THE ART OF SELF JOURNAL

Adopt culture into your world. There was this emptiness I felt within me for so many years, wondering where I belonged in this world, Where my connections laid, what was for me, knowing there were things, but at the same time not knowing what they were. I remember the few times feeling at home when I walked onto a marae, yet not being brought up knowing that part of me. Feeling at home when lots of people were around, eating, laughing, talking and enjoying the sound of musi

Be the one of truth. Be the one of true self expression. Be the one who turns up into every space she steps into and live, speak, and be whoever you wish to be that day. Break away from what you've been told to do, what you've been told is the right way, the only way And relax into who you are. So many words and actions wanting to come out, so many things are stuffed inside of you that you're unsure how to let them out. You're unsure what it all is, the tangled feeling you

Speaking up to what is truly right for you is so important in all your relationships. Speaking up with your truth doesn't make you mean, a bitch or like you don't care. Showing up in your truth is the best form of caring. They know what to expect and where you stand with things. Here are a few quick conversations I've had with friends lately. All that was required was a quick answer nothing more. All spoken with love and calmness because no other emotion or reaction is requ

Soul-led... A concept that many struggle to believe is something, can be a thing, is a thing. A concept that many see as fluff, flaky, airy fairy. Yet it's something that falls so well with me...to be soul-led. For so long I tried to work shit out, tried to do it how everyone else was doing it, I pushed so hard that it still got me know where. And every time I did it in a way that I felt had to be the way, because that's how everyones doing it, were the moments that felt he

Are you dancing along with life or against it? I get life has it’s challenges, and some pretty hairy ones at that, I know, because I’ve experienced some pretty hefty things myself in life…just as so many other people have. So really, what I’m talking about here is our day to day life, our so called normal way of living…that’s what many are making hard for themselves. Choosing things that just aren’t for them. To keep up with others, to look a certain way. Filling their day

A few weeks back I was asked to adjust something that felt really good and nature for me to do and has done for some time now. I was going about it as it came to me, and just letting it be what it was, Yet, the way that I was doing so, was mostly different to how others did it, do it. For a moment, I listened, I tried and I adjusted.... And it all felt hard, so hard, to the point I felt so closed up, it stopped any flow that I had with it. Throughout our whole life, from bei

Truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth is a language Truth, real truth, is foreign to most of the world. We demand others to speak truth, be truth, show up as truth to us, Yet we ourselves aren't' fully showing up in truth. We say we are, we even lead ourselves to believe we are, yet there is so much truth we are not walking towards. We continue to turn up to places, events we don't really care to show up at, We continue to say yes to all we are screaming to say

The dance between one thing and another. Having one foot in the space that you're currently in, The space that you know well, it's familiar to you, you know it inside out. The space that is safe and you know who you need to be there. Then the other foot in the space you know you want to go to, step fully into. The space that holds your next dreams, desires and way of being. The space you have no idea about yet, because it's all new to you. You dance between the two, an une

How many people are you letting into your relationships? The relationship you have with others... The individual relationships you have with Your Mum, Your Dad, Your children, Your partner, Your siblings, Your friends. We've made it so common (especially us as women) to bring others into our relationships, When things go wrong, we reach out to others outside of that relationship to speak of them, We think nothing much of it, we see it as trying to work things out with a fri