Authentic

At the end of each month, Steve and I are coming together on the podcast to share real, raw and relatable when it comes to our relationship. We sat down and agreed that we want to share with you how we powerfully manage difficult conversations and situations in our relationship, so we can be more in our hearts and focus on bigger matters (like loving one another).  In today's episode we speak...

**Please note, today's episode makes mention of sexual abuse. The end to 2022 was a special one for me. An end that I wasn't expecting, didn't plan but one that I'm sure a wiser part in me knew I was ready to experience.  I share openly how much I experience anxiety, often saying to Steve (my partner) that in the last two years, this is the most anxiety I have experienced on a...

My theme for this coming year (2023) is "Natures Way".  As time goes on, it becomes more and more clear to me that what I want gets considered, yet what I need gets delivered. So this years theme seems truly fitting, surrendering to natures way, natures force.  Nature has its own plan, its own patterns, its own connections. This teaches us to trust in a higher power, that there are conne...

In the final episode for 2022 and as we head into that time where new intentions are set, please, listen to today's episode before you get busy setting new goals and intentions. The more I do this work, the more it becomes obvious that a greater force, far greater than my little human ego self, is asking me to surrender more into the unknown and trust it. That in surrender, a certain space is...

I set a theme at the beginning of each year and for 2022 it was, flourish . In my little human mind I had it all mapped and planned out, thinking, "bam, I'm gonna flourish from the get go!" Well, if you've listened to this episode at the beginning of the year, you'll know that I was quickly sat back down by the Universe and how quickly that plan went out the window.  This...

In October I wrote my journal, "stop holding them in a particular shape. Stop bracing yourself for how think they are going to be. Release them from the shape you're holding them in. Instead, meet them where they're at." This was after I noticed that I was basing my behaviour on how I thought certain people in my life were going to behave. I was going into my, well they always...

We all have  choice to deal with inner conflict and pain in powerful ways; with integrity. It takes consciousness and presence which can be hard at times, but it is possible. What makes it difficult is the surge of emotions that stir throughout the body when someone or something touches a wound. When we don't know how to slow this process down, we resolve the pain and inner conflict in less t...

Are the mountains, aka goals, you're climbing, yours? Or are they what you think you have to climb in order to feel more worthy, more enough, more important or more whatever? Or are they societal mountains that you've adopted as you're own, only to make your way to the top and ask yourself, "is this really what I want?" Today's episode will have you take a step back a...

Do you find yourself wanting more space and more time to breathe, to be, to ponder and do as you please? Do you also find that when you have that space and time to do as you please, there's a part of you that resists it, finds it uncomfortable wishes you'd never created space in the first place? If so, then welcome to the, "I live with two opposing forces in me Club that seek differ...

Well, one week has gone by and my beautiful Grandfather passed. The night before he left this world I got to sit with him, kiss his forehead and tell him, "I love you." A precious moment I'll forever cherish. Amidst the McFlurry of emotions this past week, there have been some incredible experiences that have brought joy and juice to my heart. That really is life isn't it - one...

I'm watching my ego as it tries to "make things better" as I currently experience the emotion of sadness and feeling of anxiety. The sadness is linked to my Pop being palliative and the anxiety is linked to family tension and dynamics.  Both situations are linked to uncertainty. How long do we have Pop for? How long will the family dynamics be tense? To try and ease the discomfort i...

I had a great realisation about a week ago when I saw my Kinesiologist, Elena Pilch. The way I have chosen to live my life, the space, the time, the choice of how I work, who I work with, etc is enough. The way I used to work was more hectic, leading to burnout, and my ego believed that when we hit burnout, THEN we've done enough! So the past pattern was, "work until you're flatline...

Before every ZEROFKS dance party, the dream I have the night before is that the sound system fails. Each event it’s never bombed out, but at the last event, it did. Mid dancing our assess off, the power went out — no lights, no music, 250 sweaty legends in a room. Ahhh, the dream (nightmare) came true. Within a matter of a minute Nicole — @theartisanssolutions was up on stage. A woman I’d never me...

