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Sylke Laine 🌿

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Sylke Laine 🌿

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Nov 10, 2025

The Season Between Things

On larch trees, letting go, and learning to linger in the in-between.

The Season Between Things

Sylke Laine 🌿

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Oct 1, 2025

A Love Letter Written In Currents

The Rogue River swept my heart downstream. All that’s left are better questions.

A Love Letter Written In Currents

Sylke Laine 🌿

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Sep 6, 2025

Instinct or Intuition?

Which do you need when there might be a boar in the berry thicket? Or when other surprising obstacles appear on your path to joy.

Instinct or Intuition?

Sylke Laine 🌿

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Aug 6, 2025

Coming Back (to Medium, to the River, to My Self)

Because midlife doesn’t ask for reinvention — it asks for return.

Coming Back (to Medium, to the River, to My Self)

Sylke Laine 🌿

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Jul 16, 2024

Your Opinion of Me Is None of My Business

Or why not taking anything personally is a crucial skill to acquire for a peaceful life.

Your Opinion of Me Is None of My Business

Sylke Laine 🌿

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Jul 3, 2024

The Fire Alarm Went Off. Time to Relax.

Why do our nervous systems remain calm when a fire alarm goes off but freak out when they perceive a potential lack of brownies?

The Fire Alarm Went Off. Time to Relax.

Sylke Laine 🌿

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Jun 17, 2024

Lost in the Midlife Wilderness? Draw Your Own Damn Map.

Personally, I find the one the patriarchy has drawn for us lacking.

Lost in the Midlife Wilderness? Draw Your Own Damn Map.

Sylke Laine 🌿

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Jun 7, 2024

Dear Midlife Woman’s Body… (An Ode of Sorts)

It might be time to call your power back from your (and other people’s) expectations of your body’s shape and state.

Dear Midlife Woman’s Body… (An Ode of Sorts)

Sylke Laine 🌿

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May 20, 2024

About That Question You Don’t Want to Answer

About mine, too. And why it’s important that we both get honest about the discomfort it creates.

About That Question You Don’t Want to Answer

Sylke Laine 🌿

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Apr 25, 2024

Creating Is Not About the Thing. It’s About Creating a Different You.

It wasn’t about writing 365 haiku. It was about creating the person who had done it.

Creating Is Not About the Thing. It’s About Creating a Different You.

Sylke Laine 🌿

Sylke Laine 🌿she/her

Creative rewilding for women in midlife. Wayfinder coach, retreat guide, forest walker. Writing from the woods and the soul. → https://letters.mrslaine.com/

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