Welcome to Beauty Hunter, come on in❣️
Let’s find Beauty in unlikely places, everyday life, and add a wag to our tails. Imagine a life that turns toward beauty and finds its purpose there.
Hi there! I’m so glad you’re here.
What if the purpose of life was to turn toward beauty as a way of exalting the senses and expanding the mind and spirit?
Beauty Hunter is a space to use beauty as a portal to love and awaken, shift, change, connect, delight, surprise, and whatever else becomes you.
Imagine BEAUTY as the water we swim in, unconditional, unwavering, there when we want it, no matter how we feel or what’s going on.
We aren’t interested in turning away from what’s challenging or confronting, tragic or brutal. There will be no false cheer, no sucking it up, and no force-feeding ourselves gratitude.
Instead, let’s stay with all the feelings and experiences—as a way to keep expanding our capacity. To the best of our ability, let’s stay present with the world, and its humans, animals, nature, and experience our own awakenings, shifts, aha’s, and oh-shits using Beauty—however you define it—as our guide.
Here’s what’s on the menu at Beauty Hunter:
💫 Defining Beauty your way 💫 Beauty hits and moments of awe in daily life 💫 Big expansive beauty 💫 Miniscule barely-there micro-moments of beauty 💫 Unconditional beauty, impersonal beauty, objects of beauty, things that make you go WOW. 💫 Beauty that glimmers through the hardest, most heartbreaking places💫 Laughing at ourselves 💫 Engaging in the playful nature of life 💫 Increasing your capacity for life and living. 💫 Surprises.
Paid Beauty Hunter subscribers receive:
4 - 6 posts a month in text, video & audio format
Personal stories, Q&As, prompts, fresh perspectives that buck the system & question belief systems; experiments, explorations, and micro-adventures, and other topics that shine a spotlight on Beauty in daily life, even the sucky times.Monthly prompts and exercises that you can apply to daily life, that helps you experience more of life through the lens of beauty.
SUMMER CAMP —weekly & ongoing through September 12. We’re focusing on R&R and Play.
Access to full archives of posts and videos
Discounts on individual coaching, aka EXPLORATIONS, and workshops.
Monthly Zoom Salons — CURRENTLY ON SUMMER VACATION
Beauty Hunter-Plus memberships receive:
Everything a paid subscriber receives
One 60-minute magic-making conversation ($245 value)—anything to bring you clarity, ease, delight, and more beauty.
Free subscribers I love you! You receive:
Two - four posts per month—written, video, audio
Access to monthly salons for a monthly subscription fee.
The right to go paid at ANY TIME.
The Origin Story of Beauty Hunter
I started Beauty Hunter after the news of the day—pandemics, politics, polemics, war—took my imagination (and nervous system) hostage.
I walked the neighborhood streets amped up on images of a dystopian future, growing more anxious and despondent. One day I stopped beneath the canopy of a glorious Western Red Cedar. Caught in a moment of awe, a message came in: Remember Beauty.
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves
of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.” – Rachel Carson
Hi, I’m Tatyana
I’m a writer, coach, everyday athlete, late-marrier, retired party girl, late bloomer, and a grandmother of five.
My personal essays and interviews have been widely published (ELLE, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, MSN, Seattle Review, Hippocampus Magazine). I’m currently finishing a manuscript about the wham-bam surprises of marrying at 49 for the first time in, LATE: MEMOIR OF A MIDLIFE LOVE STORY.
As a Coach & Explorer, I work with creative professionals and midlifers-plus in life transitions, with a specialty in creativity and writing coaching. All of it’s grounded in the beauty of life and human potential.
I received an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University, and my coach training from Erickson Coaching International, in Vancouver, BC Canada.
These days, I live with my husband on Mercer Island, an island in the shape of a foot.
What is beauty?
I believe in throwing away all conventional definitions of beauty and coming up with your own. I’ve defined Beauty as that which exalts the senses and expands the mind and spirit. This year I added on being in life, out in the world, engaging with others. I could hear the universe calling me, as I sat in my office staring out the window withdrawing, withholding.
Come up with your definition of Beauty and take it for a test drive. Other Beauty Hunters have described Beauty as: Surprise, Comfort, Serving others, Awe, and Beauty as a verb. Anything goes—maybe it’s “I’ll know it when I see it.”
Feel free to get in touch any time, at beautyhunter63 (@) gmail.com
xoxo