Lessons Learned in 2016

2016 was a massive year for me with lots of wins and some big, kick you in the butt, then kick you in the gut lessons. I learned a lot and can feel pretty satisfied with the progress I’ve made. It’s often said that you keep getting the lesson until you...

Curing My Adult Acne: An 18 Month Journey of Trial and Error

Disclaimer: this is a personal experience of acne that hopes to offer some avenues for exploration without a guarantee. Each person’s body is different and it would be impossible to completely replicate all of the conditions outlined here. As a teenager, I never...

Empower yourself: Reflect and reframe.

Often we search for profound ways to empower ourselves, seeking out a magic pill, a thrilling act, an “ah ha” moment that pumps us full of endorphins and certainly, it is an intoxicating notion. The reality is that true empowerment comes from daily...

4 Empowering Lessons from 100+ days of Journaling

Journaling. It’s the big thing, along with daily meditation and green smoothies to get you in the zone. To be fair and full disclosure I love a good green smoothie as long as it’s not packed full of sugar, and if I were more disciplined I might even get on...

Embracing the unapologetic life!

I used to apologise for a lot of things. Often silently, internally and to people unaware that I was even doing it. I used to apologise for how I dressed (especially after overhearing 2 colleagues discusssing how “dressed up” I was and a raft of somewhat...

Gratitude Platitudes

I’m not going to tell you to be grateful for your hardships because inspite of all of the personal growth to have come from it, I know that you would give it up in a heartbeat. I’m not going to patronise you by suggesting that you will now be so much more...