Pride Month is a time of celebration, reflection, and gratitude, and for me, it marks an important chapter in my journey toward self-acceptance. For many years, I carried my identity quietly, learning to understand and embrace who I am as a gay man. Last year, I took the significant step…
One of the simplest words is also one of the hardest to say: “no.” We hear countless discussions about boundaries, self-respect, and protecting our time. Yet many of us still struggle when the moment comes to decline a request, reject an obligation. Or walk away from something that doesn’t align…
For weeks, I’ve been searching for opportunities, sending applications, having conversations, planting seeds, and sending bottles into the sea. Some found their destination. Many disappeared beyond the horizon. Along the way, I realized that my greatest source of suffering wasn’t the lack of opportunities it was my attachment to them.…
Embodying an identity is not about declaring who you want to be. It’s about living it when no one is watching. It shows up in the quiet choices: how you speak to strangers. How you carry yourself in uncertainty, how you respond when things don’t go your way. When you…
Human curiosity is one of the most defining forces of our existence. It is the quiet spark that pushes us to ask questions, to explore the unknown, and to seek meaning beyond what is immediately visible. From the moment we are born, we reach out touching, observing, wondering. Why is…
Six years on from the COVID-19 Pandemic lockdowns, I sometimes think back to that strange period in London when the world felt as if it had stopped. At the time, I was working in a small bakery near Victoria. Normally that area is one of the busiest parts of the…
After months of momentum, effort, and focus sending off my second coaching session recording for my ICF accreditation, navigating an intense end-of-year period at work something shifted. The task was done. The chapter closed. I did several recording in case I don’t pass this second attempt. I stopped chasing what’s…
I didn’t pass my coaching recording. So instead of pretending it didn’t affect me, I want to honour what this moment has taught me. I was on the way to build the foundations of my coaching business. But it was a great reminder of humility that guided me throughout this…
Self-doubt is an universal human experience that often whispers in our ears. Questioning our abilities, our worth, and our decisions. It’s that nagging feeling that we’re not quite good enough, smart enough, or capable enough, despite evidence to the contrary. And while it can feel isolating, as if we’re the…
During my time off, I sometimes watch cartoons I used to watch as a kid. A way of awakening for my inner child to dream and visualise an optimistic future where people do their dream jobs. Dreaming about a better world than we live today. Where humans keep exploring and…