In January 2014, we landed in Canberra with two boys, seven bags and suitcases, and a plan that made sense on paper. But I was wrong about how this one would go.
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The Guardian Angels You Don’t Choose
Category: The Journey
Personal stories from a life lived across countries, moves and seasons.
My mother passed away on 28 April 2025. This eulogy was delivered at her funeral service.
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When the body says NO
Can we find healing when we burnout? One of the key things I discovered this year was the deep connection between my mind and body. I learnt this the hard way when I came close to burnout.
Most of the time in life the quickest way may not be the best way.
Travel offers us the unique opportunity to leave home in order to find home. I have had the opportunity to travel and live in different parts of the world and it definitely has been an interesting journey so far.
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Leaving home to find home
You have to leave the comfort and security of home in order to find home. We have to come out of our own selfish and self-centred worldview to see how big, infinite and diverse yet so much alike we all are.
How do you survive when you are caught between a rock and a hard place? When there seems like there is no light at the end of the tunnel or options to choose? How do you keep on moving when the situation stretches from days to weeks and then months? When it seems like the only […]
Habits form because we have used our addiction to fill an inner need or emptiness.
We spend more than a third of our adult lives at work so it naturally feels like that is who we are. But who are you when you stop working, lose your job or quit? Do you simply cease to exist?
Rejection feels like running into a brick wall. Defeated. The door slams shut in your face as you were trying to get your foot in, yet again. Disappointed. You try to get up, only to have the wind knocked out of you. Rejected. You have done nothing to deserve this yet you feel like you […]