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17/11/2025

Meet Fia, the exquisite hanging nest.

Native to a willow tree, Fia was once a wreath. Under the promise of creative renewal and the magical spell of transformation, wreath-Fia unfurls in the gentle, steady, deep ~ breaths of water, slowly, surely, and freely ~ into twig-Fia.

Twig-Fia is yielding but not submissive, trusting but not gullible. Twig-Fia defies universities (yes, even the wide open, electric, big and wild University of YouTube), but sits fully in the maker’s hand, so firmly insisting on and resting into sturdiness, while chanting blessings of chaos:

Holding space… small turn big curve… weaving in and out… listen, feel, play, and repeat.

Satisfyingly and gracefully, Fia takes form of a nest and departs the maker’s hand, giving off sweet scents of spring, and calling to hang with the unfinished grass cordage.

Yes,
Life continues
✨🌿✨

21/10/2025

So we’ve come
To the other side of the world beside a
Creek running, Merrily Merri
See the May Tree blooming
In October

Branches dense like a mountain
Countless clusters of mini white flowers upon thousands
Tender little hands of baby
Round red berries turning

Concepts are just thinks
We don’t do thinks just
Quietly plait wishes along a May Tree branch
Daring
To make

Wishes
For everything
Healing of old wounds
Growing of soft hearts
Flourishing of creative joys

That is
Everything

For us
Riches with The May

On the other side of the world
In October

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Many thanks to for the enchanting hawthorn tree visit on the Merri bank with my new hawthorn berries inspired crochet cardigan 🌿🙇🏻‍♀️🍒

Let’s go befriend some trees!!
🌲 🌴🎄🌳🎋🪾

06/10/2025

This!!

“We are not teaching people how to care for one another, or how to care for ourselves early enough in life.

We are not teaching people about relationships - what is healthy and supportive, and what is not. “

“Any advocacy that speaks to the parent experience only is inadequate. “

“The need for carer support is not the same as the rights of non speaking autistic people, we are confusing the two.”

“Autism does not destroy families. Misinformation in the hands of power does. “

03/10/2025

So true 💞

03/10/2025

Some images are so powerful that they follow us around, keep showing up AND we just have to realise it for our dearest self 💜

02/10/2025

🌊Letters from weiyu #6🔥

https://open.substack.com/pub/weiyuandthefire/p/feelings-magic

This is an extension and companion piece for my Feelings Prayer… plus an awesome podcast recommendation for those interested in “consciousness” and “connection”, news and invitations from the studio, and a fun side hustle of mine.. Hope you enjoy 🙂

✨🌝✨

28/09/2025

Feelings Prayer

Let the Heart be soft
where Sadness comes to rest

Let the Lungs be fluffy
where Fear comes to breathe

Let the Ribs be filled
with lava-like Anger that
burns, protects, and drives

Let Joy drive
from within

Every cell of this Body
radiating, spiralling, reaching

Heaven and Earth

✨🌀✨

15/09/2025

September’s ✨Makers Circle✨ was a blast!

We had a massive scale cross-stitcher, an astonishing amateur graffiti artist, a refined rubber stamp carver, a grand miniature house builder, a captivated crochet beginner, AND a cheeky young clown maestro!

We opened the circle with solitary stillness and devotion, and we closed it together, under the leadership of our young clown maestro, with knowing nods, warm smiles, delightful twirls and cute cuddles with the polar bear 💖

Next Circle on 26 Oct 1-4pm.
Free. All welcome. In-person/online.
Bookings essential, at
https://events.humanitix.com/makers
Hope to see you then!
✨🌸✨

11/09/2025

Yesterday I attended the launch of the Integrative Healthcare Special Interest Group at Melb Uni.

It was a great gathering of lovely people from diverse backgrounds for the same passion for Integrative Healthcare.

There were GPs, meditators, yoga teachers, spiritual carers, arts-based therapists, health and policy researchers, shiatsu practitioners, naturopaths, arts-based psychotherapists, psychologists, permaculturists, and many more!

No one knew the solution to the many barriers such as communication, research funding and design limits, public and cross-disciplinary attitudes, cost and access, and policy change. (If we’re not too lazy to just call it colonialism and capitalism 🙃)

HOWEVER, we filled the room with real Passion, as well as, Openness, Honesty, Kindness, Warmth and Support towards one another.

So glad to be part of this.
Let’s keep this growing!!

01/09/2025

Yes!!

✨Connection doesn’t require conformity.

Belonging doesn’t come from eye contact or tone of voice. It comes from being understood — without having to translate yourself to fit.

Let’s stop asking:
“Can they improve their social skills?”

Let’s start asking:
“How do our systems respond to difference — with curiosity or correction?”✨

We reward “social skills” like they’re the key to belonging.
👀 Eye contact.
💬 Small talk.
🤝 Group work.
But here’s the truth:
“Social skills” are not neutral.
They’re shaped by neuronormativity — a blueprint designed around dominant norms.
It tells us that fluent = friendly.
That verbal = valid.
That quiet = disconnected.
And when systems believe that —
they start designing people out of belonging.
🚫 Neurodivergent communication is called a “deficit.”
🚫 Non-verbal connection is dismissed as absence.
🚫 Scripting or pacing is labelled as “wrong.”
But connection doesn’t require conformity.
✨ Belonging doesn’t come from eye contact or tone of voice.
It comes from being understood — without having to translate yourself to fit.
Let’s stop asking:
“Can they improve their social skills?”
Let’s start asking:
“How do our systems respond to difference — with curiosity or correction?”

28/08/2025

Meet Yes, the YES Poo.

Yes sits like a monk, holds a giant flower, watches with big orbs, and smirks in confidence.

Yes says,
“I may be a tiny poo, but I believe in you. Go do your sh🌟t !”