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There is a difference between not being bothered to do something vs flat out, not being interested in doing it. You know what inspires you, and what excites you. You know what you need to do and what's calling out to you. Except, there's this voice we all have in our minds that tell us "agh I can't be bothered to do that."
A few weeks ago, I was at a dinner party. There were people there who I’m quite close with, and I was enjoying myself.
Before we all sat down to eat, I was outside getting something from my car, when one of the girls came outside straight after me to take a phone call. When she was finished...
The other day, I was talking with a friend. We were talking about loss, love and relationships; and what it looks like to let someone go. Whenever I've lost someone, whether it be by a break up, a death, or otherwise, I've always had in my head that the aftermath of that loss had to be hard going...
I’ve always used what I wear to measure how good I am, or how worthy I am of love and adoration. All of the girls in my life that I put on pedestals, are there mostly because they’re always polished, stylish and look beautiful all the time. I’ve always made...
In this video, I talk about the concept of tuning in to yourself, in order to feel out what's right for you in any given moment. I also talk about how to actually do that, and what it looks like for me, with a few real life examples.
How many times have you had to make a decision about something in your life, only to find that the reality of that choice is far different from the reality you envisioned for it? If you're currently tossing up whether to make a move, or a change of any kind, this is a really helpful thing to think about.
Life happens to all of us, and sometimes we go through patches where we are worrying about the outcome of a certain situation. I want to share three really useful things you can do for yourself, when you are in the throws of something and the outcome of it is weighing on your mind. These will help to ease your anxiety and to give you back a little bit of your own power.
How can we use our mental health as a message from our bodies, rather than something we'd rather avoid and not acknowledge? This is what happened to me, when I tried to do the latter.
This is such a weird and slightly hilarious thing to even publish or take seriously, but like it or not, photos of ourselves are more important than they were 15 years ago. We all have photos of ourselves that we like, and post on social media and also ones that we really don't like. This is a video about the photos we take of ourselves, and presenting a new way of seeing them. Especially, the ones we don't like, and would rather delete.
We all have those weeks where life gets a little fuller than others. We look at our schedules and think 'how the hell am I supposed to all that?!' So, in the name of not burning out, this is what I have been doing in those full weeks. It's stupidly simple, but it helped me get through, without feeling run down and stretched to my limit.
We all have times in life where we are at some sort of crossroads and we have to decide what direction or what course we are going to take.
The crossroads might be relatively small in the grand scheme of things, or it might actually be quite monumental.
We all need to make decisions on a daily basis; some decisions take a second to make, however other decisions can take weeks, months or even years...
Over the last few years, I’ve been wanting to change something in my life.
I’ve wanted to change it so badly, that it’s begun to completely consume me and I’ve become to tunnel visioned and so obsessive over it that I’ve lost sight of, whether the change is actually even true for me.
I had a bit of a wakeup call yesterday...
We all need to be reminded of how capable we are to face the challenges that life throws at us. Here's something that helps me step up to the plate when life asks me to.
Passion is a funny thing. We can dabble in and out of it; we can acknowledge it’s there, but then do nothing with it. I saw a quote tonight, by Roald Dahl, and it really struck a cord with me.
So, it’s been five weeks tomorrow since my last blog post, yet all this time I’ve had material to legitimately blog about. Instead of turning that material into a blog post, I’ve kept it merely as an idea and shelved it for later.
Have you ever tried to block someone out completely? Have you ever had a relationship (of any kind) with someone that was so beautiful and rich and amazing, and then one day, it all changed?
I’m currently on the ferry on the way home from work, and I’m going past the Sydney harbour bridge; it’s 6pm and verging on sunset. There are so many groups of people up on the harbour bridge doing...
I’m having one of those days. The ones where everything is hard, like you feel like you’re pushing life uphill in order to get stuff done. I’m trying to get some important life admin done...
How often do you let yourself flow from one thing to the next, rather than ticking off a mental to do list of ‘what you need to do for the day? I for one, almost always have an idea of how my day is going to go, especially on a weekend.
I want to discuss the idea of putting people around us on pedestals. The idea of assuming that someone is ‘better’ than you are. I’m sure you have someone in your life that comes to mind when you read that sentence.
The notion of being kind to those around you isn’t a new one, it’s probably the oldest rule in the book. This morning, I had two different instances come up where someone was kind to me when they didn’t need to be and it really made me...
One of my new year’s resolutions was to have a ‘wild woman’ day every full moon. I was visualising flower crowns, beach bonfires, singing, dancing, laughing, intention setting and hands in the air. For the last two full moons...
Last night, I was reminded about that saying; “be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle.” I was spending time with one of my closest friends, and during our time together she...
Other times, it’s like pulling teeth and nothing is unfolding the way we want it to. A few people in my life at the moment are going through the pulling of teeth phase; where they are being presented with heartache, or sadness or constant road blocks.
Today I saw a rerun of Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Lance Armstrong, when his cheating scandal had just come to light. In it, she asked him about whether he can come back from the scandal. He then answered...
I’m writing in a bit of a theme at the moment; accepting what is, showing up just as you are, in the now. You can tell it’s a big theme for me right now, and the universe is continuously putting it to me in different ways. When we’re learning...
I have a life coach that I see every few weeks, and right now she is having me focus on where I am at in my life right now and accepting myself fully in the present. I’m finding myself getting too caught up in the future...
Today, I am feeling unsettled.
I started off having a really lovely morning; I read at a café and then wandered around the shops. I was feeling nice and relaxed. However, shortly after ‘relaxed’; I lost my parking ticket to get out of the car park, I sat in 45 mins of traffic in a lane that turned out to be the one I wasn’t supposed to be in and I had a blaring headache. These events all piled up and it made me anxious and irritated.
I just finished reading an email newsletter that I subscribe to. In it, the girl said she had written a very heartfelt letter to a friend, speaking from her heart, ‘as the woman she is today.’ This really struck a chord with me. At the moment...
Around this time last year, I went to an event that I knew someone I used to love and be very close with, was going to be at. I was nervous as hell to see this person, but here's what happened to me and what I ended up doing to make myself feel really peaceful about the encounter.