An Intentional Holiday Gift Guide for Your Creative & Spiritual Besties

The holidays can be a beautiful time of connection, reflection, and generosity — and they can also feel overwhelming, overstimulating, or emotionally charged for the deeply-feeling souls in the crowd.

One way I bring intention and nervous system regulation into this season is by choosing gifts that feel slow, soulful, meaningful, and aligned with my values.

With that in mind, I want to share with you a values-aligned, intentional holiday gift gift guide for your creative, ambitious, and spiritual besties!

Each gift below centers the values at the heart of my work and life: intentionality, emotional depth, spiritual connection, systemic healing, beauty, conscious consumption, and honoring women-owned, queer-owned, and BIPOC-owned businesses.

Gifts carry energy. They become daily rituals, touchstones, grounding practices, invitations into presence. These offerings were chosen because they nourish the nervous system and the soul.

May this intentional gift guide inspire you to purchase from your soul, too.

Spiritual Gift Ideas

1.) Your True Nature Oracle: Written & Envisioned by yours truly, Heather Waxman

Each of the 44 oracle cards and each of the 178 pages in the accompanying guidebook are visual and written transmissions inviting you to come home to your true nature, which is a mirror image of Nature itself: cyclical, seasonal, and wild, and free. Your True Nature Oracle is intended to remind you of your innate connection with your soul’s internal rhythms and to support you to embrace your seasonal, cyclical nature.

My oracle deck is 20% off until 12/24 at 11:59pm. Use code YTN20 at check out. You can purchase your deck here.

2.) The Sacred Medicine + Animal Elders Oracle Decks by Asha Frost

Asha Frost is an Indigenous Medicine Woman and best-selling author of You are the Medicine and The Sacred Medicine Oracle.  She is a member of the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation. As an energy healer, homeopath and mentor for two decades, Asha has guided thousands of people through profound and lasting transformation.

She has blended her life experience with her innate gifts and the wisdom of her Ancestors. This wisdom is infused so intentionally and purely through her oracle decks. I have them both, and could not recommend them more!

You can purchase The Sacred Medicine Oracle here and The Animal Elders Oracle here.

3.) Then I Woke Up: Dreaming with Mother Earth by Madeline Giles

Madeline Giles is both a dear mentor and colleague. I took her year-long Angelic Breath Healing teacher training in 2017 and it was so impactful to my personal and professional lives. I also book periodical breathwork sessions with her when I feel intuitively called, and they are always such a sacred personal experience.

Madeline released her first book Then I Woke Up: Dreaming with Mother Earth last year. It supports you to build your own intentional dreaming practice, and receive the medicine woven in your dream life.

You can purchase Then I Woke Up: Dreaming with Mother Earth here.

Gifts from Mother Nature

4.) Love & Above Cat Club Flower Essence Sets

My former client and colleague Siena Lee-Tajiri founded this incredible brand centered on supporting highly-sensitive cat lovers. She is a profoundly gifted healer. Flower Essences are a type of energy/vibrational medicine that work on the mental, emotional, and spiritual levels, which in turn, often eventually affects the physical body. They help to clear mental and emotional patterns to allow for the soul’s fullest expression.

You can purchase your flower essence set here.

5.) Tea Huntress’ Moon Milk Tea Blend

A few years ago, me, my wife, and her stepbrother took a trip to Nashville and had the most amazing time. While shopping at Jenni Kayne, there was a table set up in store with Sarah Scarborough’s (founder of Tea Huntress) signature Moon Milk blend — a delicious, earthy, and regulating blend of organic Blue butterfly pea flowers, mugwort, and oat flowers.

You can purchase the Moon Milk blend and any other of Sarah’s incredible tea blends here.

6.) Damya Olive Oil

My wife recently purchased Damya olive oil at our local Whole Foods and we were blown away by its bold, rich flavor. Its quickly become a staple in our home. From their website: “We’re named after Damya, the legendary Berber warrior queen who once ruled Northwest Africa with power and pride. Her legacy lives on in every bottle of our extra virgin olive oil—harvested today by a team of skilled indigenous Berber women who’ve inherited generations of sustainable, organic farming wisdom.”

You can purchase Damya olive oil here.

For the Journalers…

7.) Wilde House Paper Journals

Ever since I found Wilde House Paper in 2020, their journals have been my absolute favorite. WHP is a brand that centers sustainability, intentionality, community, and beauty with everything they create. Their journals lay flat with ease, making for the most enjoyable journaling experience. Every page is made of PCW recycled paper, and the journals are absolutely stunning.

You can purchase Wilde House Paper’s Open Journal (my personal fave) here.

Support Survivors of Gender-Based Violence…

8.) Gifted by FreeFrom

My wife Nicole and I watched FreeFrom’s documentary Survivor Made this year, and it touched us deeply. Gifted by FreeFrom is a social enterprise made up of survivors of gender-based violence who both create these beautiful items and gift boxes, and run the business itself. As a survivor-owned and operated business, FreeFrom partners with survivor-entrepreneurs to grow their ventures into thriving businesses.

Purchase your FreeFrom gift set here.

The holidays can stir up so much — tenderness, longing, stress, joy, grief, expansion, and sweet nostalgia. If this season feels emotionally charged or overwhelming for you, you’re not alone. This is the exact work I guide my clients through: regulation, truth-telling, emotional clarity, and coming home to your body and your authenticity.

If you desire deeper support this month or want to explore somatic therapy or 1:1 coaching, you’re always welcome to book a consultation here.

With care,
Heather