Guide to Thrive

Guide to Thrive Self Leadership Coach and Mentor. Empowering Leaders to Lead with Self-Awareness, Confidence & Clarity – Because Leadership Starts with Leading Yourself.

16/11/2025

Hello Beautiful Community,

After a lot of reflection, evolution, and deep work behind the scenes, I’m excited to share that Conscious Playground is now Guide to Thrive.

This change isn’t just a new name... it’s a clearer expression of what I’ve always hoped this space could be:
+ A place where self-leadership meets emotional intelligence.
+ Where awareness becomes action.
+ Where people feel supported to grow in a way that is both gentle and bold.

Over the past few years, the work has expanded, the conversations have deepened, and the vision has sharpened. Guide to Thrive captures the heart of where we’re heading.

🌱 And there’s more…
We’ll be officially launching in 2026 with new programs, tools, workshops, and coaching experiences designed to help people lead, live, and thrive with greater clarity and courage.

I can’t wait to share more with you as it all unfolds.
Thank you for being here for your trust, your curiosity, and your willingness to grow alongside me.

Here’s to the next chapter.
Guide to Thrive begins soon.

22/10/2025

I took the VIA Character strengths assessment this week, curious to know what mine are and how I can utilise them more in my life to feel aligned and create something from a space that uses my innate strengths.

Turns out my top one is Honesty which is not surprising, when I feel that I’m not being honest with myself it creates internal friction and when I hear dishonesty in others it grinds my gears.

Sometimes it’s because one of my core values is being violated. Truth and integrity feel sacred, and dishonesty feels like a betrayal. Sometimes it’s because dishonesty destabilises me. It robs me of clarity and safety. Sometimes it’s because I hold myself to such a high standard that seeing others bypass it offends my inner code. And sometimes, it touches a deeper fear of being deceived, manipulated, or made a fool of.

My distaste for dishonesty often isn’t just about the lie itself. It’s about what that lie represents a fracture in trust, a threat to safety, or a mirror to the parts of me that crave truth above all else.

This week the I’ve shared more honestly about where I’m at and that’s felt more in alignment that many things I’ve posted of late.. so to continue along this path is what I’d expect from myself.

Character strengths assessment: https://www.viacharacter.org

15/10/2025

Sitting in discomfort is part of the process. It’s not easy, but I’m learning that not everything needs to be solved straight away. Sometimes what’s needed isn’t a solution, it’s space.

Because when we strip away the stories we attach to our emotions, the actual feeling lasts about 90 seconds in the body, if we don’t keep fuelling it with stories or thoughts. It’s not a hard rule, emotions are more complex than that, but I find it a powerful reminder that the initial surge of feeling is temporary. When we can pause and notice what’s happening, instead of replaying or analysing it, the emotion often softens on its own.

If we can just be with the feeling without rushing to fix, explain, or justify it can move through us. And when it does, it often leaves a kind of quiet clarity behind.

These states are temporary.
They don’t define us.
They’re simply energy moving asking to be noticed, not resisted.

Sharing this is a vulnerability piece for me. It’s not about being dramatic or raw for the sake of it, it’s about being real. Because life is messy. And yet, in a world of curated feeds and perfect highlight reels, it’s easy to forget that.

When we share from the middle of the mess gently and honestly, it opens something. It creates space for others to say, “me too.” And maybe that’s where healing begins: not in perfection, but in shared humanity.

Twigg x

15/10/2025

I’m sharing more openly about what I’m moving through, not because I’m looking for attention or applause, but because it feels like part of the process.

It’s not about performing my pain or turning vulnerability into content. It’s about refusing to process everything in silence. There is something deeply human about putting words to what feels raw and real. To allow others to witness your becoming. I talk through it with my close friends and I feel it’s time to cast a wider net - maybe it’s my nervous system saying you’re ready?

And if being honest about what I’m moving through helps someone else feel permission to be authentic in theirs, then that feels meaningful.

And sometimes I am scared to offer truth and to be put up for judgement – because my personality loves perfection. Yet this is my corner of the internet and it has become a place to use my voice, to create a kind of feedback loop. Not for validation, but for reflection. A way to be real in a world that often rewards the polished, the filtered, the curated.

For a long time, I have believed that strength meant solitude. That if I was truly grounded, I’d move through things quietly, neatly, on my own. But I’m learning that solace and isolation aren’t the same thing. That there’s support in sharing. That expression itself can be healing.

I’m not trying to present a highlight reel. I’m trying to remember what it means to be human and messy in motion, and still choosing to share it anyway – even if it’s for me to rewatch later.

