Here's a question I want you to sit with for a moment, not answer straight away: when was the last time you helped yourself the way you help everyone else? Not squeezed in five minutes between fixing someone else's crisis. Not "self-care" that's really just recovery from giving too much. I mean actually, deliberately, turned your attention toward your own healing with the same devotion you give to your partner's stress, your friend's heartbreak, your child's homework, your colleague's...

When Your Body Remembers Before Your Mind Does There's a moment I want to describe, because I think so many of you will recognise it. You're in the same room as someone you love. Nothing is being done to you. Maybe he's frustrated with traffic, with a bill, with a bad day — and a door gets slammed, a sigh gets sharper, the air in the room changes. You know.... He's not angry at you. He's not even really angry at anything you had a hand in. And yet, some part of you goes quiet. You shrink a...

Every year, around the 8th of August, something shifts. You might feel it as a subtle pull — a sense that things are moving, opening, asking to be looked at. This is the Lions Gate Portal, and if you've felt that quiet nudge lately, you're not imagining it. This year's Lions Gate feels different. Not louder, not more dramatic — just clearer. And in this piece, I want to unpack why, in plain language, without the mysticism overload. I also want to talk about something that sits right alongside...