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To Die or To Cry - Integrating Ancestry, Resilience, and Grief

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...

Sep 19, 2025 ancestry female leadership grief resilience women's empowerment

I Released A Song This Summer … What Happens When You Say Yes to Your Voice

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 ...

Sep 05, 2025 ancestry burnout female leadership find your voice grief leadership coaching podcast resilience success women's empowerment

If you have a moment to listen...

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. In this episode, we explore: My journey from Goldma...

Aug 08, 2025 ancestry female leadership grief leadership coaching podcast resilience success women's empowerment

The Grief You Haven’t Given Words to - Ways to Tend to What’s Been Lost

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...

Jul 16, 2025 coaching shorts grief

We can be…For they existed

Hello, 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...

Jul 16, 2025 coaching shorts grief poetry

This Happened to Me!

Hello, 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...

Jul 16, 2025 coaching shorts grief

She Would Have Been 14: On Éloïse, Grief and the Great Waters of Annecy

Hello, 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 ...

Jul 16, 2025 coaching shorts grief

A Nod from the Ancestors - Resilience and Our Pathways to Healing

Hello, Just over a decade ago, my mother died two months before my daughter was born. It was a profound threshold. I was grieving in the late stages of pregnancy and of course, despite trying to move on for my new baby, this continued while nursing a newborn. Everyday I walked the tightrope of u...

Jul 16, 2025 ancestry grief resilience self-development transformation

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