2026 started with a plot twist!

Big changes around here already, but exciting plans afoot...

Hello friends.

How are you?

No really, how are you? I’d love to know.

What’s going on in your life so far this year? How are you feeling? What are you looking forward to? Or worried about?

Leave a comment or send me a message, I really want to hear how you’re doing 🩷

How am I?

Well, now there’s a question…

2026 has had an interesting start for me.

I had a feeling it was going to be an exciting year, there are lots of things I’m already looking forward to, and I had a couple of fairly major goals on my list for big changes I wanted to make.

What was unexpected was one of them happening less than a week into the new year!

I’ve been made redundant from my day job.

Whoa.

Huge, right?

Yeah.

And OK, I exaggerate slightly for dramatic effect.

It didn’t happen quite that suddenly, it was a process that began back in December with notification that my role was at risk and several consultation meetings.

But last Tuesday 6^th January, despite the conversations being supportive and constructive, and them listening and taking on board a lot of my feedback and suggestions, it became obvious that there wasn’t going to be another outcome (the company is desperately trying to save as much money as possible), and so we came to the mutual decision to terminate my position and serve notice of redundancy immediately.

Also, fortunately for me, I was able to take my notice period paid but not have to work it, so I was able to leave there and then.

I know it came as a big shock to my colleagues when I announced it on my way out of the door – as mine had been the only job at risk, we had agreed to confidentiality until or unless it affected anyone else – and I was sad to say goodbye knowing that they will still face challenging times ahead without me. I’ll also miss many of the regular customers I’ve got to know over the years working in our small community (and maybe some of them will miss me too?)

But honestly, it was a relief.

I’ve been wanting to get out of that job for a looooong time.

I’ve talked about it, moaned about it, cried about it, raged about it, made half-hearted promises to look for something else…but never managed to find my own exit strategy.

Until the universe (and the HR department) presented me with one.

I can’t tell you how much more relaxed I feel now, after only a week of not having to subject myself to all the stresses and frustrations of that job.

That’s why I know it was definitely the right decision to leave.

When I received the first email inviting me to a meeting to discuss a review of the future of my role, I had a strong suspicion that it was an attempt to disguise the word ‘redundancy’ in more friendly terms (I’ve worked in HR myself, I know how the game works), and lo and behold, I was proved right.

Truly, the only part that really upset me about the process was that it was only my position at risk, and there was no communication to the whole team about the wider process of the company restructuring and cost cutting.

But beyond that, I almost instantly saw it as the chance I’d been looking for to get out, and an opportunity to begin 2026 with a blank slate of possibilities ahead of me.

So that’s where you find me today.

Unemployed.

Redundant.

Though a note on that word:

I personally don’t find it too emotionally triggering. To me it’s a professional term relating to a job, not to me.

But a very kind friend offered me an alternative word which I really love, and feels like a wonderful way of reframing this situation.

She said I had been released.

Liberated.

And oh my goddess yes it feels like that!

I genuinely feel excited about my prospects for this year and the future, and inspired to re-evaluate what I look for in another job, alongside the heart work of my own I intend to pursue.

Side story:

On reviewing the timeline of this process, I realised that a mere 4 days before the first notification, I had attended a Circle hosted by Lauren Barber where we had channelled some year-ending energy into a ritual of writing down things we wanted to release, and burning the paper.

We ended up creating quite the smoky blaze (safely – of course!), and all laughed about how potent the magic we were casting was.

I didn’t recognise just how powerful until I connected the dots to the timing.

I also have absolutely no recollection of what I wrote of the pieces of paper I threw in the fire, though I suspect one of them must have been about getting out of that job.

It was also a lovely full-circle moment to attend the next Circle last weekend and report that my wish had been granted and to celebrate the new chapter I’m about to begin.

So what does this mean for me right now?

Well, yes, I am looking for another part-time employed job.

I think it remains a useful avenue for me to secure regular income, but I am taking some time to more carefully consider the types of roles and industries I’m interested in working in, the experience and skills I can offer, and the bigger picture of the overall lifestyle I would like to live – one that balances the personal and professional more comfortably.

But I’m also going to continue writing.

And developing ideas for a broader ecosystem of my heart work.

One that draws together all the threads of my values and passions – for curiosity and creativity, authenticity and multiplicity, inviting in possibility through the magic of storytelling.

I’m excited to see what bubbles up, and to feel into which pieces of past work and business ventures might resurface. I already have a sense that coaching and circle facilitation might return in some form, as well as different creative media and formats, alongside the writing.

Now that I have more time, space, and mental and emotional capacity to be able to focus on these things, I have no doubt that they will develop more quickly than in the past, and I hope you can expect to see me around here a bit more often with new things to share.

I want this to become a welcoming community space where conversation, curiosity and creativity are encouraged, where we can embrace each other’s uniqueness as well as celebrate what unites us, where we get to explore the complexities and paradoxes of being a multi-passionate, multitudinous soul having a human experience, and where we can share all our stories, however we choose to tell them, creating magical ripples that spread out into our lives and the world.

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I hope your January hasn’t begun with quite such a tumultuous shift as mine, but if it has, I hope you can find the transformative magic in these portal moments – may we all walk forward trusting that we know our own path, and find some magical stories to tell along the way.

Sending you so much love, until next time x