I can’t tell you how excited I am to be showing this to you, finally.
From my life, to your coffee table or beside your bed— a real life piece of hard-cover beauty that merges Vitality, Womanhood, Food and God.
When I walk past my copy of Body Luxury, as it sits on top of my very boujee, limited edition Assouline books, I get a jolt of joy each time.
It’s not just the cover (even though, it is stunning), but it’s the peace and freedom I now know, after decades of wondering whether I ever would.
Body Luxury is a philosophy that was created over 37 years.
From a child with health anxiety (yep, a child)….
an athlete….
an over achieving eldest daughter….
a girl who’d pick the sultanas out of the cereal, and many other disordered habits….
a studious researcher with a BSc(Hons) in the field of exercise and health science…
an 8 figure wellness entrepreneur in my mid twenties….
a holistic health nerd and ‘natural everything’….
a crunchy mum who learned that some of it is just anxiety dressed up…
a mother of 3 desperate not to pass on my ‘old food stuff’ to my kids…
an Aussie woman who lived all over the world, but was utterly transformed by life in Italy, and one moment with a butterfly cupcake in the English Countryside…
a woman who knows there is a time and place for it all, and not to cling rigidly or else God will ensure humility is learned…
a woman learning what it truly means to live biologically, how God designed us differently to men, that our symptoms tell a story, and how so much of the world has health all topsy turvy…
a woman joining the dots between a womans’ creativity, her aliveness, the beauty that surrounds her….
a woman who is finally free, after so many years wondering if she ever would be.
I tell this story through the book I have called, a museum. A living, breathing collectors item containing words from The Body Luxury philosophy.
If you’ve followed my work for any amount of time, you know how much I believe in craftmanship and beauty we can hold in our hands. In a world of AI slop and print-on-demand (time and a place!), going the extra mile to make something special is so worth it.
I also believe that witnessing, creating, holding and appreciating beautiful art is life giving for women.
I didn’t just make you a beautiful book— I’ve invited you into a museum of 312 coloured pages, so I could offer you some of my freedom and peace….
with no screens.
As you flick through the pages, you’ll walk through a museum of words I’ve written, personal discoveries I’ve made and old beliefs I’ve let go of.
You’ll read a back story about my anxieties as a child, why this journey is so tender for me, and just how long I’ve been seeking this kind of freedom.
You’ll receive the Body Luxury manifesto, but made aesthetically as gorgeous as God made our bodies.
You were not meant to spend your life obsessing over what to eat.
It’s not about the brownie, it’s about the woman eating it.
Your body responds to what you believe about yourself, more than what’s on your plate.
Noticing beauty will do more for your vitality than your 87 wellness gadgets.
Your ruthless self honesty is your best beauty serum.
When you’re over obsessing about your food, you are under living.
You can be vital, vibrant, hot, nourish your body, have a standard, but not fear foods all at the same time.
You can mature from a wellness girlie to woman living in the gloriousness of her God given biology— no longer competing with it or trying to make up for it with a 9834 item supplement stash.
The root cause is that you forget that the Kingdom of God is within you.
I made this book to be an heirloom for our daughters,
a collectible for the woman who wondered whether she’d ever be free,
a jolt of joy and a reminder of freedom, every time you walk by the book in your home.
I made this for my own daughters, with the hopes they can live the freedom and vitality God intended for women….
And so they can avoid the ever-looping health/wellness anxiety that took so much peace from me when I was young (you’ll discover in my book just how young it started for me).
I also made this for the women of my generation— you— who know very well the pipeline from innocent childhood, to disordered eating, to wellness anxiety and wondered if they’d ever be able to be both vibrant and hot, and still at peace.
I want you to know you can.
Body Luxury is where the wellness girlies mature into a relaxed vitality. You know, like the hot, thriving, older European women who’ve never heard the word Biohack in their lives?
Body luxury is the life that’s possible when we know how God truly designed us, and that relentless food anxiety was not part of that plan.
Body Luxury is not body positivity, nor is it wellness girlie obsession— it’s beyond them both. It’s a settling in to the way God designed us—and letting that faith be an essential nutrient.
The aesthetic is European Wellness X Australiana spunk.
It’s Mediterranean long table lunches X grounded English Countryside scones.
You can open it to any page and be served up short pieces, long ones or poetry that make you exhale.
The first print is limited. It ships worldwide from my home town of Perth, Western Australia.
Designed by a long time design partner of mine, Emily. You can find her info here
Shout out to Michaela, my creative right hand and my actual saviour on many occasions for almost 10 years now.
Also, a long time reader Stephanie Mendeloff edited the words and I was so glad to have someone from this community who knew the work— ensure I wasn’t repeating myself too much ;) Thanks Steph!
This is stunning! I am won over by French blue & yellow, and the croissant azulejo style … look forward to getting my hands on one when I can
A manifesto of a life well lived. Looking forward to experiencing !