Honour
what you need
to thrive
Hello. I’m Anya.
I offer coaching, mentorship, and creative thinking
to smart, sensitive souls
so they can be beautifully different in a world that wants them to hustle for their self-worth.
“What if we stopped celebrating being busy as a measurement of importance?
What if instead we celebrated how much time we had spent listening, pondering, meditating, and enjoying time with the most important people in our lives?”
— Greg McKeown, Essentialism
Tough conversations feel easier
I make hard things feel lighter while honouring the challenges.
My warmth and humour help you talk about what's actually difficult without it feeling heavy or shameful.
People tell me they feel safe, seen, and accepted in ways that let them be honest about what's really going on.
You'll see things differently
I bring alternative perspectives that shift how you understand your situation.
Through visual metaphors, pattern recognition, and the slightly sideways way I see the world, I help you spot connections and possibilities you might have missed.
Sometimes the breakthrough isn't finding a new answer. It's seeing the question from a different angle.
Permission that comes with a plan
You won't just hear 'it's okay to rest'. You'll get frameworks that actually work with your reality.
I combine research-backed approaches with a lived understanding of what it's like to navigate chronic illness, neurodivergence, and a sensitive nervous system.
It's validation with practical support.
Swimming against the tide can feel tough.
You've listened to your body. You've read the books, taken the courses, tried (and occasionally succeeded) to meditate.
You've made choices and discoveries that make you feel better, and a better person to be around - more resourced, more creative, with more capacity for insight and compassion.
And yet .. embracing these choices isn't always easy.
You've been taught that your worth depends on pleasing others.
And paying attention to your needs and choices .. doesn't.
You might be here because:
You're going against what's expected of you, and feel the weight of others' judgement
You're burnt out from trying to fit systems and circumstances that weren't designed for your nervous system
You know what you need to take care of yourself but are struggling to justify it - to yourself as much as to others
You've made aligned choices, but can find it tough, lonely, or frustrating
Whether you're rejecting hustle culture, finding your creative voice, or seeking support in pioneering places, your sensitivity, unconventional choices, and need for gentleness are valid parts of being human - not character flaws to fix.
This is your permission to be human in a world that often punishes it.
“Anya has a seemingly effortless ability to connect the dots between disparate sources of information in order to create new insights and perspectives.
She shares her knowledge with compassionate grace and humble love such that she attracts support and requests for support from everyone she meets.
She holds space for learning and growth in a way that's inclusive, safe and structured.”
— Carlos Saba, co-founder The Happy Startup SchoolSo. Where shall we begin?
I work in three areas, and they're more connected than they might first appear.
All of them come back to the same thing: helping you honour what you actually need, even when that looks different from what everyone else seems to be doing.
Take a look and see what calls to you.
For those whose perfectionism blocks their voice
If you know what you want to say but can't seem to publish
If being in people's inboxes feels vulnerable
If creative expression feels safer in theory than practice
The shift: From paralysing guilt and shame to recognising that people want to hear from you.
How I help: I spot ideas in what you're saying, identify the emotional blocks (they’re seldom never technical), and help you build practices that work with your nervous system – not against it.
What you get:
Idea generation that turns the jumble in your head into something shareable
Understanding YOUR specific blocks (perfectionism, fear of negative responses, visibility concerns)
Self-compassion work that loosens shame's grip
Support for taking action on what matters to you
This is for people who want to START or KEEP GOING - not scale to thousands.
Newsletter & Creative Expression
Understanding AI Companionship
How can we guide people through this new terrain of grief and connection if we don't start from a place of kindness, curiosity, and generosity?
The feelings people develop toward AI companions are real. So is the grief when something meaningful is changed or taken away overnight.
This is an emerging phenomenon that deserves compassionate, evidence-based frameworks.
Not moral panic. Not pathologising.
Whether you're a helping professional wanting to show up better for clients navigating this quietly, or someone wondering if what you're feeling makes sense — you'll find kindness, curiosity, and research-backed insight here.
Soft Productivity
You already know you need something different.
The world moves at a pace that wasn't designed for sensitive, responsive people. And somewhere along the way, you learned that needing more rest, deeper quiet, or gentler rhythms meant something was wrong with you.
It doesn't.
What if the exhaustion you feel isn't a personal failing — but your system telling you the truth about what it needs? What if you could trust that need, build around it, and discover that slowing down doesn't mean falling behind?
Free courses and resources
Discover
The Unlocking Happiness Summit
The People Pleaser’s First Aid Kit
The A - Z of Happiness podcast
.. and much more!
One more thing before you go
If you'd like to keep exploring these ideas – soft productivity, creative expression without shame, or making sense of what's hard to talk about - my newsletter is where I share more.
Once a month-ish, never pushy, always with tea in hand.
Or if you already know you want support with one of these areas, let's have a virtual cuppa.
No pressure, just a conversation to see if this feels like the right fit.
