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04/07/2025

43.
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A quiet birthday this year. A very tender, quiet day full of tender, small things. Texts and voice messages exchanged with the dearest of friends. FaceTime with my precious baby nephew. My eldest child away for the week, sending me heartfelt messages from interstate about how impossibly ancient I am. (“Don’t look a day over 350,” he says. Sweet talker.) And my other two babies filling my day with sweetness.
I am bone tired. All of my feelings are right here, just beneath the surface of my skin. I feel like water running over stone, thin and transparent and insubstantial. Life has taken turn after unthinkable turn and I am just barely here. But today my incredibly brave daughter wrote her love for me in a letter that I will treasure forever, reminding me that my courage isn’t only for me - she’s watching and learning, especially when I don’t know it. And my youngest daughter lent me her unflagging joy and the tenderness of her big caring heart from the moment she woke until the moment her head hit the pillow tonight. And we ate Woolies cupcakes straight from the tray and let the single candle burn too long and panicked about smoke alarms that didn’t go off and played card games and sang in the car and fell asleep cuddling. It was fragile and ordinary and perfect.
43 slipped in under the radar, quiet amidst the madness that is 2025. Quiet like the turning of a page.

12/05/2025

She’s burning. But it’s for her own good.

18/10/2024

“And the mouths of the rivers sing into the sea”
- David Whyte

06/07/2024

This week I welcome my 43rd year, and the words that began to ring through me late last year, “run towards the danger”, have taken on an enduring sort of gentle fierceness as they continue to resonate into every area of my life. They echo through me with questions like, what am I not allowing myself to feel? Where am I shrinking back from what I truly desire? What am I afraid to want? To be? To do? To say? To reject? To lose? To gain? And within those fears, what invitations await when I choose to move towards those dangers?

I closed out my 30s with acts of big courage, allowing my life to crumble and choosing an unknown future. Now as I travel deeper into this decade of my life, building a new life at 42, surely now is the time for those little courages that will guide me towards my own true self. Learning to, as Mary Oliver says, let the soft animal of my body love what it loves.

Here’s to the acts of courage, great and small, that create a life of connection and authenticity.

Fearlessly,
Me.

ID: A page from a book, containing the words,
“Don’t be less than what you are.
Go forward fearlessly
For that is the key to happiness,”
which is part of a poem from the book, Poems for Soulful Living, by Nadege Laure.

02/05/2024

Delicious autumn in the hills 🍂💛🧡❤️

18/04/2024

I’m really excited about this. I’m taking my love for Women’s Circles and my passion for helping and walking alongside self-healers, and combining them into this new offering for individuals of all genders. This is for you if you’re processing, healing, growing, especially through or post- faith deconstruction, and looking for support and gentle guidance along the way.

I spent years deconstructing and re-examining my faith, in a very private, painstaking, and often lonely process. I’m deeply grateful for the small number of people I could safely process with along the way, and I would love to provide that safe space for others to do the same.

If you think this is for you, don’t hesitate to DM me, or head straight to my website (link in bio) to book a free call and find out more.

JM ❤️

03/04/2024

Totally captivated by this idea of trees as silent witnesses. Anything that captures my imagination like this helps me to feel more connected to nature. To the earth. And the more grounded I am in nature, the more centred I feel within myself. It’s why I so often personify the forest as a Mother, as She. Every time I enter the forest, I become aware of Her aliveness all around, above, beneath, and I am instantly in the presence of Love. Held. Witnessed. Whole.
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I hope you have a space where your imagination can engage with nature and allow you to connect with the earth and with your own infinite self.

11/11/2023

Getting ready for part 2 of our circle journey today, and I’ve sent a card to each circle sister from this beautiful “Spacious” deck by creatrix and fellow circle holder ❤️
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I am delighted and barely surprised that this was the card that came up for me, given that today we are diving deep and connecting with our emotional landscape. 💫Circle magic is already in the air 💫
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If you’d like to experience the magic and medicine of circle, follow the link in bio for upcoming dates and opportunities.
JM ❤️

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