Surviving (and Maybe Even Thriving) the Holidays:A Love-Centred Guide to Christmas, Family, and Keeping Your Sanity Ahhh, the festive season. Twinkly lights. Full calendars. Too much food. Too little sleep. Big love, big feelings… and sometimes big explosions. The holidays have a funny way of amplifying everything. The joy [...]
How Hard Is It to Say “I’m Sorry”? (And Why It’s Not Always About Being Wrong) It’s remarkable, isn’t it? Those two little words — I’m sorry — can feel heavier to lift than a piano up three flights of stairs. Lately in my couples sessions, I’ve been inviting [...]
Grief as Sacred Work: A Soulful Invitation to HealingBy Sarah Tolmie Dearly Beloved, Grief is not a mistake. It is not a mental illness or a personal failure. It is not something to be fixed, cured, or hustled through. It is sacred work — soul work — and in [...]
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 [...]
On the Coast #Families – February March 2020 2040 – Fact-based dreaming to create a better future. Over the summer holidays our family became a bit fatigued at the stress of the bushfire emergency, the unrelenting news coverage and its link to the real climate emergency our planet is [...]
On the Coast #Families – Dec/Jan 2019/20 Summer of surrender – time to love and let be It is officially Summer. School is done. Holidays are here. The weather is great…..I hope. We are busy with Christmas and New Year’s celebrations with family and friends. So why does a [...]
Kidz on the Coast - JUNE 2019 100 EDITIONS SPECIAL 100 Years creating the new human Happy 100th issue Kidz on the Coast. And congratulations on the new evolution of the magazine. So much can grow and develop in 100 issues or 100 days. What about 100 years! What [...]
Seniors on the Coast – Nov/Dec One of the resignations of advancing years is the growing list of health checks and even yearly procedures needed to ensure our wellbeing or catch any nasties early. We have so much to be thankful for, the wonders of our modern health care [...]
Seniors on the Coast – Dec/Jan 2019 In my professional life as celebrant, therapist and bespoke funeral specialist my weeks are often poignant with love and loss – a juxtaposition of the deep sadness of a funeral, the joyful fizz of a wedding and perhaps the realness of a [...]
