Spiritual growth

  • A Perfect New Day

    I’ve fallen into a bramble of life’s loose ends. A body, a mind, a heart— weary, and in a tumble of the most beautiful ugly day. Come find me when my words are a song, once again. Come meet me at the rise… Continue reading

  • Not Like The Others

    There is a little girl in me who is trying to be a big kid just like the others. Just like the others. One day, I think, she’ll learn to be happy with just ‘being me.’ However different. However ‘not… Continue reading

  • How To Be Good

    It’s funny isn’t it that the secret to becoming a good Mum a good wife a good friend a good human, is to realise that actually there is no good or bad anything. Because what’s good to her and her… Continue reading

  • The Ocean of Me

    I close my eyes and the warm wind becomes my breath. This wind— it whispers into the ocean of me, into the dark of my waters, deep. It hands me the calm of the moon, and it grants me the… Continue reading

  • Imperfectly Me

    This honest girl. This kind girl. This sweet girl. This loving, gentle, patient girl. She has been this girl forever. This perfect human girl—how delightful she is. How loved and cherished and needed, she is. But. If she is good,… Continue reading

  • Satisfied

    I looked into the sky and I said, ‘Sky. It’s me.’ And then I realised I had nothing more to say. And that actually I was satisfied. Satisfied, and ready to give in to the aching quiet of it all. Continue reading

  • Let Them Be

    I do this thing where I try to ‘fix’ the people I love. When they are sad. When they are confused. When they are in pain. I do this because when the people who feel like ‘joy’ to me suddenly… Continue reading

  • My Authentic Self

    For so many of my adult years, I wanted to know myself. Growing up, I’d heard there was such thing as a person knowing themselves and, truthfully, I was envious of all those who did. When I thought of what… Continue reading

  • A Way With Words

    It’s quite certain that when a person says to another person: ‘You have a way with words’, it’s not the words themselves that made the impact. It’s the heart they fell out of, and the way the heart coloured the… Continue reading

  • When The Soul Wakes

    The world didn’t suddenly become more beautiful. Her soul woke up. And finally she saw everything. Continue reading