Do you know those moments you get where, right there in that moment, you are completely moved and you feel a shift within your soul? Where you are so mesmerised by what you are seeing, reading, hearing, you know it is a defining moment? Today was a pretty crappy day for me. As soon as…
Category: Ramblings
Anxiety is a bitch
Mr C had to go for spinal surgery this morning. A laminectomy to be exact. His back started hurting him around 6 weeks ago. In typical male style he tried to ignore the excruciating sciatica for about a week before making an appointment to see an osteopath. The osteopath did not recommend Mr C…
The day I lost my smile + how I’m going to get it back
I may have mentioned this before, but when I was at school, I was known as ‘Smiler’. Despite my chaotic, alcoholic home life, I loved being at school and because of that I smiled. All the time. It occurred to me recently that I have lost my smile. I rarely laugh, I hardly relax. I have,…
So what do you do when you cry at a workshop – in front of 23 strangers?
I cried today. I did. At a workshop. In front of 23 other women, who were, effectively, strangers. I’m an emotional person you see. I cry when I am happy, I cry when I am sad and I especially cry when I feel unsafe. I wasn’t meant to feel unsafe. It wasn’t the fault…
On being a fish out of water + finding the right pond
Do you feel like you are a fish out of water? I know I do. I have for the longest time. A couple of days ago I wrote about how, even at the age of 13, I recognised that I didn’t haven’t have any confidence. Today, I attended the Writing yourself into Motion run…
The iPhone 6 has been released into the world
I’m sitting outside the Telstra store, enjoying my ritual medium cappuccino and berry muffin. It isn’t very diet friendly, but, you know, who cares. There is an enormous queue coming out of the store. Pink and silver balloons adorn the door in a come hither welcome arch. The door is closed, allowing only a certain…
Depression and the sweet taste of peace
Hello there. How has your weakend been? Anyone who suffers from clinical depression will tell you that more often than not, it is ridiculously difficult to see the positive in life. It just doesn’t hit our radar. That old adage of glass-half empty can really ring true for us. So when it happens that…
Liebster awards are go
Every now and again, something happens that leaves me speechless. That doesn’t happen very often. Ask my family. But here I am – speechless. Why, you may ask. This past week, I was nominated by the totally awesome, wonderfully audacious Carly Findlay from Tune into Radio Carly fame for a Liebster Award. Carly is…
About depression + being bald
Depression totally sucks. I woke up this morning feeling so buoyed. I recently launched my kindness bomb campaign. Something I feel so strongly that the world needs. To help people know, be reassured, that there is kindness out there, more than there is evil. That the old good over evil is winning, even if it…
A new beginning + you don’t have to try
Yesterday I wrote about how I was studying for all the wrong reasons and how I was agonising over giving it up, feeling like a failure, yet again. There were tears, lots of them. I knew I could not go on living in the skin that didn’t belong to me. I had to give it…