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HER WAY — closes in 3 days...

HER WAY — closes in 3 days…

We are sitting on my sofa in Brighton. It’s autumn, the leaves are turning crispier and we are playing @werenotreallystrangers when I pick the card that reads “What about me intrigues you?” I turn to her, curious about what she will say. She thinks for a moment and replied “How you run a business and stay so gentle and feminine. How do you do it?” “I have no idea…” I respond… “I’m not sure…

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HER WAY — The Women’s Business Training — March 2021

Since the beginning of time, women have come together and redefined the landscape of life through their inner feminine wisdom like a force of nature. They did it through storytelling, collaboration and community with grace and ease. Today, we return to this purpose, again. We create businesses as a vehicle for our message… however, in a new way. I spent years — 7 years to be precise —…

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Day 1! Let's begin... 📝

Day 1! Let’s begin… 📝

As the days get longer here on this side of the sphere — today we celebrate the return of the warmth and the increasing power of the Sun with Imbolc — I want to invite you to join me for my 28-day journaling challenge. We begin right now and it’s free, with a new guided journaling practice released every day for the entire month of February at 6 am GMT on YouTube: 28 Days of Journaling with…

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Acceptance will lead us through.

Each person’s experience of life last year was different. For some, it went on almost as usual. For other’s life screeched to a shocking halt. Some found a comfortable balance point to navigate their way through it. Other’s deeply grieved their past life, or the loss of loved ones, and had to learn to let it all go. I received a lot of questions asking how to accept the grief and loss that…

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a simple guide to tarot for beginners

There exists a very delicate line between the physical, tangible realm and the ethereal, energetic one. That’s what we humans are. Half of this earth, and half of the stars. We are under some kind of spell, not remembering, clawing our way through the misty confusion to find our way back home. There are many practices available to bridge the everpresent space between the two worlds that we…

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a year of breaking open

2020, in a poem: I flew 5,740 miles across the Atlantic ocean to a new seaside town I’d never lived in before and cried when I couldn’t find a place to live midst pandemic until a stranger reached out with a little flat that’s been my home for 8 months now. I withdrew from the world into my own creative imagination when the world told us to stay home. I held in my heart all those whose hearts…

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6 tips for dealing with uncertainty.

The start of this week has been tough for me. My heart bruised, I was triggered by my fear of abandonment and the recurring wound that human beings are capricious. We are ultimately fickle, inconsistent at our worst, and deeply loving, caring at our best, contradictory creatures at all times. It reminded me of the constant uncertainty that provides a close companion to life.

Now, more than…

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Brighton + London — half-day in-person mentoring — this December + January.

I used to run these half-day in-person mentoring every time I would come back to London from my travels but now that I live here permanently (and I couldn’t be happier) they seem to have fallen by the wayside. The other day I wondered why I hadn’t opened up spaces to run them again and then I remembered what year we are living right now.

After 8 months of being locked close to home and…

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Make your own christmas advent calendar with me!

Overnight, despite all odds and lockdown measures, a sense of Christmas has crept in. The lights are up, people’s noses are pink from the cold and there’s a feeling of grace and awe and togetherness. While I don’t celebrate Christmas in a traditional way having had a very non-conventional life I do love the idea that it is another opportunity to celebrate love in all its forms and to make…

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anything is possible

[su_quote cite=” James Baldwin”]Best advice I ever got was an old friend of mine, who said you have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all. That’s the only advice you can give anybody. And it’s not advice, it’s an observation.[/su_quote]

There are times in life when it feels like I am holding my…

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9 books I read (+ loved) during lockdown 1.0

When I was a little girl I used to voraciously devour books as fast as I could, losing myself in their fantasy worlds to escape the seeming mundanity of my own. I couldn’t wait to become a grown-up so I could read all the books in the world. Over the years my reading changed from fantastical to educational and I rarely let myself loose myself in the inspired world of an imaginary land. And…

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Let go.

There it is. That dull and familiar ache. An empty wanting.

That dull ache in the depths of our psyche that we are constantly trying to fill with food and comforts and drugs and pursuits and people and evidence that we are doing life right.⁣

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That dull ache that feels like the remnants of a broken heart or the whisper of disappointment or the sense that…

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It's been 6 years since I spoke to my mama.

It’s been 6 years since I spoke to my mama.

“Happy Birthday” read the subject line. I clicked on the email. The same two words were repeated in the body. “Happy Birthday”. Nothing else. It stung more than if there had been no email.

It’s been 6 years since I spoke to my mama. Every September I remember.

I want to preface this story with the point that I am trying to tell it as fairly as I can. I love my mama. Every time I think of…

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4 tips on how to find your people when you move to a new place

There were days in the earlier months of 2020 where my entire body ached for human interaction.

I moved to Brighton 2 weeks before the entire country went under strict lockdown rules for 3 months. I had a home. I had Danger Zone. I knew a handful of people but I wasn’t allowed to see any of them. It was hard.

From an educated perspective, I know that desire to form and maintain social…

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This is 39.

Growing older is such a luxury and honour. Every year I become more myself, stronger, softer, wiser, kinder, happier, I let go of and move with things easier. This year was one of my favourite birthdays yet surrounded by friends, new and old, by the sea in the sun, laughing a lot.

There’s a really powerful shift that happens when you embrace exactly where you are. No chasing other…

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🌛 50% OFF all courses BIRTHDAY SALE

Guess what?!

It’s that time again! I celebrate 39 years of dancing around our sun tomorrow which also means it’s time for my annual 50% OFF ALL MY COURSES birthday sale. The S A L E is starting right now as I pressed send so if you want to scroll right down to what’s available, go ahead.

Growing older is such a luxury and honour. Every year I become more myself, stronger, softer, wiser,…

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Vienda's Voice Notes — 1.

Vienda’s Voice Notes — 1.

“Millennials are a funny bunch. We have an irrational fear of boredom, a disproportionate love for avocado, and now, an incrementing fondness for uninterrupted voice notes.”

Lying in bed the other day pondering how I could hold and carry some of the really potent, interesting and important conversations that are happening between you, my readers and digital community, and myself I came up…

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