Hi friends and welcome to Another World is Possible!
I’m Annette, mother, writer, and self-confessed selkie1, living and swimming on the east coast of Ireland.
A (reformed) nature and climate activist with a love of trees and wild swimming, I write to find ways through the cracks of this breaking, broken world, and to dare imagine a future more beautiful.
How do we reclaim our power, in a system that insists we have none?
And what might this look like for me, for you, for all of us?
I want my words to make a difference in the world. I want to inspire, which is to “give breath”. Inspire people, inspire change, inspire hope: hope as the lifting of a weight, the tending of a wind-blown flame, and momentum. I write to make the revolution irresistible.
May you find this space a refuge from the daily grind – a pause, to catch your breath, and slow down long enough to notice the beauty of this aching world, our only home.
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About me
A writer, wild swimmer and (reformed) nature and climate activist, I live by the Irish Sea in Wicklow, Ireland, with my husband and our four French-Irish kids.
You can find me and my words within the pages of The Art of Wild Swimming: Ireland and Swimming Wild Ireland: A Celebration of Ireland’s Incredible Wild Swimming Communities, both by Vicky Allan & Anna Deacon.
In 2024, I became a published author with an essay on my first ever skinny dip. Read it in Sensual Soul Shine: the Reclamation of the Feminine (free with an annual paid subscription).
I recently launched the SELKIE CIRCLE, an online women’s journey through the seven stages of the Selkie's story, to reclaim our power in a world that insists we have none.
With love & relentless hope,
Annette x
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In Celtic lore, a selkie, or seal-woman, is a mythical creature that shapeshifts between seal in the water and human form on land, by putting on or removing her sealskin.
Entraide translates ‘mutual aid’, but it doesn’t quite have the same ring to it, does it?
