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I’m Melanie Rickey.

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Why did I start The Enoughness?

The problem is - it all got too much. Then it wasn’t enough. 

If you’re lucky, really lucky, you notice your rollercoaster.

If you’re not? You might spend your whole life never knowing you were on it. 

How often does your inner voice say:

I guess I’ll always be like this.

I really need to stop doing that - I’ll get to it one day.

I’m doing all this stuff… why don’t I feel better?

So you look outside yourself for more.

And somehow, you end up feeling worse.

That.

What no one tells you is this: you can get off the ride.

How The Enoughness came to life

I learned this the hard way.

In 2020, I fell off my own rollercoaster and crawled into rehab.

I got well. And then I got curious.

How did I lose myself?

How am I staying well?

And above all - what is this unexpected feeling of joy and just-rightness I’m experiencing?

The Enoughness was born inside those questions.

I became obsessed with finding practical everyday ways to live the chic, balanced, high-vibration life I’d been searching for all along in my life - but had never quite found. The more I learned, the more I realised that what shaped me is shaping all of us.

And I started to wonder:

What if there are answers to what we really need?

What if there is such a thing as a perfect enough?

Becoming the Front Row Editor

That’s how Become the Front Row Editor of Your Life was born.

A weekly email inviting you into awareness of your own rollercoaster - and offering practical, stylish and inspirational ways to step off and build your own magnetic, curated life from the inside out.

A life where inspiration, fulfilment, inner wellbeing, realness and the thrill of change aren’t chased, they’re chosen.

Because The Enoughness isn’t about what you want.

It’s about how you choose.

How change actually happens

My favourite framework for personal transformation comes from performance coach and author Brendan Burchard, because I lived it, and its 100% true.

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Want to know a bit more about me?

  1. I’m a journalist, and have been covering fashion as a writer and style director for 20 years, working at leading British newspapers and magazines. I went to every single Alexander McQueen show starting by blagging my way in when I was a student. 

  2. Intuition is my superpower. I love feeling where culture is at, and where it’s going. Trusting it when The Enoughness came into my life is why I’m here today.

  3. I’m obsessed with finding out the perfect enough of …everything! Themes I explore on my podcast. Did you know we only need four skincare items? Or that there’s a point where more money doesn’t make you any happier? 

  4. When I’m not working I study Kabbalah, an ancient spiritual tradition focused on purpose, connection and inner growth.

  5. I love dancing. I play high energy dance music every night at 6pm to shake off the day’s energy, and dance like no one is watching.

  6. My personal motto is “Change is Life.” When I was forced to change in rehab, I saw it as a disruption. Then I realised: change is fun! There is no path forward that does not involve change. 

  7. I’m obsessed with the book Levels of Energy by the niche writer Frederick Dodson, which itself is inspired by Dr. David R. Hawkins Map of Consciousness. Sign up to read my forthcoming newsletter on the levels to decide where you are, and, more importantly, where you want to be, and how to get started. 

  8. I choose every fashion and beauty item I buy very carefully, and edit ruthlessly to the perfect amount using my Three Lane System. If it’s badly made, low quality, made of plastic, or somehow low vibe, it’s not coming in.

  9. Last year I got my first tattoo, of the Monad, an ancient symbol which represents the divine source from which everything arises.  

  10. I love dressing up, adore everything I own, and am allergic to waste and overconsumption. My personal style and favourite things give me energy and inspire me to be the person I want to be, though I do have a weakness for red handbags.

  11. Growing up both of my parents were alcoholics, then I suffered with addiction too. Understanding how addiction happens was a process, and learning to overcome it is the best, most inspirational thing I’ve done for myself and those around me. 

  12.  I’m gay. In my adult life, I’ve gone from being scared to hold hands with my girlfriend in public to getting married, and being on the front page of a national newspaper for it, and divorced, and being in the papers again. Being able to hold hands with my girlfriend in public today without fear is a privilege many people around the world don’t have.

  13. My son was born by IVF. I’m grateful for every day I get to be a mother. 

  14. When I travel, I live exactly like a local in neighbourhood AirBnbs, find the cute coffee shop, hire a bicycle and blend in. I’m also an Airbnb Superhost. I love hosting people, chatting to them in my kitchen, sharing how they can live like a local, too.

  15. Understanding what The Enoughness has to offer you here and in the newsletter has taken me two years and 18 episodes of my podcast. Because first I had to find my own Enoughness. Like REALLY find it. 

  16.  Until I knew I had ADHD I was a chronic overthinker and perfectionist who got nothing done and wondered how everyone else was just getting on with things. Now I understand brain chemistry better, I have a system that works! 

  17. My mum, dad and sister have all passed away. It’s weird being the only one left, but something about it has made me feel braver. 

  18. Beauty, balance and long baths soothe me. 

  19. The biggest investment of my late 20s was the eye-pleasingly useful Universal Shelving system by Dieter Rams for Vitsoe. It’s come to every home I’ve lived in since. 

  20. Living at as high a vibration as possible is my daily goal, discovering how to ACTUALLY do it transformed my life. 

  21. The Enoughness is a heartset, an awareness, and its a bit of a f*** you to the system. Read The Enoughness Squad Goals to get you started. On a practical level it helps you remove all the layers that get in the way of living your best life, for your self-worth, style, sovereignty and confidence, its pure magic. It’s not a quick fix, but then nothing with any meaning is. 

  22. The Enoughness is a vehicle for a massive cultural shift, one that connects us to our inner editor so we consume less, and to our inner lighthouse so we feel happier and more alive. Think of it as cultural Ozempic, because once you find your Enoughness, you simply won’t want stuff in the same way.

    It’s too good not to share.