The Luxury of a Life That Fits You Perhaps true luxury isn't having more. Perhaps it's having a life that actually feels like yours. Hello friend, I've been contemplating the word luxury lately. We tend to associate it with beautiful things, a beautiful home, a beautiful holiday, a beautiful wardrobe, financial freedom, the ability to buy what we want without thinking too much about the price, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with enjoying beautiful things. The older I get, the more I've...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Bohemian Somatics Consciously Melissa The Quiet Work No One Sees ↓ Hello gorgeous, Something I've been thinking about lately is how quietly change often arrives for us. We tend to imagine transformation as something dramatic, a new job, a new relationship, a big announcement, or a complete reinvention. In my personal experience the deepest shifts rarely happen that way. They happen in the moments no one applauds. The decision to speak more kindly to yourself. The habit you stop returning to....
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Bohemian Somatics Reflections & Rituals Many of us grow up believing that being a caring person means always being available, always listening, always fixing, always rescuing. Somewhere along the way, we begin to measure our kindness by how much of ourselves we're willing to give away, and by how much we can gain approval, acceptance, and love from others by doing the work. However, I've been reflecting myself if that's really compassion, or whether sometimes it's simply forgetting that our...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
The Way You See Changes Everything Bohemian Somatics Hello gorgeous, I've been reflecting on something lately. Two people can experience the very same moment and walk away with completely different stories or perceptions. One person sees a setback, the other sees a redirection. One person notices what's missing, the other notices what's already here. One person sees an ending, the other sees the beginning of something new. The moment itself hasn't changed, the way it's been seen has. This...
2 months ago • 2 min read
Where you place your energy shapes your life. Hi Friends, I've been thinking about something recently. Every day we're invited to invest our energy somewhere. We can give it to what's missing, what's working, everything that's gone wrong, or everything that could go wrong. We can spend it worrying about the future or appreciating what's already here. What I've realised is that the more energy we give something, the more real it begins to feel. Not because the world around us has changed...
2 months ago • 2 min read
Every beautiful life is created twice. First within. Then in the world. Hello Lovely, I've been thinking about something recently..... We spend so much of our lives looking for evidence that things are changing. More money. A different job. A new relationship. Another opportunity. A healthier body. A calmer mind. We wait for life to show us that something is different before we allow ourselves to believe it. But what if we've got it the other way around? What if the first place life begins to...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Life begins to feel different when your body feels safe to receive it. You don’t create a different life by forcing one. Hello friends, So often we think change happens by pushing harder. By doing more, trying more, or waiting until we feel fully ready. But lately I’ve been reflecting on something different. So much of life is experienced through what feels familiar (routines, patterns, etc). The pace we move at, the pressure we place on ourselves, the ways we hold, protect and anticipate...
3 months ago • 1 min read
When Someone You Love Becomes a Memory What losing my Mum has taught me about grief, love, and living one day at a time. A mini version of me with my Mum Ritual Somatic Healing Hello friends, A week and a half ago, we lost our Mum, last Friday, we laid her to rest. Even writing those words feels surreal. There are moments when it feels real, and moments when my mind still expects to pick up the phone every day to check in, hear her voice, or tell her about something that happened during the...
4 months ago • 2 min read
Ritual Somatic Energy Healing Hello friends, It’s been a little while since I’ve written or shared online. Life has been asking a lot of me lately. I’ve been navigating some big changes, one of them being supporting my Mum in moving from living independently into full-time aged care (palliative care). It’s been a process of touring homes, waiting for the right place, packing up 25 years of memories, and making difficult decisions… even down to what to do with her 16-year-old dog. It’s been...
5 months ago • 1 min read