Why Having a Practice Matters More Than Having the Right Practice
I want to dismantle something the wellness industry has worked hard to construct: the belief that the practice you are doing is probably not quite the right one. Not evidence-based enough. Not the current best approach. Meditation is good, but have you tried breathwork? Breathwork is useful, but only at the right time of day. Yoga is lovely, but have you considered cold exposure?
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The grace you give is the grace you get: what missing a yoga class taught me about being human
Something happened to me recently that made me realise the gap between how I see the world now and how I used to see it. Not a dramatic shift. Just tiny daily movements, the kind that are available to all of us if we're paying attention.
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Fight, Flight, Freeze or Fawn: Your Complete Guide to the Nervous System's Survival States
Something happens, a tense message, a raised voice in the next room, a silence from someone who usually replies quickly, and your body responds before you've finished processing it.
I write the words I wish I'd found
There is a gentle beauty in the way that we write words, an honesty we can let out without the same hesitation as the spoken word. It's as if the words on a page, on a phone, become something separate once they're shared. They stop being about the writer the moment they reach the reader. There is something magical in that, the way your entire perception of the world can shift in a moment because of someone else's words.
Contemplations App Coming Soon
Your body already knows the way back. The Contemplations App helps you listen. Guided meditations, breathing practices, emotional check-ins and a journal, woven into the quiet spaces of your day. Rooted in yoga and somatic wisdom. Designed to feel like coming home.
What's happened since I started this blog, and why I'm still here
Five years ago, I started this blog with curiosity and a half-finished manuscript. What followed changed everything, and what I discovered on the other side might just change something in you too
I Took the Hard Road, They Said It Had the Best Views
Here is a question I have been sitting with: If someone offered you a shortcut - not a cheat, not a bypass, but a genuine, faster way through - would you take it? Or would you need to feel your way there first? Would you need to walk the whole long road, with its wrong turns and its weather, before you trusted where you'd arrived? I have been asking myself this honestly. And the honest answer is: I think I needed the long road. Not because suffering is noble or because hardship is a prerequisite for growth. But because of something more specific to how I am wired. I needed the felt sense.
The Quiet Heartbreak of Watching People Stay
There is a particular kind of heartbreak that does not come from loss. It comes from watching someone you love remain in a life that is slowly dimming them. You see it in the way they speak about themselves. In the exhaustion that never lifts. In the habits they defend but quietly resent.
The Space Between the Boxes: A Journey of Unravelling and Reconnecting
What happens when the dust settles after eleven months of wandering? After living out of a single suitcase and a "long list of hell yes's" alongside an even longer list of "no’s," you eventually find yourself standing in the quiet of what used to be your life.
What Slowing Down Really Taught Me This Year: Coming Back to My Body, My Life and Myself
As this year comes to a close, I’ve been reflecting on what “slowing down” really ended up being for me. When I imagined it, I pictured beaches, sunrise yoga sessions, sunsets with salty hair, and the kind of inner peace that glossy wellness posts make look effortless. And yes, there were moments that felt like that. But most of the time, slowing down wasn’t glamorous. It was messy, humbling, grounding and honest. It looked like a compromise. It asked me to make choices I didn’t always expect. It made me meet myself in ways I had never truly allowed before.
Ebooks
Book Reflections
Living Untethered: a Michael Singer book review on letting go of control
Michael Singer finds me again. His books seem to appear exactly when I need them, and this one was no different. Both of his previous books held me through times I needed holding, and this one is doing the same.
Seeing Desire for What It Really Is
We often look to others to decide what we want. We glimpse a moment in their life — a success, a lifestyle, a relationship - and imagine that having what they have will complete something in us. In truth, what we’re seeing is never the full picture. It’s a snapshot lifted out of a much longer, messier, deeply human story.
Learning to Trust Through Love
We often speak of love as something we either have or don’t, something we fall into or out of. Yet few of us pause long enough to consider its deeper purpose. What if love is not the destination, but the lesson itself?
Yoga as Life’s Lens: Reflections on Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi is more than a spiritual memoir; it’s an invitation to see life through the lens of the soul. In his telling, the extraordinary becomes accessible, not as far-off miracles but as a way of living rooted in self-awareness, discipline, and love.
Sanctuaries of the Self: Finding Rhythm and Ritual on the Road
Travel has a way of unravelling us. It stretches our boundaries and expands our horizons, but in the movement, we often lose the steady pulse of our daily rituals. After eight months on the road, I’ve realised that protecting your practice isn’t about rigid adherence to a schedule; it’s about finding the spaces that help you return to yourself—the ones that feel less like a workout and more like medicine.
When Coming Home Feels Different: How Space, Change, and Perspective Shape What “Home” Means
Sometimes, stepping away from everything you know is the only way to truly see it.We all have places we’ve outgrown, or thought we had. The home that once felt heavy, the routine that seemed suffocating, the four walls that turned into a mirror for our restlessness. But what if it wasn’t the place holding you back? What if it was what you carried inside it?
The Things I thought I needed (and what I actually found)
When I set out on what I half-jokingly called my adult gap year, I had a very clear picture of what I was chasing. I wanted adventure. Something new every day. A change of scenery. Access to incredible things for my photography.