Hi Reader!
It’s been a while. 2025 has been a crazy year for me. Toward the beginning of the year, my partner of 3 years and I made the decision to separate. It felt like it came out of nowhere, but at the same time, it was a long time coming.
It was extremely hard. For our own reasons, we didn’t end up separating until June. So, my entire year has been essentially revolving around my heartbreak.
At the end of June, I moved to Denver to start over. While I know my move here is only temporary (yes, I know where I'm going to land more permanently already, but more to come on that later 👀) and so far, it’s been supportive of my healing. I have family and friends here, and I knew that I needed people around me that could hold me in what I am moving through.
In this time, I’ve really shifted the focus back to myself. Who am I? How do I want to show up in this world?
For months in my meditations, I’ve been getting brought back to this moment when I was about 10 years old. I got dressed up in my pink leotard, tutu, heels, red lipstick, and I strutted my stuff around our house like I owned the place. I even made my mom take photos of me because I felt soooo beautiful lol.
It makes sense that this memory has been coming to me. It’s been my inner child asking me to express her more. She was such a girly-girl that loved doing all the girly things.
And that’s exactly what I’ve been doing.
Leaning into my self-expression; whatever makes me feel in my feminine.
My clothes, my make-up, my nails (if you follow me on social media, you know how important my nails are to me!), and I’ve even started taking heels classes.
I started leaning into this a few years ago, but I just wasn’t as loud about it. Now, I’m letting it take center stage (how Leo of me😉), because truly, it’s getting up and out of bed, showering, doing my skin care, putting on a cute and sexy outfit that makes me feel in my feminine, and doing my make-up that makes me feel most alive.
I’m calling it my soft girl baddie era — because one second I’m crying, and the next I’m putting on an outfit that makes me feel like a bad b*tch.
Anyways, all this to say, this past year has been the deepest initiation of my life. Navigating heartbreak and grief like this…it’s something I’ve never experienced before.
But I feel stronger. More anchored in myself. Led back to my womanhood.
✨ What’s new: This space is going to look a little different from now on. I’ll be sharing my favorite things — clothes, skincare, make-up, all the girly goodness. Each zodiac season, I’ll also put together a mood board to spark inspo for your own self-expression (Leo szn is here and she’s spicy 💋).
And here’s the fun part: I’ll be writing more regularly on my new Substack. That’s where I’ll be keeping things personal, vulnerable, and unfiltered. Including (yes) spilling all the tea on my dating life — starting with my first post-breakup date (!!).
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I hope you’ll stay with me on this journey. But if it’s not for you anymore, I completely understand.
Here’s to my girlies. I love you.
xo,
Jess
Check out my Leo SZN mood board here!💋🍒❣️
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