The Being Way

13/04/2026

I love doing these updates to give you a little peek inside the coaching door🚪I find it helps to give people a frame of reference. More and more of you are flowing in to invest in yourselves and it moves me so much to see.

12/04/2026

Slow weekends. Rose tea, candle light, staying warm and dry.

Featuring the Holm candle range from x

07/04/2026

As I have been slowing but consistently expressing myself through writing, I’ve started to notice a theme emerging. It’s showing me the season that I am in, what I am moving through and what needs to be nurtured. Right now, I am in a season of letting go. Grief is arriving at my door, asking to be received, and made space for. I am making peace with past conflicts, but mostly I am coming to terms with maybe not becoming a mum in this lifetime and being with that. I am giving the hurt I feel space to be fully felt and acknowledged, rather than leapfrogged over.

Sometimes life gives us what we need instead of what we want. Hindsight is a beautiful thing - but I am not there yet.

I am in the exhale. I am in the act of stepping aside and letting go.

It’s an act of total trust in life, but it’s taken a long ass time to get to this point.

But you know how you get that inner feeling where you just know that what you’re doing is right – even if it looks different to how you want it to look like on the outside? That’s where I’m at.

06/04/2026

Proudest of this one. A piece that has been on my heart for ten years, after meeting an enigmatic stranger on a bus 🚌. Weirdly, I have just realised as I am sitting here typing this that he is part of the reason and story of why I write today.

Link below 👇🏼 and in my stories. (Or just search me - Bree Nicholls - on Substack).

https://open.substack.com/pub/breenicholls/p/falling-in-love-with-strangers

31/03/2026

Have you ever found yourself in a beautiful moment, only to think: “gosh, I wish I did this more often”?

Like being on holiday, or on a walk, or in the middle of something quietly special, and the thought that follows is: “I wish that…”

I notice that the magic of the moment disappears the second I leap into the future. The moment I introduce a new destination point into the now, what’s here suddenly feels like it’s not enough.

I often feel that pull, the urge to leapfrog. The eternal chasing of the next moment. And I have to remind myself, again and again, that the journey isn’t about arriving somewhere, it’s simply whatever is right here, right now.

Can I breathe in the magnificent presence of the sun? Can I just stop, and breath, and feel?

For me, instead of being enticed by “I wish…” or “when I get…”, it’s a decision to become still.
To come back into the space and time I’m in and just feel.

To be in the fullness of what is right here, right now.

Bree x

23/03/2026

How beautiful was that weather on the weekend!! 🥰 filled the cup all the way up ⛲️

Writing location
Beaches: Murray’s bay walkway to Mairangi Bay + Omaha

18/03/2026

What I have learned about forgiveness lately, is that when you really drill down, it’s not so much about forgiving others, it’s about finally forgiving yourself. ⛓️‍💥 🕊️

This story stemmed from a moment that caught me completely off guard.

Link 🔗 to the full piece is at the bottom of the photo, and via my stories.

Bree x

18/03/2026

Letting go of grief and guilt

Letting go of grief, and guilt.

18/03/2026

Letting go of grief and guilt.

Letting go of grief, and guilt.

15/03/2026

Something I have been feeling in relation to my work lately is being SO DANG GRATEFUL for all of my clients that I get to work with. I often marvel when I think of each of you, showing up continually to work on yourselves and be the best version of you. I remember when I was younger being reluctant to part ways with $ to work on myself, preferring to use it in other ways, until I got to 24 and my Counselling degree required that I do 80 hours of counselling a year. Thankfully - it took me three attempts to find the right match for me - a wonderful psychotherapist called ChristineJohannis took me on at a much reduced rate. Working with Christine changed my life. I found myself underneath all of the muck. Circling back to now, when I think of you all freely making the brave leap, it fills me with so much respect. 🤍

Thank you for choosing to come here, and work with me. I feel humbled, appreciative, amazed and a bit teary when I think about it.

Bree 🌼