July — tender, honest, genuinely brave. 🔥

This month asked something real of us. Grief — in all its forms, especially the quieter ones — is not comfortable territory. Most of us have been taught to move through it quickly, to find the lesson, to look on the bright side, to hold ourselves to a timeline that doesn’t actually match how grief…

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This month’s workbook is here when you’re ready for it — and there’s no rush. July’s theme is a gentle one. It’s an invitation to acknowledge what you’ve been carrying, to give yourself a little more room, and to tend to yourself with some genuine care. Private, unhurried, yours.

As we near the end of July… 🔥

Grief and gratitude are not opposites. They are not in competition. And one of the most liberating things about genuine grief work — the kind that actually completes — is discovering that holding both at once is not only possible, it’s the most honest way to be with an experience.

We can grieve a relationship…

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Something to explore this week… 🔥

Grief takes energy — even when it’s quiet and background. Even when nobody around us knows we’re carrying it. Even when we’ve become so accustomed to it that we’ve stopped registering it as grief and started registering it as just the way we feel.

Which means that genuinely caring for ourselves while we’re…

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Here’s something that often surprises people when they look at it honestly: grief doesn’t move when we push against it. It moves when we stop resisting it.

Most of us have some version of a rule about how long grief is supposed to last — and a fairly strong internal alarm that activates when we feel we’ve exceeded…

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Spaciousness – our ‘permission’ to exhale 🙏🏻 x

Something to sit with this week… 🔥

One of the most important things to understand about grief is how many forms it can take — and how many of those forms we’ve never been taught to recognise or name.

We understand the obvious ones. The losses we can point to, explain, have acknowledged by others. But grief also lives in transition — in the…

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Isn’t that the truth. I resonate with that today xx

July — the deep heart of winter. And this month, we’re walking into territory that most of us carry more of than we’ve perhaps acknowledged. 🔥

We’re exploring grief — but perhaps not in the way you’d expect.

Because grief isn’t only the profound, recognised loss. It also lives in the quieter places. The version of your life you imagined…

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June — the quietest month of winter. And in many ways, this one asked the most of us. 🔥

Because self-compassion is easy to understand and genuinely difficult to live. Most of us already know it as a concept — and yet that inner voice, in the private moments, tends to tell a different story.

What this month invited was something more honest…

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The June workbook is now in the Documents section. This one invites you to turn a little of that care you give so freely to others back toward yourself — the inner voice, the self-judgement, and what a kinder way of being with yourself might look like. Completely yours to explore in your own time.

As we near the end of June… 🔥

Self-compassion as a daily practice isn’t about achieving a state of permanent inner kindness. It isn’t about the inner critic going permanently quiet, or every self-critical thought being replaced by something warmer.

It’s about building a second voice. One that can observe the critic with some equanimity —…

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Something to explore this week… 🔥

One of the most persistent myths about self-compassion — especially among high-achieving, growth-oriented people — is that it will make them soft. That if they stop being hard on themselves, they’ll stop trying. That self-criticism is what drives performance, and removing it will remove the drive.

The…

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Here’s an experiment worth trying this week — not as a technique, but as a genuine inquiry.

Think of something you’ve been criticising yourself for recently. Something specific. Something the inner critic returns to with some frequency.

Now imagine a person you genuinely care about — a close friend, someone you…

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Something to sit with this week… 🔥

Most of us, if we’re honest, have a fairly specific relationship with our inner critic. We know the topics it favours. We recognise the tone. We could probably predict, with some accuracy, exactly what it will say in any given situation.

What’s less often explored is the question of what that voice…

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June is just 1 day away — and winter will arrive on the Sunshine Coast with its invitation to slow down, go quiet, and turn genuinely inward. 🔥

And this is the month we’re exploring something that sounds simple on the surface and turns out to be surprisingly challenging in practice: Radical Self-Compassion.

Most people who find their way…

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May — and what a rich, honest month it’s been. 🔥

Money is one of the last genuinely taboo topics — even among people doing deep personal work. We’ll talk about almost anything before we’ll get honest about what we actually believe about abundance, about worthiness, about whether good things reliably show up for people like us.

The fact that…

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This month’s workbook is ready for you. Money stories can run deep, and this is a private space to start looking at yours — where scarcity shows up, where abundance already exists, and what might shift when you look at it honestly. No pressure, no sharing required.

As we near the end of May… 🔥

Prosperity consciousness — real, lived abundance awareness — isn’t a destination you arrive at once the circumstances are right. It’s a quality of attention you practise now, with whatever is present.

That doesn’t mean pretending things are better than they are. It doesn’t mean bypassing real financial…

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Something to explore this week… 🔥

Our capacity to receive is one of the most revealing indicators of our actual relationship with abundance — and for many consciously growing people, it’s also one of the most quietly limited.

We’ll give generously, often without hesitation. But receiving — a compliment, an offer of help, a gift,…

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Hi Michelle – oh yes! This IS a big one. And what you’ve recognised here is exactly the experiences that can bring so much doubt into our decisions! Fantastic exploration!!! I’m really looking forward to sharing more over the month, and seeing where that may shift for you, even slightly – as that is where it all begins 🙏🏻

Ohh this is a BIG ONE for me.

I feel it’s been a lot about safety and security for me and having to support myself financially.

There’s always that feeling of being homeless or broke .

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Here’s something worth sitting with: scarcity thinking is rarely about actual scarcity.

It’s a lens. A habit of perception that can operate even when our circumstances are objectively okay — sometimes even when they’re genuinely good. It’s the constant low-level monitoring for what could go wrong, what might…

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Something to sit with this week… 🔥

Every one of us is running a money story — a set of beliefs about abundance, worthiness, and what’s possible financially that we absorbed long before we were old enough to consciously evaluate it.

For some people the story is “money is always tight and probably always will be.” For others it’s “wanting…

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May — and as autumn deepens around us here in Queensland, there’s a natural invitation to turn inward and get honest about what we’re actually working with. 🔥

This month we’re exploring a topic that touches everyone, yet most of us were never really taught to examine consciously: our relationship with money — and more specifically, the…

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April — quieter than it looked from the outside, and more revealing for it. 🔥

We invested this month looking honestly at the patterns running in the background of our daily lives. Not with judgment — with curiosity. And that distinction, small as it sounds, changes everything about what becomes possible.

Because here’s what I know from…

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As we near the end of April… 🔥

Real change in our patterns rarely looks dramatic.

It doesn’t usually arrive as a revelation that instantly rewires everything. It comes in the pause before the automatic response. The moment of noticing — oh, there it is again — and choosing, just this once, to do something slightly different. The…

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Something to explore this week… 🔥

There’s a particular quality that the people who change most effectively seem to share — and it’s not willpower.

It’s curiosity.

They approach their own patterns with the same interested, non-judgmental attention they might bring to an interesting problem. Not what’s wrong with me? but isn’t that interesting — I…

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Patterns don’t usually persist because we’re unaware of them. Often we know, on some level, exactly what we do and why. The more interesting question is: what does the pattern give us?

Every habit — even the ones we’d rather not have — serves a function. The late-night scrolling is often not really about content.…

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Something to sit with this week… 🔥

One of the most revealing things you can do is spend a day observing yourself without judgment.

Not changing anything. Not fixing anything. Just watching.

Notice what you automatically reach for when you’re stressed. What you do with unstructured time. The thought that arrives first when something goes wrong.…

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April — and autumn is settling in beautifully around us here in Queensland. 🔥

There’s something about this season — the slowing, the cooling, the invitation to turn a little more inward — that makes it perfect for this month’s exploration.

Because what we’re looking at in April is something that operates mostly in the background of our lives.…

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As we near the end of March… 🔥

Every pattern in our relationships with others begins with the relationship we have with ourselves.

How honest we are about what we’re actually feeling. Whether we trust our own perceptions or instinctively look for external validation. How we respond to our own needs — with curiosity and care, or with dismissal…

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Something to explore this week… 🔥

Here’s something that gets misunderstood almost constantly: boundaries are not walls.

They’re not rejection. They’re not aggression. And they’re not a sign that something is wrong with a relationship.

Boundaries are, at their core, an act of profound honesty — with yourself and with the people you care about.…

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There’s a particular quality to the connections that nourish us most deeply — and it’s not always about how long we’ve known someone, or how much we have in common on the surface.

It’s about resonance. That sense of being genuinely met — seen, heard, recognised — by another person who isn’t asking you to be…

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Here’s something worth sitting with this week… 🔥

We spend so much energy presenting the version of ourselves we think others want to see.

In friendships. In workplaces. In families. Sometimes even with ourselves.

And yet the moments that feel most real — most nourishing — are almost always the ones where we dropped the performance and just…

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Welcome to the very first month of Phynix Rising. 🔥

If you’re here, something in you is already awake to the idea that your life can be different. More honest. More aligned. More genuinely yours. And that awareness — that quiet but persistent knowing — is the most important thing you’ll ever bring to this space.

This month we’re beginning with…

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