The Side of Anxiety Nobody Talks About

“I was scared I’d kick my grandfather in the stomach as he lay in the hospital recovering from bowel surgery”. “I was terrified I would throw my baby over the balcony’. “What......

How Is Your Sleep?

I love sleep. I always have. Sleep is first on the list of my top twelve self-care strategies in my new book and if I was forced to choose just one, it......

Freedom

Today is International Women’s Day and I would like to share with you a piece I wrote in 2011, when I was living in Ghana. Freedom to choose: Who to......

There Is Nothing New Under the Sun

I’m sure you’ve heard this saying before. I know I have, and I’ve said it myself, many times. No matter how many times we hear it, know it and pretend......

Renewal – How to Make It Happen in Real Time

It’s almost February, can you believe it? This first juicy month of 2017 has flown by, and with it some of that enthusiastic resolve that we all feel with the......

What’s the Worst That Could Happen?

Life is short. I’m sure you’ve heard that before, and it sounds cliche, but no matter how many times you hear it, how often do you really sit down to......

What Doesn’t Kill You…

  It was Friedrich Nietzsche who famously said “That which does not kill us, makes us stronger.” And he was right. Recent studies have found plenty of evidence to support......

The Garden as a Metaphor for Life

It’s been hot this week in Adelaide, with temperatures over 40 degrees and today is expected to be the same. Dry, hot days and nights that make us all seek......

Simplicity Is the New Black

I am loving the current trend of people downsizing, minimising, decluttering and simplifying. Have you noticed it? It’s everywhere right now! I suspect it’s been amplified by the new year......

Start and End Happy

  Today is the 2nd of January and I’m brimming with enthusiasm for what this wonderful, fresh year of opportunities holds for me. It’s tangible, the air of excitement of......