Like many Australians, I’ve always adored the Hunters and Collectors song, Throw Your Arms Around Me… there’s a particular line in that song that is resonating with me at the moment. “Shed your skin and let’s get started.” That line could have a hundred different meanings for a thousand different people, but for me… It’s not about love, or anyone…
Category: The Art of Being Human
If you were here…
Happy Birthday baby girl. Our angel baby, our rainbow child. It’s a special year this one… and I wanted to tell you a few things. Honouring your legacy has become a bit of an obsession since I moved to Newcastle 16 years ago, and it seems the people of this beautiful city feel that I deserve some recognition. On Australia…
Forgiveness… a step towards good health
This past week I’ve had a bit of a wake up call with self care and the impact that stress can physically have on our bodies. My parents were caught in the Crestwood-Bonny Hills fires and although I am very relieved and happy to say they are now fine, there were moments when I thought they weren’t. Our family endured…
I thought of you…
Every year, the month of February can be a little emotionally challenging for me. Tomorrow will be the 24th of February 2019 and my first born child Jessica, would have been 32 years old. The weeks leading up to this day can often be harder than the day of her birth itself. I’m not really sure why, perhaps it’s the…
The Importance of Being Me
The definition of important: having serious meaning or worth; deserving or requiring serious attention. In today’s busy life, we often throw that word ‘important’ around loosely… there are so many important things we must attend to, important people we must listen to, important goals we must achieve to be what? Successful? Happy? Important too? I got to thinking today…Monday of…
Listen to the universe… it’s telling you something.
So we’re only a few weeks into 2015 and already there are new challenges before me. I’ve been thinking about these so-called challenges over the past few weeks and decided it was time to write.. It was around this time last year (11 January 2014 to be exact), I blogged about the events of 2013 which saw my life take some…