crack in my foundation, but a tectonic shift—my inner plates grinding, releasing, and realigning so the geometry of who I truly am can finally make sense. The cycle of endings and embers For years,...
by Christina Rae | Jan 10, 2026 | Blog, Personal Reflections
When Survival Requires Letting Go Sometimes survival doesn’t look like triumph. Sometimes it looks like quiet self-amputation. For years, the only way I knew how to stay alive—emotionally, relationally, even professionally—was to cut off parts of myself and let them...
by Christina Rae | Jan 7, 2026 | Blog, Personal Reflections, Soulful Business
Leadership Lessons from the Shedding There’s a particular kind of heartbreak that happens in entrepreneurship — not from failure, not from the market, not from lost revenue. It happens when you wake up one day and realize: You built something powerful — but you...
by Christina Rae | Jan 7, 2026 | Blog, Personal Reflections
This year didn’t ask me to become more. It asked me to unbecome everything I had layered on top of myself in order to function, survive, impress, manage, please, control, or stay safe. 2025 was less about forward motion and more about turning toward the places inside...