Self-improvement culture tells us to keep grinding, upgrading, performing. But what if the chase for “better” is the very thing wounding us? In this essay, I explore walking off the treadmill of optimisation and into wholeness, a life faithful to itself, not a market.
Every day won’t be easy. It can still be good. Coaching Philosophia is my practice of meeting reality with attention, body, and care, clarity over performance, strength that serves, small rituals that return us to belonging, one true step at a time.
The Red Queen forces us to run faster just to stay in place. But the Cheshire Cat knows better: You can't lose a game you refuse to play. While the machine exhausts itself commanding an empty board, we're learning to vanish, grinning at the absurdity, living lives that can't be optimized.
A quiet ache runs through modern life, a homesickness for something we can’t name. The Great Forgetting explores how we lost touch with our natural rhythms, shared wisdom, and sense of belonging, and why remembering them might just save us.
Flourishing isn’t a solo pursuit or a finish line— it’s a living process shaped by unseen forces: connection, care, meaning, and shared purpose. In this piece, we explore the invisible threads and scaffolding that hold a life, and a future, together.
A quiet reflection on what it means to live well, honestly, imperfectly, and with heart. No hype, just a handful of lessons from a life still unfolding. If you’re in need of a gentle reminder, this one’s for you. A Gentle Guide to Being Human.
In a world obsessed with performance and productivity, The Art of Living Otherwise invites you to reclaim your time, attention, and humanity through slow, soulful resistance—one small act at a time. Not a life hack, but a philosophy of becoming.
When trauma becomes our only lens for understanding life, we risk becoming our wounds. This essay explores how lived philosophy offers a way to honour our pain without being defined by it—helping us see our stories as stories, not fixed identities, and reclaim agency in meaning-making
What does it mean to truly flourish in a world wired for exhaustion? This essay is a quiet rebellion, an exploration of simplicity, authenticity, and meaning in an age that commodifies everything. Not a solution, but a path. Not a hack, but a return to what makes us human.
