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I’ve been thinking about how quick we can be to speak. To fill the silence, to give our feelings shape by naming them ou...
17/07/2025

I’ve been thinking about how quick we can be to speak. To fill the silence, to give our feelings shape by naming them out loud, to try and sort through our thoughts with words.

However not everything needs to be spoken straight away. Sometimes the most important kōrero is the one happening inside. It’s your wairua murmuring before your mind catches up, your puku tightening or softening before you’ve made sense of why. Your mauri is always telling you something, long before you find language for it.

What would it look like to stop rushing to explain? To sit with yourself instead, to breathe, to notice what’s there without needing to justify it or package it up neatly? That’s a different kind of hauora, one that starts deep within.

Next time you’re searching for words, try listening first. Your mauri already knows.

How do you make space to hear your own inner guidance?

For years, I thought I had to earn rest. That if I hadn’t ticked off a long list or pushed myself to exhaustion, I didn’...
15/07/2025

For years, I thought I had to earn rest. That if I hadn’t ticked off a long list or pushed myself to exhaustion, I didn’t deserve it. It’s wild how deep that runs and how many of us feel guilty for slowing down.

The other day, I caught myself spiraling. My mind was racing with all the things I should be doing. Instead, I lay down on the couch, put my hand on my puku, and let my breath anchor me. Just five minutes. My guilt was loud at first, but my mauri settled anyway.

If resting feels uncomfortable for you too, you’re not alone. That’s why I created my Mauritau course to help you reconnect with your own balance, to make calm not just a treat you “earn” but a state you can return to any time. Comment 'hauora' below if you need support tuning in for rest, and tuning out of the guily

What’s your relationship with rest like? Does guilt show up for you too?

As a mam, one of the most important things to me is reminding my daughter of her whakapapa. Not just teaching her names ...
13/07/2025

As a mam, one of the most important things to me is reminding my daughter of her whakapapa. Not just teaching her names or stories, but making sure it’s something she feels in her bones, something that will guide her throughout her life.

When I was growing up, whakapapa was something I learned. For her, I want it to be something she lives. This week is noho on our Marae and I cant wait for her to be back on our marae. I can’t wait to watch her feet touch our whenua, to hear her laughter, to see her confidence grow as she stands where her Tupuna once stood.

This is the space I am leaning into this week. As going to noho with my tamahine feels like a lot.

How are you keeping your tamariki close to their whakapapa?

The more I learn about karakia, the more I realise how layered it all is. Karakia before kai, for example that wasn’t ac...
13/07/2025

The more I learn about karakia, the more I realise how layered it all is. Karakia before kai, for example that wasn’t actually a traditional practice of our tūpuna. It came later, shaped by new influences.

But here’s what I’ve come to, even if it’s not something our Tipuna did in exactly this way, I still find so much value in pausing, acknowledging and connecting back to whenua before I eat. It’s become a hauora practice for me, a moment of mauritau in the middle of a busy day.

What about you? Do you use karakia before kai, or have your own way of honoring the hands and land that feed you?

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