Finding Clarity in the Wreckage: On Shock, Silence, and Self-Abandonment
Growth is easy when the waters are calm. It is much harder when the storm hits. In March last year, my personal life experienced a total rupture. My husband left for a holiday we were supposed to take together, ending our marriage without the grace of a conversation, counselling, or closure. This departure followed a […]
Grief & Loss
Grief and loss are most often spoken about in the context of death, divorce, or dramatic rupture. These experiences deserve space and reverence, of course. But when grief is only acknowledged in these obvious moments, we miss something fundamental about the human experience. Grief is not an occasional visitor. It is woven through every stage […]
When the Body Grieves
Title: Shadow Alchemy: When Your Body Grieves a Timeline You No Longer Belong To Category: Personal Journey / Shadow Alchemy I am writing this from Bali, a land that does not let you lie to yourself. It is the end of the year, we are in ceremony season, and the air here is thick with […]
Wisdom of Descent
Shadow Alchemy, Integration, and the Wisdom of Descent There are places on this earth that don’t just welcome you — they remember you. You don’t arrive in them as a visitor. You arrive as someone being met. Not by people alone, but by land, water, rhythm, and something far older than story. This is what […]
The Alchemy of Ink
Reclaiming Wholeness and the Art of Honest Self-Reflection Bali has a way of cracking you open. It isn’t just the humidity or the scent of incense that hangs heavy in the air; it is the energy of the land itself. It is a place that demands honesty. It strips away the pretences we wear in […]
Death Reflections
Today my Father ended his life. By choice. His terms. His time. It’s been a surreal day. At 10.37am his wife called and put me on to Geoff. He told me it was time, that he couldn’t take the pain anymore. He was tired. He’d been battling the pain for 30 years, and while he […]
Non-Linear Healing
There is no linear path in healing. Prescriptions do not exist, nor rules or right and wrong ways of healing. There is only deep inner listening. Opening your heart to hear. Allowing yourself to feel all the emotions without making them right or wrong. Shutting out the external world of perception, judgement, blame and projection. […]
Pattern Breaking
Why child? Because you must. Because this is a pattern you need to break. This is your wound to cleanse. You need to see people for all they are, not just the good stuff, not just in good times, not because they love you or claim to. You need to remove the fog you carry […]
Spins of Life
The twists and turns of life can feel so out of control child, we know. They are tests of the human experience and the cause of your overwhelm. But can you see how you can now feel it coming, how you readjust to stop the spinning? This is what you’ve been ignoring for far too […]
Ultimate Love
Child the ultimate love is the love of self. Not selfish, self-centred love above everything and everyone. No, we talk of the pure committed love for self that allows you to be of love, with love to self and to others. It is not about being in love – it is about being love. It […]