Welcome, welcome!

I’m Anthea, writer, poet, and teacher.

So a bit about me.

I had an unusual upbringing, with both my parents being qualified life and consciousness coaches. After completing her PhD, my mother trained as a Kundalini Yoga teacher, a deeply spiritual type of yoga that incorporates mantra meditation with yoga. So I was a child when I first started yoga, meditation, and other spiritual mediums. Mornings in my house were eating scrambled eggs while enchanting mantra music streamed down the stairs from my mom’s yoga room and office.

We grew up in not just a multi-cultural house, but also a multi-spiritual one that embraced what my father always called being a “citizen of the Universe”. Our house was filled with images from every spiritual tradition, from Greek orthodox icons, to Zen lotuses, tapestries of Ganesh, to more Buddhas in our garden than was surely reasonable. I loved it.

So by the time I was a teenager, I was given every tool to develop a startling level of self-awareness and prioritising personal development and the needs of my soul. This has both set me apart from others, just as it has connected me with the most incredible path for my life, my work, and an exploding community of people across the world who see a new, more enlightened future for Planet Earth.

As for writing, I’ve wanted to be an author – and I’m not joking – since I was 5.

I was a young teenager when blogs exploded onto the scene and you bet I had many - some more cringe-worthy than others! Since then, I’ve gotten two degrees with honours in English Literature and Drama, as well as my Masters in Journalism. I’ve studied Creative Writing at Oxford University, and been published in numerous publications like Smart Company, The Constructive Journalism Project, Screen Space, Elephant Journal, The Wade Institute of Entrepreneurship and more. I have been a Shakespearean theatre performer, a healthcare podcast producer, a videographer, and I currently work as a freelance marketing strategist and copywriter!

Writing and poetry has been my home through every challenge and experience, every major transition, every death and rebirth of my self. I even wrote a book when I was 18 about the experience of being a conscious young woman. This book, as well as collections of poetry and writing, have lived on my computer for YEARS, waiting for the time when I was ready to put them out into the world.

I always thought that when I was ready there would be some fanfare, a “launch” that would go: “Hi World! I have finally put my writing out there and now look!”

But I think this expectation, and quite possible a lot of divine timing, has prevented this work from coming into the world until now. The big German parade in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was famously shot in one go – and I equated my writing and me being a writer in the same way. I had one shot and it never seemed perfect enough. What sabotage this idea has done me in so many aspects of my life!

So I have done away with it and am fully embracing a space of experimentation and exploring – as uncomfortable and scary as it feels sometimes.

At the risk of sounding like a mad scientist, welcome to my experiment!

Ciao bella,

Anthea