I’m a Ph.D. scientist who helps women in science reclaim themselves—mind, body, and soul.

Does any of this sound familiar?

• You feel stretched thin by all your responsibilities.

• You feel you need to work harder than your male colleagues to prove yourself.

• You’ve sacrificed personal needs for professional ones.

• You’ve built a toughened exterior believing this will help you excel.

• Your daily life as a scientist doesn’t bring you joy.

• You doubt yourself and your abilities, worrying you’ll be exposed as a fraud or imposter.

• Your life feels lackluster but you don’t know how to or can’t change it.

• You yearn for something different, but you’re not sure what that is.

• Despite all this, you put on a good face—appearing as if you have it all.

You are not alone.

We know the barriers for women in science are myriad—wage-gaps, sexual harassment, institutional bias. You’ve been taught that if you work hard, you’ll get just reward. And, you’ve worked hard. You’ve fought the battles, overcome the obstacles—or so you thought. But where are you? How is your heart? 

I have news for you.

What if I told you it’s not about working harder or figuring out what you’re doing wrong? Or that you don’t have what it takes? What if I told you there are other ways?

Science is a monoculture.

You’ve been trained in an intellectual monoculture—one that, while powerful, is rigid, performative, and cerebral. That values drive, competition, hyper-individualism. And has required you to check large parts of who you are at the door.

Where is the little girl who marveled at butterflies or fiendishly studied repetitive patterns in the sand and waves—knowing about fractals before anyone taught you? The you who nurtures your children? Who dances wildly in your kitchen? Shares food with your neighbors? Who wears saucy outfits when she feels like it? Where is your fluidity, your compassion, your tears, your open heart, your intuition, your inclusivity, your grace, your creativity?

Guess what?

There are other ways of knowing.

The rhythm of the planet—of the Waters + Wilds—is here to teach us. To nurture us. To reconnect us with ourselves. While perhaps quieted, you know this connection deep in your bones.

The language of the Waters + Wilds is multilingual and multisensory: The Waters with their tsunamis and gentle trickles, slipstreams and riverways, show us we can at once be fierce and yielding; that fluidity is strength and flow brings surprise and joy. Immersing ourselves in water downregulates our nervous systems, reduces inflammation, increases circulation.

The Forests, with their complex mycelia sharing nutrients and carbon, and sending chemical signals warning of pathogens and pests, teach of communication, sharing, reciprocity. Walking in the forest improves our health by helping to regulate blood pressure, reduce anxiety and depression, and stabilize our emotions. Their bounty of food, flowers, and herbs nourish and heal us.

Other ways of being and connecting.

The Oceans, with their robust webs of life—the marine algae who gather sunshine and carbon and provide sustenance for larger zooplankton and crustaceans, who feed larger fish, who feed the still larger sharks and whales—demonstrate the value of diversity, interdependence, giving. They sustain us—regulating our climate and providing oxygen and food and are critical to our wellbeing, for being in, on, or around the ocean induces a mildly meditative state, enhances feelings of calm and peacefulness, reduces stress, and increases creativity.

How would you feel if…

You were able, without doubt or reservation, to show up in your full brilliance, integrating and sharing all of you? How would your work change if the questions you asked were informed by a polyculture of complementary knowledges? What would your life look like if you cultivated richer, deeper connections with yourself, with Water + Wilds, with other women?

We will begin by gathering for a one-week, deeply immersive experience in a beautiful, nourishing setting in Grand Teton National Park near Moose, WY. You’ll join The Immersion in a cohort of no more than 18 women. The program itself will have several cohorts.

We’ll be based at a set of rustic cabins at the Murie Ranch of the Teton Science School, with a communal gathering space, expansive lawn, stunning vistas, and occasional neighborhood wildlife. Each woman will have her own bed in a shared cabin, and we’ll enjoy daily meals of high-quality, fresh cuisine. This compound will serve as our basecamp from which we’ll venture out for day hikes, hot springing, and visits to alpine lakes and rivers, and return to relax, dine, and enjoy campfires beneath starry, starry skies.

I’ll be sharing a rich curriculum that draws on science, indigenous wisdom, women’s studies, and somatic and creative practices. Through direct connection, you’ll be given the opportunity to sense what Water + Wilds may begin to reveal to and teach you, and how they may open you to other ways of knowing. Meditation, yoga, breathwork, journaling, ritual, sound healing, discussion topics, and more will invite you to explore parts of yourself you may have long ago left behind.

You will be gifted time and space for self-reflection, reconnection, and healing, while benefitting from the opportunity to grow and learn in community with supportive sisters who understand what it means to be a woman in science.

It’s time to reconnect.

In all of this, I’ve come to understand how profoundly grounding, healing, expansive, nurturing, awe-inspiring, and straight-up magical, time in and around Water + Wilds is. It is the antidote to the mess and stress and disconnect of so much of modern existence.

I see so many women suffering from misalignment and disconnect. This is particularly so for women in the natural sciences—women like you—once entirely enthralled by the beating wings of butterflies now functioning beneath the weight of a limited system. I know that Water + Wilds have the capacity to teach and heal you. To help you reestablish connection to yourself, the planet, other women. To find love. And, then, to begin honoring yourself in powerful ways.

Time to trust.

For many of you, the idea of gathering with women in an intimate setting, of making yourself vulnerable, may feel unfamiliar and a bit scary. Trust me when I tell you that this is your conditioning. Time and again, I’ve watched these veneers melt away as women begin to feel safe, share of themselves, and very quickly come to understand we share the similar burdens of societal norms and expectations, and—we need each other. They discover that women in community are powerful beyond measure. You will too!