Whatever You Can Know.

In this episode I'm reading a post I shared on Substack on 6th November 2026. 

I explore our obsession with answers, opinions and certainty in a world overflowing with information. 

I reflect on my experience of motherhood and my work as a yoga teaching, and I question whether our need to appear knowledgeable has overtaken our curiosity, and what we might discover if we became more comfortable admitting, I don’t know.

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In this episode I'm reading a post I shared on Substack on 30th October 2026. I explore how much of my identity has been shaped by helping, healing and trying to make things better, both professionally and as a mother. 

After years of working as a therapist and facilitator, I've found freedom in stepping away from the responsibility of fixing others. But when it comes to my daughter and her anxiety, letting go feels almost impossible.

It's an uncomfortable exploration of love, control, identity and the possibility that I might be enough as her mum without always needing to do more.

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In this episode I’m reading a post I shared on Substack on 23rd October 2026. 

I explore anxiety, hope, and our attachment to how we want things to be. 

I reflect on how easily we can become caught up in what has happened or what might happen next, and how this connects with the Buddhist Four Noble Truths and the nature of suffering. 

It's an exploration of what happens when we hold tightly to a particular outcome, even when that hope is causing us pain. 

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In this episode I’m reading a post I shared on Substack on 16th October 2026.

I reflect on the strange relationship between freedom and feeling trapped. How bringing a puppy into our lives unexpectedly made my world feel smaller, pushed me to seek freedom in ways I hadn't before, and ultimately changed how I experienced the life I already had. 

It's about responsibility, perspective, and the freedom we sometimes struggle to recognise until something shifts. 

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In this episode I'm reading a post I shared on substack on the 9th October 2026.

It's about our pup, Figgy, who we've had for 6 months, and about what happens when the things we think we want, don't turn out the way we'd hoped, and finding the freedom to make a different choice.

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In this episode I’m sharing 5 poems that I wrote during a very spontaneous solo trip in northern Vietnam at the end of July 2026. These were also shared on my Substack.

The poems were inspired by some of my experiences while I was in Hanoi, Ha Long Bay, Ninh Binh and Ha Giang. 

I share a little insight into what inspired each piece, but I feel like, they speak for themselves.

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In this episode, I am reading a post I am shared on Substack on the 26th June 2026.

It begins with one simple question that completely caught me off guard: "What are you looking forward to?"

I thought I'd have an easy answer, but I didn't. That question led me into a much deeper reflection about hope, anticipation, being present, and how easy it is to spend our lives waiting for the next chapter while missing the one we're living right now.

Download the PDF here about the Queenstown writer's retreat in 2027.

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In this episode I share a little about what kinesiology is, how it works and what it aims to do. I share a story about what I discovered about our pup, Figgy, during a kinesiology session recently. Figgy was chosen to become an assistance dog for my daughter who is blind, autistic, intellectually delayed and anxious. We discovered some things about how she feels about being a dog, how she felt about leaving her mum and litter at 8 weeks of age, and her core belief about herself in this life time. 

I also share what I discovered about the uncontrollable anger I’ve been feeling since Figgy came into our world. And I’ll give you a little secret – it’s not my anger! 

If you’re a hard-core sceptic and don’t really believe in any of this energy and emotional work, well, to be frank, I’m surprised you’re even here! But I do implore you to listen because it is pretty fascinating and makes for a great story, even if you think I’m a little bit of a cray cray woo woo witchy girl.

Qi Kinesiology: www.qikinesiology.com

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In this episode I share the very real, deep and honest truth about how I've really struggled, and dare I say, absolutely hated, the experience over the past 6 weeks of having a puppy in mine and my daughter's life.

I share what I've learnt about my self through this process, the healing of the emotional trauma of being a single special needs mother that's been triggered by our puppy's presence, and what I've hated about it. 

I offer some insight into my view on the lack of authenticity on social media and how damaging that can be because there's no real representation of the struggles I've experienced as a first time puppy owner. 

I share some of the things that have kept me going through this time and how my spiritual teachings and practices have allowed me to see and know that everything is happening in divine timing, and, despite the hardship and emotional turmoil I've been in, everything is going to be okay

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In this episode, I am reading a post I am shared on Substack on the 16th April 2026.

I share a story about the journal I bought over a decade ago to write my memoir in, and how, 10 years on, I can finally say “I wrote a memoir!”

I also share some interesting physical symptoms that presented on the morning I was due to send my book out in the world to agents and publishers, and how memories from my childhood and early parenting journey was impacting on me feeling really good about sending my book out into the world. 

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