Living on adrenaline, trying to get something, looking for the edge, making gain; there is a flurry of activity in the world, which is wonderful, yet rushing and stressing often produces toxic by-products. Depleted and tired, upset and wired, tense and down all to get something that usually, and very often, doesn’t really matter, not…
Being a people pleaser and someone who was sensitive, I always found others happily encroached upon or infringed my boundaries. I thought nothing of it, and I didn’t realise how toxic it was to me until much later in life. Creatives, empaths, compassionate types and kind-hearted as well as sensitive souls tend to tolerate a…
Life has imbued each of us with certain traits and qualities, various interests and proclivities that reveal our strengths and gifts that, if tapped and marshalled correctly, will bring us joy and be of service to others. We all have them. It’s inalienable, and it’s impossible not to have them. Sometimes, though, we can be…
We know when someone is laden with dark or heavy energies, we feel it. We see it. Some of us come into this life burdened with patterns that seem to arise from our genetic line or flow from inter-generational patterns, perhaps, if you believe, from past lives stored in soul memory or DNA that is…
Each of us comes to find healing in our own way and time. Each of us led different paths, which ultimately take us home, in the deepest sense. Home is a nebulous and amorphous concept to the mind, yet to rest in one’s heart and live from one’s awakened spirit is the home of which…
For years, too many, in fact, I pretended to be something other than myself for fear of who I might be or that what I truly was maybe unlovable. For a long time, I chose to ignore the inklings, stirring, muttering, and whispering of my ever-patient heart for I could not understand how to be…
Throughout my life, I’ve cried, a lot. Sometimes the sadness has felt so deep it was almost like my soul was weeping tears to fill an ocean. I was always a cheerful, bright and bubbly, lively person, yet life situations and certain patterns can feel like burdens. Many a time, I was told not to…
Different expressions, yet they mean the same thing. At the core, there is a question to ponder around whether we truly show love and care towards ourselves. Our mind may say we do, yet our actions may reveal that we are self-delusional and self-deceiving, even self-sabotaging. Our patterns arising tend to show what dominates our…
It was 2017 and I was in Hawai’i on retreat, hiking through a national park in Kau’ai. There was trail in some parts but well-worn tracks along ridge lines and razor mountain edges that would plunge into the valley. Being an Australian on tour, I was mesmerised by the intensity of pure, pristine nature as…
It took me a long time to truly value myself and feel worthy. I don’t know why that is but I guess my mind would tell me a thousand reasons why I wasn’t or couldn’t be and often would chatter in the background about it beneath the threshold of my awareness. Life happened and keeps…