A 10 Day Vipassana Meditation Retreat The fifth of a 7 part series Woman, reWilded on reclaiming cycle wisdom, woman wisdom in spring season. Spring, the season we look forward to. Warmer days, lush, new growth and the perfect time for spring cleaning the body and our interior spaces that accumulate junk over winter. But …
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Feminine fire is rising and we don’t need to apologise. The fire ball finds anger and alchemises it into a clarifying, cleansing, skillful energy; a truth bomb. Burning woman sits in the fire of her own creation and lets herself be cooked. Claiming our rage in perimenopause and menopause is natural, says Dr Christiane Northrup, …
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 …
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 …
This is the sixth in the series, WomanKind, on reclaiming the feminine. Does the question, “What is your relationship with feminine power?” make you feel uncomfortable, ambivalent, angry, excited? When feminine + power exists in the same sentence, I’ve had to look at all the ways I’ve personally set down my power, consciously and unconsciously …
This is the last in a series, that completes the body of work called WomanKind, on reclaiming the feminine. It’s a poem about the challenges and times of overwhelm, of being a woman – mother, wife, lover, friend, daughter. It is about what perimenopause and menopause ask of us – to pause and to become …
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 …
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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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 …
On 18 October 2014, I organised World Menopause Day with the support of the Gold Coast City Council. It was the first time an event like this had been run on the Gold Coast honouring the rite of passage of menopause. I brought together women for a day to share stories and experiences of this …
