I have spent my life constantly disappointed!

High standards combined with a large serving of perfectionism set me up for being frequently let down by my own standards!

What do you want?

It’s a question that I ask people all the time. Many have no idea. I see people managing their thoughts before they answer - What do I want? 

There can be a restlessness that happens at middle age. 

The cliché story of the mid-life career change, of running off with a new lover, of selling everything and living in a cabin or buying a flashy new sports car.

You might be one. You might know one.

Exhausted providers are capable. They are good at what they do. They are able to solve problems, sort shit out, they constantly come up with solutions.

How is your parenting experiment going?

In the past 25 years of being a parent, I have finally worked out what parenting actually is - it is an experiment!

Sometimes thoroughly researched, sometimes intuitive, sometimes flying by the seat of my arse, thinking on the spot, kind of experiment!

There are lots of different types of parents running different types of experiments as we speak.

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.