True Opal, 121 Flinn Street, Batavia, IL (2026)

01/04/2026

Some tips for anyone who loves someone who is grieving this holiday season.

Grief doesn’t follow the calendar. The ‘magic’ of the holidays certainly doesn’t make it lighter.

If someone in your life is carrying loss right now, what they often need most isn’t the right words… it’s awareness, presence, patience, and permission.

Permission to:
• feel joy and sadness
• opt out without explanation
• talk about who they’re missing or not
• be different than they were last year

These tips aren’t about fixing grief. They’re about walking alongside it.

If you’re grieving: may you feel less alone.
If you’re supporting someone who is: thank you for being willing to learn.

Save this. Share it. Come back to it when the moment feels awkward or heavy because showing up imperfectly is still showing up.

🤍

01/03/2026

Today grief feels like hiking barefoot.

Think about that. Slightly nauseating. Definitely disorienting.

You can’t look away.
You can’t look up.
You can’t appreciate the view.

Not because the view isn’t there…but because the pain is louder, more pressing.

Worse, it can jab unexpectedly, if you lose focus.

So you watch and move slowly. You choose each step with care or better yet, hold still.

If you’re moving this way too, one careful step at a time, you’re not doing it wrong.

You’re surviving something tender.

🤍

12/31/2025

This lab is an invitation to turn the volume down and listen to what’s already true inside you.

On January 17, we’re gathering for the True Light:
Inner Wisdom Vision Board Lab 🕯️
Not to hustle goals onto a board, but to clarify what’s ready to emerge from within.

This is about:
✨ reconnecting to your inner knowing
✨ creating a vision that feels aligned, not forced
✨ letting your next chapter be guided by clarity, not pressure

If you’re craving a slower, truer way to vision, one rooted in intuition, embodiment, and self-trust…. this space is for you.

🔗 Register via Eventbrite (link in bio)
💛 Come as you are. Leave with a vision that feels like home.

12/28/2025

The holidays can stir grief in unexpected ways.
This is a gentle reset + a few words you can borrow if you need them.

Save this. Share it. Come back to it when your body needs a pause.

🤍 Processing big feels

12/28/2025

Over the coming weeks, I’ll be sharing reflections and practical guidance around grief, both from my own lived experience and from noticing how little language we have for supporting one another well through loss.

This will be for people who are grieving.
And for people who love them and want to show up without trying to fix or rush anything.

Some of what I share will be quiet and reflective.
Some will be practical and grounding.
All of it is offered with care.

Grief is part of being human, even when we don’t have a place to put it.
This feels like one way to make a little more room.

If this is for you, I’m glad you’re here.

🤍
Processing big feels.

12/21/2025

I love rosemary bushes! Especially the cute little Christmas ones looking extra festive.

They always make me think of someone I miss.
She hated rosemary.

I don’t experience that as sad, exactly.
It feels like a hello.
Like memory just popping in to say, “I’m still here.”

Grief doesn’t always arrive as tears or heaviness.
Sometimes it shows up as a smile, a plant, a passing thought.

I want us to talk about the people we miss more freely without whispering, without rushing past it, without making it awkward.

If you’re missing someone or something this holiday season, you’re not alone and it’s ok to talk about it 💓

🤍
Processing big feels.

12/15/2025

12 Magical Nights is an intentional, guided ritual to close the year with clarity and courage
This practice is rooted in something we know to be true in leadership and life: clarity, commitment, and community are proven ingredients for meaningful change and creation.

Through simple daily prompts (no perfection required), we create space to:
• Reflect on what this year actually asked of you
• Release what you’re done carrying
• Clarify what you want more of — and why
• Set intentions that feel embodied, not forced

There’s a little magic here — and also a lot of science.
Reflection strengthens self-awareness.
Ritual creates psychological safety.
Intention-setting activates focus, motivation, and choice. Join us for 12 Magical Nights and let this year end with a glow-up that actually sustains you.

✨ Clarity over hustle
✨ Intention over pressure
✨ Ritual over burnout

If you’re ready to close the year differently, we’d love to hold this container with you. 🔗 in bio

12/13/2025

At the end of 2024, a small group of us committed to a simple but powerful practice rooted in reflection, intention, and community.

It began with 12 Magical Nights, a ritual many people encounter online. What made the difference wasn’t the ritual itself…it was the container.

There were four of us. We met quarterly for 90 minutes to reflect on what the previous quarter had actually brought, how that aligned with our intentions, and what we wanted to intentionally step into next. We supported this with monthly tarot pulls and light-touch check-ins along the way.

