You’re Not Broken. You’re Buried.

A letter to the woman who’s done performing.

You don’t need a plan.
You don’t need another list of ways to optimize your morning routine.
You don’t need a new strategy for healing, parenting, partnering, or pretending you’re okay.
You need a place to fall apart.
You need a moment. One real, uninterrupted, unperformed moment, where no one expects anything from you.
Where you can stop holding it all together, and finally let go of what was never yours.

Because here’s the truth no one says:
You’re not broken. You’re buried.

Under the roles.
Under the rules.
Under the performance of who you’ve been told to be —
the good girl, the strong woman, the selfless one.

You’ve spent years carrying everyone else’s expectations.
You’ve twisted your voice into silence.
You’ve waited for someone to see you — really see you — while shrinking yourself to fit what they needed.

And now there’s an ache. A quiet one.
The kind that can’t be explained, only felt.
It whispers when you're doing dishes,
tightens in your chest after a meeting,
pours out of your eyes when no one is looking.

It says:
There’s more.
There’s always been more.
But you’ve been too buried to feel it.

This space — Gentle Grove — wasn’t built to fix you.
It was built to hold you while you remember.

While you come back to the version of yourself that existed before they told you who to be.

Before the timeline.
Before the pressure.
Before the light was the only thing people praised, and the shadow was something to hide.

Here, we don’t rush the return.

We root.
We ritual.
We remember.

If you’re feeling the ache, not loud, but sharp
not screaming, but real, you’re already halfway home.

Begin where you are.

Start with this:
The Starter Ritual → A free grounding ritual to help you come back to yourself.

No performance. No perfection. Just presence.