Two doors. One house. One name. Mine.
A rebrand, a new logo and the labyrinth walk that made it all make sense
The dandelion meets the labyrinth - Why I’m bringing everything under one roof - and what the new logo really means
There’s a moment in every labyrinth walk where you think you’re almost at the centre, and then the path curves away again. You’re not lost - you were never lost - but the journey isn’t what you expected.
That’s been my last few years in a nutshell.
For fourteen years, I’ve run Word Solutions - helping businesses find the right words, tell better stories, and show up with confidence in their communications. It’s work I love, and it’s work I’m bloody good at (three decades in journalism will do that to you).
But somewhere along the way, another door opened.
When I was diagnosed with ADHD later in life, everything shifted. Not the facts of who I am - I was always this person - but my understanding of why I work the way I work, think the way I think, and create the way I create. The scattered notebooks, the midnight ideas, the fourteen browser tabs, the ability to hyperfocus on a project for six hours and then forget to eat lunch.
I wasn’t broken. I was beautifully scattered.
That realisation didn’t just change my life. It changed my work. I started coaching other business owners - particularly women, particularly neurodivergent ones - who were drowning in advice that was never designed for brains like ours. “Just make a plan and stick to it.” “Be consistent.” “Build the habit.”
Sure. Right after I remember where I put the plan.
So I built something different. Gentle scaffolding, not cages. The 90-Day Seed Plan instead of rigid goal-setting. Energy assessments instead of guilt-driven to-do lists. A “Done Book” to prove to yourself that you actually achieved something today, even when your brain is telling you otherwise.
I called it coaching for the Beautifully Scattered. And it grew.
Two doors. One house.
For a while, I ran both businesses side by side - Word Solutions for my B2B clients, and Nan Berrett Coaching for the beautifully scattered souls who found me. Two websites, two sets of branding, two versions of me.
But here’s the thing I’ve learned, both from walking labyrinths and from coaching: the path always leads to the centre. And the centre, for me, is the same person doing both things. The journalist who helps businesses communicate. The coach who helps busy brains breathe. They were never separate. They were always two doors into the same house.
So from now on, everything lives under one roof: nanberrett.com.
Word Solutions is still here - it’s still my business, still the engine room. But now it sits alongside the coaching, the mentoring, the digital tools, and the community I’ve been building. Two doors, one house, one name.
Mine.
The dandelion and the labyrinth
I want to tell you about the new logo, because it means something.
The dandelion is the flower that gets dismissed as a weed. It grows in cracks, in places no one planted it, and it thrives despite every attempt to pull it out. When it goes to seed, it doesn’t scatter randomly - each seed carries its own tiny parachute, designed to land exactly where the conditions are right.
That’s what a “scattered” brain does, if you let it. It sends out ideas, possibilities, connections - and when the soil is right, they take root.
The labyrinth is the oldest meditation tool I know. I have one in my garden. I’ve painted them on canvas. I’ve taught workshops on their mythology and their magic. Unlike a maze, a labyrinth has no dead ends. There’s one path in and one path out. You can’t get lost. You can only walk.
The way out is through.
A dandelion growing at the heart of a labyrinth. That’s what I see when I look at my new logo. The scattered mind finding its centre. The weed that was always a wildflower. The path that was never about the destination.
What this means for you
If you’re here for the writing and communications work - nothing changes except the address. Same expertise, same standards, same Nan.
If you’re here for the coaching - you’ll find everything easier to access, all in one place, with new tools and resources landing regularly.
If you’re new here - welcome. Pull up a chair. You’re in the right place, and you got here exactly on time.
New financial year. New look. Same beautifully scattered soul behind it all.
Nan x
P.S. If you want to explore the new home, head to nanberrett.com. Both doors are open.
