01In a meditation on abundance, I met my financially free self
Perhaps abundance begins before the money arrives: with becoming calm, grounded and certain of our own capacity.
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Essays on life abroad, travel and personal growth.
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02Where to stay in Bali as a woman travelling solo
A hostel, an Ubud guesthouse and a thatched bungalow: an honest guide to a week of solo stays in Bali.
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03What my dog has taught me about being human
Self-worth, courage, direct affection and presence: dogs keep many of the abilities adults learn to lose.
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04Women, stop romanticising the story of female weakness
Stop waiting to be chosen, and rewrite life from passive acceptance into active creation.
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05When you stop trying so hard to reach everyone
The gentlest relationships do not require us to please, prove or keep chasing another person.
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06The Australian town on Lonely Planet's list that tastes like my grandmother's home
Less than half an hour from Canberra, Gundaroo offers heritage cottages, wood-fired pizza and the flavours of a childhood garden.
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07Eighty-seven little crushes on Canberra
Ten years in a city of fewer than half a million people, remembered through eighty-seven fragments of love, study and becoming.
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08To stop fantasising and start doing, make bad work first
Do not let an imagined perfect self suffocate the real beginning. Make it exist first; improve it later.
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09Three moments that made me fall for Kyoto
Kyoto revealed its quiet abundance through incense smoke, fading light and one unrepeatable encounter.
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10At 30, I finally understood why I had achieved so little
What held me back was not a lack of ability, but pride, perfectionism and a refusal to begin awkwardly.
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11I realised my mother gets afraid too
Growing up can mean seeing that the mother who seemed fearless is also living this life for the first time.
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12What meditation felt like for the first time in Ubud
After rain in Ubud, my first meditation brought me closer to the answers I had been carrying within.
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