Practice Notes

Reflections from the path—what I’m learning, unlearning, and witnessing in my work with women and sacred practice.

Nona Jordan 8/3/26 Nona Jordan 8/3/26

How The Animals Brought Me Home

Twenty-three years ago, I got sober, and then the birds found me. What followed was a two-decade journey from self-hatred to reverence. This journey changed me and how I see my own body and how I work with women.

Nona Jordan 6/2/26 Nona Jordan 6/2/26

You Are the Expert on Your Own Body

You have been taught that the most important information about your body lives outside of you — in research, protocols, and expert opinions. What if that isn't true?

This piece offers the medicine wheel as a framework for returning to the rhythm your body never forgot.

Nona Jordan 5/19/26 Nona Jordan 5/19/26

You Didn’t Bring This On Yourself

There is a particular cruelty in the belief that illness, pain, grief, or struggle must somehow be our fault. In this essay, I reflect on the fantasy of control embedded in healing culture and the shift from caring for ourselves out of fear to tending to ourselves with reverence instead.

Nona Jordan 4/6/26 Nona Jordan 4/6/26

I Believe

I've been doing this work for nearly two decades - for myself, and with others. Someone asked me recently about my beliefs — not what I offer or how I work, but the convictions that fuel my work. This is just that.