I vividly remember the first time I heard the name Jill Rose.
It was a few years ago, and my dearest friend Lisa was supporting Jill in building her coaching business. Every time Lis got off a call with Jill, she would speak about her with the kind of reverence that makes you pause and pay attention.
She’d gush over how undeniably incredible Jill was…. how she inspired and expanded her, how she moved through the world with such grounded grace as a mother, a wife, a teacher, and a woman of deep presence. She called her a visionary leader and one of the most compassionate, wise, and beautiful humans she’d ever encountered.
And I could feel it too, even from a distance.
I held the intention in my own heart that our journeys would intersect when the time was right. That moment arrived this past November, and I finally got to experience the magic of Jill Rose for myself.
And magic it was.
She is the real deal. To experience her is to be so deeply held in safety and love, the kind that hits you right in the heart space and extends outward like a ripple in the calmest body of water. It's emotional. It's sacred. It stays with you long after you've left her presence. She's someone who has lived her work. Who has walked through fire, lost everything, and chosen to rebuild from the inside out. She's here to ignite something deeper, to challenge the norm, and carve a new path forward rooted in both inner power and compassion.
She’s here to stir something in you.
To shake loose old stories.
To challenge systems.
To remind you that your power doesn’t have to come from hustle or hardness.
That rest, softness, and truth are revolutionary too.
This conversation was a gift.
Inside, we spiral into the systems that keep women small, what it means to reclaim your power from a place of deep rest, and how Jill is carving out an entirely new paradigm for women everywhere.
Jill, it's the greatest honour to know you, learn from you, and witness the brilliance you so generously offer to the world. Thank you for dancing in conversation with me.
Let’s spiral deeper.
AC—Your work feels like a warm exhale, a soft, powerful reminder that we’re allowed to return to ourselves. To start us off, can you share what drew you to this work of helping women remember their brilliance?
JR—Thank you for saying that. That really warms my heart and means a lot, because it’s my hope that people feel as loved as they should, and as much as I love them. What led me to this work? Well, gosh. From the very beginning, I was absolutely the girl on the playground saying, "Tell me your problems. Who said what to you?" I was always that person. I’ve always been fascinated by humanness, by relational dynamics, by how culture influences all of it. That’s why I became a sociology major. It was just endlessly fascinating to me. It took me decades to truly plant my feet in this work, but it’s always been a part of me. I've always held roles where I supported, lifted, gathered, and connected women.
One of the biggest turning points came during a really hard time in my life. I had three small kids, and we were forced to leave the city, which devastated me. I didn’t know what to do next, and honestly, I was cold. I hate being cold. I found a hot yoga studio, and that changed my life. Truly, the temperature changed my life.
Yoga became a lifeline. I started to experience more internal awareness, thoughts I hadn’t paid attention to before. I began having conversations with my body in new ways. Eventually, I decided to do a teacher training, just because I wanted to know more. I didn’t plan on teaching, but of course, as part of the certification, you have to.
I’d invite a few women into my funky old house in West Seattle. There was this one room that took my breath away, it looked out over the water. I converted it into a little yoga studio and started practicing with them. Eventually, that grew into a full-blown studio in my home, with women cycling in and out each week. It started as yoga, breathwork, and postures, but it quickly became about community and how we hold space for one another. And I came alive.
I’d never intended to be a facilitator or hold space in that way, but it felt so natural. I got to be the best version of myself. The woman who loves big, but now with direction. I could channel that love into the space, into asking how the postures translated to our emotional well-being. That’s really where it all began.
Eventually, I thought, maybe I’ll just throw a retreat. Let’s see what happens. I remember that first one so clearly. One of my dearest friends came and helped me cook for 20 women. We did yoga, journaling, and so many other practices. After that retreat, I needed time alone to process everything that had moved through me. I was driving home, overcome with this foreign but powerful feeling, and I now know that feeling was purpose. I had to pull over because I couldn’t drive through it. It was that intense.
But for years, I danced around it. I’d always keep one foot in something more "practical" or "real." My family comes from a more conventional background—bankers, doctors—and I had that voice in my head constantly asking, “What are we doing here, Jill?”