Here’s what I know to be true both professionally and personally:

✨ Wishes can feel warm and woo
📌 But clarity, commitment, and community are proven ingredients for change and creation

Reflection creates clarity.
Commitment turns insight into action.
Community sustains momentum when life gets complicated.

This practice became one of the most grounding systems I’ve ever used, especially in a year that held profound loss and uncertainty. It didn’t demand perfection or daily discipline. It didn’t shame missed moments. It simply kept inviting us back into alignment with ourselves.

As leaders and humans, reflection helps us:
• Make more intentional decisions
• Recognize patterns before they harden
• Regulate emotion and increase resilience
• Create meaning during complex seasons of change

What started as a small, personal container became the foundation for something more.

We’ve created Awaken 365, a year-long practice and community designed to support intentional living through reflection, guidance, and connection.

If you’re ready to step into a magical practice, and maybe a container that helps light the path you want to walk this year, check the link 🔗 in bio

12/11/2025

Outside the Chaos ✨

This year changed me.

Not in a loud way. In a quiet, grounded, unmistakable way.

I learned I can be present without participating. I can love without absorbing.
I can stand in rooms that once destabilized me and stay rooted in my own soil 🌱

Grief clarified things. Boundaries softened into discernment. What once felt like armor became truth.

I’m choosing what I hold.
And letting the rest fall away.

I wrote about this shift in my latest blog — link in bio 💛
✨https://trueopal.com/f/outside-the-chaos

If you’re craving space outside the chaos, I’m holding two sacred containers to walk this season together:
✨ 12 Magical Nights
✨ Awaken 365

Gentle places to return to yourself, your energy, and what actually matters.

You don’t have to force clarity.
Sometimes it arrives the moment you stop carrying what was never yours.

12/07/2025

We gathered this weekend for Nervous System Care for the Season, and it was one of those circles that stays with you.
Grounded. Honest. Regulating in the deepest sense.

We sat in a circle. We breathed. We slowed down enough to listen. We named what we’re carrying, and what we’re ready to hold differently.

We left with intention statements to guide us through a busy, tender season. Mine is this: “I honor my sadness as a form of love, and I let my mom see me live vibrantly.”

This is the kind of space where nervous systems soften, truth is welcome, and you don’t have to perform or push. Just arrive as you are.

And if you’re feeling the pull to keep going…

✨ 12 Magical Nights is coming — a sacred, nightly ritual to close the year with intention, reflection, and presence.
✨ AWAKEN 365 follows — a bold, soul-rooted container for people who are ready to answer the life that’s calling them and step into the new year with courage, clarity, and community.

These are for you if you’re done white-knuckling your way through change and are ready to live aligned, awake, and supported.

If your body is saying yes, trust it. Details are waiting for you at the link in bio.

12/03/2025

✨ Nervous System Care for the Season: Soul-Shine Sanctuary ✨
Saturday, Dec 6 • Soul Studio, Batavia

The holidays can pull us in a thousand directions. This is your invitation to come home to yourself. Join us for a grounding, heart-opening session designed to help your nervous system soften, settle, and restore.

We’ll slow down together, breathe together, release what’s heavy, and reconnect with the inner steadiness that’s been there all along.
Perfectly located for our Fox Valley community. 💛

🧘‍♀️ What to expect:
A blend of science-backed practices + soulful reflection
Gentle nervous-system support
Seasonal grounding + intention setting
A welcoming space to land, rest, and shine

🎟 Tickets:
$20 in advance • $25 at the door

Come get what your system has been quietly asking for. ✨
Reserve your spot — your future self will thank you. 🔗 in Bio.

11/03/2025

As the year winds down, the season invites both celebration and complexity — deadlines, gatherings, travel, and the emotions that come with all of it.

For me personally, this holiday season carries new layers. It’s my first without my mom, and I’m navigating new family dynamics and the ongoing rhythm of running a business. It’s required an even deeper level of intention about how I care for my energy and my nervous system.

That awareness inspired [tag] and me to create a space for others who might be feeling the same pull — to pause, to ground, and to reconnect before the season sweeps us away.

🌿 Soul-Shine Sanctuary: Nervous System Care for the Season
Returning to Calm Amid the Holiday Currents

A 90-minute virtual experience designed to help you:
• Understand how your nervous system shapes your sense of control and calm
• Practice simple, science-based and soulful ways to regulate stress
• Leave with both a self-care plan and an intentional vision for the weeks ahead

If this season feels both tender and full, I hope you’ll join us.

🗓️ November 18 | Virtual
🔗 Registration link in comments

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