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Haal-Chaal translates to well-being in the Hindi language

Well-being, when referring to a person or community, is the state of being healthy, happy, or prosperous. The Haal-Chaal project is an alternate approach to your personal well-being, with a detailed design layout to learn more, produce health benefits, improve your overall wellness and thrive everyday.

22/09/2026

There’s are specific things you believe in in your 20s, because nobody ever stopped to check it.
You inherit it from a boss, a culture, a parent who inherited it from someone else - and you just build a personality around it instead of asking where it actually came from.
Most of mine were about energy, sleep, pain, and what my body was allowed to need. I called things “just how I am” that were actually just how I was living.
I mistook exhaustion for commitment, silence about pain for maturity, and rest for something to be earned rather than required.

None of it was resilience. It was just information I hadn’t been given, dressed up as personality.

The unlearning is not dramatic. It’s quieter and more annoying than that - it’s just noticing, one belief at a time, that “everyone deals with this” was never actually true, it was just something everyone agreed not to question.
Here’s where I’ve started.

Adults sitting on a swing stopped being a thing not for any reasons related to physics, it’s purely social coding. And w...
21/09/2026

Adults sitting on a swing stopped being a thing not for any reasons related to physics, it’s purely social coding.

And worst of all, an adult sitting on a swing alone is understood as them being a little sad. Or just odd. Instead of just someone on a swing.

I mean look at me on that swing. Was the highlight of my weekend.

And genuinely, if I were to propose a swing set alongside a smoking area for a workplace break, you’d be seeing better nervous system regulation courtesy repetitive, rhythmic, calming motion.

Why do you think babies find rocking soothing?

20/09/2026

Next on the things I have to figure out as I turn 35 - my hormonal and reproductive health!

Medical research historically excluded women from trial data because hormone fluctuation was treated as a “confounding variable” rather than something worth studying on its own terms; workplace and productivity culture is built on a flat, unchanging output model (basically a male hormonal baseline) so a cyclical energy pattern reads as inconsistency rather than biology; and culturally, talking about hormones beyond “PMS” or “TTC” gets coded as oversharing or not-serious.

Sick of this.

Why it matters: Because hormonal fluctuation isn’t just a perimenopause-adjacent topic. It’s active every single month of your reproductive life, and most of us are only ever taught the reproductive-function version (can I get pregnant, am I pregnant) not the performance/energy version (why do I feel like this today and not yesterday).
Energy in my 20s wasn’t linear either, but without a framework to connect the dip to the cycle, it just got categorised as “I’m lazy,” “I’m stressed,” “I’m just like this,” instead of “this is follicular phase vs. luteal phase.”

What I want this to look like within a system that won’t bend for me is not “quit your job during luteal phase,” but small controllable levers: how I schedule demanding tasks across the month if I have any flexibility, how I interpret a bad-energy day without panicking, how I talk to myself about it instead of defaulting to “what’s wrong with me.”

Summer is hot. And so are you! Good things happened. Love is real! ☀️😎🌻👙🌞🍉😅🪭🍦🐝Long daylight, minimal plans, a picnic bla...
05/09/2026

Summer is hot.
And so are you!

Good things happened.
Love is real!

☀️😎🌻👙🌞🍉

😅🪭🍦🐝

Long daylight, minimal plans, a picnic blanket and whatever snacks survived the walk over to the park.

This is peak summer as far as I’m concerned.

We went to Di**le for a few weeks (I’m telling you I was a Kerry gal in a past life), and while Di**le deserves its own post, I will leave you this picture.

Pictured here is genuinely, unapologetically, the BEST CINNAMON BUN I have ever had in my life.

Tell me if you’ve had a better one.

Summer evenings in Dublin had a very specific formula this year and it was Bambino , repeatedly, without shame.
Stop looking at my food.

Seriously, stop. 🍕🍕

I got asked to be on a panel. A panel! With a microphone and everything!

There’s even a picture of my handing the mic over to Laura Hyland I promise 😋

Favourite activity, several years running: a Saturday with nothing on the calendar, a random pin on the map, and no idea what we’re walking into. This time it was the nicest canal walk in a tiny Kildare town we’d never even heard of.

In Ireland our random Saturday trips include rating around the country. This was a good one!

The puffins came back to Ireland for the summer and we went to say hello like the tourists we apparently are.

I always forget how small they are.

The solar eclipse was a big celestial event this summer.
Everyone stopped what they were doing to stare at the sky for a solar event that lasted about four minutes.
Why is there no eclipse emoji though?