Then COVID hit. That was one of the biggest turning points in my life. I realized I didn’t want my future to depend on someone else’s structure or a global event. I told my husband, “What am I going to do?” and he said, “You know what you need to do.” And I asked him to remind me…. and he said, “You’ve been dancing around this our whole lives. Go into counselling. It’s what you’ve always wanted.”
And still, I was scared. Then, later that year, my grandmother passed away at 99. She was my soul sister, my magic. She truly saw me. I remember thinking, I don’t want to reach 99 knowing who I am and what I came here to do, but being too scared to do it. So I started. Slowly. I started with one client, then another. I kept learning, reading, listening, staying curious. I think the skills were always innate, but now I had a container to place them in. I could understand the theory, the research, the frameworks behind what I was doing naturally.
That’s what led me here.
AC—You speak to that experience so many women have… being everything for everyone, while quietly losing touch with their own spark. What did that moment look like for you? Was there a pivotal point where you realized something had to change?
JR—Yes, I teach what I know. I teach my journey. My work around rest and power is absolutely derived from my own pathway, my own curiosity, my own pain. I think I was very driven by how I thought I was supposed to be. What a good wife, a good woman, a good mother, a responsible, intelligent, social woman should look like. I did it all, made the Halloween costumes, the birthday invitations, and volunteered in classrooms. All while working. I was exhausting myself, chasing an ideal.
Then everything started to unravel. My youngest, who is thriving now, was very sick as a baby. It was life-altering. We lived in children’s hospitals, unsure of his future. At the same time, I was trying to keep my other two kids happy, hold the house together, be a wife, a friend, a woman who had it all handled. I was consumed.
And then, in the midst of it, we lost everything. It was the time of the housing crisis. Everything I knew and had built my identity around crumbled to the ground. Status, money, education, perfect family, healthy children, it all just fell apart. It was this moment where everything I had relied upon no longer served me. That was the moment when I started to move internally.
I fought it at first. I resisted. But something deeper began to rise, I was overcome by purpose. And as I followed it, I started rebuilding from a different place. I became super curious about that. I noticed that striving looked one way, but feeling fulfilled looked very different. My health was suffering. I was burnt out.
In the aftermath, what I rebuilt with was me. No longer relying on the external. Everything in me pointed to an alternative path. And I just started to listen to that. The more I did, the more I realized how brilliant that internal compass was. When I could recognize that in myself, I could absolutely see it in other women. And then it just became intoxicating, wanting to learn more about what made women tick.
In the midst of this, I could also see the way women diminish themselves. And it hurt. It hurt to hear it, because I had played small so much in my life. I could hear it in language, see it in body posturing, in choices—career choices, parenting choices, even fashion choices. These ways in which women minimize themselves. Not only did it hurt me to hear this, but it also sparked a deep curiosity. Why is this? Why do we do this?
That’s when things started to evolve. And of course, it tied right back to culture and society, which had always been that through line for me. That deep, long-held curiosity. This is when I started to integrate everything.
AC—There’s this deep conditioning around needing to ‘handle it all’ without asking for help. How have you seen this impact the women you work with? And what begins to shift when they finally give themselves permission to soften?
JR—By the time a woman comes to see me, she often can’t even articulate what’s wrong. The pain is there, the frustration is there, but the root of it feels unclear, so we begin to unravel. And what we usually find is that they’re maxed out. They’re doing everything, bringing home the bacon, frying it up in the pan, getting the kids to soccer, squeezing in yoga, massages, girls' nights, and still wondering, Shouldn’t this be enough? But it’s not.
What’s often beneath the surface is this deep conditioning about what it means to be a “good woman.” The pressure to do it all, be it all. And when the woman they think they should be starts to collide with the woman they truly are, that’s where the pain lives. They don’t know why they feel like something’s off, they just know it is.
