Sit with the shit. Admittedly this isn’t the most eloquent start to a piece of writing but its attention grabbing, I hope. No?

I am currently away on holiday and without fail, on every holiday, I have an off day. A day when I feel off beat. Fed up. Unfulfilled. Ill at ease.

I started a regular vision board practise about 4 years ago and not only do I love the whole experience of creating it, I have definitely found it works!

For example: in 2018 I was living in a beautiful, character-filled Victorian terrace in which over 6 years we'd created a lovely family home, but I was desperately craving more light! Because we'd spent so much time and energy making this house into ours, I was in no rush to move. However, when creating my vision board for that year I was drawn to images of dining tables in front of big windows, and being able to work at a desk that looked out onto a big garden, all in a room flooded with light and so images like these featured on my board.

I’d like to pretend that I have had a clearly mapped out plan for how my business has evolved, but I haven’t. My photography stemmed purely from a fact that I loved taking pictures. I love interiors and every year I would take a trip to Syon Park in London for Decorex, a trade interiors show. I would wander round all of the stalls with no real purpose other than to surround myself with interiors inspiration and I would photograph the stalls just for the pure joy of having the pictures to look back on.

I was very happy to be asked to join Nicola on her Follow Your Bliss podcast in April 2020. We talked about my career evolution and desire to find my own creative outlet; how I found this in photography; the importance of visibility and being seen, especially for women; the evolution of finding purpose and the lessons learned from growing my business. Damian Lewis even gets a mention!

Are you scared of what might happen if you truly became all that you could be? I believe we are all capable of amazing things and of course one of our biggest blockers to that is our own belief in ourselves. But I’ve started to see a bigger demon than that, a far more powerful blocker in my own life. The fear of what might happen if all my dreams came true!

I don’t know about you but wearing something I feel good in can impact my entire day and so aside from looking good for your photo shoot, the right clothes have the power to make you FEEL good for your shoot which trust me, makes a huge difference!

Last week I launched my new website. In truth my ‘launch’ was fairly low key, there were no flashing lights or parties that’s for sure. I simply switched my homepage from PRIVATE to PUBLIC and put out a post on Instagram and my other social media channels. It took all of 5 minutes.

I've learnt to swim three times in my life. Well four times actually but the first doesn't count because I never actually managed it. Growing up with parents that couldn't swim meant I never went near a swimming pool until I went swimming with primary school, by which point most of my classmates could already swim. So there was just myself, and John Liversidge, stuck in the shallow end with polystyrene boards on our backs attached by a string tied around our waist (I say string but I have a very distinct memory that it was actually a pair of old nylon tights!!!)

I’ve always loved photography. I remember having a camera as a child. It was one of those long thin ones, a Kodak I think, that would take a film lasting 26 shots. On our family holidays in Dorset I’d carefully ration the shots out over the week we were there, take it to Boots as soon as we got back, wait the 3 or 4 days for the film to be developed and then excitedly examine every single shot, hoping like mad I’d have at least 1 or 2 good ones.

I'd heard of Bréne Brown before of course. Friends had recommended her books, I’d seen her referred to in interviews, but I’d never been prompted to pick up one of her books. That was until Monday. This Monday.