a return.

It’s been a while.

If you’re new here—welcome. I’m Vee, the heart behind Rich City Kolibri: a space for wellness, culture, creativity, and collective care. If you’ve been rocking with me for a while—thank you for your patience, your presence, and your quiet belief in slow returns.

I’ve been gone for about a year.

Not gone-gone, but underground. In the soil. Letting things shift and root in deeper ways. Life did what life does—offered lessons, rest, grief, growth, and hard questions. I’ve been saying no more often. Saying yes more carefully. Building things that last. Healing. Crying. Laughing. Walking away from what no longer fits and walking toward what feels true.

In that time, I’ve:

• Grown my work at The Well Collective, holding space for leaders, visionaries, and everyday folks to imagine new ways of being in relationship—with themselves and each other.

• Deepened my herbal and embodiment practices.

• Led community wellness workshops, justice-centered circles, and self-care experiences rooted in culture and care.

• Moved through burnout, found my breath again, and remembered that rest is resistance.

• Recommitted to joy. Not just as a feeling, but as a practice. A way to survive and thrive.

This blog will be a home for reflections like this—where I get to write, wander, wrestle, and remember. You’ll find essays, rituals, resources, and glimpses into the behind-the-scenes of building something that’s both deeply personal and radically communal.

I don’t know exactly how often I’ll post here. But I do know this: I’m showing up from a place of truth. And I hope what I share will serve you—whether it’s a balm, a blueprint, or simply a reminder that you’re not alone.

Here’s to returning.
Here’s to beginning again.
Here’s to wholeness—in whatever shape it takes today.

In care and culture,
Vee