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Welcome to August – it’s packed. We have two very auspicious events happening. The first is the meeting of Kali, Mars, North Node + Uranus – which is all about alignment to purpose – on the 1st of August. The second is Lionsgate on the 8th of August, which was traditionally celebrated as the rising of Sirius (which if your in Australia has already happened). That said it’s a powerful day and one to bring forth new ideas, start new projects and feel supported by the universe as you do.

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Coco and I enjoying the last weeks of our holiday

Coco and I enjoying the last weeks of our holiday in paradise. Been getting down to traditional roots whilst here, buying local fish, baking own bread daily, making a fire, manning the grill. Passing on wisdom to the kid although she wasn't so into the gutting of the fish or squid lessons and watching the fire whilst it simmers down to perfect roasting heat is apparently boring 😂

Meanwhile, I grow in appreciation and awe of our ancestors - doing this stuff is time consuming and I ain't even thrashing my own grains, growing veggies, raising animals or hand washing clothes in the sea. Not sure if self care time used to be a thing.

I can see how humanity works best together - we each have our own special gifts and genius to serve others with. Sometimes it feels like our society pathologized certain aspects of interdependence into codependency, creating citizens who don't rely on each other enough for care and survival.

After being here this long, I absolutely feel there is something about smaller communities in which members regularly communicate, barter and trade which leads to more happiness, health and security for all. And don't even get me started on the benefits of a society where kids feel free and safe to run around together whilst all adults keep tabs on them equally.

No man is an island. Is depression in our society so prevalent because we keep trying to become robots?

There is no "wrong way" to be a female. There is n

There is no "wrong way" to be a female. There is nothing wrong with tomboys, despite a recent spate of propaganda trying to label them racist and fascist.

I was such a tomboy as a kid - I never thought I'd want kids, wasn't into baby doll toys, bottle feeding or pushing them in a stroller. I didn't dream about marriage or weddings. I wanted to climb trees, play Tarzan and read books on science. I matured and grew into an even fuller version of tomboyishness, embracing my own flavour of femininity in the process because I was given the freedom and acceptance to find my own path in life without someone telling me there is only one way to be.

Lately, I'm concerned society is going backwards. My generation learnt there isn't anything wrong with feminine men or masculine women - that stereotypes are just that, glass ceilings are meant to be broken and we all have a place in this world - unique humans with our own individualised soul essence. We are all worthy exactly as we are, all of us perfect imperfect sparks of the divine.

What are we teaching our kids? That they need to conform to Kardashian culture to be beautiful? That their own body isn't ok because it doesn't fit in with a picture of femininity or masculinity culture deems acceptable in this moment of history? This is devolution, plain and simple.

All children are beautiful just the way they are. All are worthy of love, no matter how they express their soul essence. There is no "right way" to be a male or female.

Diversity is beautiful. Conforming to stereotypes is not. And you'll never ever convince me otherwise. Hypatia, Joan of Arc and Amelia Earhart are rolling in their graves right now.

Leave the kids alone!

Made a recipe video on the island utilising spring

Made a recipe video on the island utilising spring lamb , wild herbs and vegetables. One is a roast and the other a nourishing soup - easy and delicious. Link in bio 🌿

My Adriatic heart 💙💙

My Adriatic heart 💙💙

Each time I'd mention how getting diagnosed with t

Each time I'd mention how getting diagnosed with the #MTHFR mutation changed the course of my health in my stories or articles, I'd get a flurry of DMs asking me to expand on the topic.

After writing mini essays to so many of you directly , I decided to write a proper story on why I came to be diagnosed with this common affliction ( 1 in 2 people have some variation of this problem on their #methylation pathway ) and how changing simple things about my lifestyle and diet helped me put in remission many of my longstanding #autoimmune #inflammatory issues like #eczema #crohndisease #depression and #anxiety as well as others like #cervicaldisplasia , #cysticpimples and #pms

That story is now up on the new blog, link in bio 🌞

This full buck supermoon in Capricorn seems like a

This full buck supermoon in Capricorn seems like an opportune time to announce the exciting news that the M-E-L blog now has a dedicated Astro section by the amazing @iampippakate ⭐️

Pippa is an astrologist and mythologist who believes we are all aspects of the universe being made aware of itself, blending astrology and mythology as a means of understanding this physical manifestation, from our personalities through to relationships, careers and key lessons on our path.

Check out Pippa's advice for this month via the link in bio 🪐

My Empirical Life blog is back! After 3 years of s

My Empirical Life blog is back! After 3 years of sitting largerly unused, I have re-vamped it with the help of my friends over at Kore Digital. Come check out all the new content through the link in bio x

Just came on here with my bullshit to say that my

Just came on here with my bullshit to say that my body my choice is universally important and so are women's biological sex based rights.

Vis otium is best otium

Vis otium is best otium

Hello #Hvar! Came over for a lil’ day trip and h

Hello #Hvar! Came over for a lil’ day trip and here I am posting about it , risking the ire of many of my ardent followers who said it would just be too much fomo if I did 😂 I still ❤️ u guys! 😚( ps: there’s even a little video for you on reels )

Several people told me they would unfollow me out

Several people told me they would unfollow me out of fomo if I went to #Hvar and posted about it...Soz guys avert your eyes! 🙈 also you gotta visit my man at the markets for a picnic pack of the most delicious black pig prosciutto and goats cheese

Adriatic party vibes be like... 🌞

Adriatic party vibes be like... 🌞

This bedroom in the island house is my “safe pla

This bedroom in the island house is my “safe place”. Whenever a guided meditation requires me to imagine myself somewhere I feel utterly at peace, I imagine sitting here.

