Gaspard Kenny • 20/11/2020 
Treated myself to some beautiful @amy_keevy prints from her latest collection: ‘paintings in ochre: girl on the shore’ to brighten up the bedroom we’ll be sharing with baby 🧡 (because no, I won’t be giving up my office to turn it into a nursery - Maman needs a room of her own.) All our latest art purchases have been to Cape Town based female artists. Supporting artists in these strange times has never felt more important. Who are your favourite local artists where you live? 
2 weeks before we meet our little one... He made himself known the day before we went into lockdown. Taking me on a wild ride of hormones, uncertainty and fear, but also wonder, gratitude and joy. These last two weeks of pregnancy feel like a bridge, a transition into a new stage in my life. So with a heart full of excitement but also sadness for what is coming to an end, I am allowing myself to feel everything. The discomfort of the unknown. My heart bursting open a little more. Grief for life as I know it. Grief for the mother I thought I would be. Gratitude and awe for the mother I came to be. Transitions are messy, complex and beautiful. But one thing I know for sure, is that they bring new growth and resources you never knew you had. Not much longer now, baby boy 💛 🌈 
If you’re a newsletter subscriber and didn’t get an email in a while, that’s cause I didn’t send any 😆 I didn’t mean to just disappear like that, but I needed to tend to my mental and physical well-being, while navigating a pandemic, pregnancy and family challenges. So I focused the energy I had left with my 1:1 coaching clients, which has been so energizing 🥰 As I wind things down towards my maternity pause, I just wanted to remind you that if things look completely different from what you had imagined, revisiting your expectations can be the kindest thing you can do for yourself ❤️ 
This is the last mid-term where it’s just the two of us 💔 in the midst of all the excitement (and anxiety) that comes with welcoming a new baby, motherhood also throws little griefs at you that no one had prepared you for... I’ll be focusing on being truly present for this new moon cycle. Present in my body, present with my baby, present with my big boy, and with the roller coaster of emotions this time brings. 
“Coaching with Marie is like gently and safely being opened up to another world that you've forgotten”. Words from a beautiful and courageous client reconnecting to their creativity 🤗❤️ Picture was taken in beautiful Paternoster where we’ll be spending the weekend with @lunafinula 🎉