We are Amara, Malik, and Leila — three souls who took different roads through life, only to meet at the same intersection: the pursuit of meaning through truth, reflection, and honest storytelling.
Though we come from different corners of the world — Denmark, Canada, and France — we found each other not by chance, but through a shared resistance to living life on autopilot. Burnout, loss, and disillusionment brought us to our knees — and somehow, to one another.
What began as a series of late-night voice messages between strangers has now evolved into a space where we explore life’s undercurrents together. We don’t write to impress. We write to understand. To notice the quiet things. To make sense of what hurts. And to remind each other — and you — that healing, clarity, and change often begin with a single honest sentence.
✍️ Meet the Writers
Amara Jensen
Occupation: Environmental Journalist & Minimalist Travel Blogger
Current Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Nationality: Danish-American
Amara grew up between Copenhagen and Portland, raised by a Danish mother and an American father who was a marine biologist. Her childhood was filled with nature documentaries, coastal hikes, and weekend forest cleanups. After years working for a large media company in Copenhagen, she experienced severe creative burnout and felt she had drifted too far from her values. In 2019, she sold most of her belongings, left her apartment, and began slow-traveling through eco-villages and permaculture communities in Europe and Africa. A brief stay at an off-grid cabin in the Drakensberg Mountains helped her rediscover her love of writing — not for deadlines, but for truth. She believes change begins in the small moments — refusing plastic, learning the name of a tree, choosing silence.
Malik Thompson
Occupation :Software engineer.
Current Location: Osaka, Japan
Nationality: Canadian (Toronto)
Malik was a gifted programmer who landed a dream job at a fast-growing startup at 23. But the long hours, dopamine loops, and lack of meaning left him anxious, foggy, and deeply disconnected. After a panic attack in a subway station, he took a leave of absence — and never returned. He moved to Japan under a working holiday visa, began teaching English, and started reading obsessively about attention, neuroplasticity, and the effects of overstimulation on the brain. His blog started as a diary for digital detox. Now it’s a widely followed podcast where he experiments on himself and reports the results. He believes the most radical act today is to reclaim control over one’s attention.
Leila Moreau
Occupation: Grief Counselor & Memoir Writer
Current Location: Marseille, France
Nationality: French-Moroccan
Leila had a quiet literary life — translating poetry, working in publishing, journaling in cafés. When her partner, Hugo, died in a cycling accident, she was shattered. She withdrew completely from her life and disappeared to her grandmother’s coastal house in Tangier. There, in stillness and sorrow, she began writing letters she never sent. Those letters eventually became blog posts. People began to write back. Grief became dialogue. Slowly, she returned — not to her old life, but to a new one where she supports others in their own loss through writing workshops and personal essays. She believes there is sacredness in pain, and that writing is a soft torch in the dark.