During iso, when travelling became impossible, at first I would often dream of sitting or walking toward this window as if my soul escaped my body and came travelling here looking for solace and then I couldn’t get here anymore

I often think how much new age philosophy’s whole goal is escaping this material world to “ascend” to 5D. Personally, I don’t think that’s true. We were incarnated into our bodies to have a human experience, not to try to escape it.

Humanity pushed our civilisation onward with mind energy for centuries and now we want to skip a step and shoot past 3D straight to some mysterious 5D where everything is wonderful.

I believe we need to sit down and eat some humble pie. Unless we are monks meditating on top of a mountain, unbothered by society in some perfect reality that exists for no one, living on this plane means continual testing and suffering - how we deal with our pain is what matters; are we able to persist in our heart energy and integrity?

I believe we are here to embody 4D/heart chakra before we are allowed to move on - this is why when we accept the challenge of a spiritual journey, the Universe’s tests become more intense, not less. We decided we are finally ready for the school of consciousness and the Universe is eager to get us started. Pain can become more intense, until we learn the topic du jour lesson in a healthy way.

We have to stop running away and hoping to escape this plain. Being human is glorious, despite it sometimes breaking our hearts. I don’t agree with spiritual bypassing and positive vibes only thinking - I think in the long run it leads to more painful lessons and ugly awakenings.

Being aware that we are all really children in school here despite our age is important. To me ascension is just developing better awareness, a way to look at the same world differently.

If we accept the journey contains suffering, then we accept the whole of the curriculum.

Even if our souls sometimes need a safe place ❤️

Am I here to make unbrushed hair trendy? No! I’m

Am I here to make unbrushed hair trendy? No! I’m here to tell you how fat and happy I’ve been getting on all this delicious island cooking. Never been to Vis during the month of May before and now I think it may be my favourite time of the year - medicinal herbs flower, cherries and loquats are in season and so is what they call “island leeks”, a version of wild onion whose tender shoots are blanched with garlic and seriously taste like baby leeks. Foraging , one of my all time fave pastimes is amazing on this island; lemon and orange trees grow out of abandoned houses so I’m always jumping fences for essentials that would otherwise go to waste. Coupled with an abundance of scampi and blue fish and I am in heaven.

Back in Oz, I’ve been getting into natural, raw wines that are just past the point of fermentation with smidgens of frizz remaining. Not only is natural wine delicious and multi dimensional, the lack of added preservatives makes for an absence of a hangover headache but that sort of wine is really hard to find here commercially produced. Imagine how lucky I felt to visit a homestead producing all their wino naturally ; yummy sand soil reds and orange wines they sell to no one. I watched them show me how wine is filtered and circulated, and how the thickened remnants are used for dessert wine or even marmalade. Yes, I made them sell me a bottle of what they call “pussy wine”. No, I haven’t convinced them to become my permanent dealer ...yet

The thing I’ve noticed since arriving on the isl

The thing I’ve noticed since arriving on the island is this deep need for rest, like I could sleep for a thousand years. My soul feels calm here, cocooned by the sea around me into stillness and connection.

I realised it’s been so long since I stopped running, since anxiety didn’t wrap itself around my stomach. Some of you know I went through a domestic abuse incident back in 2018 - since then I’ve been trying to release stuck energy, pain and programming whilst reconnecting to peace through many healing modalities. It was a tough road, with no signposts; anyone I’d met who’d done it before me didn’t complete recovery unmarked by shame, trauma stuck in tissues or spiritual bypassing. I was determined this wasn’t gonna be me but the more support I sought, the more a whole mountain of stuff became obvious, a lot of which was not mine , yet I had to deal with in order to reconnect to truth.

I accepted learning as a challenge of the journey, throwing myself into deep retrospection of my and my family’s past, a revision of humanity’s history and our programming as a species. In the process of pursuing radical vulnerability, I learnt so much about blind spots we all carry. Yet, just as my nervous system started finding an equilibrium again , the pandemic hit, ending my ability to travel and work at what I loved.

So, at the end of last year, I started taking chunks of conscious time out from social media, withdrawing myself from the perceptions of others to find moments where I got to sit with myself whilst inhaling and exhaling deeply into the new. Who was this new person that had percolated under near constant pressure? The more I connected to silence, the more I realised becoming more myself meant some people would magnetise closer and some connections would fade away as they only existed in illusion. The people pleaser who hid herself under a socially accepted persona in order to be liked by everyone was now dead. Authenticity is the most important thing in my life now.

Letting this Mercury retrograde be the sweetness of endings before launching the re-vamp of the blog next month.

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A few ( non ) happenings down on #Vis pirate stree

A few ( non ) happenings down on #Vis pirate street

Made it to springtime #islandVis , all wildflowers

Made it to springtime #islandVis , all wildflowers and sunsets 🌸

If a kombucha bottle hadn’t’ve fallen out of m

If a kombucha bottle hadn’t’ve fallen out of my bag and smashed into a confetti of glass shards up in the Old Town of Zagreb and if @zagreb.streets.photo hadn’t’ve been such a gentleman to help me clean up, this video would’ve never been born. Sometimes being a clutz really has it’s upsides! 😂

We ended up taking a dusk walk through the historic part of town towering over the city and chin wagging over drinks.

Goes to show we never know what the Universe has in store for us - sometimes the worst things end up being the best for us ❤️

Wearing : @aninebing @givenchy @chloe

Song : Ask by The Smiths

So excited for my friend @blakdouglas - he just wo

So excited for my friend @blakdouglas - he just won the #thearchibaldprize for his portrayal of Wiradjuri artist Karla Dickens in the devastation of the Lismore floods.

An important message in a trying time, so exquisitely painted by this incredible artist.

So proud of you bro! Knew you’d win! 💪✨❤️

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