Attuned to Nature

I was born in Tasmania. I grew up here. Apart from a nine-year adventure in Western Australia during my twenties, Tasmania has always been my home.

I am finely attuned to nature and environment, and there is nowhere else on this earth like our Tasmanian climate, landscape, and community.

Cycles and Flow

I am very much a ‘go with the flow’ kind of person, and I create in the same way.

I need to be around cycles and seasons and change… Tasmania is perfect in this way.

I also thrive in duality and contrast, which again, is the nature of Tasmania. She is gentle and quiet, yet fierce and wild. She is so petite, yet her presence is as expansive as any ocean.

The Tasmanian Context

I have drawn inspiration and context from Tasmania, my home, in so many ways for my writing – both directly, and indirectly. I’ve written short stories about her, I’ve tapped into her wisdom, her love, and her pain when doing my scribing work.

I take myself off into Tasmanian bushlands, mountains and waterways as often as possible (both physically and spiritually), to help me stay calibrated to my creativity, to my purpose, to me.

A Deep Connection

I’m not that writer who as a child picked up a pencil and started playing artistically with words from the very beginning.

Although I have forever been an avid reader and lover of words. I’ve always felt a strong, deep, natural resonance to the power of words – song lyrics, poetry, books of all kinds, people’s stories.

I was writing in a personal journal intermittently throughout my early thirties, as a means of navigating my blossoming spiritual side.

But it wasn’t until my late thirties that I started to feel like I wanted to write with more purpose and intention. And, honestly, it wasn’t a conscious choice.

It was from an underlying (and at the time, unrealised) need to express, support, and guide in a creative, fluid way – for myself, and for others.

A Writing Nook

Starting out with a laptop at the kitchen bench, then graduating to a gorgeous old, restored table I bought for $30 in the classifieds that ended up parked in the corner of our loungeroom, to now having my very own writing nook in what used to be our son’s bedroom. (We’ve been empty nesters since late 2025.)

And even now having my dedicated creative space that I adore, I still love nothing more than to change things up and write from the couch, from the kitchen bench, from the swing seat in the backyard, from a hotel room on holidays, from anywhere I intuitively feel like I want to be to create more magic with my words.

Natural Elements

I’m a very spiritual person, but I’m also very much an everyday easy-going woman. As long as I’ve got some nature elements around me – house plants, wooden furniture, shells and stones – I’m happy.

Music always helps, but it’s not a necessity. It’s all about the energetics of a space that speaks to me the most. It doesn’t have to be beautifully styled, it just needs to feel right in that moment.

Soul Calling

The healer in me is very much a soul calling. So too is the desire to work with the creative collective to help more writers express, create and source their words from the depths of their soul – in an organic, natural way.

I have a vision of building a community of writers and word artisans who want to heal the world with their books, poetry, songs, journals.

Stellar Journeys

My wish is for all writers (and all artists!) to understand and appreciate that we are all channels, and for all writers to have the confidence and conviction to express and create in their truth.

So I’ve combined my healing gift – my ability to channel healing energies, codes, frequencies and entities of all kinds – with my way with words (in this instance, spoken word) to create Stellar Journeys.

Stellar Journeys are weekly (virtual) meditation classes where I lead my community of writers and creatives through a divinely channelled healing meditation.

Every week, we journey together. We heal, we grow, we laugh and cry, we experience the most vivid soul journeys, we collapse time and space, we create magic together.

And the sole intention is to help writers reconnect, recalibrate, and strengthen their connection to their soul and to the energies around them.

Always empowered, in full trust, rekindling the soul fires. Stellar Journeys are our weekly reattunement to self, to life, to love, to the craft.

They heal, they inspire, they are divine in every way! I adore my Stellar Journeys and love that I get to help other writers and artists in this way.

Start Showing Up

If I could give my younger self some advice on starting an artistic business, it would be to just start.

Start showing up.

Start talking about your art as though you were talking about, say, your best friend’s art… with unwavering pride, confidence, and joy!

If we don’t believe in our own art, who else will?

Follow the intuitive nudges, the signs, and just keep going. Work on your faith, hold the vision, and keep going.

Know with every fibre of your being that your art has immense value, because again, if you can’t see that, no one else will.

How to Live a Creative Life

One of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever been given about living a creative life was from Spirit during a long walk in nature.

Their words were: effortless, natural, fun.

I was reminded that as humans, we are innately creative.

It is our natural state to be in creation. And yes, of course, sometimes it’s challenging and sometimes we have to grind for a bit, but for the most part, it gets to be natural and fun.

But we’ve got to believe this to be true. This is my North Star, my core belief. And it has served me so well!

Even though I’ve had setbacks and rejections and criticism, and my own fears and doubts from time to time, I always find my way back to my North Star: effortless, natural, fun.

And it makes it all worth it. Because I can see the lessons in the hardships, and I can see the personal growth and evolution, and I celebrate it all.

Don’t buy into the ‘tortured artist’ narrative – instead, let’s subscribe to the shining artist movement and let’s heal the world through our art.

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