The Humble Pie
A private educational community for women
I’m Jane A. Davidson, EdD, an educator and relational coach. Here we look closely at the exchanges that stay with us. Together we explore family and relationship patterns, ask questions, and practice using what we learn to make decisions in our own lives.
Seven days free to look around · Then $37/month
Next in The Cut · Live teaching with Jane Davidson, EdD
When did belonging become something you had to earn?
6–7 PM Mountain · Online inside The Cut
Sometimes you realize you’ve spent years trying to earn something very ordinary: someone being pleased that you arrived. Not because you came to help. Because it was you.
In this session, we’ll use family, work, friendship, and partnership examples to examine the conditions attached to belonging, then connect them to purpose, grief, and the choices actually available to us.
Included with membership: live teaching, guided discussion, and a fillable reflection companion. No preparation or personal disclosure required. Participate, write privately, or listen.
Start your 7-day free trialThen $37/month. Review membership and trial terms on Skool before joining. Start your trial before Tuesday’s session to attend.
A moment behind the question
01 / Why this space exists
Sometimes a sentence lands because it gives language to a feeling you’ve never quite been able to explain. The Cut is a place to slow down after that moment and examine the patterns beneath it.
Why does being needed sometimes feel like being loved? What happens when belonging depends on silence, or one account of someone becomes the story everyone repeats? We examine family roles, assumptions, shame, and accountability, including how these dynamics can operate in communities and institutions.
We connect recognition with practice: distinguishing observations from assumptions, identifying care that goes both ways, communicating needs, and considering choices when a relationship or familiar role changes. Grief can be part of that learning.
There’s no requirement to disclose your history or arrive with the right vocabulary. You can listen, learn, reflect, and participate at your own pace.
02 / Inside The Cut
Your $37 monthly membership includes the classroom, weekly live teaching, coffee chats, and the member discussion feed.
Start with the orientation, “Before You Begin.” All five courses are open when you join. Explore Curious, The Body That Remembers, Family Archetypes, Attachment: What Worked, and Meeting People in Their Grief in any order. The lessons, sources, and companion workbooks are yours to explore at your own pace.
We meet Tuesdays at 6 p.m. Mountain Time for teaching and guided conversation about relationship patterns, grief, boundaries, and self-trust. Bring a question, take part, or simply listen. Session reflection companions are shared in the community for you to use privately or alongside the conversation.
Coffee chats meet Wednesdays at 7 a.m. Mountain Time for a less structured conversation. Between meetings, use the member discussion feed for questions and reflections. Check the Skool calendar for current dates, any schedule changes, and times in your own time zone.
03 / The way we work
My approach draws on a doctorate in education, nearly 20 years in the classroom, and trauma-informed coaching. We use everyday examples to examine what happened, what meaning we gave it, and what else we need to understand. You choose how much to share.
We practice listening that leaves room for correction: reflecting what we heard and checking whether it fits. That begins with noticing our own feelings and assumptions. Another person’s experience may differ from ours.
We also take stock of changed circumstances: what was lost, what remains, and what choices are available. Acceptance can mean acknowledging enough of the present to make a decision. Curiosity and new beginnings can develop at your pace; grief has no deadline.
The Cut is an educational community, not group therapy or a substitute for mental health care.
A place to begin
Look around for seven days free. Stay if the conversations and lessons feel useful to you.
$37 / month after the free trial
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