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It has been said that expectation is simply a prescription for disappointment and never has this been so apparent as now. This global pandemic has upended much in the world as we knew it … and when the first wave hit us here in Australia, we went into lock-down quickly, and for the most part, people complied with the advice from health officials and our government.

You haven’t heard from me in a while because every time I sit down to write something … everything changes and I find myself experiencing a deep knowing that now is not the time to attach to doing anything in particular. What I mean by that is that we are in a time of...

That’s where I have been.In fact, I have been standing up to my ankles in a river of fear on and off for the past 12 weeks and “trying” to convince myself it’s not what’s happening … my feet are not wet, when they are! I know I am ok. I know that I am creating the...

100 days since the world as we know it changed. Just 3 months since Australia and many other countries began changing the rules about how we live and work and move around. Human beings are hardwired for certainty and the really challenging and often frustrating thing...

We are only a few months into the COVID-19 Pandemic response with some way to go, yet the “are we there yet?” rhetoric is being ramped up. “When will this end” “What’s the exit strategy?” “When can we play football?” “When can we go out to a...

One thing you can count on right now is that everything will keep changing. And rapid, unpredictable change is something many human beings fear most. It has been said that the only human that welcomes change is a baby with a wet nappy! So it’s no surprise that...

Me too… and that’s ok. And it’s ok to feel it. I keep reminding myself: “It’s a feeling, not a fact” I am ok and I feel scared, worried, confused and not ok … not every minute of the day and often enough at this time in our history and collective experience of a...

Like I said … I’ll be back when I have something to say … and here I am. Actually I have had a lot to say over the past 6 months about a lot of things and every time I go to put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard I ask myself one simple, yet powerful, question: “For...

Nothing much really … which in itself was a surprise. I did expect some push-back, some back-lash, something. Instead what I got was nothing … I mean nada, nil, zero in terms of reaction. A few people congratulated me on having the courage to stop but as for push-back...