Hello, messy heart!
Thank you for dropping in - I’m so glad you’re here!
‘About’ pages are a bit of an awkward one-sided thing. So I’m going to pretend that we’re meeting by the snack table at some sort of awkward event (you know the kind!) and I’m telling you a bit about myself.
I’m not someone with a ‘niche’ or a clear 5-year plan.
My approach to most things is, well, messy - letting things be not perfect, releasing control, finding my own flow and wilfulling going against social norms and ‘shoulds’.
I do a bunch of different things and as a 2/4 Generator (in Human Design), my sweet spot is following and doing whatever is feeling most joyful at the time, and being-communing-creating with the people in my orbit. Some of these things include:
writing: I spend most of my time here on Substack; and LinkedIn
work/play coaching: supporting solopreneuers/freelancers to design a work life full of ease, spaciousness and freedom so that work can start to feel much more like play!
postgraduate researcher training: I offer workshops to PhD candidates via universities, focusing especially on researcher wellbeing and productivity
Having said, I resent this tendency to conflate who someone is with what they do. So, here’s a collection of other things that are a part of my life and history, that I enjoy and that are important to me:
| journalism | PhD in Women’s Studies (research on beauty ideals / women’s bodies) | personal development and wellness | glamour magazines | baking | human design | Malaysia | Yorkshire, England | BA + MA in English Literature | international school + diasporic kid | tarot | comfort television (Good Witch, Gilmore Girls, Chesapeake Shores, Sweet Magnolias, Virgin River) | books and reading | strength training | holistic therapies (acupuncture; reiki; energy healing) | Tibetan Buddhism | introvert | dogs | public speaking and public engagement for researchers | living in and leaving a high control group | understanding and recovering from trauma (the works of Gabor Mate, Elizabeth Stanley) | skulking awkwardly by the food at any social event
I’ll stop now, but if any of these things spark something for you too, drop me a note to say hello. Let’s be friends!
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