Twigg x

07/10/2025

Wouldn’t it be great if just because we knew better we acted better?? Unfortunately it’s not the case and for most of us we need help taking new or different action. Hopefully this video kicks you into gear to get the support you might need or do the damn thing that boosts your happiness and wellbeing ⭐️

11/09/2025

What will actually nourish me today and will last beyond the initial high? That’s a good question to tap into.. and you may just find that it’s much easier to obtain.









04/09/2025

We often look outside ourselves for the answers to our inner challenges. We seek healers, guides, someone to tell us what to do. Yet each time we do that we somewhat hand over responsibility, we don’t allow ourselves the trust to back our own decisions. What we are searching for is someone to give us some kind of permission. But if we backed ourselves, if we believed in ourselves, if we learnt to trust the inner knowing, we would listen more to ourselves and move from that place. We would have skin in the game and accountability. Which seems kinda scary at times because then the consequences are all on us, what if we fail? And what if we don’t? Self-Leadership is this process of influencing our own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to achieve personal and professional goals. It involves self-awareness, setting clear objectives, creating action plans, developing self-discipline, and fostering personal growth to become the leader of your own life, rather than just a participant. Then I guess the question becomes, what are you seeking? And where do you look outside yourself for the answers?





I might be digging myself a hole with these reflective posts and I want to acknowledge that one of my highest values is ...
02/09/2025

I might be digging myself a hole with these reflective posts and I want to acknowledge that one of my highest values is integrity and as someone who has been in the industry for many years – I feel I need to speak to what I see regularly in this space that can be damaging. The words “safe space” are often spoken with the best of intentions. Yet safety is never ours to guarantee. It’s something each person decides for themselves based on their own history, wounds, and readiness. In the coaching world, I’ve seen what happens when we forget this. People can be broken open in a single session and then left without the scaffolding they need. I’ve written about this on coaching forums only to be met with ‘thanks for your insight’ and then seen an EDM go out the next day about how people hold safe spaces for trauma breakthroughs. I’ve seen people offering weekend courses in trauma and telling people after it you can coach people, charge thousands a session and make ‘6 figures’ after a weekend course. It’s madness! Coaching has power when it honours its boundaries: when we work with people toward what is ahead, not what lies unresolved behind them. Trauma belongs with therapists. Coaches who take this seriously know the value of having a trusted referral network, not trying to be everything for everyone. I share this not to shame, but to call us back to responsibility. People are confused by who does what? If we want this industry to mature, we need to hold ourselves accountable to our clients and to the fragility of the human mind. I am opening this dialogue to other people in the industry or participants to offer their own perspective on this topic…. Please share









I might be digging myself a hole with these reflective posts and I want to acknowledge that one of my highest values is ...
02/09/2025

I might be digging myself a hole with these reflective posts and I want to acknowledge that one of my highest values is integrity and as someone who has been in the industry for many years – I feel I need to speak to what I see regularly in this space that can be damaging. The words “safe space” are often spoken with the best of intentions. Yet safety is never ours to guarantee. It’s something each person decides for themselves based on their own history, wounds, and readiness. In the coaching world, I’ve seen what happens when we forget this. People can be broken open in a single session and then left without the scaffolding they need. I’ve written about this on coaching forums only to be met with ‘thanks for your insight’ and then seen an EDM go out the next day about how people hold safe spaces for trauma breakthroughs. I’ve seen coaches offer a weekend course in trauma and tell people they can become a coach and charge thousands and session and make ‘6 figures’ after a weekend of training. It’s madness! Coaching has power when it honours its boundaries: when we work with people toward what is ahead, not what lies unresolved behind them. Trauma belongs with therapists. Coaches who take this seriously know the value of having a trusted referral network, not trying to be everything for everyone. I share this not to shame, but to call us back to responsibility. People are confused by who does what? If we want this industry to mature, we need to hold ourselves accountable to our clients and to the fragility of the human mind. I am opening this dialogue to other people in the industry or participants to offer their own perspective on this topic…. Please share









31/08/2025

This funny belief that we get in our heads about if we change all the things in our current reality externally - everything would be better. And yes I agree some things DO need to change at times, I too believe the holiday I’m going on is going to shift lots of things!

and yet, when you change them the same person shows up to the NEW external reality you’ve created. We come back to our baseline.

The same personality, beliefs, values that often leads to the same programmed behaviour.

Perhaps then our work is to look within and change the perception in which we see the world, enrich our inner landscape - tend to ourselves which will ultimately shift the lens in which we experience. Re-look at our beliefs, our values, challenge our perceptions and increase our baseline.

One way to work on our baseline is to remind ourselves of this daily sentence “These are the good days” - even when today maybe isn’t a ‘good day’ it’s a reminder to have gratitude for what is and be present with what is - because we have is this moment.








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