Find your reset button!

Everyone has a reset button. Mine is the coast. Today we spent a lovely day enjoying our local wonders. We were lucky enough to follow the progress of two humpback whales (we think a mother and calf) as they made their way down our small section of the coast. There was water spouting, fluking, breaching, […]

Self-fulfilling prophecies

How much of what happens to us and the stress we are under, is caused by self-fulfilling prophecies? I was just thinking about this concept today and the impact that it has on my daily life. A common scenario….. I think my day will be busy or bad and guess what………….. it is busy and […]

The importance of sport

With grand final day upon us and the end of winter sports season, it has got me thinking……… Do we place too much emphasis on the results of sport? Is watching the West Coast Eagles beat Collingwood in the dying minutes, good or bad for our kids to watch? There is sometimes a very fine […]

The wait is over….

The sun is shining and the carnival of the year is here! There is nothing quite as uplifting as watching a team of passionate kids get in there and play their favourite game. Playing hard and playing with heart. The raw emotions are something else, not only from the players and coaches but the parents, […]

Waiting waiting waiting…

Sometimes in life, it just feels like we are waiting. Waiting for the tough time to be over, or waiting for the new job to come up or waiting for something good or exciting to happen. Often we are so engrossed by whatever we are waiting on, we completely forget to live. I have felt […]

Resilience

By definition, resilience is the ability for us to bounce back or recover after a difficulty. It is something we talk about when raising children but not so much in adulthood. In actual fact this may well be the time we need to talk about it most, when we are middle-aged and have a multitude of […]

‘Fortnite’…

Dirty word in this house, how about yours? How can one game cause so much angst, upset and ………… you guessed it………………stress? The answer lies in its superior and mastered creation. It is unbelievably good at hooking them in with its target and reward systems. Seriously, who ever you are that invented this game…….. you […]

Let those feelings out!

As I expected, just getting my feelings out there yesterday helped and consequently today, I don’t feel so angry. It is a funny thing……………….. for me it is interesting to name a feeling exactly what it is, and to not just slap the label of ‘stress’ on it (until recently every negative feeling I had, I […]

I feel angry and tired……

I know we are not meant to get hung up on change and the way that other people’s actions affect us. But…….man sometimes it is hard. This blog was meant to be an honest account of how I am dealing with stress and how I am feeling. Well here it is…. I FEEL REALLY FRIGGING […]

The power of fire…

There is something about a fire on a chilly winters night. Especially when teamed with a glass of red and old episode of Friends (in my opinion the best TV series ever). It is an amazing thing to watch…………….. the colours yellow, orange, red, brown all mixed and intermingling, forever changing and flowing. Mesmerizing with […]