The Power of Healing Between Sisters
If there’s one thing I’ve learned through years of holding space for women, it’s this: healing doesn’t happen in isolation - it happens in relationship.
I’ve witnessed the power of this connection over and over again - in the quiet moments with my one-to-one clients, in circles of women gathered for workshops, and in the lives of survivors of domestic violence within the program I lead in Edmonton. I see it, too, on a much larger scale each year through my work as Wellness Director at the Wild Roses Festival, where thousands of women come together to heal, create, and remember themselves in community.
This has been the thread through all the spaces I’ve been part of - from MOONWELL, which I co-created with my sister Lauren, to managing the YEG Collective alongside my sister Ardelle, and in every gathering that has chosen community over isolation. Each of these experiences has shown me the same truth: when women come together with honesty and intention, something ancient and deeply human awakens.
We were never meant to do this alone. Our bodies, our stories, our nervous systems are wired for connection. Yet so many of us carry wounds from relationships - especially with other women - that have taught us to protect instead of trust, to compete instead of soften, to shrink instead of rise together.
And yet… when we do choose to step back into connection, to see and be seen by one another, something extraordinary happens. The mirrors we hold for each other - when we’re brave enough to look - become some of the most profound lenses for healing.
The Science of Sisterhood
I don’t typically speak to science and research… but I bring it here as a reminder. A study at UCLA reminds us that women are biologically wired for connection in times of stress - a response known as “tend and befriend.” Unlike “fight or flight,” this instinct moves us toward relationship, safety, and community care. In other words, we thrive when we are together.
This isn’t just emotional - it’s physiological.
When women connect, our brains release oxytocin, a hormone that regulates stress, lowers cortisol, and restores emotional balance.
It’s biology’s way of saying: you’re not meant to heal alone.
A Space for Deeper Connection
That’s why I created Between Sisters - a new home for the writings, conversations, and reflections that don’t belong anywhere else.
This isn’t a blog or a newsletter; it’s a circle.
A private space where we can explore the deeper, sometimes tender parts of healing: the shadow places, the quiet truths, and the pieces that are still finding their way to wholeness.
Each week, I’ll be sharing letters that move beyond what I post publicly - writings that explore the body, the inner child, relationships between women, grief, truth-telling, and the re-mothering process. These are the conversations that require softness, safety, and sisterhood - the kind we can only have between us.
“Dear Amanda” ——> Real Questions, Real Conversations
Over on Between Sisters, you’ll also find a new space called Dear Amanda - where you can write in with your questions about healing, archetypes, relationships, and the messy, beautiful journey of becoming.
Each month, I’ll choose a few to respond to in letter form - not as advice, but as reflection. Because the truth is, your question is never just yours. It always holds medicine for someone else, too.
Why I’m Moving This Work to Substack
My deepest desire has always been to create community - not just content and to build spaces where women can gather in truth, curiosity, and compassion.
Substack allows us to do that differently:
It creates a private circle where conversation can unfold safely.
It allows me to share writings and audio reflections that go deeper than social media ever could.
And it lets you be part of the dialogue - reading, reflecting, and growing alongside other women walking the same path.
Because healing doesn’t just exist inside of you… it exists between us.
When we learn to trust ourselves, we begin to trust one another. And from that place of trust, we can build powerful, reciprocal relationships with women - ones not rooted in fear, competition, or self-protection, but in shared remembrance and mutual becoming.
Join the Circle
If you feel called to these kinds of conversations - the ones that stir, soften, and awaken something within you - I’d love for you to join us on Between Sisters.
There, you’ll receive:
Weekly letters exploring the deeper layers of healing, womanhood, and remembrance.
Monthly audio reflections - quiet voice notes between sisters.
Access to Dear Amanda, where you can ask your own questions and read the responses that unfold within our circle.
Together, we’ll explore what it means to heal in connection, to remember who we are, and to rebuild our relationship with the feminine - both within ourselves and with each other rooted in re-mothering.
Because when women gather, listen, and hold one another with honesty and compassion, we don’t just heal - we evolve.