2025 seemed to whizz past in a flash. The shortest year of my life. And then I remember I spent half of it asleep. I got my 11th bout of COVID in May and began sleeping 20 to 22 hours a day. The first day I was able to stay awake the whole day without randomly falling asleep or needing a nap as somewhere mid-september. Summer mostly passed me by, but I found a rectangle of sunlight and my carpet and I lay there like a cat caught in capitalism. I typed. I read. I put on

I'm writing this on a day that the snow has been… The day filtered through greys and blues like, looking underwater. It feels like a good day to connect to winter solstice and reach out to you with warmth. I want to guide you home to yourself with offers and invitations. As the longest night crest through our lives  I decided to unpack an imaginary suitcase of wishes for you.   I wish you emails which arrive like snowballs and smash out the AI from all of our dreams. I wish y

One of the keys to being confident is being kind to ourselves and not dwelling on our mistakes or shortcomings. Which is infuriatingly more difficult than it sounds, especially when you logically know it's probably not useful to berate yourself if you're trying to learn, grow, and improve (which, if you're reading this, I guess you probably are).

This is your wise inner sage and this is what I know about the stories you have to tell. And the wild awakenings you're ready for. And here is my advice for you.

It stole the air from my lungs. The movement from my limbs. The storage for my brain. The thief.

Old friends ask how I am, and I often answer: “Overall, my soul is good, but my life is very small now.”   It's a strange thing having...

I've been away. And I would normally love sharing my adventures with you all: The beach, the sights, the stories…   But something about...

How many times have you contemplated that it would be nice to have some photographs of yourself? But you need to wait until you're...

It's long COVID awareness day and over five years since a virus infected my body. Here are some things I have learnt:

You think it would be easy to love ourselves, right?   We've all been trying for so long.   And if you're around these parts? I'm going...

Finding body peace allowed me space to love others more… 10 years, 11 months and 17 days ago I know exactly where / was. It was the day I...

Moving house last year was tough. I own too much stuff. And I've treated the task of sifting through the collections of my Mum and my...

I want this coming year to be a year of ease. I want to delete an indulgence. I want to surround myself with enchantment.

2024 was a really tough year for me I could not have done it alone. Here are some ways I reached into my toolkit this year for survival....

How to create joyful change, without burning the whole thing down.   Indeed, this blog could change your whole life, and I'm not sure...

— Sometimes it is hard to even remember all the mean things I used to say to myself as easy as breathing.   “I am just not the kind of...

In many, many ways, 2024 has been one of the hardest years of my life. And yet there has been laughter, there has been swimming, there...

Darling soul. I know you have all the reasons in the world you could give me about why you haven't sat down. How much we still have to do...

In the most devastatingly simple way I know You know that inner critic voices which can sometimes sounds SO loud? The "You can't do it"...

How rested they are How valued they feel How much they enjoy giving   That last one may surprise you, because I think a lot of us would...