Tanigi Umama

“I came to the workshop carrying a year I would rather not name. Lina has a way of making a room feel safe before you have said a single word, and by the third exercise I was writing things I had never said out loud.

Six months later I have started the conversation I kept postponing, and I no longer feel guilty about taking up space. That table changed the direction of my life.”

“Our club read Your Thriving Age in one evening and we stayed talking until midnight. It reads like a letter from a woman who has already walked through what you are walking through.

We keep a copy on the shelf now and hand it to whoever is in the middle of a hard transition. It has become the book we give when someone needs permission to begin again.”

“We invited Lina to close our women's series and the room went quiet in the best way. She mixes ancestral wisdom with practical steps, so people leave with something they can actually do on Monday.

Three attendees signed up for the next session before she finished speaking. Booking her was the easiest decision our committee made all year.”