Winter Reflections from Thailand & What's Changing In 2026

It’s winter in Chiang Mai — sunlit, yet crisp enough to invite true wintering: slow, quiet, reflective. As I prepare for the Womb Medicine Woman Training starting in January, one word has defined 2025 for me: REFINEMENT.

I share what’s been refining me: returning to the UK and realising it’s no longer home; the relational tenderness of Singing in the Wild; perimenopause demanding simplicity; starting Qi Gong; and becoming fiercely aware of where my attention goes (including cancelling Netflix). 

I also share what’s changing in 2026: consolidating, trusting my intuition, and creating the continuity real healing needs, which is why I now work 1:1 in 6-month containers only. 

My anchor is simple: embody truth and love. 

No goals, no resolutions — just presence and choice.

Work with me:
• The Crucible: Roots · Restore · Recalibrate (6-month 1:1 container)

• Womb Medicine Woman 12-month Training®

• Audio courses + resources

• YouTube

Chapters

• 0:00 Winter In Chiang Mai
• 3:07 Entering A Season Of Refinement
• 4:24 UK Visit, Grief, And Coming Home
• 7:01 Friendships, Perimenopause, Simplicity
• 10:11 Discovering Qigong And Energy
• 13:06 Media Detox And Attention
• 15:46 Love, Time, And Deep Partnership

