This is Where We Begin

If you’ve found your way here, welcome. You’re exactly where you need to be.

I wanted this first post to feel like a deep breath. Like sitting beside someone who isn’t afraid to talk about the hard things.

Bone & Bloom was born from the places I’ve lived—personally and professionally. As a death doula, grief educator, and energy worker, I’ve held space for endings, for unravelings, for the ache of what was and what never got to be, and even new beginnings. But I’ve also walked through my own thresholds—navigating grief, mental health struggles, nervous system overload, and all the strange beauty that comes with being someone who feels everything.

A bit of my story...

Last year, I came closer to the edge than I ever imagined I would. I wasn’t afraid of dying, I’ve never been. Yet I was terrified of leaving my sisters behind in pain. The high-functioning anxiety I’d carried since childhood had spiraled into severe health anxiety. My body was in constant alert, my mind loud and frantic, and I couldn’t find rest in any direction. Add in the deep hormonal shifts of perimenopause, and it felt like everything inside me was unraveling at once, and I didn’t know how to exist anymore.

I didn’t know how to hold space for myself the way I held it for others. I wasn’t listening to my body’s whispers until they became screams. I was trying to function in a world that doesn’t always make space for the sensitive, the grieving, the overwhelmed. Untangling my mental health has been a slow, sacred process, one that continues to unfold.

This space wasn’t created from mastery. It was created from the willingness to keep coming back to what is real.

This is a space for:

• Tender truths and messy minds

• Magic woven into the everyday

• Conversations about death, dying, and the sacred in all of it

• Rituals, reflections, and reminders that healing doesn’t have to be tidy

I’ll be writing from five soul-rooted themes:

• Death & Dying

• Messy Minds, Open Hearts

• Everyday Magic

• Survival Wisdom

• Notes to No One

Some posts will be soft. Some will be sharp. All will be honest. You don’t have to have it all figured out to be here. You just have to be open to sitting with the real.

Thank you for walking through this threshold with me.

We begin here.

Love today,

Heather 🌸

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💬 If you feel called to, hit reply and tell me what brought you here. I’d love to hear what you’re holding, what you’re healing, or what you’ve been quietly carrying.