We are nature, remembering.
Hello, and thank you for being here.
Movement
Craft
Nourishment
Connection
Deep conversation
Outdoors
Resonance with the natural world
Be a person who others can turn to
Holding big emotions
Dedicated to my practice
Death doula
What do we need to feel okay in the world?
I’ve spent a lot of my adult life exploring alternatives to “the system”, the well-worn path. It just doesn’t sit well with me. From the way our children are educated to the way in which we source our safety through money, something didn’t add up. I have questioned and examined it all. Asking the big questions. In fact, a lot of things didn;’t add up. What' I’ve come to realise is that choosing our path or creating a path that feels nourishing to us personally is profoundly important work.
A life of service and contribution – be it to family, a career or conservation – shouldn’t come at the cost of your own life force.
Not only do we extract from the earth, but we extract from our life force too.
Living from a place of vitality is our birthright. As is contributing meaningfully from that place.
What do I want to contribute towards? Do I want to be part of the problem or part of the solution?
The Courageous Path …
We seem to spend a lot of time and energy trying to be and feel okay in the world. I know I have. What needs to shift in order for me to feel okay in the world? To belong? To feel at home.
My search for home within myself and in the world.
I am a certified Integral Coach with additional training in eco-psychology, deep ecology and rites-of-passage leadership.
I was also the co-founder and coordinator of the Earthskills Africa initiative and the Earthskills Gathering (South Africa), both of which shaped my understanding of how ecological connection, land-based skills, and community building can strengthen resilience and belonging.
I have a background in language, publishing and communications, having worked as a writer and editor, both locally and internationally, for the past 25 years.
My greatest learning, however, has come through mothering my two precious children – a journey that has awakened in me both the questions and answers I need to better understand the stories I inherited and the ones I feel called to contribute towards.
If you’d like to read more of my story, please see below.
Training & affiliations
University of KwaZulu-Natal (SA)
BPsych
Integral Africa/The Coaching Centre (SA)
Integral Practitioner Coaching certification
Right Relation School of Transformation (SA, now Can)
Studies in animism and deep ecology
ecoSelf (NZ)
Ecotherapy Professional Practice certification
Rites of Passage Institute (Aus)
Leadership Training (currently underway)
Member of the Climate Coaching Alliance (Africa chapter)
My background
A lover of the outdoors and wild spaces since childhood, I have always observed and deeply questioned the ways of the world and its beings. Over a decade ago, I found myself at a personal threshold – outwardly settled yet inwardly struggling with a rising sense of disconnection and a persistent call towards something more aligned with the deep care I felt for others, and for the living world. This began a journey of profound personal change and ecological remembering.
During this time of active transition, I immersed myself in the earthskills movement, explored alternative education (homeschooling and unschooling) alongside my children, embarked on both formal and informal studies in personal transformation, eco-psychology and relational lifeways, and moved through significant shifts in my family life.
Today, I live simply – between mountain, vlei and ocean – and my beloved children are moving towards adulthood. There are still challenges, of course, but there is also deep peace and connection, as my story finds resonance in the stories of so many others.
In my spare time, I connect with loved ones, explore our local trails, swim, surf, write, and deepen my practice in pottery, archery and ancestral skills.
The process of rekindling connection is alive in me, and it is an honour to share it with you.
“If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear.”
— JOANNA MACY, THE WORK THAT RECONNECTS