About this blog

When I started this blog in 2017, it was initially a creative outlet for my personal ponderings and reflections. A number of friends had suggested that I start one up, and many more have encouraged me along the way to keep writing.

This is a space for anyone, from any background, to pause and reflect (if they so wish). However no one will get too far into my writing before they realise that I am a Christian. Before I am anything else – a woman, an auntie, a chaplain, a teacher, a personal trainer, a daydreamer – I am a Christian. And while I don’t believe in forcing my faith onto others, I cannot separate that which makes up my very being, my identity as a follower of Jesus, from my writing. It shines through in most of my posts, even if what I’m writing isn’t explicitly focused on faith.

The name The Restless Sojourner came to me while I was praying. Originally, the name reflected my own internal restlessness, and the same restlessness I felt from others around me, towards this world that we live in. As the years have rolled on, like tea left to steep, the name has come to reflect more of my life than I originally thought it would (I do believe that God has a sense of humour). At 24 years old I was diagnosed with ADHD… Which, well, really made sense of so much of my life prior, and drastically relieved a crippling burden that would have continued to crush me in life later. For six years I strived to refrain from writing about it, because of so many well-meaning Christian leaders who tut-tutted at me that I should not treat the label of ADHD as an identity. As I grow older, though, I realise that while the diagnosis does not contain my identity, my identity does contain the diagnosis; and as my wonderful friend once put it – “It is not your identity, but it is your reality.”
So, moving forward (I’m updating this page just a few days after I turned 30, in 2026), I don’t particularly plan to focus on this aspect of my life but do plan to allow more openness and candour in my writing about how I experience life; if naturally my writing mentions ADHD, I will not longer censor it unless it detracts anything from the post.

The Restless Sojourner also, apparently, also served as a kind of prophecy in that I have spent the past four years moving from place to place. For a number of reasons I have found myself picking my life up and taking it on the road (with the help of my generous Dad and his faithful work van). I have said many sad goodbyes to old friends in journeys that led to excited hellos with new friends. I have met so many beautiful people and seen some amazing things (in the best and worst ways). This kind of physical sojourning probably deserves its own post one day, when, if ever, I find somewhere to settle. But these upheavals and journeys and landings have offered me new perspectives and have changed and grown me in ways that I’m sure I am still learning about, and will hopefully serve to season my writing.

Many times I have found that it is in conversations with friends and family, and even strangers I have shared moments with, that words start to form and knit together in expression of a thought or idea. So I am thankful to all the people I interact with in my life who inspire me with their wisdom, teach me from their experience, and share with me from their hearts.

My hope is that my writing might encourage, inspire, challenge, and lead people to live life with intention, and to seek God with all that they are.

“I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.”
– St. Augustine of Hippo