You’re reading Towards Embodied Living — a Substack exploring what becomes possible when we stop abandoning ourselves in order to live, lead and create.

So, I did a thing.

Says almost every woman sheepishly as she announces something she’s done, is doing or has done with nervous trepidation.

My thing was that I registered on a dating app.

If anyone had told me even a few months ago that I would have done so, I would have vehemently shaken my head.

I would have pulled out the holy oil that may or may not be lurking at the bottom of my bag as part of the toolkit (read: armoury) my mother brings with her when she comes to visit, and sprinkled it with gusto on the person who uttered such profanity, lol.

But yeah, it was me, I did it.

It was unexpected, and I’m learning a lot from the experience.

You’re reading Towards Embodied Living — a Substack exploring what becomes possible when we stop abandoning ourselves in order to live, lead and create.

What happens when the things you’ve spent years nurturing no longer need you in the same way?

In this episode, I speak with Ana Flores, founder, writer, community builder, and Substack host of Done With the Hustle and Her Wisdom Era.

Ana shares her journey from building one of the largest communities for Latina women in the United States to making the difficult decision to let go of the company she spent fourteen years creating.

Together, we explore identity, belonging, entrepreneurship, motherhood, and the hidden cost of building a life around being needed. We talk about cultural identity and assimilation, the reality behind the girlboss narrative, learning to trust life when everything feels uncertain, and the freedom that can emerge when we release what once defined us.

This is a conversation about grief, reinvention, inner guidance, and returning to yourself.

We hope you enjoy it.

Florence U. x

Reflection Questions

* What in your life are you currently holding onto because it needs you, rather than because it is still true for you?

* Is there a role, responsibility, identity, or expectation that once fit but no longer reflects who you are becoming?

* Who are you when you stop living for what needs you?

I’d love to hear from you in the comments.

You’re reading Towards Embodied Living — a Substack exploring what becomes possible when we stop abandoning ourselves in order to live, lead and create.

What does spirituality look like when your life is actually happening — when there are children, noise, cities, and real stakes?

In this episode, I speak with Jennifer Cerero, creator of The Spiritual Lounge, about practical, embodied spirituality for women who refuse to choose between depth and full aliveness.

Jen has lived across nine countries, practised Buddhism for over a decade, and spent years in the manifestation world before finding her way back to something more honest.

Together, we explore the aesthetics of subversion, the God Jen actually believes in, why New Age spirituality can become another way of outsourcing responsibility, and what silence makes possible that nothing else can.

A conversation about inner authority, self-contact, surrender, and what it means to be both spiritual and fully, unapologetically human.

We hope you enjoy it.

Florence U. x

Reflection Questions

* What does your spirituality look like when your real life is happening?

* Where in your life are you currently looking outside yourself for permission, direction or validation — and what might change if you trusted your own knowing instead?

I’d love to hear from you in the comments.

About Jennifer Cerero

Jennifer Cerero is an actress, writer, filmmaker and creator of The Spiritual Lounge — a Substack publication and community for people who are serious about their spiritual path and equally serious about their real, full, complicated lives. Born in Colombia and shaped by nearly a decade of living across nine countries, Jen writes and creates from her own journey: peeling back layers, questioning inherited beliefs, and finding what it actually means to trust yourself. She is working on her first book.

Hi, I’m Florence — mother, writer and creatrix exploring what it means to live, create and lead from increasing coherence rather than self-abandonment.

Through my writing, podcast, 1:1 threshold work, Human-Centred Experience Design and the Embodied Living Circle, I create spaces that invite honesty, embodiment and deeper self-trust.

My work supports women returning to themselves through lived experience — learning to trust what they notice, remain in relationship with themselves while becoming, and create from a place that feels inhabitable from the inside.

Alongside threshold support for women navigating visibility, transition and identity shifts, I also support women in creating containers, learning spaces and experiences that feel like an extension of who they actually are.

If something in this work resonates deeply, you’re welcome to explore my Work With Me page or reach out directly.