Living with Bry ~ Gentle, Mindful Living

Navigating the shopping centre can feel thrilling in the moment and painful thirty days later. In this article, I share practical, realistic ways to shop without sabotaging your finances or your nervous system. From impulse spending and emotional buying to budgeting with compassion, this piece explores how to enjoy retail therapy while staying grounded in reality. It is about making intentional choices, understanding spending triggers, and learning how to leave the shoppies feeling satisfied rather than stressed when the bill arrives.

I love a bargain, hate regret, and fear my credit card statement. Here’s how I survive the shoppies without future tears.

Turning a rental into a romcom-ready space is less about perfection and more about intention. In this article, I share how fairy lights, fresh sheets, and a little bit of hopeful delusion helped me create a home that feels romantic, comforting, and alive. From decorating through heartbreak to using your space as emotional armour, this piece explores how our homes reflect our inner lives. Sometimes making your home beautiful isn’t about impressing anyone else. It’s about reminding yourself that joy and possibility are still allowed.

Home

Fairy Lights, Fresh Sheets, and Delusion: My Romcom-Ready Rental

30 January 20261 January 2026

If I decorate like I’m expecting a meetcute, who’s to say one won’t happen? Fairy lights and fresh sheets say yes to delusion.

Main character energy is about confidence, but this article goes further. It’s about owning your entire story, not just the highlight reel. In this piece, I explore what it means to stop minimising yourself and fully inhabit your life, choices, and boundaries. From letting go of people-pleasing to embracing complexity and growth, this article is about self-authorship, agency, and unapologetic presence. You are not a side plot or a phase in someone else’s story. You are the throughline, the arc, and the whole damn franchise.

Chaos Goblin

Main Character Energy? Babe, I’m the Whole Goddamn Franchise

28 January 202626 December 2025

Main character energy is cute, but I’m the whole franchise. Spin-offs, sequels, character growth, and zero apologies.

Grounding does not have to involve yoga, breathwork, or buying another course. In this article, I share eight simple, accessible grounding habits that support nervous system regulation without spiritual jargon or financial pressure. From sensory comfort and routine to movement, focus, and everyday anchors, these practices are designed for real life, not wellness aesthetics. Ideal for anyone who feels overwhelmed, burnt out, or resistant to traditional self-care advice, this piece offers practical ways to feel steadier using what you already have.

Self-Care

8 Grounding Habits That Don’t Involve Yoga, Breathwork or Buying a Course

26 January 202623 December 2025

I ground myself without yoga mats, deep breaths, or online courses. Just real habits that actually work in real life.

I didn’t lose myself overnight. I stopped choosing myself in small ways, until I noticed. This is how I came back.

Self-Care

How I Stopped Abandoning Myself

23 January 202623 January 2026

I didn’t lose myself overnight. I stopped choosing myself in small ways, until I noticed. This is how I came back.

Beautiful dishes are not reserved for guests or special occasions. In this article, I explore why using the plates, bowls, and mugs you love every day is a quiet act of self-respect. From shifting out of scarcity thinking to finding joy in ordinary routines, this piece looks at how small aesthetic choices can improve mood, presence, and daily satisfaction. Whether it is toast, leftovers, or a quick snack, you deserve to experience beauty in the everyday, not save it for later.

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You Deserve Beautiful Dishes – Even If It’s Just For Toast

21 January 202623 December 2025

I eat toast off a beautiful plate because my life deserves nice things, even on ordinary mornings with crumbs and butter.

Healing

7 Signs You’re Healing Even If It Doesn’t Look Like It

19 January 202621 December 2025

Healing isn’t always calm or pretty. Sometimes it looks messy, slow, and uncomfortable, but it’s still happening.

Neurospicy

Because I’m Not Allowed

17 January 202618 January 2026

Living Life Without a Licence (and Yes, It Sucks) I was 24 when I was officially told I wasn’t allowed to drive. Not that I didn’t know already. I mean, all my mates were getting their Ps as teens and hooning around Livo while I quietly clocked that I wouldn’t be joining them. I didn’t have the words back then, but I knew something was different. And at 24, when I got my official diagnosis of Tourette’s, the pieces clicked into place. Suddenly the unspoken became legal. I wasn’t just avoiding learning to drive. I legally couldn’t. Physically, I’m more …