International Women’s Day is celebrated on 8th March each year. The theme for this year is ‘Make it Happen!’ Last Friday I went to an International Women’s Day event at The Pavilion, Kiama. The decision to go was made months ago because I know the three women who organized the event; two of them are good friends. I wrote the date in my diary not having a clue who was going to be speaking and bought my ticket with the same detachment. I arrived at The Pavilion on Friday and as there were many people that I knew I […]
One thing leads to another…
I bought a cushion! A simple thing you may think, so what’s the big deal? Over the past couple of years we have extended and revamped our front balcony. When it was finished we bought new chairs to go with the table that we’d had for years but hadn’t been able to use because we had nowhere to put it. […]
The benefit of goals versus resolutions
Well it has finally arrived ~ the last day of 2014! I was going to write this blog days ago but time has passed by so quickly I got a shock to realize that today was New Years Eve. My husband and I had the most wonderful Christmas in Melbourne surrounded by our children and grandchildren, we have been busy since the 20th. We drove to Melbourne, had a christening, minded our grand-dog (with the help of two nine year old boys), had Christmas, drove home, then up to Sydney for a 5th birthday party, home and now we have […]
Does Christmas always disappoint you?
I was talking with a client recently and we were discussing Christmas. She was bemoaning the fact that Christmas in Australia just didn’t feel like Christmas – because Christmas is not meant to be hot. You guessed it, she comes from the northern hemisphere. My mother complained about Christmas not feeling like Christmas for the 44 years she lived here. People who were born and bred in Australia complain that Christmas just isn’t the same, and then go on to blame all sorts of things for why. So it would seem that Christmas just isn’t Christmas – no matter where […]
The journey to find my authentic self
Authentic. I’ve been hearing and reading a lot about being authentic lately. In fact I have been bombarded by it. Authentic here, authentic there!! It’s the buzz word in business. (I wrote this some time ago and came across it spring cleaning my files) Because I was getting the message from so many different directions I decided I needed to look into it. So I looked up the meaning: AUTHENTIC – Not false or copied; genuine; real Entitled to acceptance or belief because of agreement with known facts or experience; reliable; trustworthy Conforming to fact & therefore worthy of trust, […]
How ThetaHealing set me free!
I knew ‘something’ wasn’t right. I knew there had to be more to life than this. I just wasn’t happy. My life on the outside looked good. I was married with four beautiful children. I had a nice house in a nice area with good friends. I had food on the table. I wasn’t being abused. I had a job I enjoyed. But. ‘Something’. Just. Wasn’t. Right. I knew that my childhood had impacted my life (I’m an only child with a narcissistic mother – which I only worked out a few years ago). I knew that my schooling had had a […]
There really is no place like home
Travel. What a wonderful thing to do. Experiencing new places, tasting new cuisine and meeting new people gives us a completely different perspective on life. It broadens our minds and our world view. Hopefully making us more tolerant. As an Australian the thing I find most fascinating about visiting all these places is how old everything is. In Australia a house that is 100years old is considered very old. Go to Europe or UK and there are things that are thousands of years old. My cousin’s house in Cornwell was built in the 18oo’s. We have houses in Australia that were […]
Is our capacity to love finite?
On the 11th June, Archer Robert Kenny, our new grandson was born. Interesting energy that this young soul has taken on. Archer is my maiden name and Robert is the name of his maternal grandfather and his paternal uncle (my eldest son). It has taken me awhile to get used to seeing it written down. As I held him in my arms, and felt that grandmaternal rush (yes, I just made that word up, but I’m sure you understand exactly what it means) it sent me back in time twelve years to when I nursed my first grandchild, the son of my […]
A gift for you for Mothers Day
Here we are in May and tomorrow it’s Mothers’ Day. I’m assuming that, unless you live under a rock and then you wouldn’t be seeing this, you have realised this fact. It is hard not to be aware as we are bombarded everywhere we look with advertisers vying for our spending dollar. Telling us all the wonderful things that mum would just love to receive, and throwing in some guilt for good measure. But as we all know guilt won’t stick if we don’t allow it. When you put aside all the commercialism what does Mothers’ Day actually mean, what […]
Healing your inner child
You have probably heard and read about your inner child and may have wondered just what it is. Inside you, in every cell of your body, is a memory of everything that you have done since you were born. Basically what that means is that the you from every age you have ever been is walking around inside you. Sometimes making you happy but most of the time causing havoc of some kind. The little child who felt that they were ignored, dethroned when the new baby came along, not good enough, stupid, or ___________, you fill in the blank […]