Tell me what woman does not feel like running away? Away from children, partner, parents, job, even if it’s just for a fleeting moment. Especially, if like me you regularly get inundated by life and the waves of emotions. When this feeling becomes intense, my suggestion is to not ignore it, even if on the […]
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Radical Self-Devotion – Care and keeping of you It is nearing the end of 2020. Mind goes to all the things I “coulda, shoulda, woulda” done this year. My body thanks me for stopping, resting, caring and creating more space in my life, more freedom. My mind still the dominant talker agrees wholeheartedly. In this
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This is the seventh in a series, WomanKind, on reclaiming the feminine. The moment of bewilderment when I wake up from the trance. How did I get here? Where did I go wrong? How could I be so naive? I thought I knew my body. I’m 47 and unknowingly in my last bleeding year, earlier
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This is the fifth in a series, WomanKind, on reclaiming the feminine. Standing in the snaking line of a busy coffee shop, the woman in front of me comments on the lack of social distance I am giving her. I am standing on the front door mat of the cafe and she is on the
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This is the third in a series, WomanKind, on reclaiming the feminine. Soft centre is found in the scent of jasmine in spring, a warm embrace, a sunset, the fertile forest floor, the vast night sky, a sunlight rock pool, an awakened heart. It is the first smell of rain hitting parched earth, surrendering to
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This is the first in a series, WomanKind, on reclaiming the feminine In this instant when we all need deep listening, peace, connection and compassion, the world is at war. The enemy can’t be seen or heard, has no shape, except a crown, a halo of light, a “corona”. The enemy, we have been led
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Are you constantly recalibrating your nervous system from the barrage of the news cycle and ensuing soup of emotions: anger, disbelief, grief, loss, and frustration? Here is a piece of good news. It’s a moment in history, a sacred pause, coined by scientists as the “Anthropause” – the wave of quiet. Do you remember in
If you are struggling to find a way to be OK in the world right now, you are not alone. Our lives can be thrust into chaos just from a single thought. Listening to the news can send dread molecules coursing through the body. Stop…stop that thought from taking hold into the future, come back
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As I write this, my two daughters 19 and 22, are happily exchanging news as their paths cross briefly before they are off again (spoiler, it’s not always like this). Having them living at home is (mostly) contagious joy for my partner and I, the highlight of the new COVID era. It means I have
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Seven months later It’s the first day of winter in Melbourne. I walk into the room to see my father dying. Consumed by the primal need to breathe, lungs inflamed with aspirational pneumonia unable to draw in breath with the ease of the living. We touch, and he squeezes my hand and groans in recognition.
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