Hi. This is me. Chaos gremlin and total liability.

Three years ago, in a split second accident, my neck decided to snap… like a glow stick. Just without the radiant gleam (which was disappointing to say the least)

Yes, there was a spinal cord injury. And yes, it changed everything. But this Blog isn’t about injury. Its just where it begins

What followed was a long, uncomfortable adventure of self-discovery. Transforming adversity into opportunity, fear into freedom, confusion into clarity, and a slow but joyous reinvention back to a life I want to live.

And now? Well now I have a voracious appetite for happiness.

I’ve become really good at being bad at things, and in that has come freedom. Freedom to try. Freedom to fail, Freedom to look ridiculous. I realised how much I had lost to being afraid. Because if I’m being really honest, I was afraid long before I broke my neck.

Afraid of being seen, judged or criticised. Afraid of not being enough or too much, too loud, too quiet, too intense, too tall, too small too…. Everything! But time is too precious to be wasted on fear. Especially fears that change with the seasons and were never ours to hold in the first place. It’s time to take up space, to find joy wherever it can be found from the mundane to the sublime, and most importantly to experience all of this by being thoroughly, unapologetically you.

This is an adventure blog, but not the jump-off-things, climb-tall-things kind. It’s about the adventure of being fully yourself. Of living boldly after trauma. Of choosing joy when life has done its best to knock it out of you by throwing something dramatic, traumatic or thoroughly inconvenient your way.

A spinal cord injury was just my catalyst. Yours might be heartbreak, grief, loneliness. The details differ, but the invitation is the same. Become a joy finder.

Curveballs (the polite way too say sh*t storm) will always appear like a snowball to the face. That’s life. But I truly believe our greatest defence is joy. Not forced positivity. Not pretending everything’s fine, but actively looking for the good, the absurd, the beautiful, even when it feels unlikely.

It can be found in the friends that accept our chaos gremlin ways, a molten sunrise after no sleep, eccentric Dorset adventures, questionable decisions or an unexpected adventure involving a mystic and a bottle of rum… maybe don’t ask about that one. Joy is everywhere if we allow ourselves to see it, embrace it and feel it.

Want to go full Bridgerton for a Sunday stroll? Do it? Fancy training to be a Mermaid? I’m here for for it! This is a judgement free zone.

Through eccentric Dorset escapades, fashion, friendships, tales of misadventure and a touch of mayhem… let’s go on a journey to live life to the full, free of shame, free of fear and embrace all the quirks and dreams that a live well lived has to offer.

I can’t wait to go on this journey with you ☺️ and remember… it’s not that serious!

And neither are we.

Let’s go find some joy.