A Crow, a Gate, and a Soul Remembering | The Garden Pathway, July 6th, 2025
Issue 27, Vol III
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Read what calls to you. Rest when it doesn’t. Return when your soul needs sanctuary.
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Let’s grow… together. 🌸
Hello, beautiful friend,
There’s something shifting in the garden this week…
Not loudly. Not urgently.
But like a gate creaking open at twilight, quietly inviting you in.
You’ve been walking through so much lately.
Holding more than you show.
Maybe you’ve been feeling it too… that subtle ache for softness, meaning, and something to hold onto when the world feels a little too much.
This week, Wondermere is offering you more than stories or sweet characters.
She’s offering you a pathway back to yourself.
Inside this issue:
A soul-deep guided journey begins Monday (The Threshold Walk is coming…)
A look inside the magic of Custom Friendfolk Companions
And a way to gift someone you love the experience of being truly seen
No pressure. No push.
Just an open gate.
A soft landing.
And a little magic, ready to meet you where you are.
Let’s begin. 🌿
Something’s Stirring at the Garden Gate…
You’ve seen the characters.
You’ve felt the whimsy… the mossy maps, the musical bunnies, the sleepy sloths, and sparkling unicorns.
But Wondermere?
She’s so much more than a cozy world.
She is a living, breathing space of healing.
A soul mirror disguised in play.
A sanctuary where the part of you that’s tired, stuck, overwhelmed, or quietly unraveling can finally land and gently remember who you are beneath the noise.
This Monday, we begin something new.
✨ The Threshold Walk… a five-day guided soul return through Wondermere.
This is not a challenge.
It’s not a to-do list.
And it’s definitely not another thing to “keep up with.”
This is a soft, story-rich journey inward… one designed to help you reconnect with your truth, your tenderness, and the next version of you that’s ready to rise.
Each day, you’ll receive a gentle invitation:
To meet a guide.
To step into a place that holds you.
To reflect, reclaim, and remember… not through force, but through feeling.
This isn’t “just play.”
It’s emotional integration wrapped in magic.
And if you’ve been feeling the pull… the whisper in the back of your mind that something is shifting…
This is the gate you’ve been waiting for.
Watch your inbox Monday morning.
The crow will be waiting.
The gate will be open.
And Wondermere?
She’s ready to receive you.
🌸 P.S. If you're not already walking with us inside The Garden of Wondermere, that's where all the magic unfolds… the Friendfolk, the rituals, the soft places to land.
✨ Subscribe here to step into the realm: 👉 The Garden of Wondermere on Substack
Come sit with us under the stars. The gate is open.
🦋✨ A Companion That Feels Like Coming Home
Inside Wondermere, there are many magical beings… playful, wise, mischievous, mystical.
But some?
Some are called in by name.
Custom Friendfolk Companions are not chosen like characters.
They’re received like soul reflections.
They arrive when you're ready to be seen in a way that words can't always hold — when some part of you whispers, “I’m ready for a mirror that loves me back into myself.”
When your Companion arrives, it doesn’t just feel cute or clever.
It feels like meeting an old friend you didn’t know you were missing.
Like someone gently saying, “You have a place here.”
These Friendfolk are crafted through an intuitive, co-creative process based on the energy you share.
You don’t design them — you call them forward.
And what comes through is often surprising in the most sacred way:
Strength you didn’t know you were ready to embody.
Softness you forgot you were allowed to have.
Tiny visual details that feel like winks from your own soul.
✨ Whether you’re:
Reclaiming your inner child
Moving through grief, transition, or healing
Longing for comfort, magic, or emotional grounding
Or simply aching to be seen without having to explain yourself...
Your Companion will arrive with messages, magic, and a frequency that knows you.
🧡 You can choose your own: 👉 Create Your Custom Friendfolk Companion
💛 Or gift one to someone you love: 👉 Give a Friendfolk Companion as a Gift
There are only 50 homes in Hearthglow Hollow — and now, just 48 remain.
Each one belongs to a soul who is ready to say:
I matter. I am magic. And I have a place here.
If you’re even a little bit curious... follow that nudge.
This is more than a gift. It’s a remembering.
In Case You Missed These…
✨New souls have arrived in Wondermere…
Each one was called in with love, intention, and a quiet whisper of “I’m ready to be seen.”
Come meet the newest residents of Hearthglow Hollow… their magic might just mirror something in you.
Garden Lights: July Edition
As Wondermere opens its gate and The Garden deepens into its next becoming, I want to pause just for a moment and honor the quiet lights who help these spaces feel like home.
Each month, I gently spotlight a few souls whose presence brings warmth, wisdom, and resonance to our shared field, not as recognition, but as reverence.
This month, I’m especially grateful for:
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Thank you for showing up with your truth, your spark, and your sacred frequency. Whether you share openly or hold the space in stillness, your presence is felt. Deeply.
The Garden and Wondermere are richer because you’re here.
And I’m honored to grow alongside you.
Until Next Time…
Wherever you are right now… in joy, in transition, in tender unraveling… just know this:
You are not too much.
You are not behind.
You’re simply on your way home to yourself.
Whether you walk through the Threshold with us next week, meet your own Friendfolk, or just hold this magic quietly in your heart… Wondermere is here.
Always.
Thank you for being part of this garden.
Your presence is a kind of light.
With love, stardust, and a trail of sparkles,
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Thank you Dawna 💕🙏🥰 I am honored and touched - blessings to you, my friend 💖🤗
Thank you Dawna for honoring my light and creations. It is a joyful surprise!