The Wintering Journey 2025
A 33-Day Path of
Reflection, Renewal, and Returning to Your Inner Light
The Wintering Journey
A 33-day path of reflection, renewal, and returning to your inner light.
Daily inquiries to gently accompany you from early December through the turning of the year.
What Is the Wintering Journey?
Winter invites us inward — to soften, to listen, and to tend to what we’ve been carrying. The Wintering Journey is a gentle, email-based companion for this season: a daily touchpoint that helps you reconnect with your energy, honor your inner rhythms, and enter the new year with intention.
You’ll receive poetic prompts and short reflections inspired by mindfulness, Energy Leadership, intentional living, and the natural rhythm of winter — with space for you to meet your own wisdom along the way.
What You’ll Receive
Daily Reflections
A gentle email each morning with a poetic inquiry to ground your day.
Soulful Themes
Prompts that move through descent, stillness, emergence, and renewal.
Supportive Rituals
Mini practices to help regulate your energy and reconnect inward.
A Gentle Path Forward
Guided reflection from Solstice into the first light of the new year.
How the Journey Unfolds
The Wintering Journey follows the natural rhythm of this time of year — from descent into quiet, through the stillness of the Solstice, and toward the first light of the new year.
Join the Wintering Journey
Add your name and email below to receive the Wintering Journey prompts and reflections beginning December 1st.
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Meet Rachel
Rachel Carey-McElwaney is a Leadership Coach, Certified Workplace Mindfulness Facilitator, and founder of Emerging Lotus Coaching. She supports leaders, professionals, and seekers in creating lives and work that feel intentional, sustainable, and deeply human.
Her work weaves together mindfulness, Energy Leadership, and compassionate leadership to help people honor their energy, set aligned boundaries, and lead with both heart and wisdom.
The Wintering Journey is one of Rachel’s favorite seasonal practices — a gently held space to soften, reset, and reconnect with what matters most as the year turns.
A Quiet Yes
Winter is a season of softening — a time to breathe, to listen, and to return to what matters most.
I’d be honored to walk this path with you.