Tag Archives: life lessons

Farewell to another toxic environment

I’m going to preface this blog with a warning that it contains a lot of sarcasm, sass and perhaps an ego driven detail of events. I’ve added this for humour because if you don’t laugh you’ll cry and to be transparently honest, at the root of it all I was so incredibly hurt that theContinue reading “Farewell to another toxic environment”

An urge to ‘FIX’

We are on day 2 of term 3 at 4 year old kinder and there were tears again. It doesn’t matter what I seem to do, how I seem to help, there is no “fixing” this situation. On my walk today with Leo I gained a little clarity. To some it might seem so obviousContinue reading “An urge to ‘FIX’”

Manifesting a more compassionate community

I’m finding myself in this really weird predicament where the world is very ‘us’ and ‘them’ right now. Where somewhere along the way we have forgotten to just be kind. Paranoid about what everyone else is doing and needing to have an opinion. But maybe it has always been like that. Between the ‘office staff’Continue reading “Manifesting a more compassionate community”

Another day, another tantrum

I recorded my daughter having a tantrum. Originally it was just a ‘let me document this for when you’re older’ purposeful intention. Then I thought to myself, she’s 3 so how about we attempt to interpret how to manage these emotional outbursts since they seem to be awfully frequent. Some might refer to these asContinue reading “Another day, another tantrum”

Nasty Rats

I am not a violent person. I’ve never picked a fight or thrown a punch, although I have imagined myself doing it many times over! I’m more of the timid, shy kind. I would hardly have even voiced my opinion growing up fearing any kind of confrontation. My battle burns inside me. I’ll have aContinue reading “Nasty Rats”