More walks, more exploring, and somehow we found this beautiful lake that neither of us had ever heard of. Now it’s officially the best swim spot on the list for us.

Photos you have literally never seen because I took them.

Fred turned 5 and is still a puppy in every way that matters.

Celebrated N’s birthday with a kayaking trip and, because apparently that’s just how we operate now, another brand new corner of Ireland discovered along the way. Cavan Adventure Centre

Went to the annual Bray air show like every other year, and this year we somehow ended up in the Independent. Do you want to see the picture?

Dublin full

04/09/2026

I know 2 things now -
• friendship has a bigger meaning than just “someone to hang out with”
• adventure has a bigger meaning than just “doing wild things”

I think I used to flatten both of them. Friendship, for me, was basically company- someone to see and spend time with so I wasn’t alone in a big foreign city. And adventure was the obvious stuff: travel, extreme sport, something dramatic or exciting.

But now I think both are actually much deeper than that. Friendship is about mutual care, being chosen back, and feeling known. Adventure can be something quieter too- like meeting new people, being vulnerable, or letting something unfamiliar change you.

So maybe what I’m really noticing is that both words are bigger but also simpler than the versions we usually use them for. And maybe that’s why they both matter so much.

I always knew I was going back to Florence. Not because it was so amazing that I couldn’t wait to see it again (🙄). Main...
03/09/2026

I always knew I was going back to Florence.

Not because it was so amazing that I couldn’t wait to see it again (🙄). Mainly because when I visited this beautiful city 11 years ago I was so overwhelmed and emotional (it was a significant period in my life) that I barely took any of it in.

So I wanted to come back when I better prepared to experience it properly.

Naturally I went back through my old photos and of course the place hasn’t changed (lol imagine), I just wanted to see how much I’ve changed.

Back then, I took a photo of pretty much everything. If I saw it, I captured it. There was no pause between seeing some to by and reaching for my camera. It was automatic.

It was how I tried to remember everything. And it didn’t work unfortunately because I totally forgot that I had actually been inside the duomo. I kept looking at the queues and telling N there’s no way I didn’t do it 11 years ago I’m not doing it today 😅

I took loads of pictures this time too but I paused. Looked around. And it’s such a small shift BUT I really enjoyed seeing how my POV has changed.

I’d like to think

02/09/2026

Busy doing nothing? Productively unproductive?

Busy = doing lots of stuff.
Useful = doing the stuff that actually matters.

Those are different things. You can do a lot without doing the right things.

Example: you spend all day answering emails, tidying your desk, making lists. You were busy the whole time. But if the actual important task - the one thing that needed to move forward - never got touched, nothing real happened. You end the day tired, with nothing to show for it.

It happens because easy, safe tasks feel like progress but aren’t. The hard or scary task is the one that actually counts, and it’s the one people avoid - by staying “busy” with everything else instead.

31/08/2026

I remember the moment I fell in love with this place - Piazza Del Campo, Siena.

It was not an “oh my god this is amazing” kind of moment. Even though, look at it. It’s such an “oh my god” kind of place, obviously.

It was a calmer “I’m in love with this place” moment.
It was definitely a relaxing “I’m in love with this place” moment.

I sat down with my ice cream, looked around, and just felt it.

And if you’re thinking “well the place is relaxing, that’s why you felt relaxed” - NO.

This place had everything going on. Like pictured here - a whole contrada (district) celebrating its Palio di Siena (horse racing) win from the week before for the millionth time.

The winning district of this famous event basically owns the city and every corner we turned we’d hear drums somewhere in the distance. (More on that another time, I promise, that’s a whole separate story.)

It was fun though ngl!

Everything and more was going on in this Piazza.
People were wandering. Kids were playing. People were wandering after their kids that were playin. People lying down. People deep in conversation, laughing, drinking, eating. There was even a couple clearly on a date, which was so cute to watch.

Nothing about the actual scene was calm. It was full, and loud in places, and busy.

And THAT was the real beauty of this place. Everything was just existing.
All at once, all different, none of it competing with anything else.

Most people’s daily environments never give the nervous system that gap or space.
Think about your office spaces, phones, packed schedules, calendars..

You are relaxed when you have space - physical, mental and temporal.

What it actually had was space. Not physical space, well, yes physical space too, it’s a huge piazza, but I mean space in the sense that nobody was competing with anyone else for the mood of the place.

Everyone was just doing their own thing, at their own pace, completely unbothered by what anyone else was doing. Nobody’s peace depended on anyone else’s silence.

And appreciating this works as a redirect. Let me explain:

This is my favourite clarification for anyone that I work with (or not) who misunderstand gratitude practice an

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