A recent realisation has come about after having new photos taken a few weeks ago. I felt it was time to re-shoot photos that capture not only the happy, smiley and "out there" side of me, but also my feminine, softer side. When I saw some of the images on the day, my initial response was, "I won't be putting those up!" Of course I'm curious as to why that's my f...

After almost two years of slowing down the pace of my life and rearranging the way I 'do' so that I'm not always 'doing' for the sake of doing, I had a really lovely moment.  It was a simple moment of putting away a placemat. It was the way I put it away that made me go, "ahhh, this moment right here is the culmination of the last two years." The ease and slownes...

We all hold ourselves back from following our Truth due to a myriad of stories we tell ourselves. These stories are powerful, potent and are loaded with evidence as to why you can't speak your truth, or express yourself more freely, or say "I love you", to your partner, or leave a toxic environment. This is normal, we all do it, but you don't want to let the stories become your...

I believed that hitting rock bottom was the only way to change, or at least to enforce myself to change. That feeling so low, or burnt out, or afraid of my thoughts would catapult me into action. Often, it did, hence thinking that rock bottom was how I could grow. This past week I spoke to year 10 students from St Michael's Grammar School. We spoke about the dark voices in our head that lead...

Not a day goes by where the ego won’t attempt to steal your focus and plant it on petty shit. It’ll rant and rave about how you’re not ready, worthy, enough or perfect and make you do shit to be all those things before you can focus on what you truly want. But denying that the ego exists, desperately trying to make it go away so that you'll live happily ever after without it is a quest that&a...

Clinging onto negative thoughts as if they are the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you baby Jesus, will have you act out patterns that have no intention of serving your deepest good. If you’ve been following along you’ll know that my thoughts have tried to eat me alive so that I don’t eat! Those thoughts tried to direct me toward a stubborn pattern of self punishment and restricting...

I just played myself today. Well, my ego did. For months I have truly enjoyed buying my stepdaughters flowers and putting them by their bedside. On the weeks when the girls are with us and I go to the local store and see the flowers, I can't help but think, "hmm, which ones would they love?" They have never asked for the flowers, it's simply a gesture from my heart to theirs. T...

Today's episode is an invitation to look at how you spend your energy. Do you spend it hard and fast? Do you spend more than you have? Do you keep it all to yourself for fear you'll burn yourself out again?  I was this close to spending my new and refreshed energy, fast! After returning from Hawaii, swimming in crystal clear oceans, being sun-kissed, no-where to be and not a lot to do, I...

I took a book away with me on our recent family holiday. It had been sitting on my, "pile to read", shelf for a good few years, and it didn't disappoint.  If you, like me, have been summoned by The Greater part in you to lead and live a more simplified life that truly matters at your core, then you'll get a lot out of this book (if you haven't read it already).  It's...

I’ve been less inclined to be on social media recently. To me, it’s bombarded with ads, peeps I don’t know, feels “noisy”, algorithm-ised to the max and the feed just doesn’t end! I actually don’t scroll on here or get sucked into a vortex and end up a zombie. I do look at reels for inspo, check DMs as peeps reach out to do business, potential clients want to work with me and then I tap out. But s...

Coming back to your natural rhythm is one heck of a journey, especially when you've ventured very (very) far away from it. When you land back there, it's easier to hear what you want, what you don't want, what you need and no longer need. You can hear Your Self again, rather than the noisy chatter of doubt rattling around in your head.  In today's episode I share about what slo...

The song, "My Way", has been one of those songs that speaks to something real deep inside of me. My eyes tear up, I think of my late Nana who used to sing it and I'm immediately reminded to live my life, my way. It beckons me to look inside, ask myself, if I lived my life my way, what would that look like? How would it be different to now? Or am I on track and can stop looking for s...