Latest Articles
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Healthy Lifestyle 2
How I Have Come to Not Be Owned by Social Media
I was probably considered to be ‘late’ to social media, not having grown up with computers and being an adult when smart phones first started coming on the ...
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Healthy diet 4
Building a True Relationship with Food
Do we ‘Live to eat?’ or ‘Eat to live?’ are often questions when it comes to our relationship with food. My relationship with food is an ongoing discovery ...
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Social Issues 12
What Was it Really Like to Get Tattoos?
When I turned 18, I connected with everything that turning 18 apparently meant. At 18 I could now drink. At 18 I could now have a full car ...
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Healthy diet 5
My Food Choices and How They Resonate in My Body
Food is a daily choice that I make, whether it’s once a day or three or more times a day – there is no hiding from the fact ...
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Healthy diet 5
Food Choices and the Wisdom of the Body
I have come to realise after many experimentations, that how I feel when I wake up and rise each morning is very much a result of the food ...
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Death & Dying 12
Death and the Bereavement Process – Why do we make it so Difficult?
Most people in the world dread death. We tend to avoid talking about it, thinking about it and generally having anything to do with it. The fear is ...
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Communication 8
Expressing the Unexpressed
There is so much that goes unexpressed. Take for instance the day that I was told I was being made redundant from my place of employment. It was ...
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Healthy Lifestyle 22
Has the Plague Ever Truly Left Us?
The ‘Black Death’ or bubonic plague, as it was known – based on the boils or ‘buboes’ that formed and spread in the lymph nodes of its victims ...
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Healthy diet 28
Food Choices, My Body and Me
I had been working with my diet for quite some time and often found it difficult to put into practice – giving up food that made me feel ...
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Family 45
Interparental Hatred on Separation
Recently I attended a workshop on the impact of interparental hatred on children, where it was presented that children do not fare well in the presence of ongoing, ...
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Healthy diet 30
Redefining ‘Food for Thought’
I’m pretty sure most people would consider food to be all the usual things we buy at our local grocery store such as your typical meats, fruits, vegetables, ...
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Healthy diet 45
Ingredients Versus Energy
Have you ever experienced that situation where the same ingredients in two different foods or drinks have different effects in your body? As a rational thinking scientist, I ...
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Money 44
Responsibly Spending Money
Recently I was listening to a program on the radio and the presenter was talking about addictions. As I was driving I felt how relieved I was that ...
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Greed/Corruption 34
Shredding the Use of Fear-Based Advertising
Recently I was discussing with a friend how ridiculous some of the current forms of advertising and marketing have become and he related a story to me about ...
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Communication 58
Relationships – They are What we Make them
“Relationships are fraught with tension because most avoid expressing love in full.” (Serge Benhayon) (1) Blame is a prominent ingredient in our relationships – whether they are friendships, ...
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Family 91
Looking Closely at the Family Album
When I was growing up, family was considered firstly to be my parents and siblings and then on outwards to include other relatives. It never occurred to me ...
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Education 87
The Child with the Green Tinted Brush
Have you ever seen a group of soldiers marching in time, a mass of bodies with not one footstep out of place as they clump obediently to the ...
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Communication 87
My Relationship with My Son
I remember the exact moment that it happened. My partner, our 15-year-old son and I were going down a very long escalator on the underground in Prague when ...
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Global Issues 76
To Flag the Truth
Something occurred to me the other day when I noticed the U.S. flag was at ‘half-mast’ at my workplace after yet another mass shooting that occurred here in ...
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Communication 127
The Interview From Hell Which Turned Out to be One Hell of an Interview
It went something like this: Having applied for an amazing sounding job that seemed to have my name written all over it, I was invited for a telephone ...
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Healthy diet 137
Our Youth’s Waistlines are Expanding… What Does this Say about Us?
Living in Western Australia, there is much to see and do if you are willing to be just a little adventurous. My family and I recently took a ...
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Communication 134
How do you Handle a Disagreement… with Love?
What do you do when someone close to you makes a choice that you feel is not true for them, but they are convinced it is? It could be ...
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Parenting 117
My Body, Space & Parenting
During the planning of our first child, my partner and I spent about eight months developing and deepening our relationship with each other and ourselves, observing our behaviours, ...
