Mimi

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A Report from the Home Front

Change is afoot.
After a time of true transformation — deep healing — clarity has finally landed.
Hurrah.

It’s the moment when what’s been unfolding comes into focus,
and the way forward begins to reveal itself.

As I write this, the snow has just started to fall.
On Epiphany.
Snow is traditionally known to arrive on this day —
associated with purification and renewal,
a sense that what follows can begin anew.

I’ve lived in the same home for the last ten years.
A decade of tinkering and padding about,
rearranging furniture within an inch of its life.
It’s held love and loss and love again —
recovery, rebuilding, laughter, collapse, rest, and restoration.

It’s been my landing pad.
The place that carried me while I was becoming.

So learning between Christmas and New Year
that my home would be going in a couple of months
came as a shock.
My first instinct was to grip, to cling,
to resist letting go.

But only an hour later, while watching The Nutcracker with my mama,
as snow fell over the Sugar Plum Fairies,
and through prayer,
the way began to reveal itself.

I realised this wasn’t punishment.
It was growth.

How nature does one thing is how she does everything.
For even a simple acorn seed to realise its full manifestation,
it must come completely undone.
To anyone who doesn’t understand growth,
this would look like destruction.
Sometimes, when you think you’ve been buried,
you’ve actually been planted.

My father always said:
when in doubt,
just do the next right thing.

So this January, instead of escaping, I stayed and leant in.
I listened to my intuition.
I paid attention.
I rolled my sleeves up.

With each crisp blue morning,
what’s emerging now is momentum, direction,
and a renewed sense of possibility.

The next chapter is not far from town,
but it’s a proper project — a real wreck —
overlooking the sea.
Something to strip back, rebuild, and make anew.
Somewhere I’ll finally be able to call my own.

For now, this feels right.
Aligned.

So if you’re in the thick of change,
here’s my fave mantra:

When the way is unclear,
choose faith over fear ✨