The Journal

If you haven’t seen La Sociedad de la Nieve (The Snow Society), stop what youre doing and watch it immediately. It’s an incredibly moving new take on a true story from the 70’s – a plane that crashed into the Andes on a flight from Uruguay to Chile carrying a Uruguayan rugby team who were […]

Yes, that Mariah Carey. I wish I could tell you that Mimi and I (as I imagine her nearest and dearest call her) went out for cocktails, whereby she sat me down and said “listen, Kirsty – I need to share some valuable life lessons with you. Also, I really want you to have this […]

Firstly – I learnt that guy was a DICK! Though I had my sneaking suspicions even before this happened, but that’s a story for another day. What I should have done is unleashed all my years of boxing and kickboxing training on him in that very moment, but in my shock, I did something even […]

You know how sometimes you watch a series or a doco that’s so fascinating that after it’s finished, you dive headfirst into the abyss of google with an insatiable desire to find out absolutely everything ever recorded or written about that topic? Well, I’ve spent the past three days in that abyss and I’m only […]

I recently made one of my best and fave purchases of this entire year: the Polyvagal Card Deck by Deb Dana. Poly-what now!? Here’s the TL;DR: it’s a set of 58 cards that each have a different exercise to explore, navigate and understand the different states of the nervous system: ventral (social connection), sympathetic (fight […]

Last week I went to the beach with my mate Jules (it was fkn lavish – mini album below!), and at some point she said to me “I imagine you have a pretty solid sleep and morning routine, right?” to which I replied “HA!“ The truth is that I’ve been massively neglecting my own self-care […]

If you’ve been following along on the ‘gram lately, you’ll know that I’ve been chasing shiny things. Well, glimmery things, to be fair. We all know what triggers are – external circumstances that cause an emotional reaction like anxiety, panic or despair – and we often have a pretty good idea of what our own […]

Brene Brown talks about God moments, Oprah calls ’em Aha moments, but I like the phrase truth bombs. Whatever floats yer boat, amiright!? Anyway, I had one of these moments of realisation – or rather, re-realisation cos its not my first rodeo – yesterday.  My truth bomb was the dawning (re)realisation that Ive been engineering […]