Somewhere Smack Bang in The Middle of a Grief Crisis.
How will life hit us when direct danger has passed? Isn’t it amazing how humans manage to adapt so well to almost any situation? It’s like we’re hardwired to keep moving forward and face difficulty in the moment. But then there’s the other end of that stick… the moment we are out of danger and… Read More
Death of the Information Expert.
What Happens When Knowledge Stops Being Rare? The world is fundamentally changing, and we can no longer pretend it isn’t. I see a lot of thoughtful leaders and high-capacity humans feeling unsettled right now, even if many can’t fully explain why. The world is changing incredibly fast and there’s this unsettling feeling that something important… Read More
When People Pleasing Becomes a Business Problem.
It looks like care… but it feels like exhaustion. James is amazing at what he does. He has more clients than he’ll ever need, a strong reputation, known as the trustworthy one, the go-to person in his industry. If you need help, he’s there. If something goes wrong, he steps in. He treats all his… Read More
The True Cost of Weak Boundaries.
A client of mine arrived at the session with that familiar, frustrated look on her face. She had been let down again. Another cancellation. “Why does this keep happening to me? I feel like I can’t trust people anymore. Why does it feel like no one cares about others anymore?” She was upset, confused, and… Read More
Growth Begins Where Familiarity Ends
Are you naturally drawn to new experiences… or do you tend to stay within the boundaries of what feels safe and known? Most of us are trained to stay within the boundaries of what we think we like, but we don’t grow by staying inside certainty. In fact, there is real benefit in actually choosing… Read More
How Persona Culture Is Costing Us Our Authority
Persona, power, and the quiet erosion of inner authorship. We have a persona problem, and it’s bigger than branding. In fact, it’s both cultural, psychological, and ethical. We live in a time where humans are being packaged and sold into digestible identities: the breath guy, the dopamine guy, the manifestation woman, the shadow worker, the… Read More
When Trees Sing: Where Mysticism Meets the Nervous System
Stand in a forest long enough and something in you slows without being told to. Your breathing changes, your shoulders drop. Even your thoughts stop chasing each other. And even though nothing has been fixed or solved, something feels different. This is the territory I’m working in now. And it’s not a project in the… Read More
Storytelling Series: She Who Walked Through Fire
About The Mindful Viking: Storytelling Series Long before we had logic, strategy, or psychology, we had story — the ancient way humans shaped chaos into meaning.It’s how the brain first learned to orient itself in a wild world, and that hasn’t changed, no matter how refined or rational we pretend to be. Even now, with minds… Read More
Why we Struggle to Find Balance
#AskMadelaine This is the corner of the internet where you bring the things you’re actually thinking about — the ones that don’t fit into tidy boxes.Not advice. Not fixes.Just real humans asking real questions — and me meeting you there: real, raw and honest. Got a question? Email yours HERE QUESTION:“I’m trying so hard to… Read More
The Compressed Human
Why I Refuse to Become an Algorithm (And Why You Should Too) Everywhere you look, the world is sprinting in one direction — faster, louder, more automated, more content, more “optimise your life,” more “produce or disappear.” And I don’t know about you, but I’m exhausted by it, not because I can’t keep up, but… Read More