05/24/2026
✨ REBIRTH ✨ Hello All, I’ve been away from here for a time and it’s time to re-emerge.
The last 7 months were the most growth intensive months of my life.
After a family member was hospitalized last summer, I next had to find a new place to live. I hunted for 2 months and finally found a place in Perth in late October.
A week later my best friend of 11 years (and former partner) died suddenly. The loss has been the greatest heartbreak of my life, next to separating from my Dad when my parents divorced.
I then gathered the entire contents of an apartment and moved, all while grieving deeply for my beloved friend, Dane.
Since then I’ve been adjusting to living alone for the first time in 17 years. I participated in a gentle course of learning and healing for wellness practitioners with called “Firekeepers”. And I’ve been reassembling a fractured and expanded identity after deep transformation.
While I don’t wish such sudden loss and change on anyone, there are enormous gifts in this time for which I’m grateful.
I have learned:
✨I am highly sensitive but not fragile. I’m extremely resilient.
✨My community are there when I need them most.
✨It’s hard to truly understand deep loss until you’ve experienced it. And that’s ok.
✨Intense creative focus is one of the greatest healers of grief.
✨Stretching beyond our current capacity enhances self belief.
✨We do not ever truly lose the people we love, and connection lasts beyond these bodies.
✨Enduring hard things is part of being human. How we frame them decides how we rise again.
✨Slowing down, bodily care and emotional kindness are the most underrated form of self love.
✨When someone dies we can love them even more by feeling the deep loss, and it helps immeasurably.
Thanks for sharing the journey fellow humans. It’s not easy, but it is so deeply beautiful. ❤️🩹✨