I Started This Today

A soft introduction to why I'm here and what this is.

I want to be honest with you from the very first letter I write here.

I didn’t start this Substack after years of journaling privately and finally feeling ready to share. I didn’t have a vision board with “launch newsletter” pinned to it. I didn’t wake up this morning with a clear strategy and a content calendar and a plan.

I started this today. Just now. Because I built something I believe in and I realised I needed another room for it to live in. Another way for people to find their way to me. Another place where I could sit down, pour something real onto a page, and not worry about whether it was short enough or visual enough or optimised enough for whatever the algorithm wants from me today.

I am so tired of the algorithm.

Not in a dramatic, burning-my-phone kind of way. Just in a quiet, bone-deep way. The kind of tired that comes from trying to distil something tender and true into a caption that hooks people in the first line. The kind of tired that makes you go silent for weeks not because you have nothing to say but because everything you have to say feels too big for the format.

So here I am. In a longer format. With no word limit and no trending audio and no pressure to make it punchy.

This is the hOuse Of nO Substack. And if you’ve found your way here it probably means something in you is also tired. Tired of bracing. Tired of performing okayness. Tired of waiting until you feel ready before you’re allowed to slow down.

What I do, what I teach, what I practice, what I have rebuilt my entire life around, is somatic yoga and nervous system work. Which sounds clinical when I write it like that but is actually just this: helping people come back to their bodies slowly, honestly, and without force.

I work with people who have been living in their heads for so long that their body feels like a stranger. People who are high functioning and completely exhausted. People who know all the right things to do and still can’t seem to rest. People who have read the books and done the therapy and are still, somehow, bracing.

I know these people because I am one of them.

And I built A Soft Place to Begin for all of us. A free introduction to this work: a 2 minute practice and a 10 minute somatic yoga practice for anyone who wants to begin. Gently. Without having to know exactly what they need before they start.

You can find it at thehouseofno.co.za/a-soft-place-to-begin.

But more than that you can find it here. In these letters. In the oversharing and the long paragraphs and the things I probably should have edited out but didn’t.

This is the couch. The real conversation. The room where we don’t have to perform anything.

I’m glad you’re here. 🤍