Please don’t be alarmed, I seem to have done that thing again. The one where I start writing with good intentions, but never hit publish because I started over thinking things. In an attempt to share this post before the year gets away from me, here’s a really quick looks at my ins and outs for 2026 (and how I went with the ones I shared for 2025). We’ll recap 2025 a little later on, otherwise this will never see the light of day. View Post
Left: Having a Dermalogica LuminFusion treatment at Skintopia | Right: My skin looking happy and healthy and radiant after a skin treatment
Over the years, I’ve spent a lot of time working on my skin health, and there’s a few things that have made a noticeable difference for me. They’re not specific to my skin type (because my skin might have different requirements to yours) or in any way revolutionary. Mostly, they’re things that I didn’t realise would make such a difference to my skin until I started doing them regularly. We don’t gatekeep around here, so I wanted to share them in case they help you too.
Sometimes people assume I’ve always had “good” skin, but I haven’t. View Post
As I’ve mentioned before, the journey to reclaim my reo is one filled with mamae (hurt and whakamā (shame) and many other emotions, just as much now as it was years ago. My work asked me to share what te reo Māori means to me and the role it plays in my life for Te Wiki o te Reo Māori a couple of weeks ago, and since it feels like forever since I wrote anything longform, I wanted to share this here as well. It’s both an update on how my journey is going, and some back story. View Post
I shared my “ins and outs” for 2024 in April last year and then despite the best of intentions, promptly stopped posting because I’d just been told I was being made redundant. A lot of my self worth was tied up in my work – no surprise, because I’d poured almost ten years of myself into it – and I felt really lost and unsure of myself and my abilities. I wasn’t allowed to talk about it, and my anger and complete devastation over the situation took over every waking moment. View Post
Last year I shared my “ins and outs” for 2023 and as someone who loves a list, I found it handy to sum up a whole bunch of things I wanted more of or less of in my life. It made it much easier for me to prioritise things that aligned with those goals (for lack of a better word) and I found myself coming back to look at that list throughout the year.
Prioritising my wellbeing was at the top of my 2023 “in” list which is admittedly very broad, but encompassed a few things that I was working on, like getting more sleep (did not happen), reducing stress (literally made myself sick on more than one occasion from stress) View Post