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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This is the ninth in a series, WomanKind on reclaiming the feminine. “author” from the Latin word auctus, which translates literally to ‘one who causes to grow.’ The story begins around the age of 50, it could be an alter-tale for many women. It goes something like this. Woman wakes from a recurring dream, one …
With every cut of the surgeon’s knife and the smell of cauterised burning flesh I’m taken deeper into the pain and grief of my mother and sisters cancers. I find the pain anchors me to them; I am part of the sisterhood of suffering, with our connected origin story. The surgeon is cutting the little …
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 eighth in a series, WomanKind on reclaiming the feminine. The body heals when I feel. Where does the pain reside, what does it need, what is love wanting to say to this place of discomfort, contraction, pain? How is the body teaching me to receive it? It’s a unique voice in all …
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 …
“The wound is the place where the light enters you.” Rumi I am 54 when the team wheels me towards surgery. The nurse looks at me curiously, “Athlete?” I guess in her experience most people my age, lying in my position were either athletes, chronic over-exercisers, had an acute injury, or were born with hip issues. …
Diary of a Hippy – the story of a Total Hip Replacement Read More »
As this period of hibernation and social isolation rolls on with some restrictions easing over the next 3 months, my purpose to serve feels as though it’s been put on hold. I crave the full 3D fleshy, rich contextual presence of another, and the odd chance of illicit ‘random hugging”. Now, mostly at home, how …
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 …
