Soul Matters

For those who have lived through some sort of lock-down this past year you may get what I mean when I say face-to-face relationships were the biggest thing missing from my life.

In Victoria, Australia, where I live, we spent 5 months of 2020 locked in our homes with only a 5km radius to go out for food or 1 hour of exercise each day. I missed a lot of things, in that time, but the most powerful thing I missed was seeing my friends face-to-face. I missed relationships with ‘skin on’. Zoom or pho…

This past week I am really enjoying meditation focused on loving kindness of self. We all go through times that we need a bit extra TLC and well, I’ve had one of those weeks! I caught a virus (somehow, masks and all!) that left me with a head-in-a-vice headache, dizziness & sleeplessness for 11 solid days (yep, I counted), there was a massive “situation” with one of my siblings, my 83-year-old mother went in for major surgery and my youngest turned 18. You could say that it was a full-on week!

I’ve recently returned from a holiday at the beach. Before I go on, you have to know this about me, I love the sea! Love the beach! Love the waves. The sky. The smell. The sound. No matter the weather I just LOVE the sea. It's the one place on earth I always feel at home and free. So here I am with my hubby and son on holidays staying an easy 2 minute walk to the shore. I couldn’t help but wake up at the crack of dawn each morning – before the rest of the household had emerged from their rooms –…