Letters To My Future Self
I write for women who are ambitious yet deeply human. Women who have achieved things they’re proud of but know in their hearts that there is more for them, that their story is still being written. They are real, honest, driven but tired of the toxic hustle culture and the male-dominated success narratives that ignore the cycles, seasons, and rites of passage that women move through. Join me and let's design the life of our dreams!
Dear Future Me, what truly happened the night my daughter was born, my Home Birth (Part 2).
In my last letter I shared what led me to choosing a homebirth and some of the research that guided me there. Today I want to share the experience itself. It was beautiful, powerful and something I look back on with deep joy and gratitude. Birth, for me, was not an ordeal or something to survive. It was a blossoming. A becoming. A sacred rite of passage into motherhood. It felt like pure feminine power, Goddess energy and it was glorious. As part of my preparation I did a Hypnobirthing course...
Dear Future Me, on having a Home Birth (Part 1).
I’d thought about home birth before, but I’d always written it off as dangerous and instantly talked myself out of it. That changed during my pregnancy. I decided to have a home birth and it turned out to be one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. It resulted in the most beautiful, intentional birth that I am so proud of and look back on with such joy. In this week’s letter I’m going to share how I arrived at the decision, some of the research I came across, and a little of my story. After...
Dear Future Me, on birthdays and getting older!
Well well well, it is my birthday week! 11.11.25 I turn 35 years old. Time is a funny thing, how it passes, moment by moment as years slip away and yet I often still feel like I am a teenager or young girl in my 20s! But this week, I celebrate another year of life, another trip round the sun. I celebrate my birthday and my first birthday as a Mother!! I wonder if it will feel different. For me birthdays are a great moment to pause and reflect on the year that has been and to look ahead to the...
Dear Future Me, on AI & managing fear, faith and fragile knowing.
I am curious, scared and interested in AI in equal measures. I know very little about the topic I’d say, however I like to listen to podcasts and get a little more informed as time passes. Mostly I listen to the Diary of a CEO and their podcasts on AI. I’ve listened to a couple recently that kind of freaked me out, I guess it is the huge unknown that AI brings and just how insane our world could become. How are you feeling about AI? What feelings does it bring up for you? How are you...
Dear Future Me, on finding love.
L.O.V.E Love love love, it’s another topic that I place right up there alongside money that I truly love to explore. I love love in all it’s forms! I adore hearing people’s love stories, love a good rom com and just generally love, LOVE!! This week then it felt like a great moment to pause and reflect on that very topic. Why? I hear you ask! Well because this time last year (5th October 2024), my husband and I celebrated our union in South Africa with our Umabo ceremony, our traditional Zulu...
Dear Future Me, on making money moves.
This month, I'm keeping the focus on all things MONEY! In my last letter, I shared with you some of my money worries and some of the phenomenal books that really impacted me. Did you decide to buy and of the books? Have you read some already? Did you take some action to start your money journey? Perhaps you simply acknowledged the debt hole that you are in and got real with yourself. Maybe you didn't do anything, read my letter and left it there. If that is you, I challenge you to do...
Dear Future Me, on managing my money and my worries.
I remember as a child the time where there were a lot of ‘flus’ going around. Swine flu, pig flu all these flus that were sure to wipe us out and cause chaos. I remember one night going to bed and telling my dad that I thought I should board up my bedroom window to stop that particular flu getting in. He asked me a question that night that hit me very deeply. He asked ‘Can you do anything about you catching this flu or not?’ I thought about it and said ‘No I can’t’. He then looked at me and...
Dear Future Me, on embracing the season you’re in.
You’ve got to wake at 5am, workout, meditate, write, pray, drink a green smoothie, run 10k, make 20 sales calls, etc etc etc all before 9am each morning. The toxic hustle culture of never stopping!! The famous morning routine required to win at life, at your career and at your goals!!! Wow how freaking exhausting is this constant messaging, the toxic hustle culture and the endless need to be productive and active to be worthy and winning. I, like so many people fall into this toxic cycle all...
Dear Future Me, on building a career and a charity.
Oh, how time flies! As I reflect on the past decade, well even more than a decade actually. The past 13 years in which I have invested my time, my energy and my focus on building a career, following a calling and growing a charity. I sit and ponder all that it has taken for me and from me to build, Be United. The organisation that I have dedicated my life to over these past few years. At times I have given it my all, at the expense of everything else in life. My social life, my friends, my...
I write for women who are ambitious yet deeply human. Women who have achieved things they’re proud of but know in their hearts that there is more for them, that their story is still being written. They are real, honest, driven but tired of the toxic hustle culture and the male-dominated success narratives that ignore the cycles, seasons, and rites of passage that women move through. Join me and let's design the life of our dreams!