Shifting towards what matters I love the quote by James Clear: “You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.” I love it because we can have the best intentions, the most challenging goals, but if we...
Ok, so before we move on to some of the other things I’ve experienced and learnt, we’ve got to address a pretty big elephant in the room. One that most of us probably can relate to, which we deal with daily, I’d say, if we’re...
When I was in school, I wasn’t really sure what work I wanted to do one day. From the day I could tot around in my mom’s high heels and high waisted pencil skirts, I loved the idea of high heels and suit jackets. I...
A week before my 38th birthday, I woke up feeling like I had been hit by a bus. The only thing that got me out of bed was having to run to the loo to throw up. My thoughts were “get up, you’ll be fine. ...
It was the perfect beach afternoon. There was a cool breeze coming off the cold sea, mixed with the warm winds from the sand and mountains behind us. The beach was packed with people playing ball games and chatting happily with family and friends. There...
Gosh, there is just so much heaviness around us at the moment, in the world and in our beautiful country. This inevitably spills over into our homes and it’s often the moms who feel this pressure the most. So, this post is a bit of encouragement for...
Last week my son started reading. Actual words. I had one of those mom moments when I thought ‘how can we be here already?!’ as I listened to them learning the words with their teacher on the online Zoom class. We then had to practice...
Have you gone through something you’ve gone through before, but it’s different somehow? Like when you order your favourite pizza toppings in a different restaurant and although the ingredients are exactly the same, it’s just not the same? Or when you arrive at your regular...
As I’ve done for the past few years, I’ve spent the past few weeks praying and thinking about my word of the year for 2021. Having a word for the year provides a central ‘theme’, an intention to go back to over and over again...
The last few days of 2020. We finally made it! What a year it has been. Many of us probably started the year with goals and intentions, plans and dreams which may not all have turned out how we had in mind. Holiday plans were...