There are different ways to explore my diaries.
You can start at the beginning and read chronologically, following each day as it unfolds. Or you can use the Atlas to explore the major paths that my life has followed. If you’d rather follow individual feelings, people, places or symbols, the Map lets you navigate using the tags at the bottom of each entry.
Read Chronologically
Follow the diaries in the order they were written, starting at the beginning in 2006:
Explore the Atlas
Abuse
The journey from living within an abusive relationship to gradually recognising it, understanding its impact, and finding a way beyond it.
Becoming
Moments of change, insight and becoming that have gradually reshaped how I experience myself and the world.
Childhood
The experiences, relationships and early influences that helped to create the person I would become.
Creativity
Writing, photography, ideas and the many ways creativity has helped me understand both myself and the world around me.
Dreams & Symbolism
Dreams recorded over many years alongside reflections on recurring symbols, synchronicities and the ways meaning can emerge through both dreaming and waking life.
Empty Nest
The changing landscape of motherhood as my children grew, left home, and I began discovering who I am beyond being a parent.
Family
The complexities, joys, tensions and enduring connections that weave through family life across the years.
Grieving
Living with loss in its many forms, and discovering how grief changes shape as life continues.
Health
Living with illness, healing, emotional wellbeing, physical and mental health.
Money
The realities of financial struggle, uncertainty, security, and the ways money influences so much of our lives.
Motherhood
Reflections on raising children, education, family life, and the lifelong experience of being a mother.
Purpose
The changing relationship between work, career, vocation, calling, and the deeper questions of meaning, direction and living with intention.
Relationships
The people who have shaped my life through love, conflict, loss and belonging.
Spirituality
Questions of meaning, wonder, intuition and the experiences that can show us life beyond our humanness.
Use the Map
Every diary entry is also marked with tags. While the Atlas helps you follow the main routes, the map lets you trace paths of recurring thoughts, feelings, people, places and moments that connect across the years.
You might arrive through a dream, a photograph, a conversation or a single symbol, and discover where else that path leads.
However you choose to navigate my diaries, you won’t find separate stories. They overlap, intertwine and continually influence one another, just as they do in life itself.
Whether you start at the beginning, follow the Atlas or navigate by the Map, I hope you’ll discover something that resonates with your own journey.