Andrea Balboni

Some days a warm tea in a beautiful space surrounded by fellow humans is all one needs. 🫖

Swiping endlessly.
Avoiding honest conversations.
Rushing intimacy.
Chasing validation instead of connection.

Over time, these habits don’t just affect dating — they follow us into long-term relationships and quietly impact trust, emotional safety, and intimacy.

✨ The good news?
These patterns can be unlearned.

With the right support, dating can become more intentional, grounded, and aligned. This creates a foundation for the kind of relationship you actually want.

If you want guidance navigating modern dating with more clarity and confidence, coaching helps you build healthier, deeper connections with some support.

🔗 DM me and I’ll share with you how it works.

Tremendous exhibit at the Tate Britain of the work and life of Lee Miller. 📷✨ Inspiring and thought provoking, this incredible woman lived life fully, felt deeply, loved daringly…and most remarkably continued to ask questions of life for all of us to see.

Highly recommend a visit. And if you have been, what did you feel as you moved through her life and work? 👇🏼 I’m listening.

🙄Will this year be any different for me and Naz?

I’ve been sitting with this question as we move into 2026. Not with urgency or pressure to fix everything at once (or anything at all), but with the gentle curiosity that this season invites, should we decide to move with the slow and stillness of it.

❄️Each year, I reflect on my relationship with Naz. I ask:
- What’s been lost along the way?
-What needs attention?
-How do we want to experience love and intimacy this year?

And then we consider it together.

❄️ I’ve just published a guide for anyone wanting to do the same—without the typical New Year’s pressure to overhaul everything overnight.
Inside, you’ll find:

✨ Reflection prompts for meaningful check-ins with your partner (judgment-free, I promise)
✨ How to identify and heal the patterns that keep repeating, even when you swear they won’t
✨ Practical ways to deepen emotional, intellectual, physical, and spiritual intimacy
✨ Action steps that honor the pace of real growth, not perfect resolutions

This isn’t about becoming perfect partners. It’s about building a relationship where growth is possible, where patterns can be interrupted with love, and where you both feel safe enough to evolve.

Link in bio, or read it here: https://www.lushcoaching.com/vlog/2026/1/8/a-gentle-guide-to-deepening-connection-in-your-relationship-in-2026

“To live in sync with the seasons is my focus for this year,” one friend shared with me.

“Mine too,” I replied.

So for the both of us, this transition into the new year feels a bit like a continuation of the past one with massive upheavals and changes in geopolitics as we watch old systems break down and erode continue their march onwards.

And closer to home, the breaking apart and the release of old ways of being in relationship with Naz, my work, and the communities I’m involved in reflects this too.

Spring will bring newness.
For now, endings will continue.

And it’s for this reason that I’ve embraced a year-end review that incorporates more than one calendar.

⭕️ And considers Circular Time.

Sara Jolena Wolcott of has created a beautiful way of diving deep into this wider way of considering the past year through her own version of Circular Time Calendars.

I created my own Circular Time Calendar with her guidance and found it so enriching.
 
⭕️ What I love about Circular Time is it considers several calendars at once, the:
* Linear calendar with months of the year
* Four seasons including the equinoxes,
* Lunar calendar and
* Timelines of wider world events, geopolitical, economic, social that happened over the past year

I’ve mapped my own personal experiences in love, family, relationships, work and life within the context of these ways of considering time.

Contemplating life alongside the seasons has helped me to reconnect with Life’s natural flow.

Considering wider geopolitical events helps me to understand how my personal experiences intersect with larger changes happening in the world. 

⭕️ Circular Time reminds us of our interconnectedness and adds perspective on how we co-exist within the broader shifts in our world.

As you contemplate the new year beginning on one calendar, and your intentions for your relationship or for dating within it, I’d love to hear what you’d love to experience this year.

✏️Share below or DM me. I’m here and listening.

2026 here e come! And I’m so ready. ✨ let the magic begin!

Connection is what most people tell me they want to feel during the holiday season.

It’s the ‘why’ behind most so much of what we do during the this time of year.

Why we travel untold distances
To drop back into familiar places
Or to do things differently and choose new ones

Yet staying connected can be so challenging.
We can feel overwhelmed by too much ‘other people’ time, especially as we tend to live such individual lives

We can feel underwhelmed as we wonder where to spend this time of year if family units have disintegrated or shifted unrecognisably over time.

Whatever you might be experiencing around connection – whether reaching out for more, or needing to step back from it all – is only possible if you’re ready for it.

These are some super simple ways to ensure you’ve got enough bandwidth to actually stay connected with those you love.

Share with me other ways you take care of yourself so you can be present. What works? Why?

What doesn’t? Why not?

Let’s make it happen:

Pre-Holiday Coaching Boost 💪🏽

What’s Included:
* Three 75-minute immersive sessions over 21 days
* Practical tools for easy holiday communication & nervous system regulation
* Personalised relational blueprint delivered after session one
* Voice-note support throughout (WhatsApp)

Pricing: £720 (save £130 vs booking separately)
Available: November 28 - December 1 only
Sessions can be used: Anytime through December 31

DM me if you want to get ahead of the holiday overwhelm.
And do it differently.