Beautiful few days on holiday with the sister @itsdavinia0805 ❤️
I never take this life for granted. Grateful we got to spend quality time together during your birthday week and make memories I’ll cherish for a lifetime 🥹
And yes… the last picture is proof that medication might’ve added a few extra love handles, but it never took away the sauce 😭😂
Spent too long being hard on myself when really my body’s been fighting battles and keeping me alive. It deserves a little grace.
Still curvy. Still cute. Still carrying the holiday carbs on my hips 😫🤣
But we move… hot girl summer loading slowly like bad WiFi 💀🫠
Kach is back baby 2K6, a few more gym sessions away from becoming somebody’s son problem 🫣😂😫😭
FAMILY all day everyday! I am truly blessed! Are you even Jamaican if you aren’t playing dominoes at a gathering drinking JD or rum. 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Love every single time also to those not pictured ❤️🖤💚
Today, heaven gained the most beautiful angel.
Our beloved mother, Christine Brown, has peacefully passed away. Surrounded by the love of her family, she left this world free from pain and wrapped in warmth and grace.
To know Christine was to feel light, kindness, and unconditional love. She touched every heart she encountered with her gentle spirit, her selfless nature, and her radiant soul. Her laughter, her wisdom, and her endless compassion will live on in all of us.
As a family, we are still processing this profound loss, and we appreciate your patience and support. We will share details about the Nine Night celebration in due course.
Until then, we hold close the countless cherished memories we’ve shared with Mum. We honour her by living with the same joy, love, and strength she showed every day.
We celebrate her life just as she lived it—full of love, light, and beauty.
How lucky am I?
I often pinch myself, still in awe that a girl like me, from Badger and raised by just my mum, is living the life I do now. I’m nestled in the beautiful mountains of Cali (Colombia), in a lovely home, with food in my fridge and clothes on my back. It’s a reality I never could have imagined, especially considering how far I’ve come. But it hasn’t always been easy, and that’s why I don’t share every step of my journey with the world. I try to keep things real — because, let’s face it, life is never as perfect as it looks on social media.
I don’t own a house, but I’ve been lucky enough to travel the world and live in three different countries. I don’t have a lot of stuff, but my heart is full of incredible memories with the beautiful souls I’ve met along the way. I don’t have a conventional job either. I chose the arts, a field not known for making tons of money, and then I took the plunge into self-employment for the freedom it gives me.
I’ve been in situations where I’ve felt small or out of place — working with well-known artists or sitting in rooms full of people who don’t look like me or share my background. But those experiences, as uncomfortable as they were, shaped me in ways I never expected. And yes, I’ve made more than my fair share of mistakes in this short life. I’m constantly learning, sometimes the hard way.
I’m not married, and trust me, I could probably write a whole book titled *How Not To Do Romantic Relationships* — maybe that’s my next project!
But all of this comes with a deep intention: No one really knows where they’re going, and life is so unpredictable. What I’ve learned is this: Follow your heart. Do what truly makes you happy, even if it’s completely different from what others think you should do.
Questions I often ask myself:
- Am I living for *me*?
- What can I do to bring *me* happiness?
- And finally, what’s the rush? And who am I even rushing for?
I’m forever grateful for everything I’ve learned and the journey I’m on. Just thought I’d share this update. Keep going, and keep being you. Life has a funny way of working out.
🇬🇧Life🇬🇧
Less online and more present.
1.) Unexpectedly working with my girl @kaya.aline for Brockwell live festivals. This day brought me so much joy
2.) Meeting Hartley for the first time @kerilpkwilliams
3.) This book I’ve read twice this year! Maya RIEP 😇
4.) Working with @chakakhan , bringing music to the children. Art is life! Music is life!
