Most people know me as a celebrant – someone who writes and delivers bespoke ceremonies for life’s most meaningful moments.
What many people don’t see is that writing has always been much more than a part of my work. It’s how I make sense of life itself.
Long before I began crafting ceremonies for others, I was writing quietly for myself. Poetry became the place where I could untangle emotions, sit with difficult seasons, celebrate growth, and find meaning in change. When life feels overwhelming, uncertain, beautiful, painful, or transformative, poetry is often where I go first. Sometimes they become lyrics for songs.
Over time, those private pieces became something bigger: reflections on womanhood, healing, freedom, identity, and the quiet process of becoming ourselves again.
This summer, I’ll be releasing my debut poetry collection – a deeply personal body of work written for women navigating change, rediscovery, self-worth, and the courage it takes to break free from the versions of themselves they’ve outgrown.
While my celebrant work allows me to honour important milestones in people’s lives, this collection comes from the spaces in between the ceremonies – those raw, human moments we don’t always speak aloud, but which can make us more human and empathetic, when we realise what it takes to rise again.
Writing has always been at the heart of what I do. Whether I’m creating a ceremony or writing poetry, my intention is the same: to put words around the feelings that matter most.
I’m excited to begin sharing more of this journey over the coming weeks.
If you’d like to follow the journey, you’re warmly invited to join my Reader Circle, where I’ll be sharing exclusive poems, reflections, and updates from the collection, including a free poem for subscribers.
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