Returning after death care back to families and communities By Sarah Tolmie - Life & Love An often quoted statistic in end-of-life conversations is that 70% of people wish to die at home. Whilst not nearly close to that figure actually manage to die at [...]
On the Coast #55+ - May/June 2020 Well hasn’t life and love changed over the last few months? With the COVID-19 global pandemic our world will never be the same again. The individual and collective grief and losses are too many and too painful to inventory fully – death, [...]
On the Coast – 55+ (July/August 2020 Issue) The experience of COVID-19 has taught us many things about family, the importance of relationships and our home habits. Months of lockdown brought intense scrutiny and focus on the minutia of our domestic environment and skills, and for many of us, [...]
On the Coast – Families (August2020) In the age of coronavirus, as we evolve into a new normal of social distancing and limited physical contact and with the opportunities for gatherings restricted, one of the by-products has been a renewed appreciation for the subtle intimacies of life. We are [...]
On the Coast – 55+ (Sept/Oct 2020 Issue) In life and love, couples are always in ‘negotiations’ as circumstances evolve, change and pivot. This may come in the form of welcome life growth points and stretches, such as kids, study, careers, homes and lifestyle, but they are changes none [...]
Oct 2020 - #On the Coast - Families As a therapist I encounter many clients bravely navigating hard times. Sometimes this might be in my work in area of end-of-life, facing illness, dying, death & grief; or in my marriage therapy and work facing relationship repair or breakup; or [...]
Older Sex: Best You Ever Had? Nov 2020 - #On The Coast - Seniors OK Boomers! Are you getting your ‘sexy’ on? Forget about a COVID baby boom...what better generation to be having a cuddly cupid COVID than the original generation of the sexual revolution. In fact, [...]
Goodbye Childhood. Hello Sons December 2020 - #OntheCoast - Families For the last 12 years I have contributed to every issue of #OntheCoast - Families magazine. Today as I write this article I have decided it will be my last. Time has come to hand the baton to someone [...]
On the Coast #55+ March 2020 Fathers & Sons The other week, in my capacity as an holistic funeral celebrant, I had to sensitively mediate two adult brothers, as they navigated the death of their father and plan his funeral. It was painful to witness them in such pain. [...]
On the Coast #Families – AprilMay 2020 Staying Calm in Uncertain Times. With the bush fires all calmed by March it seemed like finally we could exhale with relief and rebuild and resume lives and then the Coronavirus pandemic arrived. As I write this now in mid-March, by the [...]
