2025 The Year that Kicked Our Ass

There isn’t a person I’ve spoken to who hasn’t experienced big things in 2025. It’s certainly been a year of lessons, transformations, reflections, losses, gains, pain, healing, and with luck, blessings. It’s been a year of feeling things we thought we’d resolved. Shedding parts of ourselves to make way for change and growth. It’s beenContinue reading “2025 The Year that Kicked Our Ass”

When the Inner Work Yields Magic

I know, I know there’s a lot of chatter out there about the inner work and I understand a lot of people turn their nose up or simply think they have none to do. There’s also a lot of misconception and toxicity in the spiritual healing and growth world. Some people believe they can’t change.Continue reading “When the Inner Work Yields Magic”

Let this be Your Year to Slay- 2024 Year of the Dragon

“I am an unquenchable fire, the centre of all energy. I am the truth and light, I hold power and glory in my sway. My presence disperses dark clouds. I have been chosen to tame the fates. I am the Dragon”– Unknown. I’ve always had a keen interest in the zodiac, Chinese zodiac and horoscopes.Continue reading “Let this be Your Year to Slay- 2024 Year of the Dragon”

The Collective Grief of a World in Mourning

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world—the company of those who have known suffering.” ~ Helen Keller As the news of yet more war, more fighting, more pain, more devastation, and more loss fills our television screens and takes over social media, we average people in ourContinue reading “The Collective Grief of a World in Mourning”

What Death has Taught Me

Death is a hard thing to talk about. We know it’s an inevitable part of life, yet we don’t like to face it. We know things like a will are important, yet so many avoid doing one, in fear that being prepared will somehow expedite their death. Our inability to accept death as the nextContinue reading “What Death has Taught Me”

Discomfort is the Price of Admission for a Meaningful Life- Stop Distracting Yourself

Dr Susan David the South African psychologist eloquently said “discomfort is the price of admission for a meaningful life” in a Ted Talk she gave a few years back. For me it captured everything I had been thinking and saying for a while. It has stayed with me and has been the basis of muchContinue reading “Discomfort is the Price of Admission for a Meaningful Life- Stop Distracting Yourself”

What’s an End of Life Doula?

Doula, pronounced Doo-La is a Greek word meaning “persons of service”. Most people have heard about Birth Doula’s, those serving women throughout their late stages of pregnancy and giving birth. But what are End of Life Doula’s or Death Doula’s? Here in Australia where I am from, they are not as well known or asContinue reading “What’s an End of Life Doula?”

When Your Soulmate is Not Your Only Soulmate

“Maybe we all have a lot of soulmates, each for a different time in our lives. Maybe every person we ever love is a soulmate in some sense, and that’s why they mean so much to us, that’s why they’re so hard to forget. People change and fall out of love, but that doesn’t meanContinue reading “When Your Soulmate is Not Your Only Soulmate”

Mother’s Day Without Her

It’s a very different Mother’s Day this year. I’ve had this sort of anxiety the past few days. Nothing big or significant. Nothing I can specifically pinpoint. Just this little simmering underneath the surface. It’s in my physical body. If I could give it a shape and colour, I would say a golfball shape inContinue reading “Mother’s Day Without Her”