Letters from the Joyful Rebellion

Reflective practices exploring trust, changing paradigms, and contemplative leadership.
Personal essays published every Tuesday and Saturday.

The old systems are collapsing. You feel it in your work, in your leadership, and in the quiet disorientation of watching familiar structures lose their grip.

Here’s what matters. Your personal experience is not separate from the systemic one. How you relate to trust, to receiving, to building something meaningful is connected to the larger cultural, political, and economic shifts happening around us.

Every Tuesday and Saturday, I publish personal essays on Substack that refuse to separate the personal from the political.

I write about what it looks like to come home to yourself while paradigms are changing. About noticing how trust frays and how it can be reclaimed. About choosing to build regeneratively rather than extracting from yourself. About joy and creativity as acts of resistance, not escape.

If you want reflective writing that is sharp and warm, that trusts your intelligence and does not talk down to you, this is for you.
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You want to read something that’s more like a conversation, instead of dense writing that tries to hard. This writing is for you if…

  • You have done inner work but feel frustrated by spaces that ignore political and cultural reality.
  • You want writing that helps you think and feel less alone.
  • You sense both collapse and emergence and want language for what you are noticing.
  • You want self-.reflection without academic density or performative certainty
  • You value insight over instruction.
  • You are looking for belonging without having to prove anything
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About the Writer

I’m Heather. I’ve spent more than 20 years working at the intersection of communication, contemplative leadership, and systems in moments of transition.

I write these letters because the personal is political, and because paying attention to lived experience tells us something essential about the world we’re in. These essays are my reflective practice. A form of reflective writing and self-inquiry that helps me make sense of collapsing frameworks and emerging possibilities. They’re where I pay attention, follow what’s alive, and name patterns as they reveal themselves, both personally and systemically.

That lens has been shaped over two decades of work in communication, leadership, and adult learning, alongside a life lived in close conversation with faith, culture, and change.

I bring a sharp eye for patterns, a political consciousness that connects dots others miss, and enough humor to stay grounded when things feel heavy. I don’t write from a pedestal. I write from inside the questions, alongside you.

This writing feeds everything else I do. The retreats, the leadership workshops, and the facilitation work all begin here, with careful attention to what is actually happening.

Recent Letters

Essays for a shifting world. Pieces that name what is breaking down, celebrate small acts of resistance, and explore what integrity looks like right now.

If you are curious how this writing connects to my work with leaders and organizations, you will find reflections on trust, regenerative creation, and retreat work woven throughout the site.

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