As I spoke to a room full of recovering addicts recently at the Royal Brisbane Hospital, they were facing the harsh fact that SEPARATION goes hand in hand with addiction. In recovery circles we call b...
As I spoke to a room full of recovering addicts recently at the Royal Brisbane Hospital, they were facing the harsh fact that SEPARATION goes hand in hand with addiction. In recovery circles we call b...
What’s greedy and what’s a healthy state of self respect and ENTITLEMENT? There is rarely an older generation that looks at the younger generation without a thing or two to say about their sense of EN...
Loving yourself through all life’s good times and shitty times is not vanity; it is the only path to SANITY. Fear misguides us. Love guides us. We get off track and lost in our lives when we allow our...
“Most CYNICS are really crushed romantics; they’ve been hurt, they are sensitive and their CYNICISM is a shell that is protecting this really tiny, dear part in themselves struggling to survive” Well ...
Are you good friends with your BODY or unhappy with your current relationship with it? How do you feel about your BODY? Has it let you down often, or do you let it down often? Those among us who have ...
“The new frontier …… the human heart…” This is me aged 29 back in 1991 in a canoe travelling up The Amazon. I won a writing competition and was invited to trek through virgin forest in the Amazon Jung...
When our heart is deeply wounded, an AUTHENTIC APOLOGY is like an antibiotic. An insincere apology is like rubbing salt into the wound and can be almost as much of an insult as the upsetting event. If...
“GRACE is the face love wears when it meets imperfection” … Sister Anne assured me of this way back in 1995. “You are experiencing pure GRACE, my girl, you are experiencing a miracle healing you...
“If you have to CHASE love, it isn’t love. Love meets us halfway.” Jeff Brown reminds us with a simple quote that there are many things in life worth the CHASE, but love is NOT one of the...
“Perfection is the WILLINGNESS to be imperfect” Lao Tzu’s little reminder to own our humanness is easier said than done. WILLINGNESS is another emotional muscle most of us rarely acknowledge or work o...