THE CULTIVATE HER · AIMEE RICKABUS
You’ve built a full life.Is there room
for you in it?
Life is a garden, not a ladder.
Beyond the life you hold together,
there’s a life waiting to unfold.
NOVEMBER 20, 2026
You can love your life.
And want it to change.
The full calendar.
The invisible load.
The question you keep
coming back to: what about me?
We were taught to climb. To do more, hold more, become more. Somewhere along the way, a full life began to feel like a life with very little room left.
The Cultivate Her offers another way. Through personal stories, spiritual reflection, and practical guidance, Aimee Rickabus invites you to recognize inherited patterns, deepen your roots, and cultivate the wisdom and legacy you want to pass on.
Foreword by Pam RoyAuthor and co-founder, The Viktor Frankl Institute of America
Look inside the bookMotherhood. Midlife. Becoming.
Your life is a garden.
Let’s begin tending it.
You’ve spent years cultivating a life for everyone around you. Now it’s time to turn some of that attention inward.
Download your complimentary The Cultivate Her Companion Workbook, a guided journey to help you recognize your season, deepen your roots, and discover what deserves your attention.
Through thoughtful exercises and personal reflection, you’ll begin exploring what’s blooming, what needs nourishment, and what you’re ready to release.
Your garden is waiting.
Rooted in life.
Written for yours.
Personal story meets spiritual reflection and practical guidance. Explore the themes running through the book.
When women
stop climbing
and start
cultivating.
01Recognize your season
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What if the next step is to question the path you’ve been on?
- The Fall Garden
- The Disconnected Woman
- The Ladder vs. the Garden
02Go beneath the surface
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Explore the stories and patterns that shape how you live, lead, and care for yourself.
- Deepening Your Roots
- The Wound Is the Soil
- Cultivating Emotional Intelligence as Spiritual Practice
03Make room for what’s next
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Consider what you’re ready to release, what you want to nurture, and what you’ll carry forward.
- Tilling the Soil: Healing the Child Within
- Cultivating Healing with Ease and Grace
- The Liberation and the New Garden Path
Practices, invitations, and space for reflection help you bring the ideas into your own life. The appendix, My Long Game: The Full Practice That Freed Me, shares Aimee’s personal practices, including journaling and meditation.
You were never meant
to bloom all year.
Every season asks something different of us.
Choose the one that feels closest to yours.
SPRING / THE SEASON OF POSSIBILITY
Something new is
taking root.
You feel the pull of a beginning. An idea, a change, a version of yourself you haven’t met yet. You don’t need the whole path to take the first step.
What would I plant if I trusted myself to grow?
One small practice
Write down one thing you’d like to begin. Choose a first step small enough to take this week.
A reflection inspired by the book. No score. No right answer. Just a place to begin.
A message worth
passing on.
Six women. Six perspectives.
One invitation to grow differently.
“Well before the final page, I started a list of the women in my life with whom I want to share this message. It is too important to keep to myself.”
“I walked away feeling grounded, empowered, and ready for what comes next. Women don’t even know they are waiting for this book.”
“Read this book right now if you’re looking for greater connection to yourself, your community, and your purpose.”
“We are all yearning to return to the slow and ancient practice of tending to our gardens.”
“If my work is about healing the systems we build, Aimee’s is about healing the woman who builds them.”
“The Cultivate Her uses the garden as more than metaphor, offering a genuinely useful lens for emotional and generational healing as a cyclical, biological process rather than a linear fix.”
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Some conversations are better had
in the garden together.
What happens when women gather, share their stories, and begin asking different questions about their lives? Something beautiful begins to grow.
We created the complimentary The Cultivate Her Book Club Kit to help you bring these conversations into your own community.
Gather six to ten women, choose a comfortable place to meet, and begin exploring the ideas in The Cultivate Her together. Your complimentary kit includes discussion questions, guided reflections, and resources to help you host a meaningful gathering.
You bring the women. We’ll bring the conversation.
UNTIL THE BOOK ARRIVES
Kindle edition · November 20, 2026
Some beginnings
are better together.
Aimee is gathering women in Southern California, Denver and Arizona this November to celebrate The Cultivate Her. Dates, venues and reservations are being finalized — details coming soon.
THE HER SERIES / BOOK TWOTHE CULTIVATE HER • AIMEE RICKABUS
A little less
climbing.
A little more you.
Print purchase links will be added when available.
Is this book for my season of life? +
The book explores beginnings, growth, change, rest, and wisdom. Motherhood, perimenopause, and midlife are part of a wider conversation about how women grow, heal, and shape their legacy.
When will my pre-order arrive? +
The book releases November 20, 2026. Check your Amazon order for the Kindle delivery details and the current price in your region.