I had the most beautiful conversation with Sue Williams in this episode, and I'm still sitting with how much she moved me. 🌿 Sue is a holistic relaxation therapist and wellness business owner behind Driftwood Relaxation and The Waterfall Effect, and she brings with her decades of caring for others — from children in family daycare to adults finding their way back to themselves on the table in her therapy room. 💛

What struck me most was Sue's relationship with fear. Having survived a near-death experience and open-heart surgery 18 years ago, she speaks about fear not as something to overcome, but as something that was never really hers to carry in the first place. 🌊 That landed somewhere deep in me. She also shared something I'm still turning over — the idea that what I call 'triggers' might more gently be called 'glimmers of awareness.' I felt something soften in me the moment she said it. 🕊️

Sue's philosophy of The Waterfall Effect is one of the most tender and grounded ways I've heard healing described — the idea that I am at the top of that waterfall, and whatever I heal in myself flows outward, finds its way around every rock and obstacle, and nourishes everything and everyone I touch. 💧 It reminded me that caring for myself isn't selfish — it's the very source of what I have to give.

And the message she'd send back to her younger self? Simply: 'Love you. You're okay. You're not wrong.' 🤍 I don't think I've ever felt something so simply said land so completely.

I'm so grateful Sue said yes to sitting with me in this space. 🌸 May something in this conversation stay with you, open something up in you, or simply remind you that you are worth caring for too.

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In this solo episode, episode 54, I'm opening up about something that has been showing up for me all week - feeling supported, not from the outside, but from somewhere much deeper within. 🤍After waking in the early hours and giving in to a long journaling session (something I'm learning to honour rather than resist), I found myself reflecting on a lifetime of feeling unseen and noticing just how much that has gently shifted.

I share a story about a past life healing that changed everything for me, about feeling Mother Earth wrap her arms around me when I'm grounding 🌿, and about the warm, familiar presence of my nan, who I still feel close to in the quiet moments. There's a little synchronistic tale about double-booking my own book launch and learning to trust that it's all unfolding exactly as it's meant to ✨, and a heart-warming moment by the railway tracks with a stranger that left me feeling so blessed and so seen 🚂💛.

Pulling a card this morning called 'A Leg Up' felt like the universe gently confirming everything I'd been feeling - that receiving support is something I'm learning to notice, accept and welcome more and more.

This one is honest, a little raw, and full of feeling - a reminder to myself that I don't have to do it all alone, and that being supported is something I'm allowed to feel.

Sending so much love and taking gentle care of my own heart until next time. 💛

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In this episode, I had the absolute joy of sitting down with Geri — a reinvention coach, facilitator, and thought leadership mentor who has lived one of the most honest, courageous, and deeply human stories I've heard. 💛 After building and leading a half-a-billion-dollar property law business, Geri walked away from a life that no longer felt like her own and began the real work — the inner work — of rebuilding from the inside out.

What moved me most was how openly Geri spoke about the emotional cost of reinvention 🌿 — not just the resilience people admire from the outside, but the loneliness, the grief, and the quiet, painstaking journey of learning to trust herself again after years of outsourcing her own worth. I found so many parallels in my own story, and that's exactly what I love about these conversations — they remind me I'm not alone, and neither are you. ✨

Geri also shared something that stayed right in my chest — her belief that midlife isn't the moment to wind down, it's the moment to step in. 🔥 Not starting over but starting from experience. She's 68 years around the sun and still showing up, still growing, still lighting rooms — and honestly, that gave me so much hope for my own path ahead.

I'm so grateful Geri said yes to this conversation, and I'm grateful I get to share it with the world. 🙏

May something in this conversation land softly in your heart and remind you that your story — all of it — is worth telling. 💗

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