Whatever You Can Know.

In this episode I’m reading a post I shared on Substack on 23rd October 2026.  I explore anxiety, hope, and our attachment to how we want things to be.  I reflect on how easily we can become caught up in what has happened or what might happen next, and how this connects with the Buddhist Four Noble Truths and the nature of suffering.  It's an exploration of what happens when we hold tightly t...

In this episode I’m reading a post I shared on Substack on 16th October 2026. I reflect on the strange relationship between freedom and feeling trapped. How bringing a puppy into our lives unexpectedly made my world feel smaller, pushed me to seek freedom in ways I hadn't before, and ultimately changed how I experienced the life I already had.  It's about responsibility, perspective, and...

In this episode I'm reading a post I shared on substack on the 9th October 2026. It's about our pup, Figgy, who we've had for 6 months, and about what happens when the things we think we want, don't turn out the way we'd hoped, and finding the freedom to make a different choice. Support the show Connect with Tanya: Website Substack Instagram This episode was recorded on Dh...

In this episode I’m sharing 5 poems that I wrote during a very spontaneous solo trip in northern Vietnam at the end of July 2026. These were also shared on my Substack . The poems were inspired by some of my experiences while I was in Hanoi, Ha Long Bay, Ninh Binh and Ha Giang.  I share a little insight into what inspired each piece, but I feel like, they speak for themselves. Support the show Con...

In this episode, I am reading a post I am shared on Substack on the 26th June 2026. It begins with one simple question that completely caught me off guard: "What are you looking forward to?" I thought I'd have an easy answer, but I didn't. That question led me into a much deeper reflection about hope, anticipation, being present, and how easy it is to spend our lives waiting fo...

In this episode I share a little about what kinesiology is, how it works and what it aims to do. I share a story about what I discovered about our pup, Figgy, during a kinesiology session recently. Figgy was chosen to become an assistance dog for my daughter who is blind, autistic, intellectually delayed and anxious. We discovered some things about how she feels about being a dog, how she felt abo...

In this episode I share the very real, deep and honest truth about how I've really struggled, and dare I say, absolutely hated, the experience over the past 6 weeks of having a puppy in mine and my daughter's life. I share what I've learnt about my self through this process, the healing of the emotional trauma of being a single special needs mother that's been triggered by our...

In this episode, I am reading a post I am shared on Substack on the 16th April 2026. I share a story about the journal I bought over a decade ago to write my memoir in, and how, 10 years on, I can finally say “I wrote a memoir!” I also share some interesting physical symptoms that presented on the morning I was due to send my book out in the world to agents and publishers, and how memories from my...

In this episode, I'm reading a post I am shared on Substack on the 14th March 2026. I talk about how the beliefs I created as a child to feel safe, shaped me into a resilient, self-reliant, helpful and independent adult who was too afraid to ask for help, in fear of being rejected.  And how a recent cry for help to alleviate the financial burden of purchasing and training an assistance dog fo...

In this episode I’m reading a post I shared on substack on 17th feb 2026. This is a  vulnerable and somewhat uncomfortable giant cry for help.  If you’ve been following me for a long (or even short) time, you’ll know that my daughter, Mackenzie has a disability and the impact of her multi-faceted diagnosis is layered in the most beautiful and complex.  I’m sharing some insight and reasoning into a...

In this episode, I am reading a post I am shared on Substack on the 21st December 2025. I’ve made the decision to create audio versions of my written content to ensure the blindness and low vision community, or people who just prefer to listen, can access and enjoy my muse.  I share the current astrological and Chinese zodiac influences affecting me and us, as a collective, at the moment. I talk a...

In this episode, I am reading a post I shared on Substack on the 8th December 2025. I talk about my phone addiction and the random things that I allow myself to doom scroll on and the few practices I have to create space from the addiction.  Support the show Connect with Tanya: Website Substack Instagram This episode was recorded on Dharug Country and I acknowledge and pay my respects to the tradi...

