It was around midnight on 30 th December 2025. I was lying in bed next to my husband and daughter in an Airbnb in Japan, a country I’ve always dreamed of visiting. We were spending our year end vacation there with my sister and her family whom I’ve not seen for 3 years. “I should be enjoying myself. I should be feeling happy.” Those were the thoughts going through my brain. But I wasn’t. Instead, I was the most dysregulated I’ve ever been in a long time. And my heart was a

This quote came up twice for me today. First while I was going through the pages of Dr Aviva Romm’s Hormone Intelligence to read up on supporting perimenopausal symptoms (sleep has been evading me) and then again on my IG feed. It feels very serendipitous because I probably would not have seen this had I not decided to listen to what my body was asking of me today through all the symptoms and gave myself the permission to lay in bed and rest, even if it meant having to resche

Over the weekend, I went down the Alysa Liu (and Punch too - IYKYK) rabbit hole. And naturally those were the only things that kept coming up on my feed - including some who were quick to share their 2 cents worth about how to step away to find yourself and joy that ends with a nudge to sign up for courses or services (which left a very unpleasant aftertaste for me). Yes, like many, I was inspired by her courage to carve her own path, to find herself, to rediscover her joy