Thank you for those of you who attended “Practical Wisdom in Challenging Times” with Catherine Ingram, author of “Facing Extinction”. There was a sense of marinating in Catherine’s expansive, compassionate presence as a blessing in these times. Whatever I had been wrestling with over the last few months was laid to rest in her words […]
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Are you an Apocaloptimist? Someone who knows it’s all going to sh*t, but still thinks it will turn out OK? A very apt word to describe being in the middle of menopause AND the unfolding climate crisis. At the end of the end of the day, NOW is the “time to give yourself over to
Do I need a sign, waking to the soft morning light, sleep a distant future away, that today I dare to be content? I am the sign. I am the eagle suspended in the valley. The avocados dripping, vainly glorious. Silvery new leaveson the Illawarra Flame Treeafter the rain. I am all of this hot mess of creation and destruction. Folding
To move from grief, from mourning is to move from a place of sheer loss to a place of acknowledging the loss, and in mourning the permanence of the loss, it can’t be fixed, but also, it creates a space, in mourning, for you to make sacred the pain so that the rest of your
This poem was presented to my daughter Cassia Remy Carnell on the last day of school 28th November 2019. One last moment The moment she walks through the school gate For the last time.School shoes from Year 7 Flung skyward to the nearest power line.Abandoned in defiance, elation, completion.It’s over.I don’t need to hold it together
This is the first in a series of conversations with women in transition. When women claim space for their story, share it and then let it go, they mirror back to other women the messy magnificence of menopause. We will all walk this journey of menopause at some stage of our lives; better to share
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Women over 50 are the fastest growing sector of the workforce. With the average age of menopause 51, many women will be at the peak of their careers whilst juggling menopause, work and family life. In the UK, research shows that 60% of women aged 45-55 experiencing menopause symptoms say it has a negative impact
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Owweee ….Discomfort triggers the most primal part of our brain, the reptilian brain responsible for survival, located in the cerebellum of the brain stem. We are hardwired to avoid discomfort, lest we die in the process. For some of us it takes retraining our brain, creating new neural networks – “what fires together wires together”
It’s happening, The Great Turning. A phrase created by Joanna Macy, ecophilosopher, activist and Buddhist scholar to describe our change in consciousness as we witness the devastation we have wrought on Planet Earth. At varying speeds and stages we are waking up to our biggest mistake; that we place ourselves in the centre of the
In the wake of the worst spring bushfire season QLD and NSW has ever seen – unprecedented destruction of ancient rainforest as well as native habitats, pasture, land and country – I find myself in the Bodhi Tree Forest Monastery, 10 km out of Lismore for a week long Vipassana retreat. People have travelled far
