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Mentorship ⇨ Business & Wellness. NEW: Join our OUTDOOR🌲 wellness, yoga, & Mala events. 📍Ottawa,ON/SDG/Cornwall & Virtual Jessica Palmquist, founder of Turquoise Compass Wellness is an IVF parent, experienced full spectrum doula, trainer, wellness practitioner, Mala designer, and world traveler. Jessica is passionate about supporting people through life's many journeys through calm and stormy seas.

03/03/2026

Just like spring, something exciting is blooming this week — and I’d truly love for you to join us.

Whether you’re a new or experienced doula, perinatal professional, health or wellness practitioner, service-based founder, or simply someone who feels called to grow a sustainable, aligned business without burning out or losing yourself in the process — you’re in the right place.

Life has been a powerful teacher. Travelling to 34+ countries, navigating IVF, leaving the corporate world, and redesigning my life through entrepreneurship has given me deep insight into what it actually takes to build a business that feels both sustainable and fulfilling.

There is a high burnout rate among care-led providers — especially those supporting others during intimate, vulnerable seasons of life, often on someone else’s timeline. This work is meaningful. It’s sacred. And it’s demanding.

To show up fully and sustainably, we need spaces that support us, too.

That’s why this community exists — to offer direction, inspiration, and shared support as we grow professionally and personally. A space where ambition and wellbeing are not at odds. Where we build success without sacrificing ourselves in the process.

Curious to see what it’s all about? Send me a DM and we’ll share all the details. I’d love to welcome you in.

Let’s grow 🩵🤍

02/26/2026

The void has been filled three times over by my greatest loves — my husband and our sons.

Watching my husband become a father — and love our boys with such depth and tenderness — has made me fall even more in love with him in ways I didn’t know were possible.

It’s the kind of love that’s hard to explain. The kind that roots you to your core. Through our sons, we are forever bonded — not just as partners, but as the family we built together.

Now I get to watch our boys grow, becoming more and more like their incredible father. And I couldn’t be prouder to walk this life surrounded by three beautiful men.

02/25/2026

A friend shared a quote with me today: “The day your baby is born, a mother is born too.”

And it stopped me in my tracks.

The day my boys were born, I was born too. I’ve morphed into this entirely new being, watching pieces of my own heart walk around right in front of me. My heart doesn’t live inside my body anymore. It lives in them.

Something you might not know about me is that I used to hate winter. I mean really loathe it. I counted down the days until summer. I dreamed about living somewhere without snow. I couldn’t see the purpose in the cold, the darkness, the stillness.

That all changed when I became their mom.

The same way I learned to appreciate every season of motherhood — even the sleepless newborn nights, even the long days — I began to appreciate every season outside, too. My boys came into this world loving winter. Their wonder when the first snow falls. Their curiosity about ice and wind and bare trees. The way they bundle up without complaint and run straight into the drifts.

Through their eyes, I saw winter differently.

Now I’m outside in every season, regardless of the weather. I understand that seasons come and go — and once they pass, you don’t get them back. Just like childhood. Just like the version of your children that exists right now.

Now I spend entire winter days outdoors with them, soaking it in. Now I run an outdoor yoga studio and host events in the elements all year long. The very season I once resisted has become part of my work, my rhythm, my joy.

They changed everything about me — including my love for winter.

There is a season, and a reason, for it all.

02/20/2026

Being an entrepreneur has given me something I don’t take for granted: the freedom to shape my days around what matters most.

I built a business, yes. But I also built a life where I can linger over slow breakfasts, pause for snowshoeing, and say yes to a snowy afternoon when little voices ask me to come outside. I don’t have to rush winter along. I get to live inside of it.

This season feels sacred.

My boys are growing faster than I’d like. The way their hands fit in mine, the way they still want to sit close, the way they ask for my full attention — I know it won’t always look like this. Seasons come and go. Spring will arrive before I know it. But right now, I get to choose a slow, cozy winter filled with presence.

Entrepreneurship isn’t just about income or impact for me. It’s about flexibility. It’s about being available when it matters most. It’s about building something meaningful without missing the moments that are even more meaningful.

If you’ve been craving a life where your work supports your family instead of competing with it, let this be your reminder: it’s possible to design your days differently.

For now, I’ll be here — soaking in winter with the little people who want my time, my energy, and my heart more than anything.

And that feels like the greatest success of all.

✨➡️ If you’re ready to try something different, I’m working on something very exciting launching March 1 (and it’s FREE) and I want you to join me for community, strategy, and alignment. Send me a message and I’ll give you all the details.

02/15/2026

Happy Valentine’s Day 🩷🤍❤️💜 to my dearest friends and followers! I hope you had a great day and felt appreciated today in some small way. I appreciate your ongoing support and engagement with and wouldn’t be where I am today without my community, team, clients, referrals, and the trust you have in my small business.

Every like, comment, tag, and share means the word to me and makes a big impact!

Thanks for all that you do! 💘

02/10/2026

There was a time when choosing presence over productivity felt unrealistic. Even irresponsible.

Leaving a 9–5 teaching job to create a business that works for our family didn’t happen overnight. It happened through clarity, intention, and trusting that alignment matters just as much as ambition.

These days, freedom looks simple. Flexibility. Fresh air. Days like this.

If you’re a doula, perinatal professional, wellness practitioner, or service-based founder who’s ready to grow sustainably—without burning yourself out—my 3-month accelerator growth mentorship launches this month, with a cohort beginning together in March.

Comment GROW and I’ll send you the link to sign up.

02/09/2026

Wellness and self-care don’t have to look calm, quiet, or perfectly curated.

Most days, they happen in the in-between moments. The chaotic moments. The imperfect ones.

As a mom of two toddler boys, I know how hard it can feel to carve out time for yourself or sneak away for something like a yoga class. So often, I don’t sneak away at all. I create those moments right where I am—with my boys nearby, interruptions guaranteed, and flexibility required.

I’m interrupted multiple times every time. And honestly, I’ve learned that it’s more valuable to me to do it with interruptions than to not do it at all.

I’m modelling daily “me time” and self-care practices in real time. Sometimes the boys join in for a few minutes. Sometimes they climb on me. Sometimes they bring toys, questions, or tiny surprises into the middle of it all.

In this yoga class, Hudson trialed dancer pose for the first time, wobbling right alongside me. Finn brought me a “little” buddy to help me close out the class.

Every day looks different. Some days feel smoother than others. But all of it counts.

Give yourself grace, mama. You’re doing a great job—exactly as you are, exactly where you are.

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