From Being Lost to Finding Myself Again. 2009-2019.
I am choosing to walk into 2020 with a different story. Yet the story of the past decade shaped me, and will always be part of my narrative. When I turned 40 in 2015, I decided that a decade-long approach to achieving my goals held the key to mitigating the anxiety that surrounded the annual…
Read MoreComing of Age and The Joshua Tree
January 1989. I boarded a Greyhound Coach on my own for a 12-hour trip up the coast to Lismore, a country town in Australia, to spend a week of my summer break with my friend, Sarah. I was 14. Sarah, the daughter of my tennis coach, would come down to visit her dad during school holidays.…
Read MoreWhen Facebook Memories is a Double-Edged Sword
And there it was again. As I opened up Facebook Memories that picture stared back at me, sending a shockwave of stress and anguish through my core. 3 years on, the feelings were as fresh as the day the photo had been posted. To anyone else looking at it, this is a lovely photo. I…
Read MoreThe best laid plans
When you over plan.. I’ll never forget a conversation I had with my first proper boyfriend. As we spoke about our visions and aspirations, he gave me a detailed year-by-year plan of what he would achieve and become – a career road map for the next 40 years of his life, which ended up in…
Read MoreThe year the internet broke us
Technology got the better of us this year. We were not prepared for the speed with which new apps were introduced. Before we could really grasp all this new technology, it had consumed us in addiction. We looked down and we did not look up. If we had looked up, we would seen the pain, destruction…
Read More“How Are You?”
“How Are You?” I received this simple message from a friend today and it paralysed me. It suddenly felt like a very loaded question. I delayed responding. I did not want to answer because I did not know how to. I wrote back a little while later, “I kind of feel these days that it depends…
Read More10 Things That Make Me Truly, Madly, Deeply Happy
Truly, Madly, Deeply Happy. Is it possible? I posted a hilarious video (below) from John Oliver last week about just how calamitous 2016 seems to have been in so many ways. When I posted it, a dear friend of mine, who practises gratitude daily, challenged me by saying that there are in fact millions of…
Read MoreRethinking The Glass Ceiling
The Conversation we need to have about the Glass Ceiling and the Week That Was Houston, we have a problem. A big, giant, black hole of a problem and I think I have figured out how to fix it. This is me and this is my view. I am on a retreat with women and…
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