18/06/2026
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Performative spirituality is something I am done tiptoeing around, and what happened to me on the weekend pushed me to finally say it out loud 💕
I turned up to a spiritual event, hands full, couldn't find my ticket on my phone, needed my glasses, and was met with absolutely zero warmth, zero grace, and zero humanity. People staring, no offer to help, no reading of the room, just a rigid insistence on scanning a ticket while I stood there feeling the ground wanting to swallow me up. I ended up walking away, and I may have muttered "performative bu****it" over my shoulder as I walked off, and that is what flustered ADHD looks like in the moment and I am not going to pretend otherwise!
I cried in the car afterwards, not because of the ticket, but because I had gone looking for community and connection and walked away feeling smaller than when I arrived😭
When I have run events I have always said to my team, if someone can't find their ticket, if they're flustered, if they've got their hands full, just let them in. Read the room. Nobody is trying to swindle their way into a spiritual gathering for thirty bucks! Lead with trust💕
This experience cracked something open in me that goes much deeper than one awkward doorway moment though...
The constant filming of people in their most vulnerable moments, breathwork, grief circles, healing sessions, all of it captured and shared while people are wide open and raw. The hierarchy that hides behind crystals and high ticket prices. The events that look extraordinary on a feed and feel hollow in a room. The subtle but unmistakable energy of people looking down their noses while talking about love and light.
Healing has become a brand and somewhere in that process the actual humans got lost, I don't want any part of that and I never have. What I want, what I have always wanted, is the nitty gritty, the real, the raw, the honest, the messy and the magnificent all at once, because that is where actual transformation lives💕
We don't need more performance. We need more presence, and I am more committed to that than I have ever been ✨💕