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:26

Hey there ladies, welcome back to this episode that is all about winter reflections from Chiang Mai, Thailand. So I'm going to reflect on 2025, both personally and what it's meant for the work, and what's changing in 2026. So yeah, I'm here in winter in Chiang Mai. And even though that means still we have temperatures of around, I don't know, averaging 25 in the day, it's it's kind of chilly in the mornings and at night, and I wake up, it's about 15 degrees. And that's just beautiful. It's truly beautiful. I can sleep with the windows open. I wake up to the birds chirping, and it's just blue skies and clear air, and it's just beautiful. And given all that, it is still a big contrast to summer here, which is really quite um rainy at times, and also it gets up to temperatures of about 45 in the hot season. So I am technically in winter, and I feel like I'm in winter because I've lived here for a good few years now, so I'm used to the change in temperatures and I've acclimatised. So I'm in wintering. I'm quite silent, quite slow-paced, very reflective, and consolidating my life force as well. I've I've been a bit less communicative this past month. I think partly because I've been in that inward season, partly because I'm I'm just prepping for the Medicine Woman training that starts next month. And also I just needed to be silent. So I was. And in that silent reflection time, a few things have become very clear. They were becoming clear, but just kind of dropping everything really and just being really still and quiet for the most part. I think I've I had to name the experience of 2025 for me. It would be refinement, refinement of how I cultivate and direct my energy, refinement of what I listen to, refinement of what I allow into my field. So in March I visited the UK, and something was immediately clear that it just isn't my home now. Devon is still really stunning, and I really loved seeing a dear friend, but I just fell out of place. And for three weeks, what I mostly did was wished I was back home in Chiang Mai. But anyway, I had to go back to really see that. So and the fourth week I went to a retreat called Singing in the Wild. I did podcast on that if you're interested. And it was like really deeply relational, earthy, tender. Grief came up like wow, like a real big wave of grief from my sweet Sophia. It just really moved through me. It blasted off debris of old armour, and I felt I felt really liberated. And then on the last morning, I woke up and packed my bags. My heart was like boom, boom, boom, and had one clear thought. Get me on that plane, I'm going home to Thailand. That's it. I got on the plane, strapped myself in, put my eye mask on, put my hood up. I was like, right, I'll be home in 12 hours. So yeah, that that was more the first half of the year. Um actually the months before and after were full of refinements as well. So at the beginning of the year, I ended a friendship that was just repeating an old pattern. Um, and that created lovely space to deepen my connection with a couple of women that I I hadn't been in touch with for a while, but now are really, really good friends with again. And it's been really nourishing and fun to connect with them and really key because they're both in perimenopause as well. And we've been supporting each other, not by advising or anything like that, but just by being together and laughing and crying and sometimes processing and sometimes spitting feathers. But yeah, it's really made all the difference. So that's been that's been really, really lovely. But otherwise, yeah, perimenopause has me in a very inward place. I barely socialize. When I mean barely, I mean I just don't. Uh I was kind of off my usual rhythms or my internal rhythm was changing, and I I couldn't quite find my groove. Um, and perimenopauses literally demands, literally demands a level of simplicity I have not experienced before. So I've been just simplifying, paring down, getting clear, better boundaries, clearing out, being present, slowing down. It's refine, refine, refine. It's not massive change, but it feels like it. It doesn't necessarily look like it, but it really feels like it. Um, and in July, I I thought I'd try qigong. I mean, I've read about it, I've wanted to do it for a while, but I got to a point where because my body is changing so much, my rhythms, my brain's rewiring, um, I needed to kind of get to know my body again. Not that I've not been out of my body, I've very much been in my body, but everything is changing. And I wanted some focus really to get to know these changes and new states. So I thought I'd give Qigung a go. I'd signed up for a week and then in July, and I've been going every week ever since, five days a week. And it's been so supportive, just gentle and powerful, exactly what my system needs. And as I rewire, it's it's also helped me become more sensitive to where my energy's going, where I'm directing my energy. And it's it's really given me a more embodied understanding of how to cultivate love and life force and how to consolidate chi as well. And that's basically what I'm devoted to more than anything now is just cultivating love, the peace and the compassion that come from that. And it's the basis of all my work moving forward. Uh, this year I also cancelled Netflix. I just can't watch most films anymore. I become so sensitive to where my attention goes, to what I'm allowing into my field, into my consciousness. And really, most mainstream content just isn't aligned, including Instagram, which I actually feel like is an empty, sucky pit of fast food. It's completely unnourishing. But um, so I do have an Instagram account, but I'm not, I don't think I'm gonna put anything more on it. Uh, I might put a few like clips of videos up, but I'll tell you in a bit how my work's changing anyway. So, yeah, the second half of life basically I've discovered is more about listening to what's within, bringing that to the world, and basically everything else is just white noise. I just don't care. I really don't care. And yeah, personally, that refinement is rippled into my intimate life too. Um, I've I've been single for a few years now, reflecting and learning and anchoring in love, and I needed that time. I enjoy being single actually, and yeah, now I feel a real capacity for a soul-deep, real deal partnership. I can actually feel it approaching, and I mean it'll actualize when it does. Because time, no longer of any concern to me. I don't care about time, it's an illusion anyway. I really know that in my body as a thing. It's it's like a deep knowing now, and I feel it and I see it. And so time is not of concern, but love and truth are my guides. That's it. And again, that's rippled into and out to my work as well. So in November, I could feel I just needed help to restructure my business. I needed a different perspective on it. I've I'm too close to it, basically. So I engaged a new business coach and started refining my ecosystem, as they call it. Uh, that's what I offer, how I offer, and what's what's truly sustainable for me now in this phase of my life. And part of that is how I'm connecting publicly. So, yeah, I'm not my focus isn't Instagram anymore. Um, it never really was, but uh yeah, it's not for me. But I'll keep sharing on the podcast. I really like connecting with you here. I get emails from some of you sometimes. I really appreciate that, actually. I really love hearing from you. And so I'll continue uh sharing personal reflections alongside the work. And this year I'm gonna build my YouTube channel with like short, like six to eight minute videos to explain the work, core concepts, healing pathways, and basically how to apply them in daily life. There are some fabulous recording studios here, and they're really, I mean, Chiang Mai is a center for digital nomads and creators, so there are more studios popping up as well to record podcasts, to record videos, to co-work and collaborate. It's a really lovely atmosphere, and so yeah, I'm trying a couple of them out, and I'm really excited to get creative. I can draw on my theatre days, and I used to love working to create sets and scenes and act in them and be on stage. I've done a little bit of camera work as well, so I can really that part of my life feel feels as though it's it's coming to the fore again. Uh also one major clarification I've had this year is that I've basically made myself too available in the one-to-one space, doing consultations, kind of one-offies, I call them bonoffie sessions, one-off sessions with people, uh, entering the work with, okay, let's see how we vibe together and then make a plan. But basically, it's meant that I've facilitated lots of loose threads and I can hardly say that, loose threads. Uh, and it's been an energy leak, basically. I I could feel something was off, but it took me a little while to track it and see what it was. But um, basically, I already know at the initial consult I know within about 20 seconds of when I meet someone if we're a good fit. I've done so many sessions with people and so much work that I'm really good at attuning to that now. I mean, there are exceptions, but you know, for the most part, I can tell if we're a good fit. So it's time to really trust that intuition fully, fully, fully. Basically, I'm here for women who are ready to heal, to return to love. Um, basically, women who are done with surface solutions and are ready to finally feel safe in their beautiful feminine bodies and create the life they know is possible. That's that's my sweet spot. That's what I do. Um yeah, that's it. So 2026 is all about consolidating. Can I get these words out today? I had a tooth out a few weeks ago, and it's still a bit swollen in the back of my mouth. So shame my word. Coming out a bit like that. Anyway, I'll start again. So 2026 is all about consolidating the changes crafted in 2025. I think that's what I'm gonna be doing. And I'm also I don't know as well. I don't know what's coming. All I know is what I can intend, and I will do that, I will consolidate the changes, but who knows what's gonna happen. But basically, my anchor is I'm here to embody truth and love, and that's it. Anyone who wants to do that, I'm here. Basically, you you work with the the womb as a center, a seat of power, and you have to restore the rest of the system to be able to integrate it. So I've put on my site actually sacred womb, sovereign woman, and I think I'm gonna make that the title of my book. Because if you restore your womb, you have to, you basically have to work with the rest of the system, but that that creates sovereignty. So, and that is also why I now I'm only going to be working with uh one-to-one anyway, with women in six-month containers minimum. Because we need the time, we need the we need the depth. Healing needs containment, and real transformation needs a steady field. So basically, as we land in 2026, uh, here's how we can work together. So it's something called the crucible, that's a six-month one-to-one package. We go from roots uh to restoring to recalibration. And then there's the medicine woman training, of course, that starts every January, and that's for healing professionals ready to embody and share this work. And then there's audio courses, which are self-paced, downloadable courses on topics like womb healing, abortion healing, and perimenopause. They're all coming soon. I will be releasing the abortion one by the end of January, um, and just building them as I go nice and steady, no rush. Uh, but basically, this refined structure has also created the space for me to complete the sacred womb book this year, which has been on and off, on and off the shelf, the table for some years, but I needed to become some bits of it that I knew that I wasn't fully live in. Well, that's not realistic. I wasn't as deep into as I wanted. I wasn't as I didn't know it as well as I wanted to. So, but now I do, and there's always development, but it's enough. It's more than enough. So I can write that now. Uh it's 13 chapters. I'm gonna write one chapter per moon cycle, of course. How could I write it any other way? And I'll just keep listening as I evolve, the work evolves, and I'm gonna stay present to just what wants to emerge. That's a quality I love cultivating and listening to and being. I find that works really well. So I'm not setting in goals, there's no resolutions, just presence and choice. Okay. All right. I I yeah, I hope that lands well with you and uh yeah, much love wherever you are, and I wish you a very true and loving year.