19/09/2026
Sometimes support looks very ordinary. 🤎
Yesterday, I carried a little piece of my sister with me.
A while ago, she brought me a beautiful hand-painted tenugui from Japan. Yesterday, I wrapped my Bee’s Holistics business cards in it and, for the first time, found the courage to walk around, introduce myself and hand my cards to people at the Socially Shared Online Community networking event in Harborne.
She was with me in a small way....and I was with her too🌿
Then last night, she messaged me with some wonderful news.
She has been going through something big in her own life, and over this period she let me be there for her listening, talking things through, and supporting her emotionally when she needed it.
She asked for help.
And I’m so grateful that she did.
This morning, I made myself a drink with the matcha she also brought me from Japan, and I found myself thinking about these little threads of care that run between us.
A message. A conversation. A piece of cloth brought home from a journey. A cup of matcha. Someone saying, “I’m struggling with this.” Someone else saying, “I’m here.”
As World Wellness weekend begins is a core part of it for me, perhaps this is the thing I most want to say:
Please don’t be ashamed to ask for help 🤎
Your worries are not silly because someone else might not understand them.
Your thoughts are not something you have to hide because you fear being judged....and struggling with something does not mean you have to struggle with it alone.
Sometimes looking after our includes professional support.
.and sometimes it begins much more quietly:
with having one person we can tell the truth to.
Someone we know we can .
I’m deeply grateful that my sister and I can be that for each other. Allowing ourselves to need one another has strengthened our too.
We are not meant to carry everything alone.
And if something feels heavy at the moment, perhaps your first step doesn’t need to be having all the answers.
Perhaps it can simply be telling someone
“I could use a little support.” 👐🏻
Because sometimes begins with letting one person know that you need them.