2025 - The Year of Stewardship: Self, Each Other, and Land
Our first 100 days
@Tenderheartpress
Is this the year of perseverance? Yes, we must persevere, and we will to the best of our abilities. This word evokes effort-ing, resilience, and struggle against economic, political and social systems which don’t center people. So beyond perserverance, what if take back our agency amid chaos and destabilization?
The word stewardship invites a way forward. Stewardship is defined as: “the careful and responsible management of something entrusted to one's care (Community Commons).”
This concept brings in intentionally choosing ourselves and examining how we have more choice available than we thought.
We will continue to face battles of will, wit, economic forces, resource constraints, legislative obstacles, threats and acts of all sorts against ourselves, our families, and/or our communities.
What I know to be true, we are beyond powerful. Our existence is interwoven, and we deeply need each other. Will you join me in a year of stewarding – our relationship to ourselves, each other, and land-based ties? We are worth it.
Stewarding Our Relationship with Ourselves
We have learned to be disconnected from our body – this may show up as being desensitized, hypervigilant, living in chronic stress, and relying on external coping strategies as we override our feelings. This is normal. We’ve done an incredible job at navigating systemic oppression, traumas, and life in general.
There’s also an inviting – from the ecosystem and universe, to choose another way. A returning to our bodies that takes some learning and shifting how we do things like: learning to self-soothe, regulating our nervous system, and building awareness of our bodies’ cues, thoughts, sensations, response patterns, boundaries, and feelings. It may include integrating mind-body-spirit, learning indigenous ways of living, and re-connecting with our ancestors’ ways of sustaining themselves in community.
Stewarding Our Relationship with Others
We know conflict. We know division. We know lack of safety. We know what it is to not feel supported. We also know our dreams of a “shared humanity,” of justice, love, and care. This shows up as leaders in our community (and ourselves) who are doing things differently, mutual aid efforts, gatherings rooted in dignity and belonging, ways we champion equitable access to resources in small and big ways, examining how political action can support our success with groups like Good Business Colorado, and resting and playing more.
What does it take to steward our relationships? Know that you are not alone in this shift in how we relate. Meet regularly (schedule it in and be intentional) with kindred colleauges and friends where you can consistently practice new ways of relating. Start to pay attention to how you show up in your relationships, observe your patterns of going towards people or away in stress (which are stored in your body, nervous system, habitual thoughts and responses). Be gentle with yourself and your own humanity. Find ways to interrupt your internalized beliefs and continue to affirm the new ones you are committed to.
Stewarding Our Relationship with Land
When we are disconnected from ourselves, our place in the natural world, and our stories of migration and erasure of the communities who’s land we’re on — this creates a certain void in being anchored. As we face the deep reckoning of climate disaster and deep heartbreak in our shared humanity that is now — what would it be like to start stewarding our relationship to the land and the people who have been its original stewards?
Whatever we’ve done or not done in the past and however we’ve been involved, or not, in climate justice – we can start now to live in a way that can help anchor ourselves. We can start to adopt a humble, curious growth mindset of seeking to be better in relationship with the indigenous communities who have been stewarding the lands we live on, and people further in their journey of healing and repairing their connection to the land, animals, plants, water systems, and air quality.
2025 Offerings
Connect with me to support you in stewarding your relationship with self, others, and the land.
Sign up for a consultation call or fill out the interest form to partner with me in offering a group, workshop, or team coaching for your team/organization.
Reach out to learn more about individual somatic coaching, which will meet you at the intersections of personal and professional life to embody more of what you want.
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Upcoming
Spring 6-Week Somatic Practice Group – Open to Anybody - Wednesdays, 5:30pm MST, (3/26, 4/1, 4/9, 4/16, 4/23, 4/30). Pricing Scale: $333-600. We will meet virtually for 1.5 hours every week to learn embodiment, regulation, and resourcing skills to support yourself. Practice together in community how you come back regularly to what you care about. Flyer with Details
Individual Coaching & Team Coaching: Tailored support for you and your goals. Learn more.
Membership: Drop-in virtual spaces to practice, videos, and connect.
Coaching Intensives: Schedule a 2-4 hour coaching intensive session to explore conflict and other challenges on your team, navigating through transitions and undercertainty, strategizing, or clarity on goals.
In-Person (Denver Metro) Day-Long Events: I’m seeking folks to partner with to create monthly in-person events/gatherings in 2025 to grapple with challenges of leadership and organizations, while stewarding our own care, relationships, and connection to land. We will engage in somatic/embodiment skill building along with topics of leadership, fundraising, HR processes, etc.
Sarah Rimmel is a somatic coach, team coach, and facilitator who supports people in becoming more equipped and skilled to tend to themselves and each other and become embodied as a pathway to navigating systemic inequities and increasing organizational retention, belonging, and access. This includes learning skills to regulate oneself, practicing holding one’s boundaries, interrupting internalized isms, moving towards connection and support, and bringing curiosity to one’s needs – in the face of organizational and/or societal messages that don’t make caring for oneself a default skillset, habit, and belief. If you’d like to talk about about providing support to you and/or your team through coaching, capacity building, and accountability-building, please email me hello@sarahrimmel.com or use the form below.