The Invitation

Winter is coming. The earth is preparing to go dark.

And somewhere inside you, there's a part that wants to descend too. To stop performing brightness. To rest in the honest darkness for a while.

Our culture tells us to push through winter—to stay productive, cheerful, visible. But our foremothers knew something different. They knew this time of year as a threshold (Halloween, Samhain, Dia De Los Muertos), when what's usually hidden becomes visible. When we can finally see what we've been carrying.

This gathering is for the parts of you that don't fit the acceptable script:

The anger you've been swallowing to keep the peace.
The need for solitude that feels too selfish to honor.
The intuition you've learned to dismiss as "just anxiety."

These aren't problems to fix. They're powers you were taught to exile.

What We'll Do Together

Meet three exiled aspects of yourself:

• The Wild Woman who knows her boundaries and isn't sorry

• The Medicine Woman who needs rest and knows when to retreat

• The Wise Woman who trusts what she knows without proof

Opportunity for real-time coaching:
Volunteer or watch as I work with individual participants to explore their relationships with each archetype. This isn't theory—it's what transformation actually looks like when we slow down and listen.

Practice befriending your shadow:
Leave with simple, grounded practices for your winter descent.

This Gathering Is For You If:

• You're tired of keeping everyone else comfortable at your own expense

• You feel guilty every time you need time alone

• You've ignored your gut feelings and later regretted it

• You're entering a season of change and want companionship for the descent

• You want to see what shadow work actually looks like before committing to deeper work

This Gathering Is NOT For You If:

• You're looking for surface-level positivity or "good vibes only"

• You're not ready to witness others' vulnerability

• You want techniques to "get rid of" difficult emotions rather than understand them

• You're currently in an acute mental health crisis (please reach out to crisis resources first)

What You'll Need

• A cozy space where you can speak and move freely

• Journal or paper and pen

• Something comforting (tea, blanket, whatever helps you feel held)

Who I Am

I'm Stepheni Mendez, and I guide women through the territory their mothers couldn't map for them.

My work blends psychology, practical somatics, and ancestral wisdom to help you reclaim the parts of yourself that culture tried to bury. I don't believe in "fixing" you. I believe in helping you remember what you already know.

This free gathering is my invitation to you: come see what it's like to be witnessed without being fixed. To descend without being rushed back up into the light.

After This Gathering

You'll receive:

• Recording of our session

• Simple practices for shadow work through winter

• Crisis resources and support information

• Invitation to a free 30-minute consultation (if you want to go deeper)

Investment

This gathering is free.

Why? Because this threshold work, the work of befriending what we've been taught to fear, should be accessible. And because the best way to know if we're meant to work together is to actually experience working together.