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23/11/2025

If the festive season already has you rehearsing your "I'm fine, really" face... this week's newsletter is for you.

The Myth of the Perfect Festive Season is a love letter to everyone who's tired, overwhelmed, overstimulated and quietly plotting their escape from "just one more family gathering".

In this week's letter you'll find:
- Why the holiday season is emotionally chaotic
- How to take the pressure OFF
- 3 brand new journaling prompts
- an invite to my free journaling challenge starting December 1st.

This year we're doing December softly.
Come join us. Find the link in my bio.

16/11/2025

As the end of the year approaches, if you're feeling a bit overwhelmed, overstretched or simply tired - you're in good company.

I'm bringing back the journaling challenge - a free and gentle way to reflect on 2025 and find calm in the festive season.

This year, it's simpler and softer:
🎁Weekly prompts instead of daily
🎁No Pressure to share
🎁Yours to keep forever and work at your own pace

There's also an optional paid Zoom circle where we meet weekly to journal, reflect and support one another through the busiest time of the year.

The free challenge starts December 1st which you can sign up to just by being a Substack subscriber.

This week's Sunday Substack newsletter is out now. Sign up for free via the link in my bio.

13/11/2025

Dear South Africa...

I love you but I’m tired. Tired of crossing the street. Tired of looking over my shoulder. Tired of being too scared to drive at night and pretending I’m brave when I’m just careful.

On 21 November, I’ll wear black for every woman who didn’t get the chance to grow old. I’ll pause for 15 minutes at noon. I’ll change my profile picture to purple, not for attention, but to remind us all that change begins in small acts of courage.

I don’t want to live in fear. I want to live in a country where being a woman doesn’t mean being a survivor.

Until then, I will not be silent except for those 15 minutes, when silence will speak for all of us.

Don't look away. Don't pretend you didn't know. Change starts with us.

09/11/2025

Week 10 of my Substack series is finally here! 🎉

Ten weeks of lists, quiet breakdowns, dark humour, soft resilience and that strange feeling of being held by the people who read your words every Sunday.

Writing this series saved me this year - the invisible deadline, the ritual, the showing up even when I had nothing to say.
If you've been reading, replying or silently opening these newsletters in bed - thank you. You've been part of my Sunday survival routine more than you know.

This week is the wrap-up - a little "best of", the final 10 reasons, journalling prompts and more.

If you resonate with anything I've written over the last 10 weeks, I'd love to hear what stayed with you.

02/11/2025

Shops are already blasting Mariah, traffic is a personality test and every conversation starts with "We must catch up before the holidays!" (No, we don't have to).

This week's newsletter is all about coping with the festive chaos - one sarcastic list and self aware sigh at a time.

Because sometimes the only way to stay sane in the silly season is to laugh about how much we're not.

Read it on Substack: link in the image provided.

29/10/2025

This is for the survivors.

For those who made it through the darkest nights and for those who are still in the middle of the storm right now.

You are not weak for struggling.

You are human. You are loved.

And you are not alone.

Please, hold on one more day. The world is better with you in it.

26/10/2025

Things They Didn't Warn Us About Getting Older 👀

This week's newsletter is brought to you by...my first pair of glasses.

Apparently, I no longer have 20/20 vision - just 20/20 hindsight.

No one warns you that getting older is basically one long, "Are you kidding me?" montage. You wake up sore and genuinely thrilled when plans get cancelled.

But for all it's weirdness, getting older is also quietly wonderful. There's laughter in the surrender and some relief in finally not pretending to have it all figured out.

Subscribe and read this week's newsletter - free journaling prompts included.

23/10/2025

Hold on. One day you’ll find your people, your place, your purpose and the small, stubborn steps you take today will be the bridge to that life.

If today feels heavy, that doesn’t erase tomorrow’s light. You are not alone. 💛✨

If you’re struggling, please reach out to someone you trust or a local helpline - it’s brave to ask for help.

19/10/2025

Writing has saved me this year. Not dramatically - just quietly, in the way showing up for something small can save you.

Every Sunday, no matter what the week brings, I sit down to write this newsletter. Even when I don't feel like it. Even when I have nothing new to say. Somehow the act of writing anyway becomes a kind of prayer.

This week's theme is Coping Mechanisms - the strange, funny, deeply human ways that we keep ourselves going when everything feels heavy.

If you've ever felt like you're "floating between two", not quite okay but not exactly falling apart either, this one's for you.

The Art of Staying When You Want to Leave is now free to read on Substack. Link in the image provided and free to subscribe.

Please share with someone in your life who is going through it right now.

18/10/2025

Rest in peace, Baek SeHee.
A writer whose words helped millions find the courage to speak their truth.

In her memoir, i want to die but i want to eat tteokbokki, she wrote openly about her mental health, her therapy sessions and the quiet ache of trying to become the person she needed most. Her brave honesty gave language to suffering so many couldn’t name and in her passing, her final act of love was to donate her organs, saving five lives.

It’s devastating that another young, gifted writer at just 35 is gone too soon. Her story reminds us how deeply pain can live beneath even the most luminous art and how much we still need gentleness, community and care in this world.

If you’re struggling, please reach out. You are not alone. There is help and you don't have to suffer in silence.

12/10/2025

This week's newsletter is out.
Week 6: Therapy - The budget version

Between the summit I attended yesterday and the news of Diane Keaton's death, I've been thinking about what real healing looks like. Sometimes it's a therapist, sometimes it's your dog and sometimes it's a notebook you cry into.

Sign up for free via the link in my bio or in the image provided.

11/10/2025

Diane Keaton, you were everything - funny, fierce, sassy, honest. You made me laugh, made me feel, made me believe a woman could be powerful, sexy and herself at every age.

From the first time I watched you in Baby Boom to the sisterhood of The First Wives Club and giving Jack Nicholson a run for his money in Something’s Gotta Give - you were unforgettable. Gone far too soon.

Thank you for your brilliance, your unapologetic style and giving us so many beautiful cinematic memories.

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