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As a yoga teacher, the mantra of ‘treat your body like a temple’ has long been familiar. Though it wasn’t until my forties, when perimenopause and late diagnosed ADHD made my brain and body feel more like a demolition site than a sacred one, that I truly turned to this wisdom. When my forties hit me, my body and mind started to feel like strangers. My body was larger and rounder and achier. My emotions didn’t just feel like waves, they felt like catastrophic deadly storms. Th

My relationship to, and understanding of, aloha is continually growing and changing and deepening. However, here are some reflection from where I currently am on the mountain! Aloha – as felt by me: when I speak it out loud, I feel my nervous system respond as though it were fabric standing upright being combed down smooth. I feel it internally as naturally as my heartbeat. When I hear others say it, I feel I am at home with tribe. I belong. When I whisper it, I feel I am wh

Saying things like ‘ADHD doesn’t exist’, ‘ADHD is over-diagnosed’, and ‘people use ADHD as an excuse for poor behaviour’ can feel like hate speech to someone with ADHD. To someone like me. Hate speech, intentional or not, is any form of communication that attacks, threatens, insults, or degrades a group or individuals based on inherent characteristics like race, religion, sexual orientation, gender, or disability. And, I would like to add ‘or neurotype’ to this list. Yes, the

After years of striving to be a ‘glass half full person’ and striving to fill my cup with love and joy and bliss, I’ve come to realise...

We may not be able to control everything that happens to us, but we can control how we respond and react with the help of yoga,...

Being diagnosed with ADHD in my forties has been both confronting and illuminating in equal parts. It’s helped me make sense of myself...

Aloha. When I give a lomilomi session time as I normally experience it slows down. Linear time always alludes me - I always feel that I...