Sunday Blog 150 – 25th August 2024 Of all the careers to fall into, like Alice down the rabbit hole, museums would surely have been the least likely one for me. Long before Marie Kondo, I understood all too well the dull sheen items get over time when they no longer spark joy. One of …
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Grateful for gratitude
Sunday Blog 149 – 18th August 2024 It took me 39 days to complete my 28 day Gratitude Practice. It started with a bang – within the first three days I’d found a ten dollar note at Maccas when I went to use their loo, and then won an Instagram competition which included a 45 …
Through a mirror darkly
Sunday Blog 148 – 11th August 2024 This time last week I was poised on the precipice of three days of conference presentations, already reeling from the impact of trying to process insights from a pre-conference research symposium day. At the time, I was intensely curious about the possibilities of “researching what we implement, and …
Converging Threads
Sunday Blog 147 – 4th August 2024 I’m sitting here on the 23rd floor of my Brisbane Hotel, here for the Health Innovation Community conference. It’s only the pre-conference day and already my thoughts are broiling with ideas and inspiration. Today was all about early career researchers breaking into the digital health space. As one …
My heart is bursting with gratitude
Sunday Blog 146 – 28th July 2024 Literally. You know how it goes. Or is it just me? I start a new practice and I throw everything at it. My latest one is a Gratitude Practice. Being thankful for all the things. I’ve been at it for three weeks now. Get a Magic Rock, she …
Colourful in Quairading
Sunday Blog 145 – 21st July 2024 There’s nothing like hitting the open road, leaving the city behind. After much longer than I’d planned, I was back in the Q. Quairading. The previous visit was May 2022 when I managed to jag World Labyrinth Day. Did I mention Quairading has a labyrinth? Were you already …
Stars of the Future?
Sunday Blog 144 – 14th July 2024 By the time I was born, the sixth child in eight years (no multiples), my mother’s hair was grey. I mean, that makes sense right? Wouldn’t such a profusion of children dim the shine of most people’s hair? She’d started late for her generation – 29 when she …
Could I obsess over quality?
Sunday Blog 143 – 7th July 2024 Is it just me, or are podcast episodes by men always at least one hour long? I mean, who’s got the time? While the lovely Rangan Chatterjee’s Feel Better, Live More podcast has “bitesize” episodes that are just under twenty minutes, I listened to a whole one this …
Solo Mama Memories
Sunday Blog 142 – 30th June 2024 This week I’ve been submersing myself in the memoir edits (I’m revising my 2014 memoir, to get it up to the standard of my novella. Just play along with me!) My 2014 memoir skates right over the top of the reality of my life as a solo mama, …
Solstice Full Moon
Sunday Blog 141 – 23rd June 2024 Every time I walk a labyrinth, I think this time I will fully understand its elaborate geometry, its pattern of winding paths. It’s not a maze, it’s a single curved path into the centre, and out again. I walk around it as if I’m following the curves and …