Chains Around My Demons, Wool To Brave The Seasons

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Chains Around My Demons, Wool To Brave The Seasons

I can’t even tell you how hard the last 12 months have been.

Nor how hard I have crashed - am now in the middle of a few days off. Here are some of the things that have helped me:
  • Performance coaching. I don’t think I would’ve reached a resolution like this without him and his help and his amazing ability to talk to me and get through to me
  • Dance. Seriously I got through the last three months with dance. Dance classes, dance workshops, making dance playlists, dancing at home. Talking about dancing. Whatever. It’s all, all dance
  • My friends - seeing them over Christmas was the best
  • My Brighton colleagues - they were absolute legends who got me through
  • My team - they are really lovely lovely people - the data and AI team - I love them so so much
  • My new manager - absolute genius who saw a way to resolve the situation and was really caring
  • My mum - lifesaver 
  • My whole family - dad, sisters, grandmother in Poland and grandfather in the UK
  • My meditation community
  • My dance community
  • My flatmates
  • Meditation
  • Journaling
  • Buying every notebook in the world to write my plans in
  • Water technology
  • Water itself
  • The wind farms
  • The beautiful beautiful Brighton office management team who really helped me and supported me and held me all the way through
  • The amazing beautiful Brighton ops team who I work nearby and who put up with my moods

  • A downhill road in suburban England

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