Feeling drained as the seasons shift? Discover how a simple aromatherapy ritual with thyme, honey, and essential oils can boost your immunity and mood this fall. Includes a peek at this week’s printable ritual card.

I’ve switched to a professional email, and some of you may have missed my recent Weekly Rituals because of it. Here’s what changed, how to stay connected, and why it matters—especially with my Fall Aromatherapy Ritual Series starting tomorrow.

The better you know yourself, the stronger your relationships can be. This 20-minute self-discovery ritual combines journaling with aromatherapy — plus, a free printable worksheet to guide your reflections.

This bonus post from my Wake the Silence series offers 10 self-discovery questions to help you understand yourself more deeply — and connect more authentically with your partner. Includes a free printable reflection worksheet.

Every couple has silent rules about love, moods, and honesty — until they cause hurt. In this week’s Wake the Silence, discover a gentle question game to explore love languages, emotional space, promises, and conflict, plus a free printable guide to spark deeper connection.

Discover the Evening Aroma Brushing Ritual 🌙 — a simple daily practice with essential oils to calm your mind, ease fatigue, and restore natural shine to your hair.

A gentle relationship exercise to uncover the silent rules that shape love — about gifts, moods, honesty, and conflict. Wake the Silence #5 turns these hidden expectations into a playful, eye‑opening conversation for couples.

This week’s Aromatherapy & Rituals newsletter shares my favorite 10-minute morning practice for clarity and calm. The Morning Aroma Ritual uses just a drop of essential oil and a little intention — and it can change the way you start your day.

Unspoken rules about how we give and receive love can cause quiet misunderstandings in relationships. These 6 love language questions help couples talk openly about gifts, surprises, and daily connection — building trust, closeness, and understanding.

Love rarely fades in a storm — it slips away in the quiet, everyday moments when we stop noticing each other. In this week’s Wake the Silence, I explore how clothes, appearance, and self-care shape connection, desire, and respect in relationships. You’ll find three thought-provoking prompts from the Family Questionnaire and a peek into the deeper questions I share exclusively with my newsletter subscribers.

“When was the last time you noticed what your partner was wearing — or how you looked in their eyes? In long-term love, small choices in clothes and self-care can quietly deepen connection… or let it fade. Here’s how to keep showing up for each other, every day.”

A lighthearted 7-sentence game to help couples reconnect, surface unspoken feelings, and turn irritations into curiosity.

Most couples never ask these questions about intimacy — yet avoiding them is what creates distance. Here’s how to begin talking, gently but honestly.

We’ll talk about parenting. We’ll talk about bills. We’ll even talk about betrayal. But sex? The quiet death of desire? We stay silent. Over time, touches stop, kisses fade, and intimacy turns into duty. This silence doesn’t protect love — it quietly kills it. In this reflection, I share my own truth, the questions we avoid, and why facing them might be the first step to bringing closeness back.

When anger rises in love, safety feels far away. This practical guide blends breathwork, calming rituals, and essential oils to reset your body and reconnect with your partner — part of the Wake the Silence series on intimacy and healing.

Two weekly newsletters are now live — Aromatherapy Rituals for calming daily stress and Wake the Silence for honest talks about relationships and intimacy. Choose one or follow both, and get support that fits the season you’re in.

Assumptions about loyalty turn into landmines. Couples rarely define betrayal — until someone crosses an unspoken line.

Kids notice more than we think — the silence at dinner, the lack of eye contact, the missing laughter. When we stay in broken relationships “for the children,” what are we really teaching them about love?

We teach sex, not love — and it’s breaking us. Growing up in Russia, intimacy was hidden in silence. Moving to America, I saw openness about sex but little about emotional connection. This post explores why teaching love, boundaries, and presence matters as much as protection — and how this silence shapes relationships across generations.

By Elena Zhidkova-Rice Some nights, sleep doesn’t come because the body is tired. It slips away because the heart is heavy. Because the...