Letting go
A friend of mine recently suggested that I write a post about decluttering. Sure, I was happy to. Although I had already written one some time ago, I could do a refreshed version. However, as the conversation went along as…
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Live your true life
A friend of mine recently suggested that I write a post about decluttering. Sure, I was happy to. Although I had already written one some time ago, I could do a refreshed version. However, as the conversation went along as…
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Eleanor Roosevelt once wisely said: All the water in the world cannot drown you unless it gets inside of you. Words will only hurt us if they connect to something going on inside of us in the first place, or…
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I recently had a conversation with a friend about a video link she had sent me. In the video, a young woman was talking about her video blog on makeup and beauty and how she had received numerous judgemental and…
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If you can imagine it, you can be it. You may have seen this quote, or ones like it, bandied about in motivational books and videos. But is it true? Can you really be and do anything that you can…
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My aunt is in her 90’s and her mind is sharp as a tack. I recently visited her in hospital where she is undergoing some treatment for a physical ailment, and she shared one of her amazing stories from her…
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It’s a word we use all the time without thinking. It’s so common now that we think it’s just part of the standard, accepted vocabulary used in any social, professional and personal situation. F. I. N. E. How are you? …
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It’s OK to say no. We all know that. There are so many articles around telling us to free ourselves from obligations that others have placed on us, or about saying no in order to save our sanity when we…
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It’s winter here in Australia. In Melbourne, where I am right now, it’s particularly cold. And now is the perfect time of year to do some major pruning in the garden and to plant any new trees that I want…
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You are special. Do you know that? I mean, really know that? So many of us have been brought up to reject such statements about ourselves. We are taught that it’s wrong to love ourselves or to see ourselves as…
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My sister and brother-in-law are in the process of building a house which happens to be a few doors down from me. It’s been taking a while as they’ve been building it themselves. And by a while, I mean a…
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