Writing it down since 2016
Ten years of notes on the life I'm actually living — new beginnings, hard seasons, the quiet middle, and the small things that helped.
Ten years is a lot to walk into. These are the three I'd hand you first.
Another Year, Another Resolution Filled With Uncertainty
Where all of this started, before I had any idea what I was doing.
Healing Takes Time
The one I needed to write more than anyone needed to read it.
Choosing Peace: My Journey Toward a New Life Abroad
The decision that changed the shape of my whole year.
Latest
If you’ve scrolled social media this week, you’ve probably seen the clip: Oprah Winfrey, sitting across from Keke Palmer on her podcast Baby, This Is Keke Palmer, delivering one of…
Read the postReflections, letters, affirmations and the odd travel entry. The twelve most recent are here — the whole ten years is in all posts.
I’ve been thinking lately: what if I left the U.S. behind and returned to a life more aligned with my roots, where both the ocean and my soul feel at home? As someone born in Trinidad…
I’ve been laid off. I’ve faced major family disappointments. I’ve battled depression. And yet, I’m still here. Not just surviving, but rebuilding, piece by piece, step by step.
This September, I decided to spend my birthday somewhere special: Grenada. It was my first time visiting, and as someone who grew up in Trinidad and Tobago, I wasn’t quite sure what to…
The truth is, I’ve been sitting with a lot—more than I ever expected to have to process. Life, in its unpredictable way, threw me a major curveball.
In this thing called life, we inevitably encounter people for whom we never seem to be enough.
I wanted to briefly talk about Mental Health Awareness. May is Mental Health Awareness.
Turning 40 is a big deal! For most people, it’s a milestone age, others find it daunting. Your “subjective evaluation of your worth as a person” is only going to get better with age.
Since I’ve started this blog a few years ago, the topics I chose to write about has been random and free flowing.
As the new year begins, many of us take the opportunity to reflect on the past year and set goals for the year ahead.
I sometimes wonder what this day has in store for me. Each morning fills me with excitement and interest about what might transpire that day. Life is fascinating.
Motivation can be hard to come by when you’re not seeing the results you desire. The ability to intrinsically motivate yourself, or to persevere in spite of a lack of motivation is a…
I speak to myself as though I was talking with a close friend. I choose words that make me calmer, happier, and more successful. I talk about my dreams and aspirations.
The business side
The other half of my week: coaching, web design, and running a small studio out of New Jersey. These come with a free resource attached, because advice without instructions never helped me either.
I took the whole thing apart — the offers, the pricing, the schedule — and put it back together in a specific order. Here's that order, honestly, including the part where I got it wrong for two months.
The 90-Day Rebuild Map
I used to earn my rest, and I was always short. Now I schedule it first — and the work somehow still gets done.
The Permission Audit
I build on both for clients, so I'll skip the feature war and tell you the three questions that actually decide it for you.
Platform Decision Tree
I kept rebuilding my mornings when the day was actually falling apart after lunch. Fixing 3pm gave me back six hours a week.
The 3pm Reset Checklist
Comparison used to cost me a whole working morning. Here's the small interrupt I use now, usually before I've finished scrolling.
The Comparison Interrupt
I undercharged for two years because I thought confidence had to come first. It doesn't — a number does, and here's how I found mine.
Pricing Floor Calculator
The podcast
Five conversations about self-doubt, determination, productivity and self-care — the same things I write about here, with less editing.
Free, and it belongs on paper
Eight journal prompts that surface the rules you never actually agreed to — the ones deciding when you're allowed to stop.
If the prompts help, the journals will too. If they don't, you've lost nothing but twenty minutes of quiet.
