About
Hi, I'm Angela.
For years, I collected self-care like a hobby. A new journal here, a new routine there, always convinced this time would be the one that stuck. It never lasted more than a few weeks. I'd start strong, miss a day, feel like I'd failed, and quietly abandon the whole thing, only to pick up something new a few months later and start the cycle all over again.
What I didn't understand yet was that the problem was never my discipline. I live with a chronic illness that causes my energy to fluctuate, sometimes by the day, sometimes by the hour, and I'm also neurodivergent and navigate anxiety and depression. Every practice I tried was built for someone with steady, predictable capacity. Mine was never steady. So of course it broke.
That realization is what Sacred Self Sanctuary community and the Low Tide Method are built around. Not another program promising a better version of you, and not one more rigid routine waiting to collapse the first time you have a hard week. Just a practice with a full version, a scaled-down version, and a minimum version already planned, so a missed day never turns into giving up.
What I Do
I run Sacred Self Sanctuary, a self-love community for midlife women navigating chronic illness, neurodivergence, and mental health, where we build a self-love practice around real, fluctuating capacity instead of despite it. I teach the Low Tide Method: tracking your real capacity, building three tiered versions of your practice for your high, ebbing, and low tide days, and learning how to return after a missed day without guilt or a shame spiral. I also write reflections on the blog, host live workshops, and teach 2 self-paced courses, "The Self-Love Practice That Holds” and “Building a Sustainable Self-Love Practice,” where women build a self-care practice for themselves under my guidance and teaching.
Who I'm Here For
You're a midlife woman who's tired of pouring from an empty cup and quietly abandoning your own self-care attempts. Maybe you've already figured out that your energy isn't like everyone else's, whether that's from a chronic illness, being neurodivergent, or managing anxiety or depression (or some combination thereof), and you're tired of advice that assumes it is. You're ready to build something that actually holds, not one more thing to fail at, but a practice designed for the capacity you actually have, not the capacity you're “supposed” to have.
How This Is Different
Self-care advice that assumes steady energy will quit on you the exact day you need it most. So instead, we build around your real capacity, gently and honestly, without shame for every time you've started over before. You don't have to earn your rest here, and a missed day is just a missed day, not proof that you failed. You don't have to become someone new. You just have to come home to who you already are, capacity and all.
Take what resonates and leave the rest. Come as you are.
A Little More About Me
Outside of this work, I'm usually covered in plant dirt (I recently repotted five baby plants my own plants made), pulling a card from my oracle deck most mornings, or playing video games (current obsession is For the King II, favorite of all time is Skyrim). My hair is blue more often than not, and my newest, most chaotic joy is a black kitten named Orpheus who joined our household of 4 other cats this summer. I have a growing collection of crystals and I make jewelry.
I share all of this because I don't believe self-love lives in a separate, polished category from the rest of life. It's woven into the ordinary, imperfect, fluttering moments too, low energy days included.
