GATHERING BONES Mentorship
An intuitive mentorship for creative women building sustainable businesses without abandoning themselves.
Together, we gather what has been scattered- ideas, energy, confidence, direction- and rebuild from a place that feels truer, steadier, and more aligned.
A three-month intuitive container for creative women ready to slow down, examine core beliefs, and build from embodiment.
Enrollment is intentionally limited to preserve depth and integrity.
A Manifesto
Everything is art.
The way you build.
The way you earn.
The way you rest.
The way you hold silence.
The way you decide who you are.
Art is not confined to canvas. It is how we shape a life.
And yet many creative women slowly abandon themselves inside systems that were never designed for them.
We learned to override.
To perform.
To tighten.
To speak in ways that felt safe.
We built businesses that worked —
while slowly disconnecting from parts of ourselves.
Gathering Bones exists for the woman who feels that.
Capable.
Respected.
Responsible.
And tired of holding everything from the jaw.
This is not anti-structure.
Not anti-money.
Not anti-masculine.
It is a remembering.
A remembering that you can create and feel safe.
Earn and remain soft.
Lead and stay attuned.
Be visible and not abandon yourself.
Growth does not have to be forceful or linear.
It can move like a spiral.
Returning.
Revisiting.
Rising — each time with more truth, more capacity, more self-trust.
Gathering Bones is about reclaiming what was set aside to survive —
and rebuilding from a steadier center.
Not by becoming someone new.
But by gathering what has always been yours.
About the Program
Gathering Bones is a three-month intuitive container for creative women building businesses who want to do so without abandoning themselves.
This is not a rebrand.
Not a reinvention.
Not a personality upgrade.
It is integration.
Over twelve weeks, we slow down enough to examine the core beliefs shaping your decisions — around money, visibility, leadership, and worth — and begin building from alignment rather than urgency. Introducing our own magic into every day life.
This work is both practical and embodied.
We work with the nervous system.
We examine inherited scripts around money and worth.
We build structure that supports softness — not overrides it.
Gathering Bones is not built around income milestones or financial guarantees. Every industry is different, and every season of life is different.
Instead, we focus on clarity, alignment, and embodied decision-making — the conditions that make sustainable earning possible.
You will not be handed a rigid formula.
You will be given space.
Reflection.
Somatic awareness.
Structured inquiry.
And the steadiness required for your own clarity to surface.
The goal is embodiment — not hustle.
The Method: A Structured Spiral
Growth here is not linear.
We move through three phases — but we do not complete them and move on.
We return.
With more steadiness.
With expanded capacity.
With clearer self-trust.
Each return reveals something subtler.
The work unfolds through three anchors:
Root.
Ritual.
Bone.
Not steps.
Not levels.
Layers.
Root — The Return
We begin by creating space.
Before strategy, before refinement, before scaling — we slow down long enough to see what is already there.
Root focuses on:
• Nervous system regulation
• Core belief inquiry
• Meeting the younger self
• Reintroducing joy without condition
• Discovering internal patterns before changing them
Root is where we separate intuition from survival.
It is where urgency loosens its grip.
It is where self-trust begins.
We revisit Root whenever we feel fragmented, reactive, or unclear.
Each return reveals something more refined.
Ritual — The Reclaiming
Once space exists internally, we begin practicing alignment.
Not louder.
Stronger.
Ritual focuses on:
• Protecting capacity through boundaries
• Acting on intuitive signal
• Devotion to craft
• Regulating the internalized pace of urgency
• Expanding your ability to hold yourself
Ritual stretches capacity.
It strengthens your nervous system’s ability to stay steady in motion.
When we return here later in the spiral, expression becomes more deliberate.
Less reactive.
More regulated.
More powerful.
Bone — The Building
Here we build structure that can hold what you have become.
But we build from coherence.
Bone focuses on:
• Offer simplification and clarity
• Capacity-based pricing
• Revenue focus
• Client alignment
• Sustainable systems
• Visibility rhythm
• Standards and self-leadership
• Strategic decision-making
Bone is sacred structure grounded in strategy.
It is refinement. It is precision.
When we return to Bone, decisions simplify.
Misalignment becomes obvious.
Standards rise.
What remains is strong enough to hold growth.
How the Spiral Integrates
Over twelve weeks, you will move through each phase.
But they are not isolated.
A pricing conversation may uncover a money belief.
A boundary issue may reveal a nervous system pattern.
A creative block may require returning to joy.
A structural shift may ask for deeper regulation.
This is not regression.
It is integration.
We do not climb upward.
We deepen.
We gather what was scattered.
We build what can hold it.
And when we return again — we gather, and sing.
Why Gathering Bones?
There is an old story about a woman who walks the desert collecting bones.
She gathers what has been scattered.
What has been discarded.
What has been left behind in order to survive.
She does not rush.
She does not force.
She knows the shape of what she is looking for.
Bone by bone, she assembles the structure.
And as she works, she circles back —
returning to places she has already searched,
seeing what she could not see before,
finding pieces she was not ready to carry the first time.
This is spiral work.
Not linear improvement.
Not sudden transformation.
Return.
Recognition.
Reassembly.
Bones are what remain when everything ornamental falls away.
They are structural.
Honest.
Essential.
