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Wellbeing for people who are tired of being told to manifest their way out of burnout. This is about the unsexy stuff that actually helps. Sleep hygiene when your brain won’t stop. Boundaries that feel rude but aren’t. Therapy that challenges you instead of validating everything. The difference between self-care and self-soothing. How to exist in your body when it feels like a prison or a betrayal. Not toxic positivity. Not Instagram quotes. Just honest conversations about staying functional, mostly kind to yourself, and alive in ways that matter.

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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.
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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
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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.

Life has a way of making us practical, serious, and quietly joyless. In this article, I explore how to reclaim whimsy through small, everyday moments that make life feel lighter. From wearing the good shoes and feeding birds to buying fresh flowers or dancing in the kitchen, these tiny acts can shift your mindset without requiring a complete life overhaul. It is a guide to embracing curiosity, playfulness, and delight, proving that growing up does not mean giving up your sense of wonder.
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How to Stop Being an Unwhimsical Bitch

10 August 20266 August 2026

Whimsy is a skill, babe. Feed the magpies, wear the red lipstick, buy the fancy mug, and stop acting like joy is embarrassing.

Your Venus sign can reveal fascinating patterns in attraction, romance, and the qualities you seek in a partner. In this article, I explore how Venus signs influence dating preferences, relationship dynamics, and those questionable romantic choices we keep repeating. From what sparks attraction to what makes us feel loved, astrology offers a playful framework for understanding our relationship patterns. Your Venus sign cannot excuse terrible taste in men, but it might help explain why you keep falling for the same type.
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Your Venus Sign Might Explain Your Terrible Taste in Men

31 July 202625 July 2026

Apparently my terrible taste in men might be written in the stars. Honestly, my Venus sign has some explaining to do.

A well-crafted morning routine brings grounding, focus, and intention to the day ahead. I’ll share how I design a mindful start that aligns with my energy, enhances clarity, and supports my spiritual practice. From simple rituals to nourishing habits, discover how to create a routine that fosters balance and productivity. Whether you’re seeking mindfulness, structure, or a moment of peace, these steps will help you start your day with purpose.
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How to Create a Morning Routine That Actually Works

8 June 202621 May 2026

Mornings can feel chaotic, but a simple grounding routine helps me start the day with clarity, focus, and calm. Here’s how.

There is a version of gut instinct that is not instinct at all. It is your nervous system in survival mode, your unprocessed grief looking for an exit, your pain making decisions and calling it clarity. I made a choice I thought was brave and intentional and it took me an embarrassingly long time to realise it was neither. This is an honest look at the difference between regulated intuition and dysregulated impulse, how to tell which one is actually driving, and what happens when you finally learn to make choices from a place of calm rather than a place of quiet desperation.
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Oops, I Regret A Life Choice

1 June 202620 May 2026

Turns out some of my boldest life choices were not intuition at all. They were grief wearing a very convincing disguise.

When your body starts behaving strangely in your late thirties or forties, perimenopause becomes the default explanation for almost everything. Tired? Perimenopause. Foggy? Perimenopause. Joints aching, sleep disrupted, mood unpredictable? All filed under the same heading without much investigation. This is the honest account of what happened when I pushed past the default answer and found inflammation sitting quietly underneath all of it. What that looked like, what actually helped, and why women deserve more than a catch all explanation for everything their body does after a certain age.
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It Wasn’t Perimenopause. It Was Inflammation.

22 May 202614 May 2026

For months I assumed it was perimenopause. Turns out it was inflammation, and that distinction changed absolutely everything for me.

There is nothing quite like your nervous system deciding to have a complete moment in the middle of a Kmart while someone nearby is debating throw pillow colours. Panic attacks are not dramatic movie moments. They are fluorescent lighting and a racing heart and trying to look like a normal person browsing storage solutions while your body convinces you that you are absolutely dying. This is an honest account of what panic attacks actually feel like in completely ordinary settings, what has helped me, and why talking about them without dressing it up is the only thing that has ever made me feel less alone in it.
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Panic Attacks in Kmart at 10am

18 May 20268 May 2026

Panic attacks do not wait for a convenient moment, and mine chose the homewares aisle at Kmart on a Tuesday morning to make their point.

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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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