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This Body, My Home: Self-Love During the Holidays

Love and Other Emotions
Starting Dec 17, 2025 12AM UTC

About this Session

The holidays can stir up a mix of feelings about our bodies. This Space invites you to step away from comparison, soften the pressure to look or perform a certain way, and reconnect with the body you live in. Together, we explore how social media, food traditions, and family dynamics shape the way we see ourselves this time of year, and what it might feel like to meet our bodies with compassion instead of critique.

In this session, we will explore questions like:

  • What is your relationship like with your body today, and how has that shifted as you have aged?

We hope you leave this Space feeling more at ease in yourself, more connected to your experience, and more at home in the body that carries you through every season.

This is it: This body is home. This is where I live and hang my hat. This is where I settle into my hips and sit easy in myself, slung together with strong muscles and bones, made gentle and forging with flesh. This body is durable, has lasted for years, hunkered down through fierce storms and allows for the peaceful erosions of age. It is like a cottage on the shore: weathered and well made, a place where a person could comfortably live. I like it here. It is my own.

-Marya Hornbacher

About this Space

Emotions Are Meant to Be Felt, Together

There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to love and emotions. Whether you're healing from heartbreak, learning to trust, or redefining what love means to you, this space offers a place to process it all.

Emotions can feel overwhelming in isolation, but in community, they become shared experiences—lighter, more meaningful, even joyful. Through connection, we find not just support, but laughter, insight, and the reassurance that we’re never alone in what we feel.

What to Expect in These Spaces

  • Open, guided discussions on relationships, self-love, and emotional resilience
  • Community-driven support to help process love, loss, and connection
  • Storytelling and shared experiences to navigate complex emotions together

Topics We Explore

  • Navigating Love & Relationships
  • Processing Heartbreak & Loss
  • Self-Love & Worth
  • Emotional Barriers & Vulnerability
  • Understanding Attraction & Connection
  • Familial Relationships & Boundaries
  • Sexual Intimacy & Emotional Closeness
  • Expressing and Receiving Love

We try to tame emotions, to categorize them, to rank them from pleasant to unbearable. But they do not ask for labels. They only ask to be felt.

-Brianna Wiest

Sign up today and join a space where emotions are embraced, not avoided.

Meet the Keeper

Hi, I'm Heather. I currently reside in the mountains of North Carolina where I split my time working for Totem and running a dessert company. Prior to living in North Carolina, I spent six years in Chicago where I founded a non-profit aimed at bridging the gap between people and …

Reach out to the Keeper: heather@totem.org
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