Awaken to Summer
30 days of practice, presence, and putting down the phone
Are you feeling disconnected from your own life? Are you using social media to numb yourself, doomscrolling as you fall asleep? Are you craving connection with the world, with each other, with yourself? Do you want to step into summer feeling the beauty and joy around you?
This is for you if you're done numbing. If you want to feel the beauty around you without your phone in your hand. If you believe the world is worth fighting for and you know that fight starts with being present for your own life.
If you want to come back to yourself, join Awaken to Summer — a thirty day challenge for presence, practice, and putting down the phone.
You will end this challenge present to the people you love, the places you live, to your life.
Starting May 22nd, you'll build a small daily practice around connection: catching a moment of sunrise or sunset each day, writing for ten minutes, lighting a candle for someone you love and saying their name out loud, putting your feet on the earth. These pull your attention toward what's real — the threshold light, your own body, the beloved dead and living things already with you. Small repeated acts of attention are how we remember who we are.
You'll eat a meal without your phone in the room. You'll wake up without reaching for the screen. You'll make room for the moments that are worth savoring, worth fighting for.
Every five days, I’ll share a challenge. Write a letter to someone you love. Make something with your hands. Learn the name of a tree or a bird around you. The things that pull you toward the living world.
You'll do it with a small community of people doing the same thing — people who want to live fully, to connect, to build a better world.
And on June 21st, the summer solstice, we'll gather in person at Cedar Park Cemetery in Hudson, NY for a live ritual to honor where we've been and where we're going next. Can't make it to Hudson? I'll send around a meditation so you can join us in spirit.
What you get:
30 days of simple daily practices
Six 5-day challenges
A private community space to check in and be witnessed
Daily transmissions from your guide, Caitie
June 21st solstice gathering at Cedar Park, 6pm
Investment: $33 — Sliding scale available. No one turned away.
The system wants us to numb ourselves, to check out of our own lives. Awaken to Summer helps us resist — to find joy and beauty, to find each other, to find ourselves. Join us.