For midlife women waking up to joy, love and feeling at home within. Reflections, healing and journaling experiences using my True Power Pillars: true awareness, true acceptance, true connection, and true embodiment.

It’s not how you were raised, it’s what was raised within you.

Welcome. I’m Truly Eleanor.

I’m 52 and a half, a writer and healer, and I’ve been doing this work since 2008.

For most of my life I was living at a distance from myself. Going through the motions. Being who I was supposed to be. It took midlife and a few very honest reckonings, to understand that the distance wasn’t accidental. It was learned. And it could be unlearned.

That’s what I write about here.

What you’ll find:

Essays and reflections on the real work of midlife: seeing your patterns clearly for the first time (true awareness), releasing the shame that kept them in place (true acceptance), reconnecting to yourself after years of losing the thread (true connection), and stepping into the woman you actually are (true embodiment).

Pic of my husband Blair and I: our first selfie together before we got married. I can be my true self with him and it’s a gift.

Who this is for:

Women in midlife who feel like they’re waking up to something. Women who have spent decades being the capable one, the good girl, the one who keeps everything together and are starting to wonder what it would feel like to just be themselves.

If you’ve ever thought “I don’t even know who I am anymore” or “I know something has to change but I don’t know where to start” you’re in exactly the right place.

A bit about me:

I bring decades of experience as an intuitive, Reiki teacher, and a healer with boots on the ground. I grew up in a family system that taught me to make myself small. I spent years following that instruction before I finally stopped. The stopping, and what came after, became the memoir I just finished writing.

This Substack is where I write while the book finds its way into the world.

Pic is me in Perth, Australia for a University exchange: one of the happiest and most adventurous times in my life at 25 years old.

How often I publish:

Every week you’ll find an article, poetry, musings, rants or a combination of all of it. I’m so glad you’re here. You are home.