kia ora e hoa,
This site is now longer updated, but remains a record of some of my path and my gratitude to the beings that helped me on my journey. Stay and wander if you like.
My story is not original or new or exciting (but it was pretty destabilising as it was unfolding!). I was a mental health practitioner and anxiety coach for many years. Person after person coming through the door, exhausted, overwhelmed, convinced something was wrong with them, paying me to help “fix” them so that they could….what? Do more? Produce more? "Crush it”?
They did not need fixing. They weren’t “broken” for being unable to keep up in a world that was accelerating at a breathless, bewildering pace.
The broken bit is the story we’d all been handed. That we are separate individuals who should be able to cope and thrive and grow and succeed, all with a smile, never mind what’s happening in the world.
But the world as we know it, around us, is unravelling.
Seeing all that changed everything for me and I could no longer practice in the way I’d been trained. My path drew me toward grief work, Deep Ecology, the Work That Reconnects, animism, mythology, and other languages to re-member ourselves as part of this living earth.
This page is the archive of that unfolding.
I’ve now been drawn towards something else, and will leave a breadcrumb for that when I’m ready.
mauri ora,
Siobhán
