It is Book Week 2021, a time for passionate bookish people to unite and celebrate the power, magic and simple joy of reading. While I write and read a lot of fiction, which can be dismissed as escapism or mere fantasy, diving into stories from authors and characters whose lives are so far from my own, has been one of the most significant mind-opening, heart-opening and compassion-igniting gifts to me over my life. Books spark connection, wonder, curiosity, ideas about the wor

Cultivating a morning ritual that opens you up to meet the day with vibrancy, clarity and buoyancy. Sometimes I get asked what I do to get in the 'flow-state' as a writer, which to me is just a state of hyper-focus infused with passion and heart, so I thought I'd share it here for anyone else wondering how to up their efficiency. Strangely it begins with a morning ritual that has nothing to do with writing. Having a morning ritual was something I began as a teenager to align

How clean, conscious eating and intermittent fasting helped free my mind from limiting beliefs and my body unlock higher clarity, energy and joy! When I was young I was sick a lot. I have an extremely sensitive stomach and system that reacts severely against anything remotely toxic, but when I was younger, I didn't understand this. I just thought there was something wrong with my body, and when I was having little luck with traditional doctors in figuring out what the 'wron

Everywhere you look, someone's doing yoga. But why? Why are you doing it? It is not a secret that it's true meaning has been diluted in many Western practices of the Ancient art. Say Yoga was a tree; the fit, toned, nimble body you might be stoked about would be one of the leaves. Just one. A flimsy bi-product. Your sense of connection with yourself and the healing you might feel each time you hold a pose long enough for a deep emotion to rise and release; the branches. The s