Meditation

I recently sat in on a webinar featuring Australian athlete Cathy Freeman talking about meditation and mindfulness. Particularly around when she runs, when she was competing and the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She said before racing she would need to relax her toes. Do some deep breathing to release tension and tightness and find a quietness […]

I don’t know about you but I’ve been feeling really discombobulated of late (I’ve always wanted to write that word in my blog😉). There just seems to be so much stuff happening. I think it began with Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred. Cutting short our holiday and rushing home to prepare. The waiting for it to hit,

No, I haven’t lost my ability to write! The headline is from the ’90s dance track Insomnia, by Faithless. Insomnia, or an inability to sleep, is a very real condition for many, many people. Whether it’s not being able to fall asleep when you first go to bed. Or whether it’s that 3am wake-up that

I’m always talking about the benefits of nature. Of course, I’m not unique in this… there’s so much research that shows being in nature has a positive impact on our health — physically, mentally, and emotionally. But after recent events, it got me thinking. Ironically, this beautiful, gentle thing called nature with all its healing

It’s the waiting game isn’t it? We’ve been warned for days now that a tropical cyclone is going to hit South East Queensland and Northern New South Wales. It was thought it would make landfall sometime today (Thursday). We had been in the Blue Mountains celebrating my husband’s 60th birthday, and were due to drive

I’m feeling strangely nervous. We received a flyer in the post from Energex advising that our power will be off tomorrow for maintenance. For seven hours… So today I’m desperately thinking of all the things I can do to minimise this inconvenience. I’ve put a wash on and the dishwasher, so that’s all good. I’m

We recently watched the Barbie movie (I know, a bit late to the party). It really wasn’t what we expected. Yes, the main character is blonde and beautiful and loves the colour pink. She lives in her perfect home, with her perfect friends and boyfriend, Ken, in her perfect world, Barbie Land. But the film

Another wet, miserable and grey day… with more rain forecast for this week. It’s been going on for a few days now. When I was waiting to go in for surgery last week, the anaesthetist and I watched the lightning show as yet another storm rolled through. It was all very dramatic and quite the