A complimentary guided circle - live on zoom - for women who feel something has to change, but are not yet sure what comes next.
STARTS SEPTEMBER 2026
We gather twice each month on Zoom - Limited to 12 participants
First Tuesday — 6:00 PM PDT
Third Tuesday — 11:00 AM PDT
Your place in the circle is complimentary. Space is intentionally kept small.
There comes a point for some women in midlife when they know they cannot keep living the way they have been living.
From the outside, life may still look fine. They may still be in the marriage, still carrying the responsibilities, still showing up for everyone else, still doing what needs to be done.
But inside, something has begun to press more insistently.
Is this all there is? What about me? How did I get this far from myself? Is it too late to want something more?
What makes this season so painful is not only that something no longer fits. It is that a woman may not know what comes next. She may not be ready to make a decision. She may not even know what decision needs to be made.
She just knows she cannot keep going the way she has been going. She has faded — slowly, quietly, in ways she couldn't fully see until now. And yet her life is not over. She is in the third trimester — the most honest, most alive season a woman can inhabit — and something in her knows it is not too late to come back to herself.
The Open Circle was created for women in exactly this kind of in-between place.
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WHAT I HAVE COME TO SEE
Women do not move away from themselves all at once.
It happens slowly.
A little silence here. A little pleasing there. A little over-responsibility. A little endurance. A little "it's fine" when it isn't really fine.
At first, these ways of being help a woman survive, belong, keep the peace, or keep life moving. They are intelligent adaptations. They served a real purpose.
But over time, they carry her farther and farther from what is true for her.
The Open Circle is a place to begin seeing this more clearly — not with blame, not with the pressure to decide anything — but with honesty, understanding, and the quiet possibility of finding a way back to herself.
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I recorded this short video to share a little more about the spirit of the circle and how these gatherings unfold.
When you reserve your seat, you’ll also have the option to submit a question or topic you would like explored.
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A RETURN TO THE CIRCLE
For most of human history, women gathered like this.
Around fires. In kitchens. On porches. Around tables. Walking together, sitting together at the end of a long day. Sharing stories, worries, disappointments, hopes, and hard-earned wisdom. Reminding one another that they were not alone.
Somewhere along the way, much of that began to disappear.
Life became busier. Families spread farther apart. Many women now carry their questions quietly and alone — believing they need to figure everything out by themselves, that what they are feeling is too personal to share, or simply that no one else would understand.
And yet something inside many women still longs for the circle.
This is that circle.
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What happens when we gather.
Each gathering is a small, ( max 12) intimate live conversation held on Zoom. We spend about an hour together — and the space is held with care so the conversation can remain thoughtful, honest, and real.
When you reserve your seat, you'll have the option to submit a question or situation from your own life that you'd like explored during the gathering. From the questions submitted, I select one or two women for the live conversation during that session.
The conversation doesn't stay on the surface of the story. Together we look at what may be happening beneath it — the beliefs, the fears, the habits, the conditioning, and the old ways of coping that may be shaping the situation. There is often as much unlearning as learning, and the kind of quiet clarity that arrives when something finally makes sense.
Even if your question isn't chosen, you are warmly welcome to attend. Many women come simply to listen and reflect — and often what one woman brings into the circle opens understanding for many others who are there quietly receiving it.
Each gathering stands on its own, so you are welcome to come whenever it feels right. And many women find themselves returning over time as new questions and new layers begin to emerge.
This is not group therapy, and it is not a place to unpack every detail of a deeply personal situation — that kind of deeper support is better held in private work. This is a learning space. A place where women can begin to understand themselves differently by hearing real examples, asking honest questions, and exploring the many ways they have learned to move away from themselves.
What matters most here is not only the details of the story — but what the story reveals.
Very often, women leave realizing that what they thought was "just their problem" is something many women quietly share.
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This circle may be for you if...
Something in your life no longer feels like it fits — even if you can't yet name exactly what it is. Your life still looks fine from the outside, but inside you feel restless, lonely, flat, resentful, or quietly undone.
You're tired of adjusting, accommodating, explaining things away, or keeping life moving while something inside you keeps asking — what about me?
You know you can't keep living in quite the same way — yet leaving, changing, or speaking more honestly feels complicated. You don't need someone to tell you what to do. But you do need a place to listen, reflect, and begin telling yourself the truth.
This circle may not be for you if...
You are looking for immediate crisis support or intensive therapy. You are hoping someone will tell you exactly what decision to make. You are looking only for quick tips or surface-level advice. You are not yet open to exploring your own patterns, beliefs, or ways of coping.
If you need deeper individual support, private counselling may be a better place to begin.
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About Melanie.
For more than four decades I have walked beside women who find themselves quietly questioning the life they have built — and the ways they have learned to live inside it.
For many years while living in India, I participated in and facilitated satsang gatherings — spaces where people come together to explore truth through honest conversation, reflection, and the kind of deep listening that allows what is real to finally surface.
Later, I continued hosting similar gatherings in my own community.
Open Circle carries some of that same spirit — the ancient, feminine knowing that women heal differently when they are witnessed by other women. That something shifts in the presence of honest conversation that cannot shift in silence or in solitude alone.
I don't come to this circle with answers. I come with decades of experience in helping women see what has been hidden in plain sight — and a deep respect for the wisdom each woman already carries within her.
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What women say.
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WHAT BECOMES POSSIBLE
As a woman begins to see more clearly the ways she has stepped away from herself, something begins to change.
She starts to understand herself with more honesty and less judgment. She begins to hear her own truth more clearly. And from there, she can begin finding her way back to herself — one insight, one realization, and one honest step at a time.
You are somewhere in the third trimester of your life. And this — a circle of women, an honest conversation, a space where what is true can finally be said out loud — may be exactly the beginning this season is asking for.
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Join the Next Open Circle
A complimentary, guided live circle where women come together to share honestly, listen deeply, and explore the questions that matter most.
When We Gather
The Open Circle is held twice each month on Zoom - Limited to 12 participants
STARTS SEPTEMBER 2026
First Tuesday of the month
6:00 PM PDT
Third Tuesday of the month
11:00 AM PDT
Your place in the circle is complimentary. Space is intentionally kept small ( max 12) . When you reserve your seat, you'll also have the option to submit a question or topic you'd like explored.