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Furniture used to be built to survive decades, house moves, and changing tastes. Now much of it feels increasingly disposable. In this article, I explore the enshittification of furniture and what I call the IKEA effect: the shift towards flat-pack construction, cheaper materials, shorter lifespans, and furniture that struggles to survive a move. From affordability and convenience to declining quality and throwaway culture, this piece asks when we stopped expecting furniture to last and why replacing it became normal.
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The Enshittification of Furniture (aka The Ikea Effect)

Ethical fashion conversations often place responsibility on individual shoppers while ignoring affordability, access, and the complexity of global clothing supply chains. In this article, I explore the privilege behind telling people to simply stop shopping at Shein and other fast fashion retailers. From expensive “ethical” clothing to questions about fabrics, factories, wages, and overconsumption, this is a more nuanced look at conscious shopping. You can care about fashion ethics without shaming people for buying what they can afford.
Style

It’s Ok to Buy the Thing From SheIn

Some of us were just not built for beige. Not the personality, not the wardrobe, not the carefully curated inoffensiveness of it all. And yet there are rooms, situations, moments where standing out feels less like a superpower and more like an inconvenience you cannot switch off. This is about navigating the spaces that want you smaller without actually becoming smaller, how to dial it back strategically without losing yourself entirely, and why the women who were born to stand out usually spend the first half of their lives apologising for it before realising it was the best thing about them all along.
Chaos Goblin Style

How to Blend in When You’re Born to Stand Out

Emotional regulation can look far more ordinary than wellness culture makes it seem. In this article, I share ten practical ways to regulate emotions in everyday life, from taking space and eating something to changing your environment, moving your body, or choosing not to react immediately. These simple strategies can help create pause, perspective, and steadiness during stressful moments. Regulation does not have to be aesthetic, complicated, or perfect. Sometimes the smallest response is the one that changes everything.
Self-Care

Ten Things That Count as Emotional Regulation

Red flags are not exclusive to romantic relationships. Friendships can become unhealthy too, yet we often excuse behaviour from friends that we would never tolerate from a partner. In this article, I explore the friendship red flags we commonly overlook, from one-sided effort and subtle competition to disrespect, poor boundaries, and emotional exhaustion. Recognising toxic friendship patterns does not mean abandoning people at the first problem. It means knowing when loyalty is costing you more than the friendship gives back
Relationships

The Red Flags We Overlook

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Podcast: You Are Not Entitled to an Answer

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Furniture used to be built to survive decades, house moves, and changing tastes. Now much of it feels increasingly disposable. In this article, I explore the enshittification of furniture and what I call the IKEA effect: the shift towards flat-pack construction, cheaper materials, shorter lifespans, and furniture that struggles to survive a move. From affordability and convenience to declining quality and throwaway culture, this piece asks when we stopped expecting furniture to last and why replacing it became normal.
Home

The Enshittification of Furniture (aka The Ikea Effect)

25 September 20267 September 2026

Furniture used to survive three generations. Now I’m scared to move a bookcase twice. Somehow flat-pack became the bloody standard.

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Ethical fashion conversations often place responsibility on individual shoppers while ignoring affordability, access, and the complexity of global clothing supply chains. In this article, I explore the privilege behind telling people to simply stop shopping at Shein and other fast fashion retailers. From expensive “ethical” clothing to questions about fabrics, factories, wages, and overconsumption, this is a more nuanced look at conscious shopping. You can care about fashion ethics without shaming people for buying what they can afford.
Style

It’s Ok to Buy the Thing From SheIn

21 September 20267 September 2026

Not everyone can afford a $100 linen shirt. Buying from Shein doesn’t make you unethical, and pretending it does reeks of privilege.

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Some of us were just not built for beige. Not the personality, not the wardrobe, not the carefully curated inoffensiveness of it all. And yet there are rooms, situations, moments where standing out feels less like a superpower and more like an inconvenience you cannot switch off. This is about navigating the spaces that want you smaller without actually becoming smaller, how to dial it back strategically without losing yourself entirely, and why the women who were born to stand out usually spend the first half of their lives apologising for it before realising it was the best thing about them all along.
Chaos Goblin Style

How to Blend in When You’re Born to Stand Out

18 September 20266 September 2026

Blending in has never come naturally to me, and the older I get the less convinced I am that it was ever actually the goal.

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Emotional regulation can look far more ordinary than wellness culture makes it seem. In this article, I share ten practical ways to regulate emotions in everyday life, from taking space and eating something to changing your environment, moving your body, or choosing not to react immediately. These simple strategies can help create pause, perspective, and steadiness during stressful moments. Regulation does not have to be aesthetic, complicated, or perfect. Sometimes the smallest response is the one that changes everything.
Self-Care

Ten Things That Count as Emotional Regulation

14 September 20266 September 2026

Emotional regulation isn’t always deep breathing and journalling. Sometimes it’s a shower, a snack, a walk, or not sending the text.

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Red flags are not exclusive to romantic relationships. Friendships can become unhealthy too, yet we often excuse behaviour from friends that we would never tolerate from a partner. In this article, I explore the friendship red flags we commonly overlook, from one-sided effort and subtle competition to disrespect, poor boundaries, and emotional exhaustion. Recognising toxic friendship patterns does not mean abandoning people at the first problem. It means knowing when loyalty is costing you more than the friendship gives back
Relationships

The Red Flags We Overlook

11 September 20266 September 2026

I’ve ignored more red flags in friendships than dating. Sometimes loyalty keeps us hanging on long after we should’ve walked away.

