I held my first Energy Festival for Sunday. 

I love creating experiences for people and it made me so happy to be able to create a day teaching people about all areas of energy. We spend most of the day on getting and guarding energy.

Are you breaking down or breaking through?

I remember as a child hearing that a family member had had a 'breakdown' - I thought about it for days. I had no idea what it actually meant and was desperate to get an image or some info that my brain could make sense of.

I am a recovering people-pleaser. As an eldest daughter and self proclaimed ‘good girl’, I have invested a lot of time and importance on being liked.

Pleasing people did and still does make me happy. I love to feel people's faces light up when I deliver a gift, a project or an event. I love the feeling of people being ‘happy with me’. Being “pleased”.

I spent the weekend organising my wardrobe. Now when I say wardrobe, I mean dressing room! A few years ago, I took one of the children’s old bedrooms and made it into a room for all of my clothing and accessories.

I have a lot of stuff. I love clothing and have spent years collecting incredible stuff. The problem with stuff is that you have to manage it. If you are a "stuff person", you will understand the energy behind going out to buy new containers to put your stuff into! 
("Non-stuff people" will say - “Just get rid of it!”)

Our power is always in the present moment.

What can you do about that? is the best question to ask yourself regardless of what you are faced with in life.

I am starting the year with a huge focus on protecting my energy.

I have been writing a list of permissions that I am giving myself in 2025.

So 2024 is all but gone!

Tomorrow, we get to restart. To refresh our lives and wipe the slate clean!

I love New Year - I actually love anything new! New shoes, new people, a new recipe, a new restaurant. New is my thing. I get bored very easily and love the idea of anything fresh and new.

Tomorrow is just that. It is fresh and new. It is loaded with possibilities. It's a chance to regroup and reexamine how things are going.

I make Boxing Day all about me! 

December seems to be all about everyone else. It’s about attending everyone's end of year celebrations, about buying gifts for everyone who has contributed to our lives - the teachers, the  support people, clients, friends and family. It’s about sorting food for everyone who comes. Sorting presents for under the tree, sorting the decorations for on the tree! So much doing! 

Caring is defined as kindness and concern.

The tricky bit is when you become a carer. Someone who is providing care for someone who cannot care for themselves.

I just returned from a holiday. I highly recommend taking a pre-Christmas break!

Christmas can be so stressful - the people, the endless list of things to do, to get, to buy and to think about.

Even if you have the most low-key Christmas planned there is the parking, the queues and the other stressed people to deal with.

Happy December!

It is an interesting time of year and I have noticed people being grumpy and fatigued. I started thinking about why we all bother!

Money is a shitty thing for a lot of people.

And this is the time of year when it gets really stressful! Finding extra cash to buy gifts and food and holidays can be tough.

I think that two of the best gifts to give at Christmas are generosity & honesty. 

If you have money, be generous. If you don’t have any money, be honest!

I was helping a friend who is suffering from anxiety.

Her head is a theme park - it’s filled with adventures and ideas and wonder. The trouble is that it’s open 24 hours! It’s an exhausting, messed up, busy place that she wants to escape. She thinks her head is a problem- something that she could ‘get rid off’.

This Thursday is World Diabetes Day.

Diabetes has had an enormous impact on my life, emotionally, financially and mentally. The impact of having children diagnosed with Type 1 is enormous. The impact of having your child diagnosed with anything is huge. Three of my children have Type 1 and while it has been enormous for Mark and I to deal with - my kids blow me away with what they handle on a daily basis.

Being powerful is really important to me. I want to be powerful in my own life. I want to raise children that are powerful enough to speak their minds and I want to work with people who feel empowered to share their thoughts and know their worth.

Life is hard!
Sometimes you’ll be happy, 😃 sometimes you’ll be sad, 😢
sometimes wobbly and sometimes mad!😡

Newton's third law is the law of action. “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” I am a huge fan of action and I love bold behaviour. But I also love consideration. Considering the impact of our decisions is smart. Regret can be a painful energy.

Today, I get to meet a new group of women at Repotted.

Repotted is a retreat I have been running for years and it is one of my favourite things to do.

I get to sit in circles with beautiful, honest, real women. We sit and see and be seen. Being seen is unfortunately rare. Having people witness your stories, your challenges and your dreams is not an experience that many people have the luxury of. 

This Friday is World Menopause Day!

Before you decide that this blog doesn't relate to you - read on!

Maybe you are miles away from menopause, maybe you are way past it, maybe you have no idea about anything menopausal! 

Menopause affects everyone! As a child, I remember tip-toeing around on eggshells not wanting to tip my Mother over. I know men who are living in fear of their partners who have appeared to have personality transplants overnight!

I cannot understand people who do not plan. I am with Benjamin Franklin when he said “Failing to plan is planning to fail.” All of us have been given a precious gift of time and yet we are so ineffective with the way we use it.