Abundance is Relational

"Abundance is not a number. It is a state of being where your heart is so full of love and connection that you lack nothing."

— Alan Cohen

The center of our Abundance altar created from trash collected along the forest floor

August 31st, 2026

📍House of Loto—Salida, Colorado, USA 🇺🇸

Greetings from the wilderness!

In early August, I had the opportunity to host the Ark Valley Women in Business ladies at the House of Loto for a Morning Altars® nature-based art experience I designed, called Abundance Is Relational. The idea had been stirring in me for a while, and I even submitted a speaker application for something similar to West Slope Startup Week.

We tend to think about abundance as something we acquire or create for ourselves—more money, more opportunities, more freedom, more time. Even when we talk about abundance in less material ways, we still tend to think about it individually: my growth, my healing, my purpose, my dreams.

Preparing to co-create at the Ark Valley Women in Business gathering at the House of Loto

But when I look at my own life, almost nothing I value most was created by me alone. Loto certainly wasn't.

This WEaving (this ecosystem) has become what it is because people have continued to show up with talents and experiences I don't have. An idea becomes a conversation. A conversation becomes a collaboration. Someone introduces me to someone else. Someone sees a possibility I missed. Someone offers their art, their wisdom, their hands, their resources, their friendship.

Again and again, what becomes possible together is greater than what I could have created alone.

And of course, nature has been teaching us this all along. A forest isn't a collection of individual trees competing to see which can become the most self-sufficient. It's an ecosystem. What appears separate above ground is deeply interconnected beneath it. Life is exchanged. Resources are shared. The health of one affects the health of another.

Abundance is relational.

Prepping to head out on our partner foraging walk with these collection baskets

Co-creating our altar in the labyrinth

I understood that idea when I crafted the experience for the Ark Valley Women in Business. But over the last year, I've realized I'm only beginning to understand what it asks of us.

Because living relationally requires more than surrounding ourselves with good people.

It requires learning how to receive as readily as we give. How to ask for what we need. How to recognize what is ours to offer and what someone else might be better equipped to bring. How to step forward—and how to make room.

It asks us to reconsider the story that strength means self-sufficiency. And I think it asks us to remember something deeply feminine that exists within every one of us: that life is created through relationship. Not feminine as synonymous with women, but as a way of being that our culture has often undervalued—receptive, collaborative, intuitive, generative, interconnected.

I'm becoming increasingly curious about what healing these qualities in all of us might make possible.

So throughout September, I want to explore this idea with you—not because I have it figured out, but because I'm watching it change the way I think about community, leadership, creativity, and even what it means to flourish.

Maybe the question isn't simply, Do I have enough? Maybe it's also: What becomes possible between us?

With Love, unconditionally—

Jennifer

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