In this episode, I am reading a post I shared on Substack on the 18th November 2025. I have made the decision to create audio versions of my written content to ensure the blindness and low vision community, or people who just prefer to listen, can access and enjoy my muse.  It’s a gentle reflection following my daughter writing her school captaincy speech and the softness that is blossoming as she...

In this episode, I am reading a post I shared on Substack on the 29th of October 2025. I have made the decision to create audio versions of my written content to ensure the blindness and low vision community, or people who just prefer to listen, can access and enjoy my muse.  It’s all about the fear that I am causing damage to my daughter’s nervous system, as opposed building her resilience and ad...

In this episode, I am reading a post I am shared on Substack on the 27th Sept 2025. I have made the decision to create audio versions of my written content to ensure the blindness and low vision community, or people who just prefer to listen, can access and enjoy my muse.  It’s titled ‘ I'm not ready to let go of my daughter's messy trail of fingerprints on the walls’. I share how seeing...

In this episode, I am reading a post I am shared on Substack on the 13th Sept 2025. I have made the decision to create audio versions of my written content to ensure the blindness and low vision community, or people who just prefer to listen, can access and enjoy my muse.  It’s titled ‘ I can’t be your medicine ’. I speak about the challenges I am currently facing with my daughter's anxiety a...

In this episode I share a poem/piece I wrote for substack, inspired by my 44th birthday. You can watch it as a reel here  on IG. Support the show Connect with Tanya: Website Substack Instagram This episode was recorded on Dharug Country and I acknowledge and pay my respects to the traditional custodians of this land. 

In this episode, I am reading a post I am shared on Substack on the 9th May 2025. I have made the decision to create audio versions of my written content to ensure the blindness and low vision community, or people who just prefer to listen, can access and enjoy my muse.  It’s titled ‘The sock dilemma’. I speak about the challenges my blind daughter faces to achieve simple, everyday tasks that able...

In this episode I share a realisation about the power of choice and feeling resistance to an essential part of a new job I started. We have the ability choose. When we say YES to something, we have to remember that we’re saying yes to all of it - the ‘good’ and the ‘bad’. Or, in the words of the Buddha, what the mind perceives as being pleasant and unpleasant.  I talk about the mind having a tende...

In this episode I am reading a post I am shared on Substack on the 26th April 2025. I have made the decision to create audio versions of my written content to ensure the blindness and low vision community, or people who just prefer to listen, can access and enjoy my muse.  It’s titled ‘I always feel good about myself’. It’s about my passion for learning and the desire I’ve had in recent years to h...

In this episode I talk about how not working at the moment has opened up some space to focus on myself, which feels incredibly confusing, because I have been all give give give for, well, forever.  I share some recent events that led me to contemplate what I’m passionate about and what I like doing for ME. I talk about how how my daughter’s needs and disability impact on my capacity to participate...

In this episode, I am reading a post I am shared on Substack on the 10th April 2025. I have made the decision to create audio versions of my written content to ensure the blindness and low vision community, or people who just prefer to listen, can access and enjoy my muse.  It’s titled ‘Savant skills and feeding tubes’. It’s about savant syndrome and my daughter’s incredible memory and her journey...

In this episode I share a story about a recent experience I had at a breathwork event and how all the 'bells and whistles' diminished the experience. I talk about the influence of social media luring and enchanting people into healing spaces that fail to create a safe space to heal. I dive into some thoughts around authenticity and integrity, the lack of wise and embodied teachers in our...

In this episode I am reading a post I am shared on Substack on the 2nd April 2025. I have made the decision to create audio versions of my written content to ensure the blindness and low vision community, or people who just prefer to listen, can access and enjoy my muse.  It’s titled ‘Oh, but just how trusting can you be?’ It’s all about the feeling of the loss of financial security and how that’s...

In this episode, I am reading a post I am shared on Substack on the 26th March 2025. I have made the decision to create audio versions of my written content to ensure the blindness and low vision community, or people who just prefer to listen, can access and enjoy my muse.  It’s titled ‘I’ve been in a funk. And by funk I mean, really freaking irritated’. I share some truth about feeling pretty irr...