Take the life you want
from theory to reality
You know. You know you want ease, you want presence, you want life. You want success that is truly on your terms. You want to feel really in your life, grounded, devoted, free and in charge. You also know, more or less, all the things you should be doing to get that, you just…aren’t.
There’s always something that comes up, always a reason to start next week - it feels so unmotivatingly far away. It’s easier to believe you will start than it is to actually start. But you want it. You really want it. And every day that trickles past feels like more of your life trickling away.
What you really want to do is disappear off to a cabin in the woods. Nothing but the birdsong and the trees and the scratch of your pen on paper, the steam from your tea, the sigh of your long breath. A space where you can be here. A space where you can practise and plan for the life that you want.
Fulfilment isn’t a here to there - it’s an emanating out. It’s poured water on dry earth that spreads. The only thing you need to be here is a here to be in. That cabin can exist in your every day, you just need to practice the way there.
Welcome to The Cabin
The Cabin is a digital location that is all your own. It is a place for you to escape to for a few hours a month and focus on yourself. It is quiet and it is yours.
In every room are books for you to read and notebooks in which to scribble, and every month a delivery of words and ideas will arrive.
The Cabin is cocoon to support and nurture you while you learn to make the cabin of your life.
A supported self-help programme to take the life you want from theory to reality
via monthly essays, activities and Q&As and 121 support
How It Works
Nine months in a place to escape to, to devote time to thinking, and then come back and feel it emanating into your daily life.
Membership site
When you enter The Cabin website you will find rooms already full of inspiration:
The Library with resources and book recommendations
The Bedroom with a dreaming workbook
The Kitchen with planning templates
The Porch with a reflection workbook
The Sitting Room with encouragement and relaxation
These are here for you to drop into whenever you want and need to.
Monthly Deliveries
Each month, a new package will arrive in The Cabin (and your inbox) on a monthly theme. Each package includes an essay and audio, a workbook, suggested rituals and activities. This deliveries serve as the spine and momentum of The Cabin. You can explore the monthly themes in the drop down below.
At the end of each month there will also be a support Q&A, where you can submit questions and thoughts and I will record a response to deliver to The Cabin.
Optional: you can also get 3x one hour 121 text support sessions with me - you can use these whenever you feel you want a little more accountability and support.
Month by month in The Cabin:
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There is no starting without knowing what we desire - to have, to do, to be.
Refresh and recentre what it’s all for
Commitment
Goals vs intentions
Carrying our desires into our lives
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So much more can be real than we imagine, if we always consider the possibility
Living in possibility vs living in doubt
What iffery
Possibility in the big picture and day to day
Developing curiosity
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You get to decide - stop overthinking and start consciously choosing
Conscious choosing as habit
Creating decisions and definitions
Overthinking and underfeeling
Self-empowerment
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What if your life was someone you loved?
Devotion and elevation
Sacred creativity
Devotional practice
Dating yourself
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You don’t need more time, you need more space
Radical prioritisation
Creating space
Maintaining space
Living in space
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Nothing thrives under a tight grip
Being present in your day
Noticing yourself and the world
Being inside your body
This is it
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Making things happen with easeful effort
Harnessing striving energy
Trying that is light and positive
Asking for what you need
The power of completion
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Calling up what you need when you need it
Locating joy and contentment in your body
Locating joy and contentment in your world
Habitually accessing “oozy” feelings
Being your self-sourced bubble
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Living a life that flows
The elusive flow state
Your truth
Self-trust
Being the river
“Genuinely that was the most enlightening and insightful 2 hours I have possibly ever had. I felt quite emotional when I came off the call and like a giant weight that I didn’t even know was there had been lifted.
I can’t actually believe that in the space of a few days my dreams have gone from what seemed to be a far off ‘one day’ pipe dream to something in the not too distant future.”
Less of this…
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Restlessness
Having everything you want to do nagging at you and feeling you’re letting yourself down.
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Waiting
Living in a limbo until you have done “enough” to get to a place where you can live happily.
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Expectation
Doing all the right things and what everyone else wants in a life that doesn’t feel like yours.
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Constriction
The straightjacket of all the things you’ve got to do squeezing out all the things you want.
