You’ve probably heard some of your friends or workmates say, ‘I’m not the creative type’. Maybe you’ve even said it about yourself. As a writer and creative strategist*, I hear this all the time from clients and friends. And I tell them it’s simply not true. Everyone is creative. Researcher and bestselling author, Brené Brown has…
I was honoured to read my poem today at the South Coast Writer’s Centre International Women’s Day celebration (as I have for the past two years) and even more humbled to be selected as this year’s winner of the competition. Wow!! The theme for this year was #balanceforbetter and I wanted to explore the fragile…
Do you often find yourself struggling to make time for the things that are most important to you such as family, self care, your spiritual practice, passion projects, etc, but spend a whole lot of time on things you ‘have’ to do but don’t value as much? Our modern world has us scrambling to tick…
Late last year, my husband Craig and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary. I know, it’s a huge feat by today’s standards, and we’ve jumped a few hurdles and scaled a few mountains over the years to make it thus far. It’s always been a dream of ours to go to the Maldives or Bora…
I went to see the remake of A Star is Born last week with my mum, starring Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga. I loved the 1976 version of the movie with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, so I thought it would be interesting to see Cooper’s take on the movie. Cooper not only stars in,…
I posted a new poem on Instagram this week and I noticed it didn’t get as many likes as some of my previous poetry posts have. Granted, I did post it at midnight (right after I wrote it) and perhaps the folks on Instagram didn’t like the poem (that’s ok too). But I wondered whether the…