i'm so proud of myself. i have completely transformed over the years and i have myself to thank for that. even when it was unbearable i kept hanging on with a sliver of hope that there's more to life than feeling depressed, anxious, and hopeless. thank you for choosing to heal. thank you for choosing to be authentic and not caring what the world thinks. thank you for taking the leap and going after your purpose. thank you for setting boundaries and not letting anyone continue to hurt me. thank you for believing in myself. so excited to see what this next chapter brings! 🥳✨

Thank you all so much for your well wishes on my post yesterday! I wanted to let you all know that I passed my doctoral thesis titled 'Exploring individuals' experiences on spiritual awakenings and their views on psychological therapy' with very minor amendments! 😁 A great outcome overall! The panel felt that the paper was strong and a great contribution to the field of spirituality and clinical psychology 💜 I intend to publish within the year to the Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health ☺️

Hi everyone! For the last two years, I have been writing my doctoral thesis on individuals' experiences of spiritual awakening and their views on psychological therapy. It has been a wonderful journey, full of emotions! Tomorrow is the day where I have to sit in front of a panel and defend my work (viva voce). Please keep me in your thoughts! This is for all of us who have felt judged, misunderstood and unheard throughout the spiritual awakening journey. I hope I'll do it justice 💜 P.S A special thanks to Aaron for his workshop earlier - the timing was perfect!

I think the education system is awful. Whenever I was in school, particularly my final years of secondary school, school made my life a living hell, honestly. It was bad enough having to deal with the stress from exams, from my parents, from teachers, or the boring routine that I had to follow every day there, and how I was basically sleep-deprived every single day because of course, whenever I was younger, I maximised the dopamine whenever I got home from school so that would end up with me staying up late with my friends, whatever, and the cycle repeats. But particularly school was absolutely horrendous in my final few months because, you see, in secondary school, on my final year, I had this friend I would talk to in my class in my year group and that was fine but he unfortunately left midway through. After that I had no choice but to go to this group of "friends" but I would quickly realise that they were not my friends, "friends", and instead they just used me as a source of entertainment, honestly, and it started off small… They would joke here and there but it got progressively worse and worse and it hurt me more each time. Whenever it first started, sure, I can take a joke. There's nothing wrong with that but it progressively got worse and worse and it was like I was their source of entertainment because they would just push my buttons until I just lost it, which was, very honestly, about two times actually. I did get seriously angry but most of the time I was just jokingly angry, if you know what I mean. I already did not like school but now I had to worry about: having zero friends in my classes and at lunch and break times I had to deal with these fake horrible "friends". That made my life absolutely horrendous and I wouldn't wish that on anyone because it was traumatic. It was so bad and I don't think I've ever felt as tired as those evenings whenever I would come home from school after a day like that. I'm really grateful I'm not at school now.

Start with your nervous system. I used to think I needed to push harder to make things happen. But the truth? I was operating in stress mode… and calling it productivity. Once I started tuning into my nervous system, noticing when I was anxious, overthinking, or shutting down Flow returned because I gave myself time to soften. Ideas landed. Things felt easier. This wasn’t about doing less; it was about aligning more. If your body doesn’t feel safe, your energy will always be fighting itself. Let’s bring peace back into the process. So my question to you is... What’s one practice that helps your body feel calm, grounded, or safe right now?