You made it here.
Everything for readers of The Art of Being Rooted — free resources, a place to sit with what stirred you, and an invitation to keep going.
The 8-Day Rooted Challenge
Fifteen minutes. Your morning coffee. A Scripture, a reflection, and a prompt — one email a day for eight days. No striving.
Eight mornings. One quiet reading. A gentle interruption to the way most of us have been trying to grow — through more, faster, harder — with a rhythm that actually lets something take root.
If the book has stirred something in you, the Challenge is how to keep the practice alive after the last page.
Reading This With Your Small Group?
The Art of Being Rooted was written to work beautifully in community. Download the free Small Group & Reflection Guide — everything you need to walk 10–20 women through the eight pillars together.
Download the Guide (PDF)The Women Behind the Book
Eleven women lent their voices, stories, and wisdom to The Art of Being Rooted. This book is theirs as much as it is mine.
The Own It Podcast
Weekly conversations on faith, nervous system healing, and what it actually looks like to come alive in your real life — hosted by Chantelle.
If you loved the book, this is where the conversation continues.
Listen to the PodcastReady to Take This Deeper?
Thrive Collective is where the women who resonate with this book actually live. An online community for women who are done just surviving — hundreds of women learning to live rooted, together.
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Join Thrive CollectiveSpeaking, Coaching & Retreats
Chantelle speaks at churches, women's retreats, and events on the eight pillars of a thriving life. If your community needs a message on rest, rootedness, or coming out of survival mode — let's talk.
Get in TouchChantelle Nelson
Chantelle Nelson is a trauma-certified life coach, founder of Thrive Collective, and host of The Own It Podcast. She helps women untangle their identity from their output and learn what it actually looks like to thrive in every season.
She lives in Redding, California with her husband Donta and their four children.
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