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++ Life Design Studio ++ Coaching//Mentoring + Outrageously simple SELF practices :: Back yourself & feel alive again [without] blowing up your nervous system

31/10/2025

I see you.
When someone says this with deep empathetic sincerity it’s like your entire nervous system exhales doesn’t it? It certainly does for me.

AND yet we all too often lump external validation and existential validation in the one pot and judge ourselves for our deep desire for it.

We all want to be seen.
We all want to be heard.
We all want to matter.
We all want to know we’re enough.

There’s nothing wrong with it. In fact it’s woven into the tapestry of our souls with the finest gold thread of what it means to be human.

External validation says ‘I validate you because of what you do’.

Existential validation says ‘I validate you independently of what you do’.

The spirit in me sees the spirit in you.
The living breathing embodiment of Namaste — ‘I bow to you’.

We all desire this yet the reality is we can be surrounded by seas of people yet still feel unseen.

One of the reasons I love mentorship so much. It’s unprecedented ability for you to be witnessed without feeling the need to ‘show up’ for anyone else, be fearful of taking up too much space, or worry that you’re not being a “good” friend, partner, daughter, sister. It is all about you.

((And it can be super uncomfortable at first if you’re used to putting others needs before your own, aren’t used to being heard or being the one who always does the holding. Don’t worry I’ve been there.))

Being seen and heard wakes something up inside of us and reminds us we’re alive.

‘I see you’.
Three tiny words that have the ability to change someone’s life.

May they always be offered with the highest of sincerity.

🌀

Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows — Nisargadatta Maharaj

30/10/2025

I saw a Willy wagtail this morning and it made me think about how we often don’t realise how much we miss things until we experience them again. ((Yep I miss seeing Willy Wagtails and their gorgeous swaying butts everywhere like in Victoria))

I speak a lot (a lot!) about realigning your fine print (values, beliefs, rhythm) with the season your in.

What doesn’t get enough air time is the power and possibility that lies in circling back to those habits or activities that used to make life feel oh so sweet but slid off the radar amongst well… life…

I wonder what it was for you….? — the baking, the candle making, that lush yin practice or bangin hip hop class, your morning pages, the poem writing or drawing ‘just because’…

It feels like so much of what we do these days is all about serving a purpose. Like nearly everything has an invisible A-B ticket attached to it (and not in a good way) — the relentless forward momentum, ‘next!’, ROI’s, the 📲 game, climb the ladder, add to your resume, fast track e v e r y t h i n g…

I’m all about ROI when it comes to energy, but life kind of feels a bit transactional somehow and it’s making me sad.

The great thing about having (way) less f**ks to give in this season is that I’ve found myself slowing down to do more things, ‘just because I feel like it’ >> regardless if it ‘moves the needle or whether it suits anyone else’s agenda.

I do wonder if this is why so many of us are feeling a bit disillusioned at the moment… could it be that we’re losing the subtle joy of doing something just because it feels good? Are we forgetting to feed that part of ourselves? The part of us that gets lost in the magical whimsy of doing whatever…

Zero strings attached.

27/10/2025

I was initially going to try and be all altruistic and just say existential awakening but let’s be real — in the eye of said storm it doesn’t feel quite so light and pretty.

And yet.. I (we!) continue to welcome these swirly vortexes because they DO always end with an awakening of varying proportions… the plump metaphorical cherry atop an often uncomfortable, yet perpetually moreish cake.

This past month (or ten) have been yet another potent reminder that — in order to taste the sweetness of life we must also be willing to experience the palate balancing of sour.

These ten lessons are front of mind right now, but of course I could fill a book..

I wonder what would you put as number 11?

19/10/2025

I swear we spend the first 10 yrs out of the school system trying to clean up the emotional debris that comes with the standardised grading system. I mean you don’t get graded on your emotional IQ do you, could you imagine what a world that would make…

So scared of getting a bad mark or saying the “wrong” thing in class we swallow our curiosity and out of the box thinking to fit into the binary structure that really doesn’t nourish our creatively fertile hearts and minds.

