What’s the biggest life hack that you have ever heard? Well, today, I am going to tell you a little “secret”. This past mont has taught me a lot about myself – or, I suppose it’s reminded me of the ongoing exploration of what it means to show up fully as my whole self in…
Have you ever wondered what it means to be human? If not, maybe it’s about time to have a closer look at what that really means. Let me make a bold assumption about you – dear reader: You must be a human being. How I know? The very fact that you are reading these words…
What are you waiting for? Honestly, what are you waiting for? Hear me out, dear one. The following might very well change the course of your life as we journey into 2021. 2020, a year filled with pain, suffering and tragic. A year that taught all of us to slow down, take a deep breath…
I’ve been digging deeper into the origins and consequences of trauma and how it impacts our nervous system lately, so I want to share what I’ve discovered so far. What is trauma? Trauma is not just about the things that happened to us that should not have happened. It also includes what DIDN’T happen to…
In the space between the ‘no longer’ and the ‘not yet’ she remember who she was. And so she started living again. Nila The space “in between” also known as liminal space (or gap) is the place where the threshold for uncertainty is tested to its limits. It’s where we are between who we once…
It can be easy to get busy believing that we are problems needing to be fixed. That we are broken in need to become better, wiser, whole, complete. That we are not enough and in need to become a new person. This can be driven by shame. Driven by the idea that in and of…
In this post you will learn: what habits are, how to break old and establish new habits, why true behaviour change is identity change, and what you might have been doing wrong all this time. Why new year’s resolutions rarely work Every year, millions of people resolve to make positive changes in their lives. We…
Have you ever felt like a social chameleon? Always changing your colors depending on what environment you’re in? Never feeling that you belong?Yeah, me too. I used to be afraid of being me. I learned to be a perfect chameleon. Never standing out. Never wanting to be seen or noticed. All I wanted was to…
WHOLENESS, such a big word to embrace. What does it even mean? Whole. Entire. Full. Complete?⠀⠀In the world of psychology, we are really good at defining what is wrong with us. The system teaches us to diagnose, label, and symptomise to help people heal. That’s what I learned at University: to put people into boxes….
Hey you brave human being reading these words. I received a lot of questions about my eating disorder story lately, so… Here it is. The raw and honest truth about the girl behind the GOOD LIFE. It’s an honest talk about eating disorders (Eds), about loss and gain, pain and healing. It wasn’t easy to write…