The Healing Root

02/01/2026

06/10/2025

A question that I have been sitting with for the last little while is:
 
✨What thoughts and parts of self can I gently invite back into the playground of belonging?✨
 
There is something both innocent & weighty about this question, perhaps because of the way it combines the levity of a playground with the gravity of the concept of belonging. Belonging: something we as humans constantly grapple with in our attempt to understand where we begin & end and where the rest of the world begins & ends - consequently, how to go about establishing an appropriate degree of separateness so that we can feel autonomous/independent while still recognising the sinuous, interconnectedness of it all in order to live a life that is deeply connected to the heart, which then gifts us the embodied recognition of belonging.
 
In all this, it is self-belonging that I got curious about. The journey of integration (Latin for “making whole”, to renew or restore) is an ongoing process because there are always new (or forgotten/repressed) parts of the self that make themselves known to us as we become, unfurl & emerge into more of who we are.
 
As we live new experiences & grow from those experiences & new data enters our soma, we are stripped of what is no longer true for us. What is left is a more distilled expression of our true nature.
 
When we really sit with the above question & observe ourselves in our everyday life - in our habits, actions, interactions, relationships & moments of being alone - we give ourselves an opportunity to become attuned to the subtle ways in which we still exile certain parts of ourselves (& possibly understand the reasons why).
 
Initially it’s big & perhaps more deliberate (conscious shadow work), but then it becomes more subtle as we follow the many trails of curiosity. With that curiosity comes a sacred playfulness & a willingness not to direct the exploration, but to really see what is there & to see without judgment or repression. The responsibility then is to tenderly hold what is discovered & to be receptive to the pathway(s) of integration it asks from you.

23/09/2025

After a tumultuous few months over seas where my Saturn returned hard and many valuable lessons were learnt, I am beyond happy to be home.

To be close to the people, places and small daily treasures that offer me so much richness feels like an absolute gift; a gift that perhaps I’d begun to overlook because they were simply daily realities.

This time has been an important reminder for me in how contrasting emotional experience enriches our lives. How joy, contentment, peace, freedom & love are exponentially amplified when their opposites have been lived/experienced for a time.

There is so much to learn and alchemise from the shadow, from challenge, from discomfort and from adversity. But I’ve found that it’s in the integration time after these periods, where the real work and magic lies ✨. This is where the seeds of experience (and potential growth) find their space and time to germinate, to take root and to strengthen.

A necessary recalibration occurs, one that has the potential to create fundamental shifts in perceptions, responsiveness, awakeness, relating and one’s curiosity to self and life. As well as to habits and patterns and ways of being. But time and space is a prerequisite for this recalibration.

I look forward to seeing (and more importantly, feeling) what unfolds from the clarity that’s arisen in the last months.

And lastly! We have a new family member, meet little CLEO 🐈 🥹

SHE IS A DELIGHT.

16/07/2025

Some joyous snippets from the last month and a half.

For those who have asked, l have been baby sitting and cooking for a dear friend of mine who I met 8 years ago at Uni.

It was so incredible to reunite after such a long time. Re-meeting each other as the new women we’ve become after many moons of change, growth, healing, expansion and newness.

It is definitely safe to say that baby sitting this precious bean ramped up my own broodiness ten fold.

Seeing such a unique side to Ibiza (not just the party place you think it might be) was just glorious. We lived on her boat for most of the time and while there were MANY challenges of living on the boat while taking care of a toddler, a kitten and a dog (divine chaos!) there was so much beauty in it.

We rescued a little kitty, who we named Winnie. I went full mama bear mode on her, trying to coax her from the edge of death back into life. And seeing her spring forth into sassy feistiness was a potent reminder of what love, a nurturing environment & care have the power to do.

Now, I am heading to Greece to do another stint as a chef on the yacht that I worked on last year before heading home to my place and my people who I miss so dearly and who I hold in my heart with immense love & gratitude. Knowing that I get to go home to such a wholesome experience of life fills me with a joy like no other.

17/05/2025

SPICED AYURVEDIC PUMPKIN SOUP W. TOASTED PECANS & COCONUT DRIZZLE (✨🔔 recipe🔔✨)

I’m always down for a good soup, especially as seasons change and we move into colder months. There is something so comforting & nourishing about a warm bowl of homemade goodness 🥹.

According to Ayurveda, soup is an ideal dinner meal because it is easy to digest, meaning that we get to reap more of the benefits of our sleep-time detox processes if our tummies aren’t too busy still digesting denser foods/meals (the energy that would be used to break down more complex meals is then freed up to instead restore, release & rejuvenate the body & mind). This helps us to wake up feeling more energized, clear-minded & balanced (a state referred to in Ayurveda as Sattvic: a state that is characterised by internal & external harmony and peacefulness).

There are so many things that we can actively do/change/incorporate into our daily routines that can help us to live more Sattvic lives, but food is definitely a primary and very direct one (impacting our mood, energy & mental states quickly & potently) 🍯.

This is my new favourite soup recipe. It’s a super simple, cinnamon, ginger, chilli roasted pumpkin soup with toasted pecans & a generous coconut cream drizz 😍

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03/01/2025

Words have always been a great comfort to me: reading them, writing them, speaking them.

In reading, our deepest feeling spaces can be activated, our imaginations stirred into activity. In writing, our minds are clarified & our emotions alchemised. In speaking, our internal experiences of life are honoured by trusting & expressing them.

Words offer me as much of a safe space as my yoga practice. A place to reflect and feel with no judgement, a place to digest, assimilate, contemplate life. A place to nourish the meaning making of life and being human.

Writing is the most exquisite balance of the intellect & the feeling realms. It is the penetrating art of self-inquiry and self-honesty. It gives us a great insight into how we process life and offers us a medium for integrating it all into the psyche and soma.

Words give form to perception.

And when we share words, we create connection. They become strings that bind our mental and emotional selves to another in a moment of giving & receiving.

I understand the formula from perceiving to writing to be as follows:

Perception leads to a felt sense in the soma, which leads to a feeling which leads to an emotion, which leads to a thought (or a jumbled string of thoughts) that through a consciously articulated pathway create clarity from symbolism & meaning from articulation.

A lot can become clarified when we spend time writing. Writing can give rise to undercurrent, unprocessed emotions, inspirations & hopes. It can offer us a medium to grapple with the charge of grief or anger (in a way that honours the emotion and externalises it through practical application of the self in a gentle way). It also gives breathing space for the creative impulse.

Writing can be a form of therapy with yourself, through yourself.

By writing, you are gifting yourself the space & freedom to sit with the processes of your own mind. Making writing one of the truest practices of self-intimacy. Through the self-understanding that arises when we write, we build self-trust in our own perceptions of the world.

This delicate translation of the personal, interior experience of a life to the external world, is ART.