MEET NIKKI
I write about life, how we perceive and process it between occasion and trauma and hinge some humour on the rail so it helps not to fall off.
I live in beautiful Plettenberg Bay, in South Africa - soon to be moving to Cape Town in July of this year.
“Heal your Life” by Louise Hay was like sandwich spread in our house growing up, so there is conscious affinity to doing this bootcamp of life.
I’m a self confessed mayonnaise & cortado snob, and a
lover of good champagne, first.
At least that’s what I think my tombstone should say, before my credentials, and the lists of adversity. I like to think I am an every women, and, what I look like is not the cover of my story.
As a career woman who “forgot’ to have children, I am the owner of an auto-immune disease and a marketing professional. I am also a curator of the arts, writer, speaker and experiential designer and the maker of 48 homes in 44 years, so change has been a consistent driver to pain and growth year on year.
Within the walls of abodes, love stories and a life my friends live vicariously through, as staunch supporters, I have finally established that the only way is to work is well and we can build and design our own strategies to achieve the endeavour to well-being.
That "well" is in the very things I am passionate about from art and creativity, indulging in culture, language and food to exploring the world, now on foot.
THE PHILOSOPHY IS SIMPLE
To be well is to feel free and heal,
To live well is to find the source of your energy,
To work well is to create ideas that improve the lives of others.
I wrote most of a book in the post pandemic transition to moving to a small seaside town from the city of Johannesburg.
Squarely facing a life of compounded trauma, a "litany of loss" and managing an autoimmune disease and my calendar, I realised that coping skills are actually required and everyone in reality needs them. It got me thinking and writing:
Cue: A Word on Well-being / Heals for Hikingboots / Paradox of Choice
We need to rethink society and build back better.
Anyway, then I got a real job and have since promised myself to finish writing something
that will identify as a book this year.