Someone I met in Bali introduced me to an alchemical concept called Nigredo. “The blackening.” The stage where everything dissolves before transformation can begin. And the moment he described it, something in me finally made sense. What if the parts of ourselves we are trying hardest to fix are actually the parts carrying us through transformation? This experience completely changed the way I view depression and spiritual transformation. When I wrote The Depths, I thought I understood what...

I thought something was wrong with me. But what if that’s not me getting worse… what if that’s me finally feeling safe? I’ve been thinking a lot about balance lately. Not the kind of balance that I do on my mat. Not the “morning routine, green juice, meditate, journal, be calm and glowing” kind of balance. I mean the internal, take a real good look at myself kind. The kind where one minute you’re grounded, soft, open … and the next minute you’re going full on fire goddess… where did that...

The Love That Brings You Home On intensity, safety and the kind of love you can build a life on I recently wrote a poem about love not to explain anything but to let something move through me. Some truths don’t arrive through logic they arrive through sensation breath and lived experience. But after writing it I realised there was more I wanted to say. Not to explain the poem but to deepen into what it’s really pointing toward. Because many of us have known love that feels intense dramatic...