Hello. I’m Cha — and I think you found this place for a reason.

My name is Charlotte Albagnac. I’m Brazilian-Chilean, raised in Brazil, and living in New Zealand since 2015. I am a curious mind, a committed observer,  who pays attention — to life, to beauty, to the parts of ourselves we’ve been told to keep reserved.

In 2024, at 33, I was diagnosed with ADHD. That moment for me was like finding the right key to unlock a big door. Suddenly, so much of my life — the intensity, the contradictions, the way I’d always felt slightly out of step with the world around me — made sense. And from that clarity came the decision to stop waiting to fully arrive into my own life.

So in December 2024, I left a stable, long-standing job. I came back to this blog — which I’d been sporadically writing to since 2016 — and I decided to take it seriously. To take myself seriously.

“Sips of Cha exists for the woman who is done waiting for permission to be all of herself. At any age. Starting now.”

That woman might be 29, mid-reinvention, questioning everything she thought she wanted. She might be 45, finally asking who she is beneath all her roles. She might be 67, realising it is not too late — it was never too late — to meet the wholeness of her own being.

She is curious about herself, others and life in general. She wants to feel at ease and confident underneath her skin and less alone in the complexity of being fully, unapologetically human.

Here you’ll find reflections on identity and belonging, the mind and inner life, beauty and aesthetics, the body and its wisdom, and the radical act of building a life that actually feels like you. Not a perfect life, but an aligned one.

I believe that beauty has philosophy inside it. That the body carries truths the mind hasn’t found words for yet. That returning to ourselves is the most radical, underrated — and rewarding — thing any of us will ever do. And that it is never, ever too late to begin.

Here, we refuse to be simplified.

Sips of Wonder — the newsletter

Fortnightly, I send a honest short letter to a more private corner of the internet. One thing I’m thinking about. Something beautiful I found. A link to what’s new on the blog. No noise. Just tea, and a real conversation.

New subscribers receive 7 Days of Wonder Within You — a free guided journal to help you slow down, look closer, and reconnect with the ordinary magic of your own life.

If you’ve read this far, I already know something about you. You’re not looking for another blog that tells you how to optimise your morning routine. You’re looking for a space that sees you — all of you, the contradictory and the complex, the healing and the becoming.

You’re in the right place. Pull up a chair. The tea is still warm.

P.S. Chá — pronounced “shah”— means tea in Portuguese.