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A Year in the Life of Shamna
Notes from a woman building truth, health, courage and vision in real time
Episode 7 — The Week That Refused to Be Quiet I had a plan for this week. A quiet one. After the fullness of England — the funeral, the family, five days of London living itself awake — I told myself this would be the week of settling. Slowing. Preparing for the...
A Year in the Life of Shamna
Notes from a woman building truth, health, courage and vision in real time
Episode 6 — Coming Home Through the Long Way Round This week I went to England for a funeral. That is the sentence that started it. But what unfolded across those five days became something far bigger than grief. It became about home. Belonging. Ritual. Flexibility....
A Year in the Life of Shamna
Notes from a woman building truth, health, courage and vision in real time
Episode 5 — Rituals, Rage, and the Places I Come Home To There are weeks that move gently. And then there are weeks that move through you. This was one of those weeks. I remembered how much I love ritual. King’s Day. Orange everywhere. Music in the streets. People...
A Year in the Life of Shamna
Notes from a woman building truth, health, courage and vision in real time
Episode 4 — When Life Feels Noisy, Structure Becomes a Form of Peace There was a moment this week — somewhere between a WiFi outage, uncertainty around my building, physical pain that would not fully leave, a four-hour drive to Belgium in the dark, and watching a...
A Year in the Life of Shamna
Notes from a woman building truth, health, courage and vision in real time
Episode 3 — When the Outside Shifts, What Still Feels Like Home There are weeks in which life feels almost strangely generous: laughter, music, beauty, warmth, good food, small luxuries, a sense that things are flowing. And then underneath that same week, something...
A Year in the Life of Shamna
Notes from a woman building truth, health, courage and vision in real time
Episode 2 — What Changed When I Stopped Letting Everything Enter This week began in the middle of the night. Not with worry, but with a kind of inner insistence that would not let me sleep: the sudden, almost urgent clarity that I wanted to begin this series...
A Year in the Life of Shamna
Notes from a woman building truth, health, courage and vision in real time
Episode 1 — The Quiet Week in Which Responsibility Felt Different One of the strongest feelings this week did not arrive through something dramatic, but through numbers. Receipts, invoices, bank lines, forgotten entries, small details that needed to match before...






