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It Is Possible

I can eat anything. I have to keep telling myself this over and over again because it’s nearly impossible for me to believe that it’s...

It's Hard to Hate Up Close

I don’t want to write about the pope. I don’t want to write about the 20 page document of discrimination the Vatican put out into the...

Can You See Me?

March 31 was the International Trans Day of Visibility. I’m never really sure whether this is a day for me, or not. If transgender means...

Not Just Anxiety

I’ve had a particularly difficult week this past week, and I found myself wondering at one point if this worsening of things was just...

The Failure Mistake

You know, that feeling when something you’ve made or done or planned goes sideways and suddenly your insides are burning and you feel...

Growing Hope

Waking up exhausted is a defeating way to start the day. I mean, I never wake up feeling good, and hardly ever experience moments at any...

Yours to Choose

If you read my blog last week, you’ll know that studies suggest that the average adult makes between 33 000-35 000 choices a day. I’m not...

What's Next?

An incredibly wise person once told me (ok, she didn’t actually tell me, I read it in her book), that asking ‘Why?’ is a waste of energy,...

Delicious Possibilities

Sometimes, writing is hard. The words don’t want to cooperate and the page stays blank no matter how many words I put on it. Each idea I...

Hope

I lost a day yesterday. Things had been on a downward trajectory for me for a little while and yesterday my energy ran out. I don’t mean...

Rooted in Story

I was going to write about the destructive powers of apathy this week, but the blog felt heavy and sad. Before I’d even gotten to the...

Is That News?

Reading the news is a practice that I know is not particularly good for my mental health. I like to be informed about what’s happening in...

The Light of Wim Hof Method

Learning the Wim Hof Method has been a life saving tool. It gave me back control over my life at a time when I thought all hope was lost....

The Weight of Worry

Worry is a weight that wears on most of us. Some of us wake up to the constriction in our chest, spend the day with our mind racing and...

A Moment to Savour

My brain is foggy and my limbs are heavy. My words are not finding their way easily to the page today. This is today’s version of the...

Inextricable Connection

I just read a chapter in Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown that I wish I could share with every human alive in the world today. This...

Baggage

Everyone has baggage. Whether it’s the stuff you take when you board a plane or the lived experience you bring to each moment of your...

How do you know?

Have you ever had someone ask you to justify your gender? If you are cis gender (meaning the gender you were declared at birth matches...

Coming out. Again.

When I faded out of the world of blogging, it was because I didn’t know what I wanted to say anymore. I felt like I was hunting for...

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