When Thinking Too Much Becomes Self-Sabotage
Sometimes thinking doesn’t feel like a gift. It feels like a room with no windows. I’ve learned that there’s a difference between reflection and rumination. Reflection has movement in it. It asks honest questions, it listens, it adjusts. Rumination just spins....
A Thousand Paper Cuts
2025 didn’t break me with one big moment. It wore me down in a thousand small ways. A thousand paper cuts the kind you barely notice at first. The ones that sting for a second, then you carry on. Until you realise you’ve been bleeding slowly the whole time. Quietly....
Saying Goodbye to My Thirties (With Slight Panic and a Lot of Growth)
I’ve officially crossed over. I’ve entered the forties. And to be completely honest, I didn’t stroll into this decade with grace and glitter — I clung to 39 like a drama queen on a farewell tour. I was scared. Not of the number, exactly — but of what it meant. Leaving...
Finding the why
Grace and gifts of a crucible. I left them all at the bottom of the Midmar Dam that day… This is a story of faith, failure, fatigue and finally finding a sort of freedom after completing a 1.6km swim across a monstrous dam in a neon green swimming cap and a brightly...
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When Thinking Too Much Becomes Self-Sabotage
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A Thousand Paper Cuts
2025 didn’t break me with one big... Read more →
Saying Goodbye to My Thirties (With Slight Panic and a Lot of Growth)
I’ve officially crossed over. I’ve entered the... Read more →