I’ll never forget being so damn proud of my art project in high school only to get a C for it. I was devastated. Even then my inner rebel knew something was off, how can a person “mark” a piece of art, something so personalised and intimate?

But even though I intuitively knew something was off, my inner artists heart broke and I hid her away for a really long time.

All too often we treat life like this. Like one giant exam we have to pass. Scared that if we’re seen to mess up, change our minds too often, make the “wrong” decision or say the wrong thing we’re going to fail. Get cancelled. Loose our progress, our people, our credibility.

One of my clients recently asked me after changing her mind ‘why does changing my mind feel so scary?’..

My reply — ‘because that what we’re taught’…

We’re scared to change our minds because we’ve been led to believe it makes us look unprofessional, flaky or like we don’t know what we’re doing.

The truth — having the audacity to change your mind, try things on, play with trial and error makes you infinitely more resourceful and resilient and is the secret sauce to life feeling scrumptiously alive and aligned with your unique flavour.

Cliche or not,,,

Life is your masterpiece.

And no one (NO ONE!) has the right to grade, pass judgment on or evaluate your living breathing piece of ART.

Every decision you make, every mess you make, every new path you take is simply another rough draft in your existential stretch book.

Dream big. Get messy. Change your mind often and don’t be afraid to get your hands dirty in the paint pot of your life.

Ready to paint your next canvas? Drop me a DM and let’s create your next draft together. 🎨

14/10/2025

One of the biggest misconceptions of mentorship is that you only call in support when there’s something wrong. Aka — something needs fixing.

Yes, you may enter this space desiring something different, more, stretchy, exciting, alive — but this work isn’t about fixing or polishing, it’s about remembering.

You’re growing.
But you’re not quite “there” yet.
And sometimes the in-between feels messy.

Recently I’ve worked with women who are:
🌀Leaving old identities behind
🌀Outgrowing their “shoulds”
🌀Feeling wobbly in their wants
🌀Weighed down by all the noise

This is what I help with:
🌱Finding clarity in the fog
🌱Matching your rhythm to this season
🌱Rebuilding your self-trust, softly
🌱Bringing fresh (lived-in)balance to being + doing
🌱Spot-cleaning your creative lens

If you’re in a season like this — you’re not lost, there’s nothing wrong (in fact, there’s actually A LOT right!! > upgrade loading🔋!!), and you’re certainly not broken.

You’re rooting in — anchoring deeper into who you’re becoming.

Mentorship isn’t about fixing; it’s about feeding what’s already growing.

The path of mentorship is a celebration — it’s you saying yes to yourself.

And that, my fresh and funky friend, is one of the most delicious things you’ll ever taste.

DM me if you’re ready to take a big, juicy bite of that next chapter. 🍑

🍩

13/10/2025

I was asked once — ‘are you willing to do whatever it takes?’

My body instantly screamed no! But high on cool-aid spiked with ‘all or nothing’ happy gas, I pushed my rose coloured glasses back onto my face and said a belly churning ‘yes… sure I am’.

My body knew I was lying before I did.
I kept trying to follow the A-Z success strategy laid out in front of me while simultaneously wondering why I kept cycling between a soul crushing blend of momentum > feeling like a failure > and falling in an exhausted heap. (Repeat. Repeat)

I nearly gave up.
Luckily, fed up with feeling like I was failing all the time I gave myself an ultimatum — quit or start doing what actually feels good!...

You can guess which one I chose.

I’ve been reconnecting with my [why] again this past few weeks. Life’s changed (I’ve changed!) and my fine print {values + beliefs} needed an upgrade to meet me where I’m at in this season (the exact process I support my clients with) and it’s been so damn delicious.

Turns out I’m still not willing to do whatever it takes.
Go figure.

Years ago this question felt so shame inducing. Today when I think about it, it feels liberating AF because not only did its abrasive slap wake me up and help save my dreams, but it also turned an exhausting doubt fuelled grind into a delicious daily adventure.

So let me ask you…
Are you willing to do whatever it takes?

Gosh I hope not.
😜

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