Wellbeing

I went to a retreat once where the director used a reflection that stuck in my mind and bugged me for ages as I tried to work out what he meant. He asked us to imagine ourselves as a boat floating down a river. Then he said, “Now imagine that there are many small boats […]

Workplaces need to take a stronger stand for employee health, with figures showing that too many of us sit for seven or more hours daily. We sit or lie down to read, eat, drink, work or watch TV for a minimum of seven hours during the working week, compromising health and happiness. But employee health and

When you get right down to it, most perfectionists are searching for peace. Basically, we want to be able to look around at the world we’ve created and proclaim, like our Creator, “Everything is very good” and so enter into our rest. I derived my peace from sources external to myself, and I suspect most

September is International Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Cancer Council is combatting kid’s cancers in many ways; researching cancers that impact children, such as leukaemia, brain tumours, lymphoma and many others. Data is the key to research, and that’s why Cancer Council Queensland also independently funds and manages the Australian Paediatric Cancer Registry, one of the

Let me begin this article by saying to you that this has only ever happened once to me, and I believe it was for a very specific reason. I am by no means a spiritual visionary! As I mentioned in my introduction, the first big cracks in my façade of perfection occurred with the birth

When it comes to our day-to-day – it’s easy to get lost – lost in what we’re doing later, what we’re stressed or angry about – in our smart phones and social media. Learning new ways of managing difficulties can be useful for all of us, regardless of the life stage or the situation we

Stress. For most of us, that word sends a shudder down our spine, and why wouldn’t it? Who wants to be under stress all the time? And that’s what it feels like for a lot of us, so what is it? Well, it’s a state of mental or emotional strain or tension, and my dictionary

It is possibly the one time in my entire life when I don’t envy a Princess.