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09/24/2026

‘Not Everyone Needs To Go North’ - Self Belonging Studio launch, 10th August, 2026.

Some moments in time are worth crying on the internet for. This speech was delivered (with many more pauses for tissues) to my family and some of my close friends, but also to my younger self, to my future self, and all the beautiful souls who have been, and will join me, on this wild crazy journey of healing and life and love.

Here’s to all of us forging our own paths, and learning that they were exactly where we were meant to be all along.

Anna x

My friend snapped this pic of me in my happy place - post card reading, tea in hand, all my tools and symbols and ritual...
09/21/2026

My friend snapped this pic of me in my happy place - post card reading, tea in hand, all my tools and symbols and rituals around me.
This is where you’ll find me doing client mentoring sessions, switching it up to study online, then change hats again to record a podcast or audio guide. Which is to say, it’s a versatile and creative space!

Part of that study had been about universal design and the impact of environmental factors on a neurodivergent person’s ability to not only participate in that environment, but get to express themselves and experience continued learning and growth in that environment.

This is why seemingly small or silly sensory things are such a big deal for us: the too bright lights, the loud noises, constant distractability, not enough stimulation, too much or not enough space - if all adds up in the capacity calculator. It gets expensive to be internally managing these things before work even gets a look in!

In my human design I’m a markets environment and in this space I feeeeeel the thriving (not what they meant at uni - but same applies!). I live above shops, am walking distance to where I access most of my services, and then at home I have my own little inner market - my books, crystals, vases and art on display. It’s a beautiful balance between space and interest, nature and the tangible, and it’s a wonderful reminder anytime I need to come back to myself a little more.

Anchors, for sure, but more so the importance of what’s possible when we are in alignment at also an energetic level with our environment. When it makes us hum with connective energy. It’s a privilege to finally get to experience this for myself.

Why Self Belonging? There’s so many words I’ve encountered over the years as a reader and writer, but self belonging as ...
09/18/2026

Why Self Belonging?
There’s so many words I’ve encountered over the years as a reader and writer, but self belonging as a concept, and a compass, was what finally centred me in my own healing, creativity, and devotion to a path I needed to pave for myself because what I needed didn’t exist *out there*.

There’s many influences gathered together in this term that I landed on - from speakers, writers, researchers - who speak about belonging to and with yourself. They touch on it, fly with it, skim their fingers lovingly over it as they share their own devoted gifts on other topics. I’ll share some of my favourite quotes another time!

I wanted to offer my self, my loves, the world a direction on the other side of self-abandonment, self-rejection, self-protection. Because not having those things is not the same as having somewhere to go, be and delight in who you are. To anchor into self instead of other for safety and definition, often for the first time, and trust that she can be there and welcome your return every single time.

I chose Studio (Studium - devotion) because it’s a practice. It’s not a static, stoic unmoving self. Self belonging a dynamic path we learn to navigate on as we move through living our life (not just protecting from it). It’s about knowing how to come back when we’ve got too far away from ourselves while also expanding the edges of what is possible.

I’m so excited for all the possibilities to come and to share with you!

Anna x

One year of trying and generally failing to take a good photo together 😂A year ago, my upstairs team got very insistent ...
09/03/2026

One year of trying and generally failing to take a good photo together 😂

A year ago, my upstairs team got very insistent that it was time for me to have a cat again. I’ve always been my best self with a cat bestie and always feels like there’s a part of me missing when I don’t.

I even had “get a cat day” marked in my calendar but on that day I ended up flying back from NZ from my Grandma’s funeral. One week later, I was at RSPCA NSW not knowing who I would find there but that she was waiting for me. She’d been there 5 months and was grieving her elderly dad who had passed away. I cried on the floor of the shelter, grieving my grandma and in gratitude for the love I knew was awaiting both of us. We renamed her Andarna (from Fourth Wing) and she has proved every bit like her namesake 😆🐉

It turned out the urgency wasn’t for her, it was for me. Less than 3 months later (how long it takes for cats to warm up to a new home) I was bed bound with crippling autistic burnout and a 6 month road of recovery ahead. She was and has been by my side every day and night (whether I like it or not!).

She snuggled clients in session, tolerates the children, and not-so-secretly loves her Dad best (he shares his dinner!).

The smoochiest darling wirh the most unfortunate lack of photogenics - we love you grumpy face and sass and all x

Earlier this week I did something I’ve never done before, and held a self-celebration 🥳 While I’m queen of the birthday ...
08/15/2026

Earlier this week I did something I’ve never done before, and held a self-celebration 🥳

While I’m queen of the birthday month, this was something extra special. It was a reflection of my health and healing journey, my latest burnout ashes to rising story, and the subsequent creation of something so divinely guided and magical to me that I KNEW (aka my upstairs team told me to) that I needed to do this launch differently.

I’ve usually been too wrecked to enjoy my book launches and community events, but this one I put everything I’ve learnt into practice and it was one of the most calm and connected moments I’ve experienced - so much to share on this - later!

I had my family and a few of my close friends come to my home, enjoy some nibbles my mum made, obsess over the florals my friend Karina and I put together from local markets, and Dad took some lovely photos because the op-shop gods gifted me this amazing outfit! I wrote each guest a thank you card and that in itself was such a healing practice.

I got to share my gratitude, my self reflection and my dream for the newly launched Self Belonging Studio (yes I did a PowerPoint presentation and it was beautiful.)

I can honestly say this was one of the most vulnerable things I’ve done (and I’ve published, twice!), and one of the most powerful signals I could send to my nervous system about how much I am loved, supported and celebrated. Turns out when you tell the right people that things are a Big Deal TM to you and what makes you feel celebrated, they are delighted to do so with you!

My gratitude is still flowing, even as I now gently recover from the good stress and life resumes. Thank you all for being here!

Anna 💜

08/11/2026

LOADING….

Something NEW is coming this Wednesday and I’m sooooo excited to share it with you!I’ll be over here mainlining matchas ...
08/09/2026

Something NEW is coming this Wednesday and I’m sooooo excited to share it with you!
I’ll be over here mainlining matchas and making excited squeeeeee sounds until then - see you soon! X

Obsessed with moments of reflection on my morning walks, literally and metaphorically. I love how there’s some parts of ...
07/29/2026

Obsessed with moments of reflection on my morning walks, literally and metaphorically. I love how there’s some parts of reality that the reflections don’t quite capture, and how the reflection makes a whole new picture out of a mid-point in between.

I feel like being truly present with our aliveness requires a vantage of both: to see the details, the nuance the pesky details of life that can cloud our vision if we only look at them. And, to see a bigger picture made from all the pieces to create a new kind of whole, but often missing the how and the what of things.

Pausing to enjoy this view enough to want to share its splendour with you seems like a worthwhile reverence of the way life, in turn, is always reflecting us back to ourselves 🩵

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