It's hard to believe how different my mindset is today from where I began.
Six years ago, I was a fast fashion influencer. I loved posting my outfits online, encouraging people to shop, and building a community around fashion and style. I had around 10,000 followers and was proud of what I was creating. Every weekend, I'd come home with multiple shopping bags, completely disconnected from the impact behind them.
I even aspired to run my own fast fashion business one day.
But life has a way of changing your perspective when you least expect it. For me, that change came through grief, awakening, and eventually... meditation.
The Loss That Changed Everything
In 2019, I lost my nan.
Losing her was devastating. She was someone I loved deeply, and her passing left a hole in my life that I didn't know how to fill. Like many families do after a loss, we began the difficult task of sorting through her belongings, deciding what we would keep, what we would donate, and what we would let go of.
That's when I saw piles and piles of clothes. A lifetime of garments, collected and worn and loved. The pile that would be donated was huge. I noticed jumpers my nan used to wear. Familiar patterns, colours I remembered seeing her in and I hated the idea of them sitting in a charity shop, unsold and unloved.
So instead of letting them go, I kept them.
I decided I was going to transform them into something new. I taught myself how to upcycle, turning her clothes into pieces that would fit me. I recorded the process and shared the before-and-afters online.
What started as a way to honour my nan's memory became something I never could have predicted.
The Awakening
Upcycling my nan's clothes led me down a rabbit hole. I started researching what really happens to unwanted clothes that don't get sold in charity shops. What I discovered changed the entire course of my life.
I learned that billions of garments are dumped every year, polluting landfills and oceans, destroying ecosystems, and harming livelihoods across the globe. The glossy illusion of fast fashion, the industry I had been promoting, the industry I had built my platform on, shattered in front of me.
I realised I had been contributing to this system without even knowing it.
The cognitive dissonance was unbearable. How could I continue to encourage people to buy more, shop more, consume more, when I now knew the truth about where it all ended up?
I couldn't.
So I gave up fast fashion influencing and dedicated my voice to raising awareness about sustainability instead.
From Personal Grief to Global Movement
People resonated with the story. Not just because of the sustainability message, but because of the deeper themes woven through it: love, loss, memory, and transformation. The idea that something old could have a new life. That what we've lost can be honoured and transformed into something meaningful struck a chord with millions of people.
My community grew. Over the last six years, I've spent my time uncovering the truths of the fashion industry and sharing them online. Today, over 250,000 people follow this journey, and together we're creating real change.
In 2023, The Drew Barrymore Show featured my story on an international stage. What began with grief had become a message of hope, a reminder that healing is always possible, even when it feels impossible.
But throughout this entire journey, there was something else quietly transforming me behind the scenes: meditation.
Meditation: The Practice That Gave Me Clarity
As I navigated grief, guilt, and the weight of awareness, I turned to meditation. At first, it was just a way to cope. A tool to quiet the noise in my head and find some peace in the chaos.
But over time, meditation became so much more than that.
It became my anchor. My way of processing. My path to clarity.
Meditation taught me that healing the world begins with healing ourselves. It showed me that through peace, presence, and awareness, we can cultivate stillness in a world that rarely slows down. It reminded me that transformation isn't just about changing our habits, it's about changing our minds, our hearts, our entire way of being.
The more I meditated, the clearer my path became.
And then, fittingly, the idea for House on the Moon came to me during a meditation.
House on the Moon: Where Activism Meets Stillness
I knew it was time for my activism to take a new form. For six years, I had been speaking out online, educating, raising awareness. But I wanted something more tangible. A more hands-on approach to tackling the fast fashion crisis.
That's when House on the Moon was born.
The concept was simple but powerful: create beautiful, high-quality meditation cushions from the very thing I had been fighting against... textile waste from the fashion industry.
We would reclaim brand-new fabrics that would otherwise be discarded, transforming surplus textiles and garments into tools built for stillness. Every cushion would be proof that what harms our earth can be reimagined into something that heals us.
We would work with the fashion system, not against it, by giving waste a second life.
And we would do it slowly, by hand, with intention and care.
Why Meditation Cushions?
You might wonder: of all the things I could create from reclaimed textiles, why meditation cushions?
The answer is simple: because meditation changed my life, and I believe it can change others' lives too.
We believe that healing the world begins with healing ourselves. Through peace, presence, and awareness, we can cultivate the stillness needed to see clearly, act consciously, and create meaningful change.
Meditation is not just about sitting in silence, it's about learning to live with more calm, clarity, and joy. It's about training yourself to respond instead of react. It's about finding the space between stimulus and response, where true freedom lives.
And that practice starts with creating the right environment. A beautiful, comfortable cushion. A dedicated space. A commitment to showing up for yourself.
That's what House on the Moon offers: not just a product, but a tool for transformation.
Looking back, it all makes sense now.
My nan's passing opened my eyes to the fashion industry's impact. That awareness led me to activism. Activism led me to meditation. And meditation led me to create something that honors all of it, the grief, the awakening, the healing, the hope.
House on the Moon is my way of taking everything I've learned over the past six years and creating something tangible, something beautiful, something that actually makes a difference.
What started as a way to honour my nan's memory has become a mission to help others find peace, presence, and stillness in their own lives.
The Journey ContinuesSix years ago, I was a fast fashion influencer who didn't question where my clothes came from or where they ended up.
Today, I run a meditation cushion company that transforms textile waste into tools for healing.
The journey from there to here has been anything but linear. It's been messy, challenging, heartbreaking, and beautiful. But every step—every mistake, every awakening, every moment of grief and growth—led me exactly where I needed to be.
If you're reading this and you're going through your own transformation, know this: healing is always possible. Change is always possible. You don't have to have it all figured out. You just have to keep showing up, keep questioning, keep growing.
And maybe, just maybe, sit down on a cushion and meditate on it.
Because that's where the real clarity comes from—in the stillness!