Journal

What would you change about your home if you started with how you wanted to feel? Exploring light, colour, comfort and the women behind thoughtful home brands.

I’ve been thinking about home after a life change. How somewhere so familiar can suddenly feel different, even when the house itself has barely changed. Not interiors. Not what colour we paint the walls or which cushions we put on the sofa, but what home actually means to us. Because we talk about home…

A conversation with a friend sent me down a rabbit hole this week. Which, if you’ve been here for any length of time, you’ll know is usually how these chapters begin. We were talking about carers. My friend works with people and families affected by brain injuries, and our conversation turned to the person…

Last week was a heavy week. The kind where everything feels harder than it should. Where doubt gets louder. Where old versions of you start knocking at the door, asking whether you’d like to come back to something more familiar. I know that woman well. She expects the worst. She searches for what’s missing.…

What our clothes reveal about bodies, identity and the women we’re becoming. Women’s bodies change. This is hardly groundbreaking information. They expand. Contract. Carry babies. Recover. Age. Bloat. Scar. Heal. Respond to hormones, illness, stress, medication, menopause and simply being alive. And while all of that is happening physically, we’re changing in ways that…

I used to think the things around me were just, things. The clothes hanging in my wardrobe. The places I went for coffee. The accounts I followed. The conversations I found myself having. The rooms I spent my time in. I didn’t think of any of them as having much to do with who…

This time last year, I was sitting in a training room at work I knew I didn’t want to be sitting in a year from then. Around me, people spoke passionately about the difference we were making. About the support being provided and the impact of the work. I remember sitting there feeling this…

There is a strange part of change that we don’t talk about enough. Sometimes, doing the thing you know is right for you doesn’t feel right at all. You finally say no and spend the rest of the evening feeling guilty. You ask someone for help and immediately wish you’d done it yourself. You…

At the start of the week, I asked a question. Who wrote the rules you’re living by? If you missed last week’s chapter, Who Wrote the Rules You’re Living By?, I’d encourage you to begin there, as it explores how the invisible rules that shape our lives are formed in the first place. If…

There are moments in life that quietly change the way we see ourselves. Not because something dramatic happens, but because someone asks us a different question. So let me ask you one. Who wrote the rules you’re living by? Not the laws that govern society. The invisible ones. The ones that quietly shape your…