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I did not lose my faith. I lost the colonised version of faith that had been used to wound my wairua.

Find Out Before You Choose Your 18-Day Practice

Mōrena e hoa mā. Let me ask you something before we get into the 18-day practice plan.

Have you ever started a wellness habit full of energy — and then quietly abandoned it around Day 5 or 6, not because you didn’t care, but because something about the approach just didn’t fit how you work?

If that sounds familiar, this is the post for you.

The Double Exile, and Why You’re Not Broken — You’re Colonised

I want to tell you about a particular kind of loneliness. The loneliness of being surrounded by people in two different worlds and belonging fully to neither of them.

For a long time, I thought this was my personal failure. A character flaw. Some essential inadequacy in me meant I would always be slightly too much in one direction and not enough in another.

It took me a long time — and a forced stop, courtesy of a redundancy I didn’t choose — to understand that this experience had a name, and that name is not failure. It is the double exile. It was done to me, and to many of us, by a system that has never fully reckoned with what it took.

Kia ora koutou,

Over recent months, I have been quietly developing a new part of the IAnTeMo Counselling journey — a living daily rhythm experience integrating Maramataka and Te Poutama o te Ora (TPO), my nine-dimensional wellness framework.

The Healing Dimension of Creative Expression

There is a world that exists before a life is born.

A threshold. A held space between what is and what is becoming.

Our tūpuna knew this. They built everything around it.