I hope you are feeling rested after the Easter break. I had a wonderful few days resting, eating, creating and blobbing out with my family, doing pretty much fuck-all!  

Rest is something I am now really good at. It wasn't always this way! I have always been a high-energy, get-it-done kind of human. For most of my life, I dismissed rest as something for "other people". I even judged "resters" as lazy!

Divine Self-Expression is my life goal. 

The simple explanation of this is expressing yourself in a way that aligns with your spiritual essence or soul self. It’s the result of being curious and connected to who you really are - who you were before the world told you who to be.

I had the most amazing weekend!

A weekend of connection, humility, support, and healing.

I had the privilege of being invited to attend a wānanga - a workshop -  at a friend's Marae.

“Our beliefs are the foundation of our lives!”

Our beliefs are extremely personal and very powerful. What you believe can change your life and the way that you live it.

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!