More of this…
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Serenity
A peacefulness that flows - living easefully and intentionally, grounded in your life
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Space
Mental and emotional room to exist within, space to think, space to be, space to live
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Commitment
To yourself, to your life, to what you love, to what you believe in, to your every day and big picture
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Ooze
Ripe peaches, toes in the sand, steaming morning cups. A life filled with what makes you feel alive.
Who The Cabin is for:
The Cabin is designed for women whose ambition has led them into a life they’re not sure is their own. It’s not that you don’t love your business and your work, you’d just like to do it less - and not feel bad about that. You’ve had enough of letting high achievement dictate your creativity, your work, your hobbies (or lack of) - you’d like to live now, please.
You need help committing and remembering to make the life you want
You want success on your terms and to truly live that
You want to look around and realise you’re just doing it
You want to feel fulfilled in your work, maybe working less or more sustainably
You want to be devoting time to what lights you up
You want to feel free and in control of your own life
You don’t want to keep breaking your promises to yourself
You want some light accountability - not so much it’s overwhelming but a safety net to make you do it
You want to be in a cocoon, a container with a committed energy
You want a life of your own, one that is worth living
The Cabin is not for you if: you are totally lost without a clue of what you want (try Mapping if this you), you want highly personalised one-to-one coaching, you want to work within a group, you want to just follow a curriculum rather than make your own explorations.
The Cabin is rooted in my journey so far (and still come) as a self-employed person, and is therefore better suited to those who have their own business or on-paper control over their working life. If this doesn’t feel like exactly you but you’re still keen to join The Cabin, we can chat about it.
Here are some ways your life will start to change…
You’ll make regular, grounding rituals - daily practices and ad hoc ceremonies
You’ll say “no thank you” to obligation with ease
You’ll fall back in love - with your work, your time, your life
You’ll start that daily walk/writing practice/art project/weekly yoga you’ve been wanting to do - and stick to it
You’ll make all the things you’ve been meaning to do a reality - plus a few you haven’t imagined yet
You’ll care less about the noise, and care more about what’s important
You’ll learn to meet your own needs and care for yourself - before you hit crisis point
You’ll do the things you want habitually, without thinking (like closing the laptop and heading out for a walk in the afternoon)
You are allowed to want what you truly want. You are also wildly capable of living it.
Why Now?
Only you can know whether the “not yet” in your head is the truth or an excuse - and you do know. If you are smiling to yourself it’s because you do know, really, it’s an excuse.
I choose to live with the fear of regret rather than the fear of failure; I want to do and be exactly what and how I want every day so I don’t regret it in 50 days or 50 years. It’s up to you if you decide to feel like that too.
This is exactly the way that I build the cabin in my every day. It’s not a 100% success rate - we are humans with thoughts and emotions and environments that get in the way. But it is how I return to my own fulfilment, and how I continually structure my life to be here. The Cabin is gentle with supportive materials that won’t take over your world. You do not need to clear your calendar for months, it is here to slot in. If you can make a little time, you can make a big life.
There are Circumstances. There is time, opportunity, the school run, the work load, the calendar. There is the fear of failure, the worry that it’s too hard, that it’s too important - or not important enough. There are the ways that your past selves set up your life that you now feel you can’t get out of. There is the patriarchy trying to keep you in a box. This will always be true. There will never be a time where these things don’t exist. So,
if not now, when?
No more days, no more weeks, no more months. No more longing looks out of the window. No more “some day”, no more “when I get there”. No more time in a life you don’t really want. No more life spent unfulfilled.
It’s time to emanate into your life worth living.
A quick reminder of what you’re getting:
4x workbooks and playlists on the membership site - Dream, Act, Relax, Reflect
A library of books, podcasts and miscellaneous inspiration
9x monthly essays on a core theme, also recorded as audio
9x reflective workbooks to integrate the theme into how you approach life
9x monthly practical activities to apply your learnings
9x monthly rituals to ground the theme into your life
9x monthly recorded Q&As
Optional: 3x 121 text support sessions
The Cabin is a once-yearly programme and won’t be available again until September 2023.
The Cabin is currently closed for enrolment and will be back in 2023.