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Hope: 5 Powerful Lessons from Chicken Soup for the Soul
Hope can feel childish when life is heavy, but Chicken Soup for the Soul reminded me that hope is often rebuilt through small, human stories.
Not the kind where I am underlining a framework…
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Things to Tell Yourself Every Night: 7 Mel Robbins Notes for Bedtime
I used to end my days the same way, with no clear things to tell yourself every night except the harshest leftovers from the day. Lying there, running through everything I had not…
The Secret Thoughts: How to Change the Channel
June 22, 2026
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The Secret Thoughts: How to Change the Channel
The Secret thoughts idea is the part of Rhonda Byrne’s book I can actually use: not as pressure to think perfectly, but as a way to notice the emotional channel I keep living from.
Thoughts become…
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If You’re Feeling Uncertain and Stressed, You Need to Hear This
Uncertainty and stress have a very particular flavour, don’t they?
It is not always dramatic. It is not always sobbing on the floor or making enormous life decisions at 2am. Sometimes…
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Buy Yourself the Fucking Lilies: The Tiny Rituals That Bring You Back to Yourself
There is a kind of self care that looks beautiful online and then collapses the minute real life starts.
The candle is lit, the bath is run, the notebook is open and…
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The Universe Wanted You To Hear This, and I Finally Listened
Universe Wanted You is the phrase that stayed with me after listening to David Bayer: the idea that the right message often arrives when you are finally ready to hear it.
There is a book I…
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Karma Sutra by Ingori: The Sceptic Who Got Healed in 60 Seconds
I will be honest with you from the start: Karma Sutra by Ingori is not the book that changed my life.
I listened to it on Audible – in the car, between school runs and errands…
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What Three Very Different Thinkers Taught Me About Inner Freedom
When I moved back to France, I thought I was moving towards freedom. Out of the structure I had lived inside for eighteen years. Out of the rain. Out of the career that had run its…
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The Book That Told Me Happiness Is a Practice, Not a Destination
I have a morning practice. Journal, eight categories, present tense, eyes closed, visualise. I have been doing it for long enough now that I notice when I skip it – not just in my…
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Angela Duckworth’s Effort Equation: What It Changed for Me
My chosen word of the year – “mot de l’année” – for 2026 is GRIT. I’ve done this for four years and I love it, it keeps me focussed when my chimp is playing…
