Rongo Ora

05/02/2026

Whiro

02/02/2026

I have been wondering for a while now if I have adhd but after looking into it more- it’s all just trauma responses 🫣

25/01/2026

Rongoā Māori
✨Intentions
🌿Hauhake
✨Mirimiri
💜 Romiromi

24/01/2026

You’re never just one ☝️

Kaiako and Tauira.

I help people to work on myself.

I work on myself to help people.

23/01/2026

I like this guys perspective of his time in prison.

‘Take the best out of it’
Depends what you take out of prison.

I encourage tāne to make the most of what’s available in te whare herehere.

Do the programmes, get into some mahi and take advantage of the education. Many have access to counselling or a psychologist who have never engaged in anything of the kind. Focus on the goals and getting out to be better for their whanau.

Many things can come out of prison, but depends what you take from it.

23/01/2026

23/01/2026

🚙 I always seem to be on the road.
I like it, it calms the hinengaro and movement feels good.

🌿I had a few group wānanga on this week.
Rongoā Māori in reintegration, Rongoā Māori in whare herehere and a Mate pukupuku support group.

Most times I don’t plan what I’m doing. The thoughts, the matauranga, the intention (aroha) and the vision is there but theres no actual plan. I’m not a confident speaker and I’m no eloquent speaker but somehow it all works out.

No plan. Allow wairua to flow. And listen.

23/01/2026

Emotional regulation.

One of those things I didn’t learn growing up 😂 but overtime it’s gotten better. Every now and again it slips out but awareness grows each time.

Emotional regulation is a super power.

Naturally, when people are hurt or betrayed anger comes up. Where there’s anger there is a natural human desire for “getting even” or getting justice of some kind.

One pattern I always noticed as a therapist is how many people would come to me with regret. Regret around what they said, or how they acted. Regret over how they carried themselves at their lowest. Regret that they didn’t get to actually express themselves how they wanted to in the flood of emotion they were feeling.

Emotional regulation is the most important skill set any human can practice and develop. Almost all of us struggle (myself included) because we weren’t modeled emotional regulation growing up. The ability to regulate your emotions doesn’t mean you don’t feel. It means you feel a lot, but your emotions don’t drive your behavior. When emotions drive your behavior, regret is the result.

The good part is, we can learn how to emotionally regulate at any age, and anytime.

Emotional regulation allows you to feel and pause. This will set you ahead of 90% of people. People who pause have an undeniable magnetic pull of confidence. Not because they’re special, but because they have emotional discipline.

They make conscious choices that their future self would be proud of, regardless of how they feel in the moment