Arabella Watson

Name: Arabella Watson

Age 56

Where you are from:

Melbourne Australia

Where you live:

Melbourne Australia….returned home after a 30 year “holiday” in

Brisbane…marriage, divorce and 3 children I decided it was time to come home. In spite of lockdowns I adore my vibrant home town of Melbourne.

 This is who I am in the world…

An ever evolving work in progress. A mother, a grandmother, a teller of tales and an advocate for creating a kinder world for future generations. Currently I am on a journey finding buried power and wisdom. A natural affinity with soil and plants and understanding the essence of the magic in plants and nature. Perhaps a witch, a kitchen witch using my lost skills to grow and nurture. As part of that journey I have enrolled in a Diploma of nature based therapy. 

I guess that is also part of who I am someone who believes that we continually learn and grow no matter our age It would be remiss of me to leave out cyclist. If a bicycle were a totem that would

be mine. My bicycle is more that than just a means of transport. Cycling for me is part of who I am. It gives me freedom, adventure, peace of mind, health benefits and most importantly fun and the greatest – It does not hurt our planet.

This is the story that I want rewritten for women…..

Not so much a rewrite be a re-turn. If I could re write history I would return to a day where women held power, true power, the power to heal, to work with, not against nature. Great wisdom has been lost over centuries. I would re write history ha ha just a small change. Imagine a world where women held ”power”.

Would the world be as brutal, as harsh,? Maybe it would but I truly believe it would not. In my re written story women would celebrate and embrace the divine feminine and the world could relax, restore and heal.

This is the story that I next want to write for myself….

Scales, a measure of weight not worth: This is the title of a book I have begun writing. It is my journey with anorexia as a teenager. My battle with that horrid demon that nearly took my life and the decades of distorted body image that have haunted me. As I approach my 60s the next story I write for myself is one of self-acceptance and self-love.

Maybe I will even finish the book??? Oh and to continue to learn, my current project is learning to roller skate. Roller Derby here I come!