I don't recognize myself anymore.
If you've said those words lately — even just in your head at 3am — you're in the right place. I'm Tanya Tenica. Writer, teacher, and founder of The Contemplative Woman. I help exhausted women from all walks of life — business owners, ministry leaders, wives, mothers — find their way back to themselves through soul restoration, not more strategy. Because you're not broken. You're just buried under performance, pressure, and someone else's blueprint for your life. What if you had permission to rest?
You've built the life. Now who are you inside it?
You've done everything right. Built the career. Led the ministry. Showed up for everyone. Checked all the boxes.
And somewhere along the way, you lost the girl who loved beauty, wonder, and play.
The one who knew how to rest without earning it.
The one who felt things deeply and didn't apologize for needing more than shallow conversations.
She's still in there. Let's find her again.
You don't need another strategy. You need permission to stop.
Most accomplished women are exhausted because they've been taught to:
- Rest only after they've earned it
- Build through depletion instead of divine design
- Ignore their body's wisdom in the name of "consistency"
That ends here.
The truth? You're not broken. You're just buried.
The problem isn't your capacity. It's that you've been building on someone else's blueprint — masculine frameworks that ignore your cycle, override your nervous system, and reward performance over presence.
I'm Tanya Tenica. I've spent 20 years building businesses, leading ministries, and serving thousands of women — until my body forced me to stop and remember who I was before the world told me who to be.
My journey from spiritual starvation to soul restoration became the framework I now teach.
You weren't created to perform — you were born to be beloved first.
Welcome to a new era of contemplative authority, where rest meets revelation, and your next season is rooted in who you are, not what you do.
I Partner with Women Who:
- Feel things deeply and refuse to apologize for it
- Are done performing and ready to be present
- Want soul restoration, not more strategy
- Know it's time to rest without earning it
- Are ready to remember who they were before the world told them who to be
Tanya Tenica
From Empire Builder to Soul Restorer
A little overTwenty years ago, I was the woman who could close 6-figure deals, scale companies to 8-figure revenues, and train thousands of entrepreneurs and ministry leader worldwide while running on empty.
I was successful. Respected. Exhausted.
International best-selling author. TV host. Business strategist. Part-owner of multiple companies. Named among the top 30 coaches in NYC Journal.
And spiritually starving.
I built empires through nervous system depletion until my body said "no more." That crisis became my transformation — from anxious empire-building to contemplative authority.
Now I help accomplished women from all walks of life walk the same path I did:
From scattered strategies to soul restoration.
From performance addiction to contemplative authority.
From borrowed blueprints to divine design.
My 20 years of marketplace experience and ministry + multiple degrees in business and apostolic leadership now serve one mission: creating sanctuary spaces where exhausted women remember who they were before the world buried them.
Whether I'm writing devotionals, teaching from stages, or guiding women through The Sanctuary, I show you how to build from your soul instead of someone else's strategy.
You already carry the calling. You just need permission to rest long enough to remember.
