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Our Kin: Kait Oliver | Melbourne, Australia

Our Kin: Kait Oliver | Melbourne, Australia

Owner of a personalised food delivery business, The Green Chef, shares her story of starting a business during the beginning of a global pandemic...

Connecting through stories: literature that helps us escape, evolve … and eat.

Before we had books, we had stories. We had verbal narratives, images etched onto cave walls, pictographs on scrolls of papyrus. The first storie...

Our Kin: Lori Curran | Melbourne, Australia

We spoke with Lori Curran, massage therapist and yoga instructor and at The Humble Nook in Melbourne. She shares her tips on staying grounded and...

Loco Love Holy Cacao: Artisanal Chocolate with Restorative Properties.

It’s back. For those of you who are familiar with Loco Love’s Holy Cacao medicinal mushroom blend, those two words will have just made your day. ...

Our Kin: Kate McCready | Melbourne, Australia

Kate McCready on countering 'dot-com' culture and filling our emotional well. We get ‘swept up’. I don’t actually know when ‘hustle’ becam...

Not Just A Prop: How my linen yoga bolster became an essential part of my daily rituals.

I have two dachshunds. They love (and deserve) the finer things in life. Anything that remotely resembles soft-furnishings in my house is theirs fo...

4 Tips to beat Sleep Deprivation. Why you can’t Ignore It.

You’ve no doubt heard that you should be getting eight hours of sleep every night, but why is this so essential to our lives? Sleeping is not jus...

Our Kin: Tahlee Clarke Campbell | Melbourne, Victoria

“The most important relationship we will ever have is the one we have with ourselves.” Tahlee Clarke Campbell shares her wisdom on nurturing conn...

Our Kin: Leslie Carvitto | Torquay Victoria

Multi-passionate creative, and long-time Kin community member, Leslie Carvitto, shares how years of experimentation lead her to becoming a photog...

Tranquility, creativity and reflection: the ritual of brewing tea.

The story Over the years as I’ve gradually become more mindful, I have fewer anxiety triggers. Things that are out of my control (for example, tr...

Our Kin: Andie Pineda | Melbourne, Australia

From Silicon Valley to running her own Yoga startup in Melbourne, Andie is creating her own version of success. Tell us a little about you...

Journal Prompts for Self-Reflection and Ritual Practices

Rituals and routines help us create a baseline of behaviour and predictability. And right now, with so much uncertainty surrounding us, our rituals...

How To: Step Outside Your Comfort Zone

Are you playing it safe and hiding in your comfort zone? Do you keep finding reasons or excuses to not move forward with something? Or you don't fe...