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…
If I asked you to name 10 things you DON’T love about your body or the way you look you could probably come up with them pretty quickly right? But what if I asked you to come up with just 3 things that you DO love about your body and the way you look it…
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…
I’m in the process of writing a book proposal for the Hay House Writer’s Workshop competition which is due in a few weeks’ time. (I probably should be writing it now, but procrastination has set in!) My book is what they call a ‘teaching memoir’, and is based on the past two years of my…
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,…