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The thoughts that grow in my garden…

I've been spending some time this past week out in the garden. I just love it there and I'm grateful to have the time to learn some new cultivation skills. The garden...

Stuck in the mud of limiting beliefs.

I had lunch with a very dear friend yesterday and she lovingly told me she thinks I might be a bit stuck, and it's time to move on with my life. Only someone who cares...

I forgive myself…a little bit.

Regular readers (thank you!!) know that I'm on a journey of self-forgiveness at the moment. It's not an easy path to choose, and there are times I really want the whole...

How to be a recovering failure-holic.

Every month or so I have the good fortune to catch up with some dear gal pals of mine to spend a few hours together at a breakfast catch up. I love these meetings...

the New days of the Old school yard…

There's one thing I would have in common with most school aged parents this week - attendance at an end of year school assembly. There are five children in total in our...

A rose by any other name?

I understand that to truly embrace life, I have to first embrace myself. I have to love myself. But how do you love yourself if you don't fully understand who you are?...

Self love…the greatest gift of all.

This week my beautiful step-daughter shared with me a blog post she had read about love and marriage. If you have a chance to read it, you can see that it is a lovely...

Being present to your presence…

If all we ever have is this very moment, how can we savour it? The universe has conspired to make me focus on this during the week because I have had a couple of...

Is my brain engaged?

When I was a young girl, my father brought this sign home  to hang by our rotary phone. At the time I didn't really know what it meant, but nowadays I find myself...

The missing piece…

Today I have been feeling cross. I'm angry that after spending over eight years at a university doing my undergraduate and masters degree this institution left...