08/02/2026
I’ve been a little quieter on here lately, and I want to share why.
Over the few months, I’ve been navigating some serious health challenges and needed time away from social media to heal, recover, and figure out what my new normal looks like. Living and working with multiple invisible disabilities has been confronting, especially when photosensitivity and neurological symptoms made even looking at a screen, let alone replying to messages, impossible at times.
To everyone who reached out with kindness, love, and support via DMs: thank you from the bottom of my heart. And to anyone I haven’t replied to yet, please know it was never from a lack of care, just limited capacity during some very difficult stretches.
Recently, I had an appointment with one of the top neurosurgeons in the world (not for surgery, but for guidance on management and limitations). That appointment brought a lot of clarity, and a few surprises. Alongside a pineal cyst and compression that can affect CSF flow, I was also diagnosed with Chiari Malformation, something I didn’t even know existed until he showed me my MRI and talked me through it, as it had never been mentioned in any prior reports, (along with the compression itself - exactly why it is worth its weight in gold to chat with people who know their s**t, because serious, life altering things get left out of reports, more so if you're a woman).
Anyway, despite all of this, I’m still here, and I’m still doing what I love. And I do intend to live as much of a long, and normal life as possible.
That said, I do need to reduce the number of clients I take on each year so I can better manage severe photosensitivity, disabling migraines, and vertigo that can make working a real challenge. I will absolutely continue to create, empower, and make people feel and look incredible, just at much lower volumes. This does mean bookings will be more limited and scarce.
Nothing else is changing. This is simply a new normal in how I have to run my business, as a mum to a 1-year-old, and now as someone living with chronic health issues and invisible disabilities that I sure as hell did not have on my life bingo card.
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