This is your Friday affirmation. Take a breath you didn't know you were holding. Exhale. This week's affirmation is for the woman who has been asking for something — quietly, persistently, longer than she'd like to admit — and is starting to wonder why it hasn't arrived yet. Today's affirmation: "What I've been calling in recognises me because I recognise myself." This week's episode with Bronx Witch Aly Kravetz cracked something open for me. Spellwork, she says, isn't primarily about what yo...
Mar 27
4 min
Are you happy? It sounds simple. But for Aly Kravetz — Bronx-born witch, tarot reader, Reiki practitioner and spiritual entrepreneur — that three-word question from her mum became the pivot point for everything: leaving law school, ending a marriage, and building something entirely her own from the ground up during a pandemic. In this episode of The Scenic Route, Aly breaks down Spellwork 101 in a way that makes complete sense even if you've never touched a crystal in your life. Because spell...
Mar 24
30 min
This is your Friday affirmation. Let's pause for a breath you didn't know you were holding. Exhale. This week's Soft Landings affirmation is for the woman who's been spring-cleaning everything except her exhaustion. Today's affirmation: "My body knows what's good for me." Every Spring, you're told to declutter your wardrobe, your habits, your goals, your mindset, and if you don't feel the urge, something's wrong with you. But what if the constant push to optimise is exactly what's keeping you...
Mar 20
3 min
Every spring, you're told to declutter your wardrobe, your goals, your relationships, and your mindset. And if you don't feel the urge? There's a low hum of guilt that says something's wrong with you. This week on The Scenic Route, we're asking: what if that impulse isn't wisdom, and who actually benefits from the story that your whole life needs a seasonal audit? For many women in midlife, spring-cleaning pressure hits differently. You're already navigating a season of your own — one that do...
Mar 17
16 min
It's Friday. Pause for a breath you didn't know you were holding. Exhale. This week's Soft Landings affirmation is for the woman who keeps mistaking her patterns for her personality. For every midlife woman who's been fighting the thing she does instead of getting curious about why she does it. Today's Affirmation: "My patterns kept me safe. I get to thank them and want something different." The thing you keep doing – the overfunctioning, the over-explaining, the keeping yourself small, the w...
Mar 13
3 min
You've done the therapy. You've journalled. You can explain your patterns with real precision — where they came from, what they're protecting, why they formed. And yet. There you are. Doing it again. This episode is about the gap between knowing something and actually being free of it. Insight is a beginning. It's not the destination. And once you really accept that — not as a defeat, but as genuinely useful information — it completely changes where you look. What we cover: Why self-awareness...
Mar 10
26 min
It's Friday. Pause for a breath you didn't know you were holding. Exhale. This week's Soft Landings affirmation is for the woman who's tired of measuring herself against someone else's yardstick. For midlife women exhausted from the endless performance of worth. Today's Affirmation: "I release the belief that my worth is defined by what I've been taught to buy, do, or become." You don't need the right house, the right body, the right title to matter. You don't need to achieve enough, accumul...
Feb 13
2 min
You've been propagandised today. Probably in the last hour. And I'm not talking about political ads or conspiracy theories—I'm talking about ideas that feel so obvious, so natural, so true that you'd never think to question them. In this episode, we explore what propaganda actually is, how it works in modern society, and why the most effective propaganda doesn't look like propaganda at all. Here's what surprised me most while researching this episode: The best propaganda isn't loud. It's not ...
Feb 10
29 min
Exhale. TGIF This weekly affirmation is for you if you've been told that you need a five-year plan when you can barely figure out what you want for lunch. This week's affirmation: "I release the belief that I have to earn my rest." New Soft Landings every Friday. Save this. Share it. Come back to it when you need the reminder. 🤍 About Soft Landings: Every Friday on The Scenic Route, one grounded affirmation to help you rest, reset, and remember you're way back home to yourself. Se...
Jan 23
1 min
"Everyone has ADHD now." You've heard it. Maybe someone said it to you — with a half-joke, half-accusation edge. Like, neurodivergence is just the trend of the season. But what if that reaction tells us less about ADHD and more about the systems we're living in? In this conversation with Kristina Kyser — psychotherapist, educator, and creator of the Neurodivergent Rising course — we pull apart the "ADHD superpower" narrative that's everywhere right now. Because yes, there are gifts: innovatio...
Jan 20
49 min
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