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Podcast: You Are Not Entitled to an Answer

6 September 20266 September 2026

This episode is about why men you’ve never met aren’t entitled to closure, explanations, or access to your attention on demand.

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Australian summer brings brutal heat, relentless humidity, scorching sun, summer storms, and days when leaving the air conditioning feels deeply unreasonable. In this article, I share practical ways to survive summer in Australia, from keeping your home and body cool to planning errands around the heat, staying comfortable at night, and making hot weather feel slightly less hostile. Whether you love summer or merely endure it, these simple strategies can make the hottest months easier, calmer, and considerably less sweaty.
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How to Survive the Australian Summer

6 September 20266 September 2026

Australian summer is less a season and more a personal attack. Here’s how I survive the heat, humidity, storms, and audacity.

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The luteal phase is not a personality disorder, but some weeks it genuinely feels like one. The fatigue is real. The brain fog is real. The desire to cancel everything and lie on the floor while Lulu judges you from across the room is extremely real. But there is a line between honouring what your body needs and using your cycle as a full personality suspension. This is an honest look at working with your luteal phase rather than being completely flattened by it, with practical shifts that actually help and zero lectures about seed cycling or going to bed at 8pm.
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Breaking Free from Luteal Laziness

4 September 202616 August 2026

Luteal phase fatigue is real, but there is a difference between honouring your cycle and using it as a reason to disappear entirely.

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Nobody talks about the version of quitting drinking that does not come with a dramatic rock bottom or a clinical intervention. The quiet version. The one where you just look at your life and decide that alcohol is no longer adding what it once did, and that the hangovers, the anxiety, the two day recoveries are no longer a trade you want to make. This is for the women considering quitting or cutting back without needing a reason big enough to justify it to anyone else. You do not need a story. You do not need a label. You just need to decide, and that decision is allowed to be enough.
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You Don’t Need a Reason to Quit Drinking

28 August 20266 September 2026

Quitting drinking does not require a rock bottom moment or a label. Sometimes you just decide you are done and that is enough.

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There is a specific kind of woman who is deeply spiritual and also completely unhinged about it, and I am her. The crystals are real. The manifestation journal exists. The oracle cards have been consulted at least twice this week. But somewhere between the woo and the wishful thinking lives a very fine line, and crossing it turns intuition into delusion faster than Mercury retrograde can ruin a situationship. This is a self aware and slightly chaotic guide to embracing spirituality without losing your grip on reality entirely, for the women who are all in on the woo but still need to pay their rent.
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How to be Woowoo When You’re Already Delulu

24 August 20266 September 2026

Spirituality and delusion are closer than anyone admits, and I have been navigating that line with varying degrees of success for years.

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A hair change is never really just a hair change. It is a declaration. A quiet, slightly dramatic announcement to yourself and everyone around you that something has shifted and you are no longer interested in looking like the person you were before. This is about the psychology behind why we reach for the scissors or the colour when life gets complicated, what it actually means when a new cut makes you stand differently, and why changing your hair is one of the most underrated forms of self authorship available to any of us at any given moment.
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Change Your Hair, Change Your Life

21 August 202613 August 2026

There is something about changing your hair that shifts something deeper than aesthetics. It is permission, disguised as a haircut.

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Burnout does not arrive dramatically. It creeps in quietly until one day you are staring at a simple task like it is written in a foreign language and you cannot remember what it felt like to not be exhausted. Recovery is not a weekend off or a wellness retreat. It is slower, less aesthetic, and considerably more boring than anyone on the internet makes it look. This is the practical guide to actually recovering, what helped, what was useless, how long it really takes, and why the most important thing I did was stop pretending I was fine before I actually was.
Healing

A Very Practical Guide to Recovering from Burnout

17 August 20268 August 2026

Burnout recovery is not a bubble bath and an early night. This is the practical, unglamorous guide I wish someone had handed me sooner.

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Slow roasted tomato pasta. Yesterday, I came home Slow roasted tomato pasta.
Yesterday, I came home from a boring date, it was raining, so I slow roasted tomatoes until the whole place smelled incredible and I remembered that food has never once let me down. 
There is something deeply meditative about slow roasting tomatoes in the oven, olive oil pooling, everything softening and sweetening and becoming more itself. No small talk. No performance. Just the kind of lunch that makes you feel like your afternoon is worth something. 
Recipes are back. 
Relationships are optional.
What a distinguished gentleman. What a distinguished gentleman.
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Leaving Adelaide? Easy. Leaving the people I love? Leaving Adelaide? Easy.
Leaving the people I love? Not even a little bit.

This city gave me what I needed – time to heal, to grow, to fall apart and rebuild in ways I didn’t expect. I’ve laughed until I cried in kitchens and gardens. Danced in my pjs, cried on couches, shared secrets over matcha and wine. Some of you held me through the darkest parts of my life. Some of you reminded me how it feels to be light again.

It’s time for the next chapter now. But my heart is heavy in the best way – full of every moment we’ve shared. I’ll miss you more than I can put into words xx
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