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Who Looks After the Cancer Caregiver?
Coping With Caregiver Burnout. How to Hold Yourself While You Hold Someone You Love There is a particular kind of exhaustion I see in people who are caring for someone with cancer. Surprisingly this fatigue does not always look like falling apart. In fact, quite often...
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Why Code Words Are Helpful For Neurodivergent Families
When The Nervous System Speaks Louder Than Words Many neurodivergent children and adults experience the world differently. They think, feel and process life differently compared to neurotypical people. This often leaves them feeling isolated, like a black sheep....
The Power Of A Family Code Word
Call A Time-Out, Not A War There’s a certain reality that we all face. When you spend time with the same people, within shared spaces, there will be times of big feelings. However, when people can’t neurologically co-regulate in a functional manner, this can lead to...
Connect With Your True Self
How To Welcome The Queenager To Her Throne There comes a significant moment in a woman’s midlife. It is often when she looks in the mirror after her morning shower. Whilst it’s a silent moment it’s disruptive to her inner equilibrium, because she has just realised she...
Self Help
The Cost Of Ignoring Your Inner Voice
Hey Queen, I see you there. I know there’s a quiet voice inside you that doesn’t shout outwardly. It doesn’t compete with the noise of responsibility, expectation, or logic — it whispers. Incessantly. And for many women — especially queenagers, those navigating...
Why You Feel Stuck (and What’s Really Going On)
5 Ways To Activate Your Deeper Truth There comes a moment for every woman in the middle of her life. It is quiet, confronting, and often unexpected. It arrives at a time and place in your life, where you realise you feel stuck. It is totally a time warp, with a step...
The Moment You Realise Something Has to Shift
Here Are Five Ways To Boost Your Resilience During Menopause There’s a moment in a woman’s life that doesn’t arrive loudly. It is a felt sensation when she experiences her first period. It’s felt when that first (and last) contraction of her baby passes. And it is...
Cancer
Cancer And Grief Make A Match Made In Heaven
Cancer and grief are a match made in heaven. How to process through the grief that cancer brings.
Healing Emotions Hurt More Than The Physical Wounds
How to come to terms with the emotions of cancer
A Date With An Oncologist
Embracing the dreaded Big C and getting on with life I recall the first official appointment with my oncologist. That was one of the more significant and stand out days for me in this cancer chapter. That was the day when I really lost my shit and could no longer...
Law of Attraction
Create The Future You Want
How to step back from ‘we’ and into ‘ME’!We’ve had plenty of time to reflect on life before the virus. Some things we have missed from the old life and other aspects you may just be ready to kick to the kerb. I don't know about you but I have appreciated dropping the...
I Gift You Permission To Hit The Pause Button In COVID
It takes a Conscious Choice to Nurture Self during the Lockdown It’s a huge thing to stay at home during this pandemic COVID period. Governments around the word have locked down communities in an effort to pause the spread of the COVID-19 virus....
How To Build Up Credit In Your Happiness Account
Take The Test What Makes Your Heart sing whilst in lockdown One of the best pieces of advice I’ve received during COVID has been this, lockdown is a gift from the universe to work on yourself! Sounds a little strange I know but what if these...
Business
8 Ways To Respond When Life Dishes Out A Bitch Slap
What To Do When It’s All Too Hard We’ve all experienced the reality check of a hard or difficult moment. We’re familiar with the bitch slap sensation. You wouldn’t be human if you haven’t experienced this. When hard shows up in your life, it can feel and look like...
A Warning To Solopreneurs
Don’t be fooled by the sharks, bots or scammers I delete spam comments daily on my social sites. You have to be able to discern who is visiting your site and you have to read between the lines for possible scammers, cheats and time-wasters. I delete all references...
Six Tips To Prevent Xmas Burnout
I can vividly remember a time when I worked in both government and consulting jobs and there was enormous pressure to do a month’s worth of work in three weeks during the month of December. It was the classic case of kill yourself to get the stuff on the boss's desk,...
Personal
Need a hand with that?
I’m a typical Capricorn star sign. I’m independent and stubborn to boot. I like to do stuff myself, and, I absolutely loathe the thought of relying upon others. I hate the thought of imposing on others. It’s rare for me to reach out and ask for help. The...
Xmas Burnout Prevention Tips
I can vividly remember a time when I worked in both government and consulting jobs and there was enormous pressure to do a month’s worth of work in three weeks during the month of December. As a small business operator, I’ve learnt this is the same but...
Not quite awful!
I am always searching for yummy treat recipes for myself and my family. You see I have multiple food intolerances. This can make things tricky, but I know when I nurture my body, I feel fantastic. My family therefore, get to try lots of different foods....
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I deeply respect and pay homage to all Elders across time, honouring the gift that the spiritual connection that the Braiakulung people have with the Gunaikurnai country which cannot be broken.
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