Anniversary Edition: Celebrating One Year of Collective Empowerment
What began as a whisper has grown into a collective heartbeat. This year, Inside Wise Women’s Wisdom has held our grounding, our questions, our courage, and the beautiful both/and of being human. This anniversary edition celebrates our shared growth and evolving wisdom.
It’s Our Anniversary!
A year ago, I released the first edition of Inside Wise Women’s Wisdom—The Political is Personal—as a way to acknowledge and give voice to the complex emotional landscape so many women were navigating following the presidential election. It was a simple offering, born from what I was witnessing in my clinical work and experiencing personally.
Since then, this publication has become a steady space for reflection, grounding, and connection. What began quietly has grown into a thoughtful community of women committed to showing up for themselves with honesty, compassion, and courage. Week by week, edition by edition, we’ve been practicing what it means to live our wisdom—not perfectly, but intentionally.
Inside this edition
- Wise Woman's Wisdom
- A Year of Wisdom
- Gratitude & Acknowledgement
- Looking Ahead to Year 2
- Quick Experiential
- Playlist Recommendation
- Call to Action
Reflections from the Journey
Creating Inside Wise Women’s Wisdom this past year has taken me through a profound range of emotions—overwhelmed and energized, isolated and deeply connected, insecure and profoundly purpose-driven. The perpetual both/and of being human.
This work has stretched me far beyond my comfort zone. I am still practicing using my voice in ways that feel honest but not always easy. Many of you have shared similar experiences: navigating visibility, honoring boundaries, unlearning old conditioning, and choosing empowerment one micro-decision at a time.
Every message, reflection, and shared moment has reminded me that we are not doing this alone. The threads of our stories strengthen one another.
Last week, I stretched myself by sharing something deeply personal with our WW Insiders and Professionals: Freya’s Whisper, my own expressive art process rooted in radical acceptance and informed by interpersonal neurobiology (IPNB) and expressive arts therapy (EXA). Offering it privately required vulnerability, but it felt aligned with the embodied, creative work we practice together. If you feel drawn to more intimate offerings like this, you’re invited into the trusted WW Insider circle.
I’m committing to you—and to myself—to continue stretching my comfort zone so I can use my voice with deeper authenticity and vulnerability as we move forward together.
Sarah Coffman
A Year of Wisdom, Healing & Embodied Practice
Throughout this first year, we explored themes at the heart of women’s emotional, relational, and embodied wellbeing:
- Special editions responding to the moment in time
- Mindful grounding & personal check-ins
- Rest, recovery, and honoring human limits
- Boundary-setting and asserting needs
- Shame resilience and empathetic connection
- Self-love, self-worth, and self-acceptance
- Emotional regulation & nervous system care
- Motivation, habit change, and the WISE-ASS Woman's Way
- Celebration, joy, and radically acknowledging our power
These issues have been supported through:
- 44 editions + monthly WW Gatherings
- Our community space
- Shared stories, artwork, breathwork, practices, and reflections that have woven us together
All editions from this first year are available in our Full Index for revisiting, reflection, and continued practice.
Sarah Coffman
Gratitude & Acknowledgment
To our WW Insiders & Professionals—thank you for supporting this work financially and energetically. Your contribution allows me to continue offering accessible, compassionate, community-centered resources to women around the world.
To my WW Inner Guard—your steady encouragement and thoughtful guidance helped bring this publication into being. Your presence, care, and belief in me and in this work have mattered more than you know.
Looking Ahead: Year Two of IWWW
As we enter another circle around the sun during this time of continued uncertainty, our commitment to grounding, wisdom, learning, and embodied presence feels especially important.
IWWW will continue offering:
- Wise Women's Wisdom
- Practices that support you in caring for yourself
- Bite-sized psychoeducation
- Expressive arts experientials
- Downloadable tools
- WW Gatherings that deepen our shared journey
If you haven’t yet joined the inner circle, I invite you to consider becoming a WW Insider. Paid memberships start at just $5 and help sustain a protected, supportive space free from online harassment. If cost is a barrier, please reach out—accessibility and inclusivity remain at the heart of our mission.
Consider giving a WW Insider membership as a unique gift to a woman in your life who deserves dedicated time and care for herself. A one-year gift membership is available for $50 and provides full access to all offerings for the year plus all of the videos, experientials, skills, tools, and experiential from the last year. (To gift a membership, open this edition in a private browser without logging in, and then click the button.)
Our mission is to empower ourselves and each other to become the change we wish to see in the world.
If this work has touched you and you feel called to support our mission, contributions help Inside Wise Women’s Wisdom continue offering accessible, community-centered resources to women around the world. Any contribution, large or small, is deeply appreciated.
Our Anniversary Prompts
Directions:
Take 5 minutes to journal, sketch, or simply reflect.
- What is one way you’ve grown over the past year?
- How might you celebrate that growth—big or small?
- How can you use the wisdom, space, and connection from this community to care for yourself over the next circle around the sun?
Invitation to Share
If Inside Wise Women’s Wisdom has supported you this year, I would love to hear from you. Your reflections help shape this work—and your words may encourage another woman to feel safe, seen, and supported in our community.
Consider sharing a brief testimonial or personal reflection to inspire another WW to engage and connect in this shared space.
Cheers to Us!
Thank you for walking this path—for showing up for yourself, for one another, and for the quiet but powerful work of collective healing.
May the year ahead continue to bring courage, creativity, compassion, and the unwavering reminder that the personal is political—and the political is personal. We empower ourselves and each other to become the change we wish to see in the world.
Join us anytime at wisdom.aspaceforwisewomen.com.
Subscribe, share, and invite other Wise Women in your life. Together, we keep growing—one voice, one breath, one act of embodied power at a time.
Take exceptional care of yourself!
Sarah
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