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On Bringing Light to Your Shadow

The world’s peace seems more and more like a game of whack-a-mole. You just about cease to feel anxiety about one issue and another one pops up. Overwhelmed and despairing, we don’t know

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How to Heal from Burnout

Hello, dear friends! I am still alive! In case you wondered. Apologies for my radio silence. There have been many factors to account for it. One of them is that I have been going

A Love Letter To Myself

Last week, I came across Meg Stalter’s love letter to herself which went viral and inspired other people to write their own letters and I thought, what a bloody great idea. Then, I

The D-word

I find it bizarre how rarely we talk about death. As a society we are more burnt out than we’ve ever been. One in three people report being stressed and 284 million people

On the songs that have shaped me

I was brainstorming for a pitch on our emotional relationship with music when I started thinking about the ways in which music has shaped me. If I had to write about a single

The Here and Now: My New Favourite Place

One of my best friends has tattooed on the inside of each of her forearms, just below the elbow: 'here' and on the other 'now'. I recently told her that it's the best

On Worshipping Beauty

I was on holiday with a friend of mine two weeks ago and we had come back home after early dinner. We were too tired to socialise but not tired enough to go

When Nothing Really Matters

​​A few weeks ago, I was lying across the bed, half-dressed, staring at the ceiling. It was midnight and I was in tears. I had just visited my sick grandma who had only