Women are taught to internalize blame. If they feel overwhelmed, disconnected, unfulfilled… they assume they are the problem. So they self-optimize… go to more yoga, take supplements, read the books. But the real power comes in recognizing the cultural forces at play. When they begin to understand that the expectations placed on them aren’t personal, they’re structural, it creates space. Maybe nothing is wrong with me. Maybe I was never meant to fit this mould.
That awareness alone, before any actions change, is powerful. It’s the first step in reclaiming themselves. I’ve developed a process rooted in tenderness and kindness because while shame might push us forward temporarily, it’s never sustainable. Real transformation begins when we meet ourselves with the same love we give our children, or our pets, with softness.
Over time, women start to break free. The invisible cages that once confined them begin to dissolve. And with that comes freedom, the freedom to want more, to be more, without guilt. It’s honestly emotional for me every time I witness it, that moment a woman realizes: Oh my God, I can do this. I can be this version of myself.
AC—That really resonates. I think a big shift for me was learning to say no from a grounded, centred place. Not out of resistance, but from knowing: This isn’t right for me. I get to choose where my energy goes.
JR— Yes! Learning to say no is huge. And one of the biggest revelations for women is realizing why it feels so bad to do it. We’ve been conditioned to believe that saying no makes us selfish, cold, or mean. Our entire identity has been built around doing for others, and so pushing back feels like a betrayal of others and of our own womanhood.
And, honestly, women are often the ones policing each other. Because when we see another woman embodying freedom while we still feel shackled, it can trigger pain. So the system sustains itself, in part, through us. But when we understand the why, the historical and cultural reasons why saying no feels hard, we can start to disentangle our personal worth from those expectations. Even if we still say yes sometimes, we do it with more awareness and less self-judgment. That’s where grace comes in.
And the power piece? That’s everything.
But it’s not the kind of power we’ve been shown. That power, the one rooted in ego, control, scarcity, isn’t what I’m talking about. I’m talking about a power that’s internal. One that can’t be taken away, dimmed, or destroyed. It may hide, but it doesn’t disappear.
When a woman connects to that kind of power, she becomes so full and grounded in her own worth, it wouldn't even occur to her to control or judge someone else. Her power isn’t dependent on being above anyone else, it’s not about exclusion. It’s love. It’s wholeness. It's hers. And I really believe this is how we heal the world. Because it stops being a zero-sum game. When women rise in this kind of power, everyone wins. The ripple effect is real and magnificent.
AC—Boundaries can be such a charged topic for women, especially when we’ve been raised to be ‘nice’ and accommodating. What would you say to the woman who’s terrified that setting boundaries means she’s being selfish or will lose connection with others?
JR—When we have a true embodiment of how to say no and be in our power, it’s rarely just a switch that flips. It takes time to process. Where I would start is the awareness piece. Here’s why you feel selfish saying no: you were conditioned. Let’s look at history, let’s look at what it means to be a woman. Let’s look at the messaging you might have personally received within your family, or your school, or your upbringing, or whatever, that told you that to belong, you needed to oblige.
There are biological reasons behind this, right? We are wired to belong, it ensures safety. And so we still have that part of us that is really geared to belonging. We will do whatever it takes to feel secure in our effort to belong.
So part of why we say yes when we mean no is because we fear risking that sense of safety. It shows up in ways like FOMO and is certainly compounded by social media. So the first really important piece to understand is that we are wired to belong. Everything in your nervous system, everything in your makeup, is always going to try to create that for you. So it’s beautiful, right? It's wanting to help you. And then, it's compounded by being a woman, our narrative around belonging means doing for others first. That’s critical to understand.
So the journey becomes: let’s unpack it. If you said no, what’s the narrative that comes up? Begin to identify your own messaging. Unravel your story behind it. And that’s a process. Ultimately, getting to a place where you have an understanding that if you say no, and it is in alignment with you, how the other person reacts has nothing to do with you.
That’s a journey to get there. It’s super easy to be like, “Say no, and if they have a problem with it, that’s on them.” But getting there takes time. Often we feel mean saying no because we live in such a narrow realm of how to behave. Anything outside of that feels extreme. But there are firm and kind ways to say no, language that holds tenderness and still honours your truth. That usually comes from self-love.
