Dear ones,
Across generations, burnout wears different masks. The Baby Boomers and Gen X were shaped by stoicism, productivity, and self-sacrifice, the unspoken belief that worth is earned through exhaustion. Their burnout is often silent, unassisted, marked by depletion and a quiet endurance tha...
Dear ones,
Last week I stood on the stage at the British Film Institute, invited by dear friend Ria Hebden, founder of Wonder Women TV, to speak into a moment of deep change.
The talk was called Pivot with Power and aligned beautifully with topics we discuss within the Isumataq Collective communi...
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Dear friends,
August marked an important moment in our journey together. We moved into integration, weaving together the two Coaching Shorts we have been exploring: Ancestral Resilience and The Grief Reflections.
In our first focus, Ancestral Resilience, we looked to the st...
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For as long as I can remember, songs have been arriving with lyrics, harmonies, melodies whispered in quiet moments. But in the busyness of life and leadership, I have often pushed them aside.
This summer, I said yes. An invitation came to write a song and collaborate on a ...
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I was recently featured on Nikki Trott's award-winning Going Conscious podcast, where we had a powerful conversation about leadership, transformation, grief and the journey that led to creating the Isumataq Collective.Â
In this episode, we explore: Â
My journey from Goldma...
There’s a particular moment in the summer, somewhere after the solstice in June, when the sun’s power feels both restorative and relentless. Its light nourishes, yes, but it also reveals the ways in which we might be running too hot, spinning too fast, circling too many suns at once.
Everywhere I...
Hello,
Grief doesn't always arrive loudly.
Sometimes it walks beside us quietly, unspoken, unrecognised, even unnamed.
It may look like the death of someone we love.
The conversations we never got to have.
But it may also live in the loss of a role that once defined us.
The version of ourselves t...
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I love this poem because it calls us back, it reminds us that grief is not only sorrow; it is testimony. It marks that something mattered. That someone mattered.
Grief is not a single event. It ripples. One loss stirs up others, personal, ancestral, communal. It sends tremors through the b...
Hello,
This week, I had planned to share our Finding Resilience Coaching Short with you, but before I do, I want to speak to what has been most alive in me these past few days: the quiet, sacred act of being witnessed.
I have found unexpected healing in allowing myself to be deeply h...
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I realise that I still need to give space to the topic of last week's letter and to be with my Eloise. I notice the pressure I feel to write this week, to share something new and insightful, and yet I can't summon anything else forth, until I have given this grief, however old, its rightfu...
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This week I have been in mourning, more so than I had anticipated after all this time, and yet it is fitting, given the topic of grief, which we will gather around next month in our second Coaching Short. After nearly 15 years of speaking relatively little about this immense experience, I ...
Hello,
I had the pleasure of speaking with Matthew Green on Resonant World recently, and I'm so grateful for the space that we shared.
Among many things, we explored the topic of ancestry, something that feels especially alive for me as it was the focus of our first Coaching Short, Finding Resili...
