There comes a time in every healing journey when you realise that you can’t move forward without working with your mind. We live in a culture that worships the mind, a mind that is often crowded, overwhelmed, and running old …
Category: Personal Reflections
What 20 Years of Marriage Taught Me About Lasting Love
This is the moment in our wedding when the ring wouldn’t go over my knuckle. My husband didn’t want to push too hard and hurt me. I knew it wasn’t hurting at all. He twisted it, tried to be gentle, …
You Heal From Toxic Connections by Forming Healthy Ones
You heal from toxic connections by forming healthy ones. Every safe, attuned relationship teaches your nervous system that connection can feel calm, consistent, and safe — not chaotic or unpredictable. This is how new patterns begin. Each positive connection becomes …
What If You Measured Success by How Much Joy You Feel?
“Measure your success based on how much fun you’re having.” — Gabby Bernstein Sometimes we get so focused on productivity, goals, and doing the “right” things that we forget one of the most important indicators of a healthy life: joy. …
If It Hurts, It Hurts — You Don’t Have to Justify Your Pain
If it hurts, it hurts. You don’t have to justify it. You are not being too sensitive. Each of us feels things in our own way. If something hurts, that’s real. It’s not overreacting. It’s not being too much. It’s …
Healing Isn’t Linear — And That’s Okay
One of the biggest misunderstandings I see in my clients is the belief that healing should be linear. That once you’ve done enough therapy, read the right books, or finally understand your past, you “graduate” from your wounds and never …
The Pain in My Hips Wouldn’t Go Away — Until I Stopped Trying to Fix My Body
It started back in Australia. I thought, “I’m just sitting too much.” So I walked every day. Did hip-opening yoga. Tried to fix it physically. But when I got to India… it got worse. Yesterday, I couldn’t get comfortable at …
The Real Test of Spiritual Evolution
“It’s easy to appear spiritually evolved while drinking Ayahuasca or reciting scriptures. The real test is who you are in traffic, when you come across someone with an opposing view, or when your food’s late.” — Vex King Spirituality is …
Catching the Hiking Bug: 42 km on the Gidjuum Gulganyi Walk
42 km. 4 days. 3 nights. The Gidjuum Gulganyi walk in Australia, carrying everything we needed on our backs. What an adventure! To be honest, I thought I might struggle. And it wasn’t easy. But once you’re out there, there’s …
Has Social Media Stopped Being About Connection?
It’s wild to think that social media, once built for connection, is now mostly a stream of videos from people we don’t even know. When we flick to the next video, we don’t know who created it, what kind of …