Danielle Martin

When we first realised we needed to leave our yurt, I found myself feeling emotions that I had not really expected. Of course there was the practical stress: where would we go, how would we move everything, what would we do next? But underneath the logistics was something much deeper that took me a while to acknowledge. I was grieving. I was grieving a future I had imagined. The yurt had become more than just a structure we lived in. It represented a choice we had made to step outside of the...

Like many people leaving university in 2008, I entered the world of work through whatever paths were available rather than those that felt intentionally chosen. What I found was not direction, but systems, interlocking structures designed to manage people, risk, and distress. I began working in homelessness, substance use, and frontline care. Over the years I moved through hostels, outreach services, needle exchange programmes, and harm reduction work. Early in my career, I worked in one of...

I work as a sound healer, and alongside this I am currently studying a Master’s in Music Therapy. Holding these two worlds together has deepened how I think about sound, not only as an experiential or spiritual practice, but as something that actively shapes emotional regulation, nervous system states, and psychological change. Studying psychotherapy and clinical frameworks has drawn my attention to an important question that underpins all therapeutic work: how does change actually happen?...