Gathering Bones is the practice of walking your own landscape
and collecting the parts of yourself
you set aside to function inside systems that rewarded disconnection.
The voice you softened.
The instinct you overrode.
The boundary you swallowed.
The pace that never belonged to you.
We do not add more.
We gather what is already yours.
And as the structure rebuilds —
steadily, deliberately —
life returns to it.
Not because we forced it.
But because it was always there.
How I Hold This Work
This container is relational and intentionally intimate.
I am not here to fix you.
I am not here to position myself above you.
I am not here to become your authority.
I am here to witness you clearly.
I understand how core beliefs live in the body.
I understand how business exposes them.
I understand the complexity of building something meaningful inside systems that reward disconnection.
I offer structure so your nervous system can soften.
I ask precise questions.
I reflect patterns you may not yet see.
I help you slow down when urgency takes over.
I have built and rebuilt my own business through these phases.
I understand what happens when ambition outruns embodiment.
I understand the cost of success without integration.
This is not therapy.
It is guided remembering.
You already hold the answers.
My role is to help you hear them.
Over time, you rely less on my reflection
and more on your own internal authority.
That is the point.
Who This Is For
Gathering Bones is for creative women who:
• Are building a business, practice, or body of work
• Want financial sustainability without hardening
• Feel the tension between ambition and softness
• Are willing to examine inherited beliefs
• Value depth over speed
• Are ready to slow down in order to build sustainably
• Want to learn self regulation skills and intuitive practices that you can use long after our 3 months together
But you do need to be willing to participate.
Who This Is Not For
This space may not be a fit if:
• If you are seeking quick revenue strategies or guaranteed income growth, this container may not be a fit.
• You want someone to tell you exactly what to do
• You are unwilling to examine your own patterns
• You just want social media branding.
• You are in acute trauma or crisis needing clinical care
• You are looking for purely tactical business coaching
Gathering Bones is growth within stability.
It is depth with responsibility.
What Our Sessions Look Like
Sessions are conversational, precise, and embodied.
We may:
• Map nervous system triggers around money
• Examine core beliefs that keep us from creating
• Discuss practices around ritual
• Deconstruct a visibility spiral
• Refine your offer language
• Examine a client dynamic
• Move through somatic practices
• Untangle urgency from intuition
• Redesign pacing in your business
Each session responds to what is emerging in real time.
We will allow the Gathering Bones Workbook to lead the 3 month process.
No scripts.
No performance.
No pressure to arrive polished.
Structure & Tiers
Gathering Bones offers three pathways under one umbrella.
Private Immersion
Next cycle begins June 2026
A three-month private mentorship for women ready to work at depth.
Limited to four clients at a time to preserve presence, discretion, and integrity.
This is an intentionally intimate container designed to support identity evolution, embodied leadership, and the building of work that does not require self-abandonment.
Over twelve weeks, we move through the Gathering Bones framework in a personalized way — responding to what is emerging in real time rather than following a rigid formula.
The structure holds you.
The work meets you where you are.
Your Immersion Includes:
• Two private 1:1 sessions each month (six total, 75–90 minutes)
• Thoughtful between-session access to Rachael for support and clarity as things arise
• A written workbook pathway authored by Rachael
• A printed workbook and blank integration journal mailed to you
• Somatic integration practices woven throughout
• Distance or in-person Reiki sessions for nervous system support
• Reiki Level I Attunement facilitated by Rachael Ellis, facilitation will be 2027
• An opening initiation reading with Brian Patterson, offering insight into themes and patterns that may shape our work
• Preferred access and pricing for future retreats and workshops
This container is application-based and intentionally limited to preserve depth, steadiness, and integrity.
Small Cohort (CLOSED)
A guided group experience moving through the Gathering Bones method together.
Includes:
• Monthly group video sessions
• Monthly one-on-one mentor calls
• Structured workbook integration
• Somatic practices
• Peer witnessing
• Shared inquiry
Enrollment is limited to preserve depth.
Self-Guided Workbook (CLOSED)
A downloadable 12-week experience of the Roots & Ritual method.
Includes:
• Structured reflection prompts
• Somatic practices
• Belief inquiry exercises
• Integration rituals
Designed for creatives who prefer to move independently at their own pace.
The Spiral Model™ is the foundational framework guiding all future Gathering Bones offerings — including retreats and advanced immersions.
Investment
Private Founder’s Immersion (1:1) — $4,000
Founder enrollment has officially closed.
Gathering Bones is a private, high-touch three-month mentorship.
Investment: $4,000
Payment plans available upon request.
Cohort Experience — CLOSED
Self-Guided Workbook — CLOSED
Investment reflects the depth of witnessing, integration, and personalized support provided within this container.
Enrollment is application-based to preserve integrity and alignment.
Closing Invitation
You are allowed to build something meaningful without abandoning yourself.
You are allowed to slow down.
To question inherited scripts.
To examine the pace you’ve been operating at.
To choose sustainability over urgency.
You are allowed to make money without hardening.
To be visible without performing.
To lead without losing softness.
If something in you feels quietly relieved while reading this —
not rushed,
not pressured,
but permitted —
that is worth listening to.
Gathering Bones is not about becoming someone new.
It is about remembering who you were before you learned to abandon yourself.
If this feels steady, let’s chat.