Good Morning Reader

Lately I’ve been thinking about the myth of Sedna and how it relates to the work we do in my group coaching program In The Company of Women.

Depending on the version you hear, Sedna was a young woman forced into a life that was never truly hers. She tried to escape. She believed she was being rescued. Instead, she was betrayed by the very people she trusted to carry her to safety.

And in the middle of the ocean, clinging to the side of a boat, when her father -to save himself- chops her fingers off with an axe.

From those severed pieces of herself, entire ecosystems were born. Seals, whales and the like.

She sank to the bottom of the sea and grew a fish tail and became a commanding spirit of the ocean.

It’s not exactly a cheerful story.

But I think many women understand it instinctively.

Not because we are all living dramatic mythologies in Arctic seas, but because many of us know what it feels like to shape ourselves around expectations that were never ours.

To become agreeable.
Capable.
Useful.
Performative.
Needed.

To stay too long.
To override ourselves.
To abandon parts of ourselves in order to survive.

And then one day, to realize:
I cannot keep living like this.

What interests me most about myths like Sedna isn’t “transformation” in the shiny, Instagrammable sense of the word.

I KNOW transformation is often much slower, stranger, and less linear than we’re taught.

AND I do believe in becoming.

I believe that every time we return to this work, we meet ourselves differently because we are different.

The woman who joins In The Company of Women today is not the same woman she was three years ago.
Or even three months ago.

The work lands differently.
The questions deepen.
The truth becomes harder to ignore.
And sometimes what once felt impossible suddenly feels inevitable.

That’s why I continue to create spaces like this.

Not because I think women are broken.
Not because I think everyone needs fixing.

But because I think many women are carrying unlived parts of themselves quietly beneath the surface of their lives.

And because being in the company of other women telling the truth changes things.

In The Company of Women begins next Wednesday, May 20th.

Over five weeks we’ll explore:

• where you are right now
• the patterns and parts of you that keep showing up
• your core values
• your desires
• and what an aligned life actually looks like for you

Not performative.
Not “bigger is better.”
Not who you think you should become.

More honest than that.

You can find all of the details + register here:
​https://www.yokeandabundance.com/in-the-company-of-women​

I’d love to have you in the room.

Together We Float,
Alisha