Life is a Season
When I first imagined this platform, I was in a very different season of life.
The seed of inspiration was planted during the COVID-19 lockdown, when work and life were suddenly put on pause. At the time, I was moving through a period of deep loss—my nine-year relationship had ended after two miscarriages, and soon after, my grandmother passed away. Grief left me feeling unmoored, with a racing heart that barely slowed - eventually leading to a diagnosis of stress-induced anxiety.
My GP gently suggested I needed to find a way to calm my natural state of being. That’s when I turned to meditation.
Truthfully, I knew very little. Beyond the savasana at the end of a yoga class, my only reference point was a handful of outdated, unrelatable YouTube clips. None of it spoke to me. But I had a strong sense that if I was going to move through this anxiety, I needed to learn the fundamentals and commit to practising every day. So, I enrolled in a meditation teacher training certification.
The impact was undeniable. Slowly, I began to feel shifts - in my body, in my mind, and in how I approached each day. Meditation became more than a practice; it became a way of life. And with that came a knowing: this was something I had to share.
Because meditation is, as they say, truly life-changing.
A New Season
2024
Nothing and no one prepared me mentally for the overnight transition into pregnancy.
Although I was overjoyed and grateful with the news of falling pregnant, what I didn’t expect to hit me so hard was the reality that life as I knew it had changed. The life I had created at 38 years of age which I deeply enjoyed (and got very used to) came to a speeding halt.
I missed the smell of a sauna, the soothing heat of a magnesium spa and the post-hot pilates high. The change in diet was hard to swallow. Date nights had a new look and feel, and so did the things my partner and I loved doing together.
I went in blind, and I needed support and comfort in the early stages of keeping life’s biggest secret. A place where I could feel seen and heard without coming across ungrateful or being judged. I needed to feel calm as I navigated pregnancy so I could step into this new season of life feeling empowered with ease, and allow the space to learn to fall in love with this new season of life.