Your Stories.

Understanding your experiences and what helped (or would have).

Understanding The Art of Showing Up

I've spoken to hundreds of women, who each generously shared their stories & lived experiences, and candidly revealed what actually helped them when life really happened (spoiler – it wasn't usually a grand gesture exchanged on one of the usual gifting holidays).

As I've gathered insights, listened to stories and collected anecdotes, I’ve compiled a list of all the ways in which we can show up for each other to ensure we feel seen, heard and supported. These insights also inform the products, services and experiences you see on this site.

What I've learnt (and experienced myself), is that life is getting busier, and the number of balls to juggle are increasing. We're also feeling more alone and overwhelmed than ever before. Let's change that, so we have more freedom to celebrate the ever-present beauty all around us as well.

Do you see yourself in these stories, too? I'd love to hear yours,

Kate x

Real Gifts

Real Gifts: This is Incense

This is Incense: “Out of the blue my beautiful friend sent a stunning set of incense, with the most amazingly calming, nurturing scents that made the newly renovated house smell like a...

Real Gifts: Pots for Tots

Best Seller Bundle from Pots for Tots: “This box of meals for my two young kiddies came at the best possible time and helped me enormously. I had just returned to work and started a...

Real Gifts: FieldGoods

“Receiving a box of beautiful, delicious food felt like a hug from home. I was in a period of deep grief, living on the other side of the world from family and solo parenting our three...

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So, What Helped?

Your Stories

"I didn't want to complain, but I was struggling".

Rebecca has mastered the art of figuring sh*t out. Resourceful, deeply contemplative, and innately attuned to her surroundings, I was intrigued to hear her story of moving into the dilapidated house she and her husband are also restoring.

“More time / Less guilt”.

An intimate share of an unexpected overseas move and what those closest did to show up and support when it was truly needed.

“I was so busy being a mum, I didn’t have time to be a daughter.”

Working so closely with Kate to build her vision for We Are The Helpful, we talked more intimately about her experience of losing her mum than we might have otherwise. Her words were as ever poignant, honest, and reflective, but this simple, disarming phrase struck me as so universally relatable.

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Journal

But, what helped? Kate's story on loss and motherhood

“I was so busy being a mum, I didn’t have time to be a daughter.”

Words by Rebecca Mackay Miller

Working so closely with Kate to build her vision...

The Art of Showing Up

It’s 2024.

The gifting industry is booming (the UK market alone is valued at £60 billion) yet overwhelm, loneliness and isolation are at an all-time high. It’s harder than...

Asking for help; why is it SO hard?

As the Founder of a Helpful Gifting business, the irony of this question is not lost on me.

Since my daughter was four months old, I’ve been designing, researching, and developing We...