Was it a fireman, an astronaut or maybe a teacher? Mine (probably not the first option, but later on when I was about 7 or 8 years old) was to be a journalist. Have you noticed how all the answers we give as kids is an occupation rather than a…

If you’ve seen the movie Inside Out, you’ve probably enjoyed how brilliant the human mind was represented in this animated film by Pixar — with places like Headquarters, Islands of Personality, Long-term Memory, Imagination Land, the Subconscious and Memory Dump and where emotions play the most important characters. …

The more you do, the more you want to get done. That’s basically the definition of the efficiency trap. That’s because busyness is an addiction; you could call it instant gratification for work, I call it the adrenaline rush. We’ve all been there: impossible daily to-do lists, powering through emails…

Sitting with the uncomfortable is a skill you learn on a lifelong journey. Transformative and always teaching you something new. Today I woke up with this image in my head: The brighter the light, the darker the shadows. The more you shine light on an object, the clearer you see…

“Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.” (Charlie Chaplin) More often than not, what’s keeping us from starting something we really want to be doing is a limiting belief about ourselves, a fear of some sort. …

The empty white wall Two and a half years ago, my husband and I moved to a new city and into a brand new home. …

It’s only after years of consistent meditation and months of prioritising physical and mental health that it starts to become clear to me how our own being is made up of body, mind and spirit. …

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality, said Seneca almost two thousands years ago. For some reason, this rings so true today more than ever. …

There’s so much to learn from nature. Patience, resilience. The fact that growth takes time, but it’s inevitable; like flowers blossoming every spring. That there’s beauty in the wild, in everything under the sun. That everything is interconnected and we’re all part of something greater than ourselves. …