Hi, I'm Zahra

I know what it's like to be in survival mode. To live from paycheck to paycheck, spend your mental energy trying to keep everything together and feel as though there's very little room left for anything else.

I've experienced what it's like to get stuck in your own head, and I've watched people I love struggle with things they don't know how to move forward with. I wanted to find a way to offer the kind of practical support that can make a genuine difference.

I've spent much of my working life understanding systems, solving problems and figuring out how things can work better. With Adult-ish, I wanted to bring those skills into something closer to my heart: helping people.

I don't believe we should have to accept every difficulty as something we simply need to learn to live with. Sometimes, rather than changing our perspective, we need to look at what's causing the problem and see what we can do about it.

For me, this is about more than getting things done. It's about freeing up some of our time, energy and attention so we have more room for the things that make our hearts sing: our relationships, our ambitions, our communities and the things we want to change in the world.

Our minds work differently, and the things we struggle with aren't the same for everyone. I want Adult-ish to be built around that understanding: that we can support one another without judgement, find ways of working with who we are and make life a little easier along the way.

We all have something to contribute. I'd like to help create the space for people to do that.