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Episode 12 — Surrender & Ekagrata Two Weeks of Letting Go and Leaning In   Part 4 of my Vipassana Integration I am writing this six weeks later. And that matters. Because when I look back now, I know what came after these two weeks. I know the grief that...

Episode 11 — Anicca / Change Whether I Was Ready or Not   Part 3 of my Vipassana Integration This is Part 3 of my Vipassana Integration series. Part 1 was Equanimity.Part 2 was Wholesomeness.And this is the week where the third word from Vipassana began to show...

Episode 10 — Wholesomeness   Part 2 of my Vipassana Integration This is Part 2 of my Vipassana Integration series. Part 1 was Equanimity — the week after silence, when life immediately tested whether calm was only a meditation word or something I could practise...

Episode 9 — Equanimity   Part 1 of my Vipassana Integration This is Part 1 of a short reflection series born from the weeks after Vipassana. These insights took time to ripen. I am writing this five weeks later, and that already tells part of the story. Because...

Episode 8 — Twelve Days of Nowhere to Hide   I thought silence would be quiet. That sounds obvious, doesn’t it? Ten days of Vipassana. No phone. No talking. No eye contact. No writing. No music. No scrolling. No Netflix. No René. No little message to send the...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...