Hello Lovely, What a busy time we have been having. I always think the weeks will ease and they seem to stay the same, with the level of commitments and tasks and errands to run every day. I thought of you when I was out and about on Saturday morning. I had a long list …
I have over 50 plants in my house but apparently that’s not enough. According to studies, you need 10 plants per 5 x 4 room to get optimum wellness benefits from them. These benefits include: Lower blood pressure Improvement in mood Cleaning the air of cancer causing compounds According to research from Harvard University, women …
I started therapy when I was 26 years old with a baby who was born dead and bought back to life with a broken wing. She had had two operations by the time I started therapy. One of them went for 12 hours and I went home and slept because I didn’t really know what …
I have been doing a lot of work around the enneagram lately. It has been an incredibly insightful too for understanding myself and why I do or don’t do things. Growing up, we learn to cope with the emotional wounds we receive in childhood. In order to protect us from pain, we “place a mask …
Hello Friend, I have been thinking of you but I haven’t written because I thought it would be best if you consolidated what you have been learning lately. I see you have been responding to my Positive Challenge on Facebook and Instagram. It is hard sometimes not to default to the drama and the negative …
May kicked my arse with jobs and commitments and then I became ill and so did my son and all bets were off. My house was like it had been ransacked and found wanting, and I kept putting off the deep clean it needed. In despair, I went onto a Facebook group called Mum’s Who …
Finger puppets that are also magnets for your fridge.Click on the one you like and you can buy one for you or your friend. My faves are Sylvia Plath and Maya Angelou. There are lots more on the website. They make me laugh! This gorgeous makeup bag or pencil case with Alchemy fabric. I WANT! …
Reviews of Nicola Redhouse’s extraordinary book – Unlike The Heart called it a memoir or as an editor called the rise of books about women with Post Natal Depression, a Mum-oir. This book isn’t a traditional memoir in my opinion. It is more than that. It is a study of the brain, of family, of …
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This is an old post from my old, now defunct blog that a reader asked me to re-post for her. This was written in February 2015 when I was caring for my brother who was having treatment for Burkitt’s Lymphoma at the Austin Hospital in Melbourne. Stepping into the elevators at the cancer-centric hospital, where …
Hello Friend. I have been doing a lot of reading lately. Educating myself is the only way through hard shit. Lots of Podcasts and books as the guidebook to me trying to be better and do better. I cannot imagine not wanting to try and be a little better to the world, each and every …