Women Healing Women:

A Reflection on 2025

As 2025 comes to a close, I’ve been reflecting on what truly shaped me this year — not just projects completed or milestones reached, but what changed me at a physical, emotional, and spiritual level.

What stands out most isn’t a single achievement.

It’s the women.

Without intentionally setting out to do so, I spent this year in deep, regular relationship with a collective of women who have supported my physical body, my emotional landscape, my spiritual path, and my creative life. Women I see weekly or biweekly. Women who hold space, offer wisdom, realign bodies, recalibrate energy, teach with integrity, and remind me what devotion to one’s work actually looks like.

These women are healers, teachers, and entrepreneurs — formally trained, intuitively gifted, or both. And their work extends far beyond individual sessions or one-on-one transformation. Through their commitment to their craft, they are actively shaping a more conscious, embodied, and healed collective.

What Connects Them

What binds this collective together isn’t a single modality. It’s a way of being.

They lead with curiosity and discipline.

They study deeply and practice relentlessly.

They weave creativity, intuition, and knowledge into their work.

And they share what they know from a place of service rather than extraction.

Through their work, they don’t just impact individuals — they influence families, communities, and the emotional and energetic fabric we all live inside. Their impact compounds. It multiplies. It changes the tone of rooms, relationships, and generations.

Why This Lives Within ABODE

At the heart of Kelly Evans King and ABODE has always been lifestyle — mind, body, and spirit — and the intentional sharing of things that have genuinely supported and transformed my own journey.

Through the ABODE lifestyle platform, we share playlists and podcasts, books and music, products and design, conversations and spaces. We host our own podcast. We write about home, healing, creativity, and place. All of it is rooted in one belief: how we live shapes how we feel.

So when I say “this collective belongs here,” I mean it literally. These women are part of my lived lifestyle practice — the behind-the-scenes support system that has helped me become more aligned, more grounded, and more awake.

Rooted in Place

There is something especially powerful about women doing this work locally.

Many of these women are based in Asheville or the surrounding region, which means the impact isn’t abstract — it’s happening in our community, in real time. It’s happening in studios and treatment rooms and tiny sacred office spaces tucked into our mountains. It’s happening in conversations after sessions, in referrals between friends, in the way one woman’s healing strengthens her family, her relationships, her work, and her ability to show up.

I also believe that healing becomes more sustainable when it’s relational and accessible — when you know who to call, where to go, and who is practicing with integrity. So yes, I want to name them. I want Asheville-based women (and anyone drawn here) to have breadcrumbs to follow. I want this to function as both a celebration and a resource.

Because the truth is: when women find practitioners who change their lives, they don’t keep it to themselves. They text the name. They forward the link. They say, “Go see her.” And that kind of sharing — woman to woman — is how a community gets stronger.

The Collective

Naema Pierce

Female Pelvic Specialist, teacher and Somatic Sexuality Coach

@naemapierce | www.naemapierce.com

Naema’s work has been central to my relationship with my physical body, my womb, my emotional heart, and my energetic system. Through deep somatic work, she creates space for stored emotion, trauma, and wisdom to move — not through force, but through attunement and trust. Her work lives at the intersection of embodiment, intuition, and emotional truth, and it has been profoundly grounding and revealing for me this year.

Réa Wright

Licensed therapist & founder of Mood Indigo Soap Company

@wrighthelp @moodindigoliving 

www.moodindigoliving.com

www.reawright.com

Rea bridges psychology and creativity in a way that feels both rare and deeply needed. As a licensed therapist and the founder of Mood Indigo Soap Company, her work honors emotional intelligence while celebrating creativity as a form of care. She embodies what it looks like to build a values-led, woman-owned business that nurtures both inner and outer worlds

Dr. Sieara Hinshaw

Physical Therapist

Owner of Outshine Physical Therapy & Fitness

@outshineptandfitness | www.outshineptandfitness.com

Sierra’s work has supported my physical strength, alignment, and trust in my body. Her approach to physical therapy is rooted in education, empowerment, and long-term wellness — not just symptom management. She teaches people how to inhabit their bodies with confidence and resilience, which has far-reaching effects beyond the physical. Her fitness program primarily works with and support perimenopausal women and menopausal women.

Heather Newman

Yogi, Educator, Guide

Founder of Haute Yogi

@haute_yogi | www.hauteyogi.com

Heather has deeply influenced my yoga practice and my understanding of movement as a tool for emotional and spiritual growth. Through both group and individual work, she creates a space where physical practice becomes a pathway to deeper awareness, regulation, and self-connection. Her teaching is precise, intuitive, and deeply embodied.

Melissa Seligman

Author, death doula, shaman, teacher, healer

@melselwrites | www.herwarhervoice.com

Melissa’s work lives in the realm of spiritual study, soul work, and wisdom transmission. As a teacher and healer, she brings depth, rigor, and reverence to spiritual exploration. Her work has supported my understanding of purpose, patterning, and the long arc of healing — not as something to “fix,” but something to live alongside consciously.

Hannah Yoder

Pilates Instructor (Private Pilates + spinal alignment)

Owner of Hannah Yoder Pilates |  www.hannahyoder.com

Hannah’s anatomical knowledge and precision have been instrumental in my spinal alignment and physical healing. Her work is deeply informed, highly attuned, and rooted in respect for the body’s intelligence. Through her teaching, movement becomes a form of education — and healing becomes sustainable rather than reactive.

Closing Reflection

If 2025 taught me anything, it’s that healing isn’t meant to be a solo sport.

Healing happens in relationship. In mentorship. In skilled hands. In practiced intuition. In being witnessed by women who are not only talented, but committed — committed to learning, to refining, to staying in integrity, to serving in a way that doesn’t deplete them.

I’m grateful for what these women have done for me, yes — but even more than that, I’m grateful for what they are doing for all of us.

Because when a woman heals, her relationships change. Her parenting changes. Her creativity returns. Her nervous system settles. Her decision-making sharpens. Her ability to work, love, and lead expands. And when women like this dedicate their lives to helping other women remember their power and come back into alignment, the ripple effect isn’t poetic — it’s real.

This post is a celebration of that ripple.

Of women-led healing as a force.

Of teaching as activism.

Of devotion as leadership.

And of the way one woman’s work can quietly — and sometimes loudly — reshape a community.