Media
Favorites:
Does Buddhism Really Work? Buddhism and Psychotherapy Eastern Horizon, January 2026
Heartbroken, I moved to a monastery The Guardian and the Daily Mail, 2010
What is love? TEDxDouglas, 2014
Enlightenment is where you least expect it Huffington Post, 2014
Other Publications and Presentations
Healing Trauma Through Sangha Sakyadhita International Conference on Buddhist Women, Kuching 2025
Porridge Karma: A Zen Buddhist Autoethnography. Presentation to the European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Edinburgh 2025
My Body Might Speak. Presentation to the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care 2024, and Kazuaki Tanahashi’s Zen Calligraphy Intensive 2025
Love is an Action—But How? Presentation to the Critical Autoethnography Conference, Melbourne 2023
How Are You Moved? Collaborative facilitation at the International Conference of Autoethnography, Bristol 2023
The Map To Where I Live Journal of the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives, 2022
Featured in the Sunday Telegraph, Against My Will, Choice and Better Judgment I Found Myself Helplessly In Love: couples explain how their differences don’t stand in the way of happiness. 2022
How Online Zen Retreats Are Helping Me Get Through Lockdown, inaugural issue of The Breakdown, 2020
Three Weeks in Madagascar and Don’t Mention Eat Pray Love, Rebellious Tourist, 2019
Buddhist Practice and Relationships, Journal of the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives, Autumn 2018
Quoted as a therapist in ‘Expat Guilt’, Global Times 2017
Ghosts in The Wisdom of Not-Knowing: Essays on psychotherapy, Buddhism and life experience, Triarchy Press 2016
Facebook censors women’s voices Huffington Post, 2014
Advice to a 20-year-old self (abridged from blog) Huffington Post, 2014
Mixing faiths interview by Jumoke Fashola on BBC Radio, 2014 (6 mins.)
This could be just the tonic for the stressed-out, Isle of Man News, 2014
The intelligent body Manx Tails, 2013
NHS recognises that mindfulness meditation is good for depression The Guardian, 2013
Men and women at the monastery The Guardian, 2013
Christmas can be very Zen The Guardian, December 2012
A Buddhist Christmas interviewed on BBC Radio London, 2012 (7 mins)
What’s Zen meditation? Gallery, 2012
Engaged Buddhism, Network of Engaged Buddhists journal, 2011
Zen and social media Journal of the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives, 2011
From the monastery to the Isle of Man Manx Life, 2011
Editor, The Buddhist Society’s journal 2010-11
Time Out London’s annual guide to alternative health, in Time Out Health & Fitness 2007
Literary Critic Time Out London 2006-08, including Interview with Charles Frazier
Columnist Thailand Time Out 2002-03, including The New Man
Travel writer, Aftonbladet 2002-03
On Being Eurasian, Elle Thailand 2003