5.) Camping with @bgh_uk and the lovely @greencupid123 . From Colombia to the U.K. so proud of you girl
6.) Family always = ENJOYMENT @supeermaannn
7.) In my Natural Habitat - spent most mornings in nature last year. Just breathing
8.) @createdefinerelease family. Our trip to Beyond the Bassline. The best and most supportive team I’ve ever worked with ❤️
9.) Cuzzy @forca_uk making patties for the first time and came to my mums straightaway as soon as he heard she was sick! Nuff love cuzzy
10.) @weoutherefest I love this festival but it was a hard one last year. Grateful to have my best friend with me @kylefindley Because boy the anxiety was real. Thinking my mum was going to pass away and running a tent 🤯
11.) First Ayurveda Festival great start to ease myself into becoming an Ayurveda Practitioner
12.) Celebrating another year around the sun for Aunty Bev. The strongest woman I know. I love you dearly and keep fighting the good fight #fuckcancer
13.) Cousinly love ❤️
14.) Ya girl is on this reiki ting ✨✨
15.) School friends reacting school days. 🤣🤣 Our annual Xmas market date
16.) Trelawnettes!!!!🌈 featuring Isabella and Archie (I’m defo the favourite aunty) Love my uni girls
17.) Man dem! ❤️
18.) That sunlight on the melanin after cussing the guys for wearing sunglasses when there’s snow 🤣🤣🤣😭😭
19.) she cute tho! Bestie @sheridanh7
20.) I told you I was the favourite aunty @lucymiabutler 🤣🤣😬😬
My heart is full. Off to my second home I go 🇨🇴 6 months living the mountain life (finally) Always creating a life I don’t need to retire from and remember HOME is where the nervous system feels safe. #forthearchives
Realised I’ve been absent on social media for a hot minute. LIFE UPDATE for my family and friends.
2024 so far has been a year of understanding the true meaning of BALANCE.
1# - Spent a few weeks volunteering in Scotland on a retreat. This was my morning walk view.
2# Back hiking with my man dem! Love everytime ❤️
3&4#Treated myself to a cabin in the hills. Just to be in nature.
5# San Andres, Colombia! I found my people, Jamaican rum, magnum and real Jerk food.
6# @luciachacon_danceteacher my dance teacher in Cali , having gained weight again, she danced confidence back into me. I love dancing Batacha and Kizomba, hoping to continue to make it a weekly thing even in the U.K.
7# A museum in Cali showing the beautiful people of Cali and other Afro- Latinos in neighbouring South American countries
8# Learning Marimba with my good friend @nassymgregory it’s hard, but so fun. Highly recommend
9# Walks with the beautiful @raices.tejidosencrochet
If you are in Cali and you enjoy hiking Viviana is the person to contact
10# Lucciana and @kalichekastro , who have been like family to me on this trip back to Colombia
Always grateful for life, the experiences I manage to cultivate, community I have around the world. Had a wobble mentally as those close to me would know! But always positive. Cleo sol álbum saved me through the hard times.
THINGS ALWAYS GET BETTER. But in all honesty, sometimes I have to pinch myself, because I live the life I’ve always wanted to live and FREEDOM how I see it.
Keep making beautiful memories 🧡🖤❤️
If you look through my social media since I’ve been 17 I’ve been chatting the same shit about self love before it was a trend. Some takeaways from my journey.
1.) Recognise your power. Your voice. Your actions, and most importantly your thoughts
2.) Understand that everything you fear should be what you actually try to do. We all have fears use it as a tool rather than an enemy
3.) Your worth is not based on the opposite sex liking you or wanting you. (Your worth is how you view yourself and what kind of person you want to be in this world) as I always say not all attention is good attention.
4.) You will never be exempt from pain, rejection, uncertainty and constant work learn to embrace it and accept it.
5.) Understand, learn and experience peace as much as you can. Like what does peace feel like for you?
6.) Seek opportunities for growth. Emotionally, spiritually, physically, romantically, sexually and financially
7.) Some people will love you. Some people will tolerate you. Some people will think you are an absolute asshole don’t take it to heart, as long as you show up as the best version of yourself and admit when you are in the wrong (Self awareness is just as important as self love nobody likes extreme narcissists)
8.) Life is for living, the goal is always freedom. However you see it. Do whatever you can to be FREE!
9.) Love on yourself constantly that includes what you eat, how you look after your body and mind. Of course sexually too. 😈💦 the days when it’s hard to love on yourself. Do the self work even deeper.
#selflove #itsaconstantjourney #blackselflove #selfie
I’ve travelled long enough and wise enough to know that the best experience is often the company you make.
I’m grateful that I have friends from all over the world, from different races, religions, genders and sexual orientations.
But I am extremely grateful for my Colombian family! Who’ve welcomed me with open arms as if I’m a long lost sister. Special shout-outs to
@urrutia_lente - a brother from another mother. Who in this short time knows so much about me, seen me at my worst and at my highest we’ve had plenty of disagreements 😂🤣🙈❤️ but has always been there for me.
@nassymgregory - a gentle soul, who’s smile always lifts my soul. The way you love music and the roots of music is beautiful and I’ll always be your student. Thanks for introducing me to the real sounds of Colombia.
@mluzmartinezg - Girl, there’s no other. As soon as I saw you I knew we’d be friends. My little ballerina.
@vividiaz86 - Your laugh brightens my day and you always push me to speak more Spanish.
@yamialcasx - We can hardly communicate because my Spanish is still so bad 🥴🥴😫😭🙈 but I know you are just as beautiful in the inside as you are on the outside.
@toursbydee - I’ve never met anyone so generous and helpful in my life. You give like no other. The world needs more of you plus you have the sexiest voice I know 🤤🤤🫠
Friendships sometimes change like the season, but I’m happy that our paths aligned. I’m only at the beginning stages of learning Colombian culture especially Afro-Colombian culture, with all it’s joys and it’s lows. I’m excited to see where life takes us all.
This is just my note to say thank you and that I appreciate you, to ALL of those I have met in my short time here in Colombia 🇨🇴❤️💜🖤 Now someone make me Caleña 💃🏿💃🏿🔥🔥 so I don’t need to do visa runs 😂🤣🙈
Happy Birthday to my beautiful mummy 🎉🎉🥳🥳. I love you so much and so happy we get to spend another year with you on earth. I know the past years your health has declined and it’s been something you’ve struggled with. I’m not naive that maybe we only have a decade or two left together. So sometimes I will send you random messages saying I love you. I may hold on to you a little longer when we hug. I just want you know that you are loved to the core and if you were to ever leave us unexpectedly you know how much we appreciate, honour and respect you. The older I get I’ve realised just how much you have sacrificed for us. Don’t get me wrong there were times when I was younger when I questioned your parenting. Like why wasn’t my mum at every karate match, parent evening, why didn’t she say she loved me more but I realised you were just navigating life (life is hard) and making sure we had food on the table, clothes on our back and warmth in our house. You are an extraordinary mother because you taught me love, how to look after myself, how to treat everyone with respect, you taught me boundaries, and the importance of believing in yourself. We may not have money, we may not live in a fancy area or house. But would I change this for anything else. Absolutely not! Thank you for always being there even when I’m hard to love and letting me live so freely without putting your expectations of what my life should be like, giving me the room to make my mistakes and offering your advice and guidance in the right moments.
If I ever become a mother I hope I can replicate your qualities.
A testament to how much of a great human you are is that my friends come to visit you rather than me. Even when I’m not in the country.
Happy Birthday Mummy (yes still saying mummy at my big age 🫣🫠😂🤣) love you in this lifetime and the next! Celebrate your greatness today!!
Decided to get in front of a camera today. Something I don’t do often. Although I am somewhat confident. I am also pretty shy! Yet again pushing myself out of my comfort zone. Constantly trying to love on myself, sometimes I get it wrong. Some days I hate my body. Some days I love it.
I think the third picture sums me up totally. This is after @mluzmartinezg trying to give me tips on how to be sexy and me doing what I always do and laughing at how unbelievably uncomfortable it is when people tell you to be sexy 😂😂🤣🤣
📸 @sofie_amelieee
#blackwomen #selflove #confidencebuilding #comfortzones #loclife #blackgirlmagic
Just a heartfelt thank you to all those who made our trip to the cinema with the young adults from the Distrito de Aguablanca to see Wakanda 2 possible. It was a joyous moment. Face painting, food, 4-D movie experience and a lot of laughs.
The remains from the budget has been donated to Afro-Colombian organisations who are on the ground doing the real work.
Massive thanks to the volunteers and a special thank you to @nassymgregory@urrutia_lente who made it all possible.
Photography by @urrutia_lente
Stronger together, forever and always
#community #wakandaforever #buildingbackbetter #spreadingjoy
Chapter 31 - We give thanks 🙏🏾✨
This year is a year of curiosity. A year of trusting myself.
Slide 2 - I wrote about what makes me beautiful from the eyes of young Kach. Everyday I’m starting to love myself a little deeper and certainly on the right path on what kind of woman I want to be in this world. Of course, there’s always room for improvement but sometimes we have to pat ourselves on the back for the growth! Because 20 year old me wouldn’t recognise 30 year old me!
All the other slides just had me in my feels recently.
I said I was disconnecting but I really am now because my battery is on 3 percent 😂🤣😫🫣 #birthdaygirl #scorpioseason #morelife