We tend to get defensive, like “I can’t believe you even asked me that,” and it becomes a heated exchange. But you can eliminate that with something like, “Thanks for thinking of me. My plate is full,” or “That’s not my jam.” Most people will respect that. And the ones who don’t? They’re the reason the boundary is needed.
It starts with understanding the biological and cultural reasons it’s hard. And knowing that, over time, saying no becomes a love letter to yourself. And really, it’s an act of kindness for another, too.
AC—You help women pause the hustle and come back to a life that’s more intentional and aligned. What are some of the most powerful things that begin to rise to the surface when women finally slow down enough to listen?
JR—I love this question. Rest is a subversive path to power. It’s radical. On the surface, rest helps women recover from burnout and exhaustion, but the deeper magic is what starts to rise when we quiet the noise. When we finally slow down and tune out the voices of culture, duty, and trauma, we begin to hear what I call our inside voice. That inner wisdom, God, Source, intuition. Whatever name you give it, she starts to rise. And when we begin to take our lead from her? That’s power. That’s freedom.
It’s a journey to get there because it’s not just counterintuitive, it’s countercultural. Living from this place of alignment and integrity often clashes with what the world has prescribed for us. That’s where the friction lies. So the work becomes learning how to hear that voice, how to trust her, how to follow her in ways that feel safe and regulated. And once we do, and once we see how much more peace, joy, and fulfilment she brings, we realize we never needed to hustle to rise. Our becoming doesn’t come from hardship. It comes from flow.
That’s the revolution: reclaiming our power not through burnout, but through rest. It’s radical to say, “You can rise, and get some sleep.” I do want to name my privilege here: I’m a white, educated woman with access and resources. But even still, this feels universal. Because true power, as we’re defining it here, doesn’t come from the outside. It’s sourced within, no matter what the world says.
AC—If you could spiral deeper into one truth that every woman deserves to hear and embody, what would it be?
JR—She has everything she needs right inside of her. Everything is already there. Oh, it makes me cry. Yeah. Her brilliance, her wisdom, her strength, her power. It's already there.
AC—Where can readers go to experience more of your work, and how can they begin their own journey back to brilliance with you?
JR—The best place to connect is through my website. I offer one-on-one coaching, and my 12-week program, Rest, Restore & Rise, will open again in the fall. I’m also hosting a retreat this October just outside of Palm Springs, an intimate space to not only experience my work, but more importantly, reconnect with yourself. Each retreat has a theme, and this one is all about coming back to basics: Use your inside voice. It’s centred around tuning into that inner wisdom, your own guiding force, and learning to trust her as the compass that leads you back to your path, your power, and your truth.
Thank you for being here and taking the time to read this piece. I know I speak on behalf of both myself and Jill when I say it truly means the world.
It’s an honour to share Jill’s wisdom, fire, and devotion with you all.
My hope is that her story stirs something within you. A remembrance of your own power, your own truth, and the voice within that’s been waiting to rise. Here’s to resting, reclaiming, and returning to who we were always meant to be.
With love,
Angelica x
my work:
I guide women through the sacred art of unravelling—shedding layers of conditioning, self-protection, and doubt that have distanced them from their Truth. Rooted in deep presence, energy healing, and somatic integration, I weave together intuitive guidance and nervous system support to help you reclaim your power, soften back into your wholeness, and return to the radiant Truth of who you are.
꩜ energy healing & integration sessions—intuitively-led 1:1 sessions where we dive deep into the unseen layers of your being, offering energetic recalibration, emotional release, and embodied remembrance.
꩜ the unravelled journey—a 9-week intimate space to slowly unravel, heal, and come home to yourself. Together, we gently untangle the conditioning that no longer serves you, expand your capacity to hold more, and anchor you into alignment with your authentic essence.
꩜ let’s connect—if you feel a quiet nudge or a deep resonance, I’d love to meet you. I offer free connection calls to explore how I can support you on your journey.
What a beautiful conversation between two of the most empowering, nourishing, incredible humans I have had the honor and pleasure of encountering. You make my heart feel seen. <3
Fully body chills xoxo