Welcome to the best selling Substack publication, Honeycomb (Formerly known as The PK Diaries).
Here you’ll find indulgently honest tales from my late-30s renaissance, and words on creative freedom, vitality and faith in motherhood. I’ve built 7 figure businesses (over a decade ago), published scientific research, self published 4 books but by far my greatest ‘achievement’ is that I’m married nearly 10 years to my husband Erik — We have a family and a life I once dreamed of as one of four siblings raised by a single mumma in a very-colourful suburb of Western Australia.
I am as rough as I am deep and I love it. So this is where we give fresh air to those thoughts and wrestles stuck in the crevices. Here, we say the quiet bit out loud.
I write to unburden us, lighten us and connect us.
I believe in cutting right through to the main thing, and as an Australian, my love language is directness. Directness is purifying. So is humour.
I share the art of Body Luxury®— which is relaxed vitality beyond wellness girlie fear, beautiful living, travel & my wrestles with God out loud.
As well as being a mum and a wife, I’m an eldest daughter (if you know, you know!), so I share how I went from a constantly high-achieving, always striving woman, to something a little softer. Like many here, after a lifetime of being a turbo, I took a right turn toward home, God, and biological-ish living.
You’ll get to read about the twists and turns of it all here— mostly writing, with a little video too to keep things exciting.
This space will particularly hit home for the mumma who yearns for that sweet spot between being the present/devoted/never-miss-a-beat mumma, but a creatively fulfilled one too. I love digging into topics like this with questions like, what’s the right amount of self denial Vs self expression? I call this season of our lives, The Mother Summer.
I am an Aussie mum, with three awesome kids and an American husband. We have lived all over the world and in my soul I feel we always will. In recent years we restored a farmhouse in Northern Italy and made it a completely non-toxic, natural chic haven on 60 acres, while still maintaining it’s gorgeous Piedmonte craftmanship (roof arches, drool). We’re a homeschooling, home birthing, all the ‘home’ things family but I am happily rough around the edges and don’t fit into any particularly category or stereotype.
I constantly yearn for another trip, to drink matcha back in a new London cafe, or have a warm chocolate croissant in Italy, or to ride bikes around Copenhagen. I want the quiet life and the full and exciting life at the same time.
I believe that these days of early motherhood are the premo golden days, and I share all of my wrestles in my attempt to truly savour them. I am a stay at home, create from home mum, formerly a turbo high achiever— and I tell the truth about the devotion and the challenge of this.
This is a lifestyle publication where vitality, motherhood, art and God merge.
I’ve been many other things to the world and to my community of over 10+ years— published research scientist, three-time author, speaker, leader, mentor, philanthropist, creator of *Insert brand, project, movement here*. I’ve had lots of success, made top 10 lists and been a devoted seeker — But these diaries tell the story of life beyond seeking and status… the fresh meadow of peace beyond artificial exaltation. Here I share life beyond the self indulgence that has gone a little too far in self help world.
Here, I explore my (wobbly) sanctification and evolving faith as well as the fun, fresh and sometimes boujee wellbeing topics I want to hash out. These are pages for honest tales of motherhood, faith, wellness, creativity— essentially my own pursuit of Truth, goodness and beauty.
I hope reading these diaries feels like being part of a secret club where you snuggle into that soft velvety arm chair, hot tonic of your choice in hand, free to let out the 'ahhhhhhh' that comes with fresh honesty and personal storytelling.
May you laugh, may you nod with that special feeling of 'I can't believe she thinks that too'. May you enjoy the deliciousness of long form writing and intentional exchange, beyond the loudness of (more whiplashy) social media.
Thank you for being here.
Proverbs 16-24. 24
Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.
Love, PK. XX
PS. PLEASE NOTE: I currently do not offer a paid subscription— just a free one :)
