Matters of Life & Love – Families – July 2024 Reader Question: “I have been deeply unhappy in my marriage for a long while and it has recently built up inside me so big that I can’t hold it in anymore. I have weighed up a list of pros [...]
Why & How to talk to my family about my funeral wishes?
After Ryans private home farewell a larger community memorial was held at his parent's in-law property - complete with pizza van and beers. Not many of us die unexpectedly. In fact, for the most part, our deaths are like a slow train coming and we experience a [...]
Feeling Alone Together – Using our Emotions to Evolve Us Beyond COVID-19
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, [...]
The life & love legacy of COVID-19
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, [...]
Fathers & Sons
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. [...]
Staying Calm in Uncertain Times.
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 [...]
Aged Care Revolution – The Time to Act is Now
On the Coast +55 – Nov/Dec issue Aged Care Revolution – The Time to Act is Now With the Royal Commission into Aged Care in full swing it is hard to ignore the shocking revelations of conditions at some facilities and the stories of neglect, loneliness and despair. It’s [...]