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14/03/2026

It’s National Write Down Your Story Day ✍️

For 14 years I’ve been helping people tell their stories and the truth is… most people don’t struggle with writing.

They struggle with permission.

Permission to be honest.
Permission to remember things differently.
Permission to write something messy, unfinished and real.

Your story doesn’t need to be perfect.
It just needs to be written down.

If 2026 is the year you stop saying “one day I’ll write it” and start actually doing it, I’d love to support you.

📩 Sign up for my weekly essay on all things writing — subscribers get free journal prompts and exclusive early bird discounts on workshops and courses.

Your story has waited long enough.

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12/03/2026

Happy University Mental Health Day 💛

Teenagers: brilliant, messy, inspiring and occasionally intense (in the best way).
I’ve worked with local students and international visitors, helping them navigate 2026’s chaos while figuring out who they are.

Honestly? I love it. Every high-five, hesitant journal entry and “aha” moment reminds me why supporting teens is the best job in the world.

Organizations or universities that want to help these incredible humans express themselves, explore identity, and make sense of their world - get in touch and let’s make magic together ✨

08/03/2026

My mother has always said death comes in threes.

This week, it did.

Three very different lives.
Three very different ways of being remembered.

One judged.
One suddenly praised.
One quietly missed.

This week’s essay reflects on grief, reputation and the strange digital afterlife we now live with where messages from friends who are gone can suddenly reappear in your timeline years later.

This essay also reflects on the lives of Ian von Memerty and Soli Philander and the way the public story of someone’s life often changes after they’re gone.

Read the essay and join the conversation.

Link in bio.

Tell me in the comments:

Have you ever had a message or post from someone who has passed away suddenly appear in your timeline?

04/03/2026

There comes a moment when you realise you miss yourself.

Not the productive you.
Not the coping you.
The creative, curious, slightly wild you.

If you’ve been circling this work for a while… this might be your nudge.

The Artist’s Way begins this Sunday.

We’ll write. We’ll notice. We’ll gently untangle the stories that say you’re “too late” or “not talented enough.” We’ll take our inner artist on dates. We’ll make room for play again.

No pressure. No performance.
Just a small, brave decision to show up for your creativity.

If you’ve been craving structure, community and a reason to return to your own voice… I’d love to hold that space for you.

We start Sunday - only 5 spaces left 🤍

03/03/2026

Happy World Book Day 📚

Reminder that:
• buying books and reading books are two separate hobbies
• the “to be read” pile is a personality trait
• fictional characters have emotionally shaped me more than some real people
• annotating is a love language

Books are cheaper than therapy.
(But also… sometimes writing + books. Let’s be balanced.)

Today I’m celebrating the quiet magic of pages, paper cuts, dog-eared corners and sentences that make you sit very still.

Drop your current read below so we can all irresponsibly grow our TBR piles together.

01/03/2026

For over 30 years, The Artist's Way has helped people around the world get creatively unstuck. Now it's YOUR turn.

It's the world-renowned, trusted path back to self expression and inspiration.

Here's what past participants have said:

"Life-changing in ways I never expected".
"I'm writing again daily for the first time in years".
" The most supportive creative space I've experienced online thanks to Amy's guidance & care".

Enrollment is now open to go on this journey together through this powerful process.

Spaces are limited.

Ready to claim your spot? Link in bio.

The Artist’s Way teaches you how to stop holding yourself back from your full artistic and creative capabilities. Since first being published in the 1990s, this phenomenal book has sold over …

01/03/2026

For years I thought maturity meant making sure no one misunderstood me.

It doesn’t.

This week’s essay is about:
– being labelled “too much”
– over-explaining your ambition
– and the quiet power of letting people misread you

If you’re building something - a body of work, a creative life, a business - someone will have an opinion.

You cannot wait for universal understanding before you move.

✨ Enrollment for The Artist’s Way is now OPEN
We begin next Sunday.

If you’re ready to reconnect with your creativity (without shrinking yourself), this is your invitation.

Link in bio.

22/02/2026

I once attended a networking event, collected six email addresses, followed up thoughtfully… and heard from exactly zero people.

What happened to the networking part...?

This week’s essay is about:
- meetings that evaporate
- chasing rooms that don’t turn toward you
- learning that overavailable ≠ ambitious

If you’ve ever:
• rearranged your day for someone who cancelled
• sent the polite follow-up
• wondered if you were trying too hard

This one is for you.

Link in bio.

I once attended a networking event, collected six email addresses, followed up thoughtfully… and heard from exactly zero people.

What happened to the networking part...?

This week’s essay is about:
- meetings that evaporate
- chasing rooms that don’t turn toward you
- learning that overavailable ≠ ambitious

If you’ve ever:
• rearranged your day for someone who cancelled
• sent the polite follow-up
• wondered if you were trying too hard

This one is for you.

Link in bio.

17/02/2026

It’s Random Acts of Kindness Day 🤍

A reminder that kindness doesn’t have to be grand to be powerful.

It can be:
– an encouraging DM
– “I saw this and thought of you” message
– giving someone credit in the room
– letting someone go in front of you in traffic
– be the plot twist in someone’s difficult day

You never really know what someone is carrying behind the scenes. A small gesture might land much bigger than you think.

Today feels like a good day to move gently through the world.

15/02/2026

I have redesigned my website more times than I have rewritten a paragraph.

Apparently, I thought opportunity was hiding in the font selection.

This week’s essay is about the fantasy of reinvention versus the deeply unsexy power of routine. About how we’d rather declare a “new era” than sit down on a random Tuesday and be mediocre in peace.

Rebranding is exciting.
Routine is repetitive.
Only one of them builds anything.

If you’ve ever:
– bought a new notebook instead of finishing the old one
– reorganised your workspace instead of working
– convinced yourself you need clarity before commitment

This one’s for you.

13/02/2026

It’s World Radio Day. 📻

Radio was my first love.
Before algorithms. Before social media. Before “content.”

In my very first week at UCT, I signed up for UCT Radio — the first thing I put my name down for. Later, I went to Ireland to study media production for film and radio, with quiet BBC dreams tucked into my suitcase.

While I was there, I interned at OpenFM running around the streets of Dublin interviewing strangers, gathering vox pops, reporting the news. I loved the movement of it. The immediacy. The courage it takes to stop someone mid-stride and ask, “What do you think?”

Back in South Africa, I won a competition to train as a producer at CapeTalk. I worked graveyard shifts. Slept strange hours. Screened calls in the middle of the night. Occasionally co-hosted.

And in those quiet hours, I heard it all — hopes, fears, confessions.
Radio is theatre of the mind.
Sometimes it’s also a constant friend humming in the background for someone who feels alone

The environment wasn’t always kind. There were toxic and misogynistic dynamics that shaped the experience in complicated ways. But I’m grateful I got to sit in that glowing studio at 2am, listening to a country think out loud.

Radio was my first love. And it still shapes how I tell stories.

08/02/2026

“You’re just like your father.”
“Oh, that explains it.”
“Talent runs in the family.”

Does it, though?

This week’s essay is about comparison as a social shortcut and how often it replaces curiosity with comfort.

If you’ve ever smiled politely while being flattened into someone else’s backstory, you’ll recognise this.

Link in my bio.