Stop Calling Everything Trauma Hi Reader and welcome to Sunday! Just wrapped up a crazy week. New car - finally said goodbye to my beloved Jimny for a Tank - sometimes you've got to know when it's time - back-to-back clients, and enough admin to drown a small village. All that madness got me thinking about something I've been noticing lately. In my sessions, in conversations, and yes, even in my own head sometimes. We've become a generation that's forgotten how to be uncomfortable. We...
17 days ago • 6 min read
Stop Fighting Battles You Can Never Win Welcome to Sunday Reader It's been an interesting, crazy, strange week mixed with a little flu that knocked me kinda sideways. Woke up this morning feeling slow off the blocks, but I'm using today to recalibrate - training session later and then back into it for the week ahead. This week we're talking about how we accept it when our body tells us something - hunger, pain, tiredness - but we fight like hell when our mind does the same thing. We expect...
24 days ago • 6 min read
Your Silence is Slowly Killing You Hello Reader and welcome to Sunday! It's been a good week. Busy, but the right kind of busy. Working on a very exciting PVT guided trip later this year, scheduling out podcast content for the year and my MAPC project continues bubbling away in the background - more on that soon. I had the pleasure and privilege of presenting to Pirate Sports Club here in Johannesburg. I spoke to some of their coaches, athletes, and some parents of the younger athletes about...
about 1 month ago • 7 min read
Stop Chasing Happiness and Start Finding Peace Hello Reader, I'm just back from a weekend away. Properly away. Phone mostly used as a camera, emails ignored, notifications silenced. Just focused on being present with good people in a beautiful place. Was much needed. There's something about stepping back from the constant digital pull that makes you realize how much noise we live with daily. Not just the online kind, but the constant internal chatter about what needs to happen next, what went...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
Work, Rest and New Content Hello Reader, It's been a whirlwind lately. Between client deadlines, travel, and trying to launch new projects, I've found myself in that familiar territory of always being "on." This weekend, as I sat down to write this newsletter, I kept circling around what was most on my mind: the constant tug-of-war between pushing hard to make progress and creating genuine space for rest. I've been intentional about getting important work done – finishing projects, sending...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
EQ, Vlogs and Newsletters Morning Reader Welcome to Monday! I'm sending this on Monday morning instead of my usual Sunday slot. I was all set to hit send yesterday, but since it was Mother's Day... priorities, right? Sometimes the algorithm takes a backseat to what actually matters. As it should! This week's new blog posts explores some fascinating territory - from Arctic expedition prep (yes, I'm still dragging tires around the neighborhood) to the thorny question of confidence versus...
about 2 months ago • 8 min read
Landscapes, Insights, and What's Next Hi Reader, These past three weeks I guided a private photo expedition through the American Southwest. My client and I explored some incredible landscapes - from the vast expanses of the Grand Canyon to the striking blue waters of Lake Powell and the distinctive red rock formations of Sedona. Photography in these locations becomes about more than just capturing moments. It's about observing how light transforms these landscapes and finding the stories...
about 2 months ago • 6 min read
A Slightly Different Newsletter Time means nothing right now. My body exists somewhere between Johannesburg and Las Vegas, stretched across time zones and stuffed into too many airplane seats. Sixteen hours to Newark. Three hours in a Starbucks and on my laptop in the terminal, ignoring the fluorescent buzz overhead. Another six hours west to Las Vegas. I don't know what day it is. My watch says Sunday. My body says "screw you for moving me across the planet again." But underneath the jet lag...
3 months ago • 6 min read
When Things Don't Exist (Until They Destroy You) Hi Reader, and welcome to Sunday. Just because you don't believe in gravity doesn't mean it won't fucking kill you when you step off a cliff. This morning, I woke up feeling like shit. Low. Not physically. Mentally. That heavy cloud that sits on your chest. The one that makes getting out of bed feel like crawling through mud. Maybe you know it. Maybe you pretend you don't. And right there, in that space between recognizing the feeling and...
3 months ago • 10 min read