I Wrote About the Six Human Needs. Now I’m Wondering If They’re Needs at All.

Years ago, I wrote about the Six Human Needs as profound drivers of human behaviour. I recently came across that post again and wondered: Are they actually needs? What happens when we call something a need, and does feeling that something is missing prove that it is? I don’t have a new answer. I have a better question. Read More

If This Were My Last Post

This is blog post number 200. But rather than look back at everything I’ve written, I found myself wondering: If this were my last post, what would I want to leave you with? After years of exploring, questioning and changing my mind, it comes down to something surprisingly simple. You don’t have to understand your life before you live it. Read More

My bags are packed.

My bags are packed, and I’ve felt excited, anxious, worried, sad and grateful. None of those feelings has needed an explanation. What if feelings don’t always need to tell us what to do? Maybe sometimes they’re simply evidence that we’re alive.
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Do You Need a Change of Circumstances — or a Change of Mind?

When circumstances become uncertain, changing something can feel urgent. But are we responding to what is actually happening, or to the story we’ve created around it? Sometimes the wisest move is to change our circumstances. Sometimes it’s seeing that we were asking those circumstances to change how we feel. Read More

Did You Manifest This?

Manifesting contains something true, but perhaps not in the way we think. Our thoughts influence what we notice, how we act and what we create. But does that mean our thoughts cause everything that happens to us? There is an important difference between creating our experience of reality and creating reality itself. Read More