🌑 Sleep & Emotional Resilience
Poor sleep and turbulent emotions can feed one another in a loop, each amplifying the other. Yet when we meet our feelings with awareness, acceptance, and flexibility, sleep can sometimes…
Personal growth, emotional intelligence, and self-improvement.
🌕 An Update on the Season Ahead
This August I was confronted with the promise I made during Imbolc: commitment to family. I have written before about generational trauma, about how it can silence and isolate us,…
🌖 Lughnasadh: The Feast of First Harvest
Late summer carries a different kind of warmth. The air is still bright, but it begins to feel weighted with ripening. Fields bend under the fullness of grain, fruit deepens…
🌕 Circadian Clock: Light and the Seasons
Long before humans created clocks, calendars, and schedules, our bodies were already keeping time. Earlier this year, while exploring Imbolc and the return of light, I briefly introduced the idea…
🌑 The Psychology of Creating New Habits
We can genuinely want to change and still repeat old patterns. A simple example: you intend to sleep earlier, but at 22:30 the phone is begging for your attention, the…
🌓 Litha: Feast of Light and Courage to Bloom
There is something expansive at the centre of Litha. Not expansive in the sense of overwhelming intensity, but in the way the world feels fully open. Bees move through wildflowers,…
🌕 Patriarchy and the Psychology of Harm
Revisiting The Lucifer Effect Through a Feminist Lens Twenty years, three months, three weeks and three days before I was born, Philip Zimbardo conducted the now infamous Stanford Prison Experiment.…
🌑 Gift from my Mother
Internalised misogyny is an old spell cast by a world that punishes women for their power and rewards them for shrinking. It shows up subtly in judgments, in rivalries, in…
🌕 Beltane: The Feast of Blooming & Belonging
As nature reaches its lush, blossoming fullness, so too does the human spirit begin to open outward. There is a noticeable shift in energy, lighter, warmer, more playful. Around Beltane,…
🌑 Breaking the cycle of generational trauma
The complex dynamics we come from shape who we become as adults. Generational trauma isn’t just about the pain we endure—it’s the weight of the past pressing down on the…