29/12/2025
This is a reel of glimmers,
2025 has been a year of breaking, healing and feeling.
Last new years I sat for a moment and really wondered if I could see out another year, heartbroken, betrayed- and completely lost as to how I was going to navigate as a single mum. For a moment I really considered my children may be better off without me.
January saw me left with no support and a mammoth workload. So I headed home for some help.
I didn’t feel myself changing in that trip but I came back differently, I was angry at how small I’d been made to feel, how much someone had degraded my worth and made me doubt my capacity. February was my f**k you month- not with spite but in reclaiming my sense of “I can do this, and I can do it better on my own”
March, first family milestone as a single mum- Gus turned 2. And I managed to make it beautiful.
April- stepping into my peace, relearning self care, how to fill my cup. How to be alone. I stepped back into my social circles, and I’m so grateful to the people who waited patiently for me.
May- a 4 year old, embraced my love of gigs and got my first sense of feeling okay enough to have enjoyment in my life when the kids weren’t with me.
June- deep in the Mother’s Day mini hustle, taking moments to appreciate the magic around me.
July. Sick of the rain making work hard, shifted a gear, remembered to dance in it.
August- my b’day month. A trip to Sydney with the three people who remind me who I am.
September- navigating the internal crisis of finding myself in a relationship again, and it not being chaos.
October- my last hurrah as Santa sessions started and I prepared to knuckle down into work ( and try to find somewhere new to live).
November- too busy to breathe, found a rental, and respite from my mind that’d felt like the walls were closing in again. Mental health took a dip here.
December- the finish line. A sigh of relief. We did it. And we couldn’t have without every friend, client, and special human in our lives who helped and gave us grace.
So no- this is not my highlights. It’s just glimmers & gratitude, for the life this work allows us to live. Thanks for being here. That’s the highlight x
