START HERE: Little Alchemies. Your First Step of Transmutation
šŖ Your soft ground to land on for the stories, support, & soulwork that make your life feel "magickal" to live in again
(Adapted from my personal website at cheniece.com)
šāāļø Who Am I?
Iām Cheniece Patrick: a solopreneur, new hobbyist podcaster, Tarot certified attuned Reiki Master, and proud Mother to my two amazingly pretty toddlers on the autism spectrum.
ā¦And I didnāt plan to create a āpersonal brandā... I just wanted to survive my own life, without disappearing.
My story DID NOT unfold the way I imagined it would:
Iām raising my two autistic children with special needs whom I adore immensely. Iāve also navigated suppressed fertility, mental health struggles, identity loss, and the kind of grief that doesnāt have a clear endingā¦ ā¦the kind you carry around with you quietly while STILL being required to show up every day.
My motherhood transformed everything for me, especially my sense of who I was allowed to beā¦ And like many other special needs parents, I've experienced the particular kind of isolation that comes from navigating a path few others understand: The grief that lives alongside profound love. The guilt that accompanies wanting something for yourself beyond caregivingā¦
After months of experiencing emotional tumult and a sticky depression during which I barely knew myself, I re-started my old writing practice as a lifelineā¦ as a way to make sense of the complexities that motherhood, particularly of the special needs variety, brings to the table. Writing became the ONE way I could effectively articulate My (particular, uncommon) Truth.
š What You'll Find Here
Youāll find odds and ends about motherhood and neurodivergent caregiving (without romanticizing the burnout), identity loss and self-reclamation, grief and love coexisting in the same breath, and small grounding practices that make your life feel inhabitable againā¦ Some posts are short. Some are slow. ALL of them are honest.
The Two Ways to Experience Little Alchemies:
However you arrive, youāre welcome hereā¦
FREE SUBSCRIPTION: Always Open
Receive monthly personal insights and honest reflections about the life youāre actually living in either text letter or audio letter format straight to your inbox. Feel the heartbeat of this experience with slow, real, and grounded writing about identity loss and reclamation, grief and love coexisting, and what it actually looks like to rebuild a life that feels like yours again.
These letters meet you where you are with no platitudes or empty inspiration. Only authentic storytelling, a call for reflection, and practical wisdom from someone walking this path alongside you: a mom of two autistic special needs young children whoās choosing intentional living even in the thick of it.
Typical issues contain features such as:
A personal story in my most honest voice
A journal prompt, reflection, simple self-return ritual, or easy reclamation practice
An open engagement prompt and link to the Anonymous Share Box
Free subscribers ALSO receive:
āļø A copy of The Survival Mode Exit Strategy Workbook (downloadable)
āļø Access to the private subscriber Group Chat Lounge
āļø Direct support line to send me a message asking anything about motherhood, burnout, identity, or self-care. (Iāll answer in an exclusive post or chat reply.)
āļø Connection Without Pressure: This isnāt a bustling community space demanding your participationā¦ Itās connection at your own pace, in your inbox, where you can show up fully or simply receive. Both matter here.
PAID MEMBERSHIP: $8/month or $70/year
šŖ Weekly āRefinementā: a weekly ritual check-in message in the private subscriber Group Chat Lounge. Be held by a grounding question, a collective call for reflection, or a soul-work practice. This is tending AND accountability every week, just for you.
šŖ Monthly Deep Dive Posts: Premium (paid-only) writing that goes further than the public letters do into the layered, tender, true places.
šŖ The āGolden Circle Callā: Attend a monthly recorded voice submission from me to Gilded members only. Itās deeply honest, unpolished, and direct.
šŖ āThe Alchemistās Tableā Resource Library: a collection growing in size AND value of exclusive downloadables, reflection prompts, grounding practices, guides, and real tools for the mom doing both the advocacy work and the inner work.
šŖ Non-Social Media Community Space: Hold private space with other women who are also deep in this workā¦ We donāt need the backstory. We understand already.
Simply stated, this your soft and consistent ground to land on and continually return to, with a tending weekly practice built right in and a room thatās ALL YOURS to inhabitā¦
(Get a FULL picture for consideration right hereā¦)
š Start Here: Essential Reads
If you're brand new, these pages and posts capture the essence of what āLittle Alchemiesā aims to be:
š Mission & Values
Mothers like us deserve better than whatās out there currently:
Most parenting support is either too clinical, too toxic-positive, too hustle-driven, or completely disconnected from our reality of raising neurodivergent children (while also trying to maintain our own identity).
I wanted to create something that I needed myself: something human, spiritual, practical, and sustainable.
NOT a program you have to complete. NOT a course youāll feel guilty about not finishing.
But a steady, nourishing presence. A place where you can grow slowly, softly, with others who understandā¦
Little Alchemies is my way of saying:
You deserve a life that feels like yours. You deserve support that actually meets you. You deserve a community that gets it.
And now, itās YOURSā¦
With hope and solidarity,
Cheniece ā”
LOVE THIS!!! So happy to have stumbled upon this and excited to follow along