One Year Later!

Last Saturday marked exactly one year since I signed my book deal with Wiley. Last Saturday, I submitted the final manuscript. Towards the end of the week, we finalised the title (announcement coming soon!). Next up: cover design and marketing strategy.

What a year it's been.

I've been quieter throughout the year, especially over the past few weeks, deep in recovery mode after racing to meet my deadline. I underestimated how intense the final push would be, experiencing both the euphoria of completion and the crash that follows any transformative process.

If you've followed my journey here, you know I took an unconventional approach to finishing this manuscript. I created a structured dynamic with myself through the final stages-setting boundaries, rewards, and accountability whilst crafting each themed chapter as its own intensive period, then allowing proper space for aftercare and reflection. It was unlike anything I'd experienced.

Through this process, I've learnt so much about my relationship with power dynamics, control, surrender, and presence. It's deepened my desire to create transformative spaces for others through The Presence Lab, immersive experiences, and through my art.

I used to worry that I wouldn't be able to connect fully whilst facilitating authentic connections. In one chapter, I wrote about life being a series of cultural experiments. But reflecting on my writing process has made me realise that life is a series of overlapping scenes. We have choices in the roles we play within them, whether we lead or follow. The most authentic moments emerge when I allow myself to be fully embodied, and by doing so, I can create containers for others to experience the same.

My work has always explored identity, power, paradox, presence, ancestry, planet, and technology. This year of writing has shown me how these themes aren't just subjects I investigate- they're lived experiences that shape how we navigate and command our place in the world.

Echo, pictured, has sat through every chapter. He’s now refusing to engage with anything that resembles a deadline.

Here's to the next chapter.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​