Hello beautiful people,

If you’ve been a subscriber of this newsletter since the beginning, I’m sure you’ve noticed I’ve been absent since the end of 2025. 

Truthfully, I felt that I wanted to step away from trying to write this newsletter if I wasn’t feeling particularly inspired. My writing muscles were also being strenuously used elsewhere on another massive project. 

After arriving in Australia from India I had been in a weird transitional phase, but looking back it feels like I have been in a weird transitional phase for a long time now. I felt like continuing to say that month after month was coming across as trite. 

I felt like I was trying so hard to hold it all together and to keep moving forward and look for the next thing but what I really needed was simply space to be. I always encourage others to be vulnerable and I wasn’t allowing myself the space to do the same and to grieve the things I needed to grieve in order to fully step into this next chapter as the grounded version of me I want to be. 

I came to Melbourne with zero plan and not a whole lot of money in the bank after traveling for a year and a half. Honestly, it’s been a huge experiment in surrender, but I trusted things would fall into place and they have so far. Surrender looked like applying to an au pair job even though I was a bit skeptical, and that led to living a short walk from a national park in the hills, as well as access to my own car for the first time in years. The independence has been amazing for my mental health. 

I’ve gone to several inspiring festivals, and I even took an oil painting class. I’ve been interviewed as a guest on two podcasts now and am working as a professional tarot reader in a shop close to my home. 

Hitting pause on the nomadic life feels refreshing, even if only temporarily.

What I’m creatively excited about:

I’m working on my next YouTube series about my journey to Everest Base Camp, which I can’t believe was a year ago already! Keep an eye out for that in the coming weeks.

After being inspired by my Steps to the Soul series, Melisa, creator of the Live Differently Podcast, reached out to me to have a spiritual discussion. Listen to my interview about the spiritual journey here.

I don’t have it all figured out (shocker), but I’m here, and that feels like a good place to start again.

Thank you for being along for the ride.

I hope you can make someone smile today,

Holly x