Words by maia thom.

05/09/2025

just that 🤍

16/05/2024

truth: it will be messy sometimes

18/02/2024

words from a friend, for a friend 💛

I’m in a space of lingering at the moment, sitting with several ideas and projects and beginning to gain some clarity of where I’d like to go next. it’s messy, and admittedly I feel like I do not know what I am doing most of the time. but I found these words of mine the other day and it made me laugh, like my past self was speaking to me in this moment.

“You don’t need to try so hard, my love. Everything you need is already within you.”

alas, we keep taking the steps + see where they lead us + I am receiving the reminder that there is no wrong next step, I just need to coax myself into motion. the rest will take care of itself xx

21/01/2024

This book has been out in the world for three years now 💛✨

Kitchen Table Talks was born in the height of the pandemic in December of 2020, with the illustrations + support of my dear friend, Georgia. We received the intuitive nudge to collaborate on a project in late 2019 — what would come to be a book about connection and love in a time of intense isolation, confusion and fear.

I spent endless hours curled up in my tiny Montreal apartment, sitting with poems I’d written years before. On the floor, on the couch, at the kitchen table where I’d had many of the conversations that sparked the intention behind this book, I sat with words sprawled our around me, most often alone. But the work was a great comfort — in it, I found companionship. I found memories of laughter + heart ache + courage, all the mundane moments I’d collected in the time before.

It reminded me of my own resilience. Art can do that. Still does that for me, to this day. Sitting with the uncertainty of the blank page + figuring out how to weave something from the images that dwell in my mind. Writing the words I need to hear, moving my body the way it feels called to express itself.

Life may be uncertain, yes. But art reminds us we are capable of facing this uncertainty with courage, creating something where there was nothing before xx

14/09/2023

https://medium.com//in-seasons-of-solitude-c8f4181f0bdd

Your shame deserves tenderness, too

25/11/2022

what you seek
is also seeking you —
you must only open your hands
to receive it ✨

Isotta came bursting into our lives this summer, and she has brought an incredible amount of joy to our family in such a short time. It’s true what they say, if you want to learn how to receive love to invite a dog into your life. Every time I see her, she comes running down the hall, barely giving me a minute to take my shoes off.

Sometimes the thing that your heart calls for — the action or next step or saying yes to something you feel called to — it won’t make sense. But it will make your life better in unimaginable ways, if you have the courage to follow it 😉

Follow those things that bring you joy +
Let yourself receive the love that is already there, just waiting to be received by you.

Let go of the need to prove yourself for a moment xx

21/10/2022

24 ✨

They say time moves more quickly the older you grow, but this year — I feel like I blinked and somehow we made it to the other side. I met some of my closest friends when they were this age and I was eighteen-going-on-nineteen and newly moved out on my own for the first time. It felt so far away back then.

Now, I stand here and I look back, and if I could tell my younger self anything it would be this: “Don’t worry. Things will work out more beautifully than you ever could have imagined.“

When we’re young, we try so hard to make people love us. But we don’t have to. The love was already there all along — we just had to be willing to open ourselves to receive it.

You will not miss what is meant for you. You will know, and life will guide you xx

#24

29/04/2022

The other day, I was having a conversation with my writing group and I shared about a challenge I was having.

I am a highly creative person — I pretty much always have multiple projects on the go at any given moment but sometimes, the thing I REALLY deeply want to create just won’t flow.

What emerged was the realization of how, when I feel very invested in a project, I often put too much pressure on myself.

I forget the Pleasure in my creative practice, why I decided to create in the first place.

That night, I had the intense urge to dance. I needed to move my body and process some of the energy that had accumulated over the course of a few intense weeks. So I did. I danced, and maybe it wasn’t my best practice but I showed up and did it anyways.

I’m not going to pretend this has solved all my problems — this story is still a bit elusive, but I’m ready to approach it with a new perspective.

I’m ready to let the process be what it needs to be and put words down on paper, to let it be messy for once.

How’s your creativity flowing these days? Share below, fam. I’d love to hear what you’re up to 😉