Returning to Herself: How Thalorah Is Building Veloria™ as a Sanctuary for Feminine Sovereignty

Thalorah, you’re in the process of building Veloria™ — a House of Healing for the Divine Feminine — can you share the personal turning point that led you to create this space now?
Veloria™ was born out of a season where everything familiar fell away at once. I experienced profound loss, deep emotional reckoning, and a complete reorientation of how I understood myself outside of productivity, performance, and survival.

What became clear during that time was that many women are doing the “right things” on the surface — working, parenting, achieving — while carrying unresolved grief, chronic emotional strain, and nervous-system exhaustion underneath. I realized that what actually helped me heal wasn’t another goal or title, but space: space to slow down, feel safely, and reconnect to myself without needing to explain or prove anything.

Veloria™ is emerging now because I’m no longer interested in helping women cope with broken systems. I’m interested in helping them come back to themselves — fully, honestly, and without apology.

You describe Veloria™ as a community-centered healing environment focused on feminine sovereignty — what does that mean in practice for the women you’re designing it to serve?
In practice, feminine sovereignty means a woman no longer outsourcing her worth, intuition, or inner authority to external validation — whether that’s relationships, work, or cultural expectations.

Veloria™ is being designed as a space where women can regulate their nervous systems, process emotional pain, and restore trust in their own inner voice. This looks like guided emotional healing work, intentional conversation, embodied practices, and community experiences that center safety, presence, and self-responsibility rather than performance or comparison.

The goal isn’t to “fix” women. It’s to give them the tools, support, and environment to remember who they are when they’re no longer operating from survival.

Why does community-based, embodied healing feel especially urgent in this moment culturally and collectively?
We are living in a time of constant stimulation, isolation, and emotional suppression. Many people are intellectually aware of their challenges, but they’re disconnected from their bodies, their feelings, and from one another in meaningful ways.

Community-based healing is urgent because regulation happens in relationship. Healing isn’t just cognitive — it’s physiological, emotional, and relational. When women are given safe spaces to be witnessed, heard, and supported without judgment, their capacity to heal expands dramatically.

Embodied healing brings people back into relationship with themselves and others, which is something our culture has deprioritized for far too long.

How has this project reshaped your own definition of success, healing, and legacy?
Success used to mean endurance — pushing through, achieving more, proving resilience. Veloria™ has shifted that definition entirely.

Now, success looks like sustainability. Healing looks like nervous-system safety. And legacy looks like creating something that outlives hustle culture and actually nourishes the people it touches.

I’m no longer interested in building something fast. I’m interested in building something true — something that models a healthier way of living, leading, and relating for the women who come after me.

As Veloria™ continues to take form, what do you hope women experience or reclaim through being part of this space?
I hope women reclaim their sense of inner permission — permission to rest, to feel, to choose themselves, and to trust their own timing.

More than anything, I want women to leave Veloria™ feeling more at home in their bodies, more grounded in who they are, and more confident in their ability to move through the world without abandoning themselves.

Veloria™ is not about becoming someone new. It’s about remembering who you were before survival became the default.

Links:

• www.lauratolbert.me
• https://www.lauratolbert.me/veloriahouseofhealing