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From Failure to Authenticity
I received the nickname “Motor-mouth” in high school. A teacher gave it to me commenting I could talk under six feet of wet cement with a mouth full of marbles. I never felt like I quite fit anywhere, floating across social groups like some kind of loud fringe-dweller. My school reports routinely read “needs to…
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Who Am I?
Three words have stared at me from my mirror every day this year. I wrote them up after some major shifts in my life at the start of this year. I wish I could tell you it was a rhetorical question, but sadly, that would be a lie. Who would have thought that three little…
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Imposter in my own life!
I remember very clearly when I started my current job that I was sitting there thinking “OH MY GOD, I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I’M DOING”. It was also very quickly followed by the thought “they’re gonna work it out and sack me”. Upon researching about this feeling that I had, I discovered the aptly…
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Miss Independent!
I don’t need any help – the pitfalls of hyperindependence It started out simply enough. Maybe you were eight and you needed some help with something, but your parents were both busy with something else (like a younger sibling or work). Perhaps at the age of fourteen you really needed some advice from your mum,…
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Who Am I? Really?
It was a simple line in a movie, but it hit me like a freight train. “I’ve spent an entire life time trying to be everything to everyone, and somehow somebody is always disappointed”. I paused the movie and took a moment to process the statement. This statement felt really familiar, not only for myself,…
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Life Imitates Art…so they say
There’s that saying that “Life imitates Art”, yet I think really that art documents life, parodies life, suggests life. Art also creates opportunities for us to escape, to feel and to embrace things that we may struggle to connect with in our day-to-day life. From the minute we are born we are peppered with messages,…
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Auto-Parent – the secret mother no one wanted
I remember with startling clarity the day I told my mother that I wasn’t sure what good parenting was, but it wasn’t what I’d had and I would never raise my kids that way! I must confess I delivered that little gem with all the arrogance of a nearly twenty year old who probably should…
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve wished for!
Picture this. You’re starting every day with a spark and you feel assured of what you are doing. Every step feels aligned with the woman you truly are. Obstacles seem to slide away like a knife through hot butter and you know that you are on a quest for a life that is rich, full…
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Not Good Enough People Pleaser – the “dream job” I NEVER wanted
Do you remember when you were little, and your life was full of dreams? Ask any four year old what they want to be when they grow up and you’ll be met with an array of answers. As children we are quite free, to be ourselves. Until, that is, being ourselves doesn’t suit those around…
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Trusting my intuition
Recently, on yet another foray into the “self-help books” section of my local Big W, I was intrigued to see that Steve Biddulph had released a new book called “Fully Human, A new way to use your mind”. As I flicked through the pages I was surprised to see that what Steve was really writing…
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