In this solo episode, I'm sharing something that has lived quietly inside me for a very long time — my complicated relationship with joy. 💛

I take you back to a day in August 1998, a day when I felt completely aligned, like I had everything in the palm of my hands. And then, in an instant, that joy was shattered by a phone call that changed everything. My brother had taken his own life. 🕊️

For decades after that, whenever joy began to rise in me, a deep dread would follow — this quiet, gnawing feeling that it was too good to be true, that it was about to be ripped away. I've been sitting with that pattern for a long time now, really looking at it honestly, and I'm finally starting to understand it. 🌱

I'm also sharing something that has genuinely moved me — my growing connection with Mother Earth, and how I've discovered I can call on her energy whenever I'm feeling heavy or alone. It comes in just like a hug. 🤍 And alongside her, I've felt the presence of my nan — soft, warm, always in her dusty pink jacket — showing up in ways I never expected.

This episode is about learning to breathe joy in rather than brace against it. It's about choosing to step away from connections that leave me feeling small, and discovering that the support I've been searching for has been available to me all along. I'm still on this journey — still learning, still growing — and I'm sharing all of it, the raw and the real, just as it is. 🌸

I hope something in what I've shared today lands gently in the heart where it's needed most. 💗

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I had the most beautiful conversation with Sue Williams in this episode, and I'm still sitting with how much she moved me. 🌿 Sue is a holistic relaxation therapist and wellness business owner behind Driftwood Relaxation and The Waterfall Effect, and she brings with her decades of caring for others — from children in family daycare to adults finding their way back to themselves on the table in her therapy room. 💛

What struck me most was Sue's relationship with fear. Having survived a near-death experience and open-heart surgery 18 years ago, she speaks about fear not as something to overcome, but as something that was never really hers to carry in the first place. 🌊 That landed somewhere deep in me. She also shared something I'm still turning over — the idea that what I call 'triggers' might more gently be called 'glimmers of awareness.' I felt something soften in me the moment she said it. 🕊️

Sue's philosophy of The Waterfall Effect is one of the most tender and grounded ways I've heard healing described — the idea that I am at the top of that waterfall, and whatever I heal in myself flows outward, finds its way around every rock and obstacle, and nourishes everything and everyone I touch. 💧 It reminded me that caring for myself isn't selfish — it's the very source of what I have to give.

And the message she'd send back to her younger self? Simply: 'Love you. You're okay. You're not wrong.' 🤍 I don't think I've ever felt something so simply said land so completely.

I'm so grateful Sue said yes to sitting with me in this space. 🌸 May something in this conversation stay with you, open something up in you, or simply remind you that you are worth caring for too.

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In this solo episode, episode 54, I'm opening up about something that has been showing up for me all week - feeling supported, not from the outside, but from somewhere much deeper within. 🤍After waking in the early hours and giving in to a long journaling session (something I'm learning to honour rather than resist), I found myself reflecting on a lifetime of feeling unseen and noticing just how much that has gently shifted.

I share a story about a past life healing that changed everything for me, about feeling Mother Earth wrap her arms around me when I'm grounding 🌿, and about the warm, familiar presence of my nan, who I still feel close to in the quiet moments. There's a little synchronistic tale about double-booking my own book launch and learning to trust that it's all unfolding exactly as it's meant to ✨, and a heart-warming moment by the railway tracks with a stranger that left me feeling so blessed and so seen 🚂💛.

Pulling a card this morning called 'A Leg Up' felt like the universe gently confirming everything I'd been feeling - that receiving support is something I'm learning to notice, accept and welcome more and more.

This one is honest, a little raw, and full of feeling - a reminder to myself that I don't have to do it all alone, and that being supported is something I'm allowed to feel.

Sending so much love and taking gentle care of my own heart until next time. 💛

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