Shannon Eichenauer Writer

https://mommyrhetoricwrites.com/2026/01/04/a-letter-to-my-healing-my-sacred-syllabus/

In an effort to give you more than my daily prose, I’m going to try something new by sharing my monthly curriculum. My sacred syllabus. These are the things I gently take on for the month.

A letter to my healing: My Sacred Syllabus Dear Self, Thank you for choosing this path to healing. Slow reading, books, podcasts, journal prompts that allow you to live inside the pages of a new outlook or place has been paramount to the he…

https://mommyrhetoricwrites.com/2026/01/02/the-quiet-unkindness-we-live-with/

It is the practice of meeting yourself (and others)where you actually are and not where you think you should be. Not the polished version and not the aspirational version. Over the years I have gotten exhausted by the idea of aspirational and the pressure to be that. For me it became about being the real version of me who often exists in the quiet dullness of everyday life.

The Quiet Unkindness We Live With Today I was met with LOVINGKINDNESS as it is explained by Tara Brach in Radical Acceptance as, “The intention and capacity to care about suffering one’s own and others’ with tenderness and go…

"This new year is asking something different of me and I'd like to ask that you allow it to ask something differently of you. We don't need to change or hope for a better version of us. When we embody what it is we hope to be we just get better. So what if...who you are today is enough to be a better version of you tomorrow, and the trust and belief that that statement is true."

The Sacred Act of Staying: Cor This new year is asking something different of me and I’d like to ask that you allow it to ask something differently of you. We don’t need to change or hope for a better version of us. …