The Chinese character 李 [Lǐ] means plum.

This is the surname I was born with.

In Chinese mythology, plum symbolises hope, strength and renewal.

Straddling two seasons, the Plum tree endures the harsh, cold winter yet promises fruits and flowers when the ice finally melts.

Beauty is present even in the darkest times.

I am interested in what happens when we allow our fears to fertilise the plum tree so it can grow juicy plums and bloom into plum blossoms.

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My guilt, shame and fears have long kept me small, silent, shrinking.

Repressing my truth, fawning, over-caretaking other people’s needs so that I could feel a semblance of okay inside.

I learned very quickly that enmeshing with another person’s experience was an excellent way to keep me feeling safe.

What I did not realise was the layers of frozen I was in, until I began thawing.

These days, I am less interested in labels to understand my experience, though the potency of expressing our stories makes us feel witnessed and much less lonely.

I want to expand on how we can see, listen, sense and feel ourselves and one another more clearly, with more loving curiosity.

How do the textures within feel like as we relate to each other?

How do we move from fixity to flow, from suppression to expression?

These are questions my life keeps me asking.

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I spent the last three years working as a coach supporting folx recovering from financial abuse. Prior to that, I worked as a social worker in the realms of family violence, homelessness and mental health in non-profits organisations that helped but also harmed.

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I used to thrive in crisis work, where it was one way to feel my own aliveness. Until one day, burnt out and depleted, I knew it was no longer what I wanted to experience anymore.

I realised that no amount of trying to Change the outside world mattered if I was unwilling to meet what was also asking to be Changed within.

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I am deeply committed to my own path of healing, healing as in being in touch with more of me so I can meet more of Life with levity, moment to moment, no matter what Life reveals.

Relaxed and ready.

That’s the vibe I am cultivating, like a soft furry cat unfurling towards the warmth of the sun, ready to swipe their paws at a growling dog at any second.

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I live and practice on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people of the Kulin Nation, whose enduring embodied connection to Country remains anchored in hope, strength and renewal.

In my free time, I love dressing up, nerding out on astrology, watching fantasy K-dramas and dancing.

I am moved by the cadence of everyday: birds singing each morning, possums rummaging the apple tree outside my front door all night, my neighbour making me poached pear and pasta.

I am here for ease, for connection, for giggles, for beauty, for love.

They are the simple pleasures of life I desire to experience more often than not, the bedrock that re-generates my capacity to meet Life as is.

I want to witness you expand into a life you love with your whole heart.

I am dreaming a world into being where we attune to real liberation from the inside out, every drop a ripple in the rhythm of our material reality.