If you have been reading my blog you will know I have been working on my health and wellbeing over the last 15 months. I thought it was timely to pause and review how far I have come from this time ...
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The Gift of Staying In
When Jacinda Ardern announced on Monday, March 23, that New Zealand would go into “Lock Down”
for four weeks, I was at a café with a friend having lunch. Life was
about to change in a big way for ...
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4 Steps to Create an Altar in your Home
An altar serves as a reminder to what is sacred to you. An anchor of sorts. I When I was in my early 30’s, I was flatting with two others – and at the time, my bedroom was my sanctuary. Within my ...
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A Sacred Space of her Own
Life can be exhausting and overwhelming at times and during these moments all you want is a place where you can retreat and call a space of your own. Some of you may be thinking this place sounds like ...
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Changes Afoot
I am a considerably happier person these days compared to who I was this time last year and two years ago. What happened? I made one change which created a ripple effect into the rest of my life I ...
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Putting Pen to Paper
Writing bought me joy as a child. As an adult, I rediscovered the joy of writing when I completed 12 weeks of "The Artist's Way" in 2018.
Putting pen to paper
I had tried to work through the ...
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I gained 4.9 kilos in 3 weeks & have no guilt!
On 22 Feb 2019, I joined WW online and weighed 162.7 kilos. It’s
been a while since I shared an update on how this journey has been going. I wanted
to be authentic and share how I coped with eating ...
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2020 Word
Last year I didn’t even have the energy to entertain a word
for 2019 – if I had it would have been “SLEEP”. This Year it took me nine days
to come up with my word for 2020 and quite frankly I was ...
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I Hated Exercising!
I saw exercise as punishment – something to be endured
rather than enjoyed! It took me a while to re-write the story I had told myself
about exercise. Despite the rocky start, this story has a happy ...
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162.7 Reasons
When you ignore something long enough – it’s only a matter
of time before you are forced to deal with it whether you like it or not. I
hope that in sharing my story, it will help someone else realise ...
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As I began
Have you ever
read something that speaks to your soul and lingers with you for a while?
A couple of years ago, I was flicking through a magazine when the poem below caught my eye! Some of the ...
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Sleeping Beauty Part 2
In Sleeping Beauty or Sleepless Beauty I wrote about how my lack of sleep tuned out to be OSA and in this second post, I share how my CPAP trial went and how it has transformed my life!
What is ...
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Sleeping Beauty or Sleepless Beauty?
In March of this year, I was diagnosed with (OSA) Obstructive Sleep Apnoea. While I was relieved that I had an explanation for the sleep issues it also freaked me out as I knew it would mean having to ...
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Things do not change, we change
There are some years I look back on in my life where not a lot happened and life just seemed cruisy, and you know what those years are nice, everything flows you are neither unhappy or happy with ...
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