This is who I am in the world….

I am a writer/copywriter and moreover, an increasingly conscious life author. I believe we’re all constantly writing and rewriting our own life stories. The question is: who (or what) is moving YOUR pen?

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

The entire story of their own lives – as they see fit. Mostly, the story of complacency, compliance, and subordination. However, I am not one to say what’s important for others. That’s why I say “as they see fit”. I would love to help others identify what’s truly important to them – authentically.

We are powerful beings with the ability to create and destroy worlds as we go. We are already doing this constantly, whether we are aware of this or not. But women and men alike are able tap into their innate power to make sovereign choices that align with how they truly wish to express themselves in the world. I want to remind them of that.

We have the unwavering, limitless potential to be whoever we wa...

Every single one of us is a space holder. Every single one of us takes up space.

If there is one thing that we can do in this lifetime that will make a difference, it is to be present in the space that we share together.

Often missed, though blatantly obvious, the core of humanity is the quality of our relationships- from start to end.

When bringing mindfulness into schools became a “thing” a while back, it arrived like it was a fancy new concept…. And yet, it is one of the most fundamental remembering’s that has existed as long as we have walked on Earth.

It is a reminder of how we so often complicate the core of what we all need and what makes us human.

It is the space from where we innately know what is needed and how to respond.

It is the space from where being anything other than who we are, how we are and in our own version of genuine-ness, compassion and empathy is not required. We immediately let the masks fall away and we see one another as we truly are.

And our experie...

''I was told that the best way to handle being a Social Worker was to choose a tree on the way home from work and to stop thinking about work each day when I drove past. This is what a lot of us were told, and still are told. 

I have always found this perplexing, as it does not make sense to me in how this helps any of us to grow into people centred work or navigate it. 

Over the years, and a few rounds of burn out later, I have learned and figured out a bunch of things that have really helped. And so many of them are the pieces that have become The Societe.

The thing is, that each time I have burned out, I have asked myself if this really is for me… and every time, a big fat solid yes has been the response. 

If it hadn’t been, I would likely be a florist by now.

This means that I have had to become much better at navigating what I do. 

Change is successful when it is sustained, and we are sustained as leaders. 

Yes, we can do epic things in the world. 

Yes, yes, yes we can!

A...

“Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world” – Marianne Williamson.

I was in my early 20’s and at a conference for work. My name was chosen out of a hat to be the only staff member to travel interstate with Senior Management to attend this event. At the time I could count on one hand how many times I had left the state I lived in my lifetime. 

A key note speaker shared this poem. I had not been exposed to anything like it before. She had given every person a page full of motivational quotes and told us to put them everywhere. 

I still had this little scrap of paper with this poem on it on my work desk when I left in early 2020. The language that this woman used and the way that she spoke, it was so foreign to me, and yet something in my fumbly early adulting ways began to shift and re-orient itself.

This is the thing, playing small isn’t going to create the c...

When we recognise ourselves as creative and active decision makers who have much greater potential that can be channeled and can influence the world around us, we become much more powerful in all that we set out to do. 

The way that we express ourselves is a form of energy that expands beyond us. How we hold ourselves is typically how we hold others. We only really ever offer others an expansion of who we are.

Back in late 2020, while contending with one of many versions of “expansion of self”, I stood in the pool and looked up to the Bali sky. I asked myself, “what is this thing? What else could it possibly be? After all that has happened and that I’ve moved through, what else could be here?”. I stared for a few moments until a little whisper of a single word came to me.

“Confidence”

What?

“Confidence”

I burst out laughing. 

Are you serious? Confidence? That’s it? Just a bit of confidence. A thing as easily resolvable as finding a little bit of confidence, ...

This photo was taken during a temple ceremony earlier this year as a part of the Awakened Leadership training I was involved in.

It is near on impossible to miss the devotion to ceremony and ritual in Balinese life. This is based on a rich appreciation for who we are by nature- the dark and light of it all and how we move through these spaces as we go about life.

Each of us are the epicentre of an entire way of life that actively impacts us and that we in turn impact in every possible way.... even if we are not conscious to it, and ESPECIALLY when we are not conscious to it. This interplay becomes who we are in the world as much as anything else.

The ways that we can influence, shape and shift these systems are endless. It is also essential as we move forward that we become more and more aware of what we do not understand.

We are ignorant and filled with judgement by human nature. None of us are free of this, yet we can consciously choose to expand our world view to inc...

It’s Mother’s Day today in Australia.

Each year, there is some truth that I want to bring light to. Usually I speak about mother/daughter/female connections... however something else feels most prevalent this year.

Maybe some of my friends here relate....

I would love to be a mother.

I feel, or rather, know that I was born to be a mother. I get that not every woman experiences this. I was 20, married, and thought that I would have had all my babies about a decade ago. The pressure around becoming a mother had started for me by 20, the next logical step after marriage, it seems.

Two years ago at 34.5 years, it landed that I finally felt ready to be a mother. I can only explain it as a deep seated Earth Mumma all knowing kind of truth that makes me feel teary when I really feel into it. Something significant had shifted and I made peace with all of the big questions, concerns, history, desires and world reality that I am privileged to have had the space to ponder.