Life & Style with Bry Jaimea ~ An Elder Millenials Guide to Life, Love and Crying over Laksa

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

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.

Self-Care

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.

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.

Perimenopause Self-Care

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.

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.

Healing Mindfulness Self-Care

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.

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.

Astro-Girlie Chaos Goblin

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.

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.

Style

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.

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.

Every time a woman does not report what happened to her, someone asks why. The answer is not simple, not comfortable, and not something that reflects on her. It reflects on the systems, the cultures, and the rooms full of people who made it clear, long before she ever had to decide, that her account would be questioned, minimised, or used against her. This is an honest and unflinching look at the real reasons women stay silent, written without judgment for every woman who made that calculation and chose to protect herself instead.

Feminine Rage

Why Women Don’t Report It

14 August 202616 August 2026

Every time a woman does not report what happened to her, someone asks why. The answer is not simple, not comfortable, and not something that reflects on her. It reflects on the systems, the cultures, and the rooms full of people who made it clear, long before she ever had to decide, that her account would be questioned, minimised, or used against her. This is an honest and unflinching look at the real reasons women stay silent, written without judgment for every woman who made that calculation